Jordan Lam, MBBS

We’re excited to share our new @umichneuro residency video—featuring our talented residents and the long‑standing legacy of Michigan Neurosurgery. Looking forward to meeting the next generation of neurosurgical leaders!! Watch here 👇👇 nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… Learn more about or program 👇👇 medschool.umich.edu/departments/ne… @UMichMedSchool @umichmedicine @umichneuro #Residency #match2026 #matchday #GoBlue #Neurosurgery

Excited to share that I’ll be attending the 2025 CNS Annual Meeting this October 11-15, in Los Angeles, CA! Join me at the most exciting neurosurgical meeting of the year and let’s connect! Register now: #2025CNS i.snoball.it/p/hMfos/t

@matthew_willsey @MJMender Nice work!

We survived the Dexter to Ann Arbor half marathon! Super proud of our team. The average pace for the lab was 7:29 min/mi despite my best efforts to slow it down.

This past weekend, members of the University of Michigan BIBC (Bioinnovations in Brain Cancer) team and our very own Neurosurgery residents took part in the Americam Brain Tumor Association 5k 🧠 🧠 @umichneuro @umichmedicine @theABTA

Excited to be part of this collaboration that aims to make brain machine interface technology better and safer. Hopefully this is one step closer to getting this technology to patients in need. Thank you to the Marcus Foundation for this generous grant!

Thank you @raslanneuro and @OHSUBrain for a brilliant SFN course, and @NeenaMarupudi for bringing me. I learnt an insane amount and have never been so excited to be going into functional neurosurgery. Great to meet so many new people and can't wait to see everyone again!

Delighted to announce that the FDA has granted us approval for an IDE that allows chronic implantation of @BlackrockNeuro_ arrays for investigational use. Eager to advance our iBCI research at @UMich. Details forthcoming @umichneuro @UMBME @UMichResearch @UMengineering

#wssfn #wssfn2024 What a brilliant meeting. So many stimulating (pun intended) clinical debates, pioneering research, and new friends (neurosurgeons, residents, medical students, researchers, even a couple of DJs) from across the world in the beautiful city of #chicago.

iPullups - intraoperative iPullups

Thank you @NeuroTechCourse sponsored by @NIH_NINDS - an incredible 2 days that opened my mind to technology translation. New ideas and new friends!

@BlumenthalBarby @ChangLabUcsf @DrLucas_on_call @ParagGPatil Fantastic talk on neuroethics!

Very great to be part of a BCI and Ethics session at #ASSFN2024 with @ChangLabUcsf and @DrLucas_on_call organized by @ParagGPatil . Thx for making ethics part of the discussion. Great community of neurosurgeons focused on patient care & sci advancement!

Another wonderful #NeuroSoftballTourney in beautiful Central Park is in the books! We love supporting the @NREFORG in such a fun weekend of camaraderie with other depts & the return of beloved former faculty - Drs. Buckingham & Kashlan! We can't wait for next year! #goblue

Adding a second-sided MRI-guided focused ultrasound subthalamotomy for Parkinson's. Some important new data was just published @JAMANeuro from Raúl Martínez-Fernández, Jose Obeso and their team from Spain. Time to ab uno disce omnes. Key Points: - The authors asked whether adding a staged FUS-STN second contralateral lesion was safe and effective. - The motor improvement was statistically good and the adverse events 'mostly mild and transient.' - There were only 6 people in this series and each had been treated with unilateral FUS-STN 'contralateral to their most affected body side, and whose parkinsonism on the untreated side was described as progressing and was not optimally controlled with medication.' - The original cohort had 45 people previously treated and 7 lost to follow-up; 4 excluded due to adverse events. - Of the remaining 34 patients, 6 experienced 'progression of parkinsonism on the untreated body side and this is how they got to the small number treated. - Following the second FUS-STN lesion, 4 of the 6 had new 'contralateral choreic dyskinesia, which resolved by 3 months.' - 4 people had speech disturbances described as gradually improving but persistent in 2. - 1 person had mild imbalance and dysphagia during the first week after treatment and it was described as resolved by 3 months. - No behavioral or cognitive disturbances. My take: Bravo to the authors for publishing their data and sharing what happened to the 6 people in an original cohort of 45 who later progressed in their Parkinson's and received a second sided lesion. I love the careful approach of staging a second lesion, and also of monitoring and reporting on outcomes we most worry about. Historically, second sided lesions have been associated with pseudobulbar, speech and cognitive side effects. It will be up to the new generation of scientists to explain why we saw those effects (in the past) and if in the future, we carefully add a second sided brain lesion, how to avoid them. Let's go slow and steady and understand lesion locations relative to potentially important fiber bundles and let's understand sizes of lesions and how these impact outcomes. One of the big worries for STN lesions is the hemiballism or dyskinesia, and it was nice to see it resolve in all of their cases (4/6). Will this become a persistent problem for a few folks who have this procedure and will it require an additional GPi DBS or pallidotomy if persistent? Too early to know, however it will be important to discuss in shared decision making for all those considering a staged (delayed) second lesion. I hope that ab uno disce omnes – from this one example (of a nice small case series) learn all the rest. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… #parkinson #focusedultrasound #FUS

Got some free life lessons by successful Neurotech entrepreneur @ankitachat9 on the flight back home. Interesting discussions on the interface between science, medicine, and business. The grand canyon at 33, 000 ft wasn't bad either!

Weeks of evaluations, interviews & deliberations lead to an incredible #MatchDay2024 as we get the opportunity to train accomplished medical students & future leaders of #neurosurgery, Emre Kiziltug from Yale & John Lee from right here @ U-M! Welcome to the family! #GoBlue

New preprint out from lead author @HishamTemmar! We show how neural networks can achieve naturalistic decoding for real-time brain-machine interfaces, and training across contexts can improve generalization. #BCI #neurotech biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Matt is a compassionate and talented surgeon. He'd make a terrific colleague for anyone looking to build a surgical epilepsy program in Austin.

A lot to be thankful for with this group of @umichneuro co-residents. Sad to realize this will be the last time I host Thanksgiving as chief year continues to fly by. Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!!

First time at #SfN23 with the @ChestekLab. Old friends, new friends, and hands down the best science out there!

That's my chief! @matthew_willsey