Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD

Frank T. Vertosick, Jr., MD, trained in neurosurgery with the legendary brain surgeon, the late Peter Jannetta, at the University of Pittsburgh. After completing his residency in 1988, Dr. Vertosick spent the next fifteen years at Pitt as a surgical neuro-oncologist, clinically treating patients with malignancies of the nervous system and supervising glioma research. In 2002, Dr. Vertosick was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease and he retired from surgery. He worked in other areas of medicine until 2013, when Parkinson's progression made it impossible for him to practice clinical medicine. In addition to When the Air Hits Your Brain, Dr. Vertosick has published Why We Hurt and The Genius Within (recently re-released as an e-book under a new title, Mind) as well as numerous magazine and journal articles, book reviews, textbook chapters, and editorials. Dr. Vertosick now lives in quiet retirement with his wife of thirty-one years, Kathy, in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania.