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Hershey, PA
United States

Elected: 2001

Robert Harbaugh was born in West York, Pennsylvania on April 5, 1952. He graduated from high school in Red Lion, Pennsylvania in 1970 and obtained a BS degree from Lebanon Valley College in 1974. Dr. Harbaugh obtained his M.D. from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine in 1978 and received his general surgery and neurosurgery training at Dartmouth from 1978-1985. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) at the Dartmouth Medical School in 1985 and progressed to the rank of Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery) in 1997 and Professor of Radiology in 2001. During his career at Dartmouth, Dr. Harbaugh served as Director of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Cerebrovascular Disease Center from 1994-2003, Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery from 1989-2003, Director of the Neurosurgical Laboratory from 1985-1997 and as acting Residency Program Director from 1996-1997.

In 2003 Dr. Harbaugh returned to Pennsylvania as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery Residency Program Director and Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has recently been recognized as a Penn State University Distinguished Professor (Penn State's highest academic honor) and has been chosen to serve as the Director of the new, university-wide, Penn State Institute of the Neurosciences.

Dr. Harbaugh has been an invited speaker in eleven different countries and throughout the United States. His present research interests include clinical trial design, outcomes analysis and quality improvement in neurosurgery and computer modeling of intracranial aneurysms. He maintains a busy clinical practice specializing in cerebrovascular surgery and tumor surgery.

Dr. Harbaugh has edited three books and published more than 230 articles, book chapters and abstracts. He has served on the editorial boards of Neurosurgery, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Bulletin, Neurosurgery On Call, the Journal of Neurovascular Disease, the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences and Neurobiology of Aging. Dr. Harbaugh has obtained funding for 13 grant proposals from the NIH, NATO, USDA, industry and foundations. He has two U.S. patent applications.

He is a member of the AANS, CNS, the American Academy of Neurological Surgery, the SNS, the AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery (SCVS), the AANS/CNS Tumor Section, the American Stroke Association (ASA), the American Heart Association (AHA) Stroke Council, the New England Neurosurgical Society (NENS), the Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society (PNS) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS). He has held numerous leadership positions in these organizations including Chair of the SNS Membership Committee, Scientific Program Chair for the Academy, Director-at-Large of the AANS Board of Directors, Chairman of the AANS Digital Technology Committee, Chairman of the AANS/CNS Committee for the Assessment of Quality, Chairman of the AANS/CNS Outcomes Committee, Chairman of the AANS/CNS Quality Improvement Workgroup, Chairman of the AANS/CNS Washington Committee and Member of the Executive Committee and Annual Meeting Chairman of the PNS. Dr. Harbaugh is a Fellow of the ACS and the AHA. He served as a member of the Leadership Committee of the AHA Stroke Council, as Chairman of the SCVS from 2002-2003 and President of the NENS from 2001-2003. He is also the President of the NeuroPoint Alliance, Inc. and CHYNA, LLC

Dr. Harbaugh has four children, Katherine, Alaric, Thaddeus and Gwennyth. He is married to Kimberly S. Harbaugh, M.D., a neurosurgeon specializing in peripheral nerve surgery.