Hui Ming Khoo

Hui Ming Khoo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in Suita, Japan. She received her M.D. from Osaka University (Faculty of Medicine) in 2004, board certification in neurosurgery from the Japan Neurosurgical Society in 2010 and a Ph.D. from Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in 2014.

During Dr. Khoo’s training she developed a keen interest in epilepsy and moved to Canada in 2015 to pursue a postdoctoral training at Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University. As a post-doctoral fellow (2015-2018) in Gotman’s lab, she studied the correspondence between simultaneous EEG-fMRI findings and intracerebral EEG signal in focal epilepsy and published a few important papers in this field, which have led to awards including a young investigator award from the American Epilepsy Society (AES). In 2017, she was awarded a Mark Rayport and Shirley Fugerson Rayport Clinical Fellowship Award, which supported her clinical fellowship training in epilepsy surgery at the MNI with Drs. Jeffery Hall and André Olivier while continuing her research works with Drs. Jean Gotman and François Dubeau.

Dr. Khoo was recruited as faculty at Osaka University in April 2018. Her research focuses on developing and incorporating new electrophysiology and neuroimaging tools, including simultaneous EEG-fMRI in epilepsy as well as in neuroscience. Her research projects are funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.