Hai Sun, MD, PhD, FAANS
Dr. Hai Sun received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and History from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and an M.D. and Ph.D. combined degree from Dartmouth College. His Ph.D. was in Biomedical Engineering. After his training at Dartmouth, Dr. Sun completed a residency in Neurological Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, and a fellowship in Epilepsy Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle, a fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ and a fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport, LA.
Dr. Sun is currently the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Chief of Neurosurgery Service at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Dr. Sun is an Associate Professor and Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Neurosurgery. He also serves as the Director of Epilepsy Surgery at Rutgers Comprehensive Epilepsy Center of New Jersey.
Dr. Sun is a member of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute and a faculty member of the Rutgers Department of Neuroscience Graduate Program. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University.
He has served on the faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery at Louisiana State University Health Science Center in Shreveport, LA (2015-2019), and has helped establish the Ochsner LSU Regional Epilepsy Center and led it to its Level 4 accreditation by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC). Besides epilepsy surgeries, Dr. Sun also performs surgeries to treat brain tumors, cerebrovascular lesions such as aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations, and ischemic stroke. Here is a story of one of his patients.
His research interests are in the areas of the pathophysiology of epilepsy, neuromodulation, neuroimaging, brain functional and structural connectome, and traumatic brain injury. He is the co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Sun receives support for his research from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).