Terry Lichtor
Department of Neurological Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Brain physiology
Brain tumors
Glioma
Medical neurosciences
Neurobiology
Spine surgery
Thyroid
Dr. Terry Lichtor is a clinical professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, USA. He completed the internship in General Surgery at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1981–1982, and the residency in Neurological Surgery, at the University of Chicago, Chicago, in 1981–1987. He has also completed two Illinois Research Fellowships, including a research fellow in the Committee on Neurobiology at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, in 1987–1989 and a research associate in the Department of Cell, Molecular, and Structural Biology at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, in 1989–1990. Dr. Lichtor has attained two licensures in the States of Illinois in 1982, Arkansas in 2008, Wisconsin in 2009, and South Dakota in 2011. He was on the National Board of Medical Examiners in 1982 and the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1991. He has been a professor in many universities, including a research assistant professor at the Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology at the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois in 1990-1991, an assistant professor at the Department of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts in 1991-1992, an assistant professor at the Department of Neurological Surgery at the Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, in 1996-2003, a clinical associate professor at the Department of Neurological Surgery at the Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois from 1996, an associate professor at the Department of Neurological Surgery at the Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, from 2003, and a clinical professor at the Department of Surgery, New York Institute of Technology and Arkansas State University, from 2014. He was appointed as an attending neurosurgeon in many hospitals, including Little Company of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park, Illinois, in 1987–1991, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1991–1992, John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, in 1992–2007, and Edward Hines Hospital in 1996–2004. With broad research interests in medical and surgical emergencies in medical neurosciences, neurobiology and brain physiology, brain tumors, spine surgery, thyroid, and glioma, he is a member of the neurosurgery department at Rush University Medical Center.