Kee B. Park, MD, MPH
Co-Director, MGB Global Neurosurgery
Lead, Global Neurosurgery
Director of Policy and Advocacy
Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Kee Park practiced private neurosurgery for 12 years in the US before spending the next decade teaching neurosurgery in Nepal, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and North Korea. He returned to the US to obtain his MPH and complete a global surgery fellowship at Harvard. He then joined the faculty of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School where he now oversees the global surgery policy and advocacy work.
In 2016, he established the global neurosurgery initiative and launched the global neurosurgery fellowship. The team has produced some of the landmark papers in global neurosurgery and continues to fill the large knowledge gaps in the global public health practice of neurosurgery.
From 2019 to 2023, he served as the inaugural chair of the Global Neurosurgery Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. The committee implemented a global neurosurgery action plan aimed at institutionalizing the field of global neurosurgery within the neurosurgery profession.
He is one of the founding members of the Global Neurosurgery Center at the Mass General Brigham Neurosurgery Department. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Neurosurgery. He serves on the board of Mission:Brain.
He obtained his MD from Rutgers Medical School and completed neurosurgery residency at Temple University.