Dr. Richardson completed the MD-PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia and neurosurgical residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He was Director of Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) from 2011-2019, establishing an internationally recognized intraoperative MRI neurosurgery program, encompassing DBS for movement disorders, gene therapy clinical trials for Parkinson’s disease, and laser thermal ablation for epilepsy. His clinical expertise also includes awake brain mapping during epilepsy and DBS surgery, robotic-assisted stereotactic surgery, and network surgery approaches to epilepsy, including Responsive Neurostimulation. He became Director of Functional Neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2019, where he directs the Brain Modulation Lab (https://brainmodulationlab.org), a systems neuroscience lab focused on human intracranial neurophysiology. He co-founded the MGH-MIT InBRAIN Collaboration in 2020.