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11.27.2007
Christopher Giza graduated from Dartmouth College in 1986 with high honors in Biochemistry. He received his M.D. from West Virginia University School of Medicine in 1990 and was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society. After his internship at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Giza completed his residency training in Adult Neurology at UCLA and followed this with a clinical fellowship in Pediatric Neurology, also at UCLA. Dr. Giza then entered private neurology practice in southern California, while spending his summers as a member of the Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) team and gaining first-hand experience of traumatic injuries in the field. In 1998, he returned to UCLA for a postdoctoral research fellowship in Neuroscience at the Brain Injury Research Center and UCLA Neurotrauma laboratory. He joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor at UCLA in the Divisions of Neurosurgery and Pediatric Neurology in 2001. He now supervises a team of basic science researchers investigating the physiologic and molecular response of the developing brain to traumatic injury and is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. His current laboratory interests include neuroplasticity, recovery from injury, mild concussive injury and brain development. He also currently runs a clinical Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) program at UCLA that involves neurologic follow-up of head-injured children from the Intensive Care Unit, through hospital discharge and to the outpatient clinic. Dr. Giza has also initiated a collaboration with colleagues in neuropsychology, radiology, pediatrics, neurosurgery and pediatric neurology to investigate longitudinal changes in brain structure and function in children and adolescents following TBI, with the ultimate goal of translating the laboratory advances into improved patient care for these patients. His current position is Associate Professor of Pediatric Neurology and Neurosurgery, and he is also on the faculty of the Interdepartmental Programs for Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Mattel Children’s Hospital at UCLA.
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