Affiliation: University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine

Dr. Burks is a physician-scientist who completed training at the University of Miami and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Neurological Surgery. Since undergraduate studies, he has contributed to the field of neurotrauma. He began work in traumatic brain injury in emergency medicine early in his academic career. He started investigating peripheral nerve injury under the guidance of Dr. Allan Levi at the University of Miami. He has contributed to multiple clinical reports, specifically on sciatic nerve injury. Working in collaboration with the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, he has been heavily involved in the transplantation of Schwann cells into human peripheral nerve injury, the first reported. In parallel to clinical research, Dr. Burks has led a laboratory investigating the supplementation of large peripheral nerve injuries.