Richard North, MD

Richard B. North, M.D. is a retired Professor of Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he directed the Neurosurgery Spine Service for 16 years and co-directed the Division of Functional Neurosurgery for 10 years. After two undergraduate years at Harvard, he received his medical degree and post-doctoral biomedical engineering and neurosurgery training at Johns Hopkins. From 1998 through 2003 he founded and served as CEO of Stimsoft, Inc., which developed patient-interactive implanted stimulator technology. He has served as president of the charitable nonprofit Neuromodulation Foundation since its founding in 2007, and is past president of the Institute of Neuromodulation and the North American Neuromodulation Society. He holds a number of patents in the field of implanted electrical stimulation devices.