Adam Ferguson is professor of neurological surgery and director of data science at the Brain and Spinal Injury Center in the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at University of California, San Francisco, and principal investigator at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
Adam Ferguson
Director of data science
Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC) University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
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