Nathan Selden

Nathan Selden is the Campagna Chair of Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University and Chair-elect of the Professional Board for OHSU Healthcare. Selden's practice focuses on surgery for childhood epilepsy and birth defects. In 2006, he performed the first ever transplantation of neuronal stem cells in a human patient and has three times co-authored the Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Guidelines.

Selden is Secretary of the Society of Neurological Surgeons, which represents neurosurgery department chairs and residency program directors nationally, a Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, and past-President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He also chairs the group that designed national outcome measures for neurosurgery training, the ACGME Neurological Surgery Milestones, and was founding national director of the neurosurgery boot camp courses. In 2013, he received the ACGME's Courage to Teach Award.

Raised in Portland, Selden is an avid hiker and skier. He was an honors graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. As a British Marshall Scholar, he earned a PhD in neuroscience at Cambridge University. Selden trained in neurological surgery at the University of Michigan and in pediatric neurosurgery at Northwestern University before joining the faculty at OHSU.