Aviva Abosch, M.D., Ph.D., is a fellowship-trained, board-certified neurosurgeon and serves as deputy director of Baptist Health Miami Neuroscience Institute as well as the Institute’s director of epilepsy surgery and co-director of functional neurosurgery. Dr. Abosch is also the Esernia Endowed Chair in Surgical Treatment of Adult Epilepsy & Movement Disorders. Prior to joining Baptist Health, Dr. Abosch served as department chair and the Nancy A. Keegan and Donald R. Voelte, Jr. chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, as well as co-director of Nebraska Medicine neurosciences service line. Dr. Abosch earned her medical degree and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She completed a general surgery internship and a neurosurgery residency at the University of California in San Francisco. Her clinical training also includes a fellowship in epilepsy surgery at Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and an additional fellowship in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto.