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    T. Forcht Dagi, MD, DMedSc, FRCSEd, FAANS

    Professor of Neurosurgery/Vice Chair, the Surgical Specialty Board for Neurosurgery,
    Mayo College of Medicine and Science/The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

    T. Forcht (Teo) Dagi, MD, DMedSc, DHC, MPH, MBA, FRCSEd, FRRHHEd, FCNS, FAANS, FACS, FCCM, FS is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Mayo College of Medicine and Science, and Honorary Professor at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. He serves as ambassador to the United States and International Surgical Advisor for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Deputy Chair of its Surgical Specialty Board in Neurosurgery. Teo is also accredited as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lithuania. Previously, he served as chairman of both the Schools of of Medicine and Management at QUB..

    Earlier, he directed the Harvard-MIT Program in Biomedical Entrepreneurship after establishing a similar program the Georgia Institute of Technology, and after directing the Goergen Institute of Entrepreneurship at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently advises Broadview Ventures, a venture philanthropy fund; CURAM, the medical device initiative in Galway, Ireland; the Biomedical Collaborative at the Frist College of Medicine; and the Centre for Health and Community Research at the University of Prince Edward Island. Teo also teaches at the Advanced Course Venture Capital Course for the US Venture Capital Association. He served as CEO of Boston Neurosciences, and currently serves as Chairman of Indoma, Inc.

    Teo received an AB from Columbia College, an MD and MPH from Johns Hopkins, an MTS from Harvard, an MBA from Wharton, the DMedSc from QUB, and the DHC from Kaunas Technical University. He trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Maudsley, Guy’s and King’s College Hospitals in London. He holds Fellowships at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and its Faculty of Rural, Remote and Humanitarian Health, the AANS, where he was past Director and chair of the History Section, the CNS, the College of Critical Care Medicine, and the American College of Surgeons. He was appointed the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Fellow at Harvard, Fellow of the Society for Health and Human Values, and a Neuroresearch Foundation Fellow. He is an Overseer of the Beth Israel Lahey Hospital and the Shapiro Foundation in Boston. In 2024, he was named the Rengachary Lecturer; and in 2025, the Greenblatt Lecturer at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He has received numerous teaching awards.

    Teo was an active-duty neurosurgeon and flight surgeon in the US Airforce and the US Army. He was appointed to the Reserve Council of the United States, and consultant to the Surgeons General of Army and Air Force. He serves currently as Colonel and Deputy Command Surgeon of the Georgia State Defense Force. He was elected to the Excelsior Surgical Society of the American College of Surgeons. Among other decorations, he holds the US Humanitarian Service Medical.

    Teo is an author or editor of several books, 250 articles and abstracts, and over 300 presentations. He is an editor of Neurosurgery and of the Journals of Contemporary Neurosurgery, Special Forces Medicine, and Clinical Ethics. His avocations include classical music, photograph and history of medicine.

    Disclosure(s): Anatomy Next: Board Member/Officer/Trustee (Ongoing), Ownership or Partnership (Ongoing); Broadview Ventures: Advisor (Ongoing); Genomadix, Inc.: Board Member/Officer/Trustee (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Indoma, Inc.: Board Member/Officer/Trustee (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Navigation Sciences: Board Member/Officer/Trustee (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing); Tharos, LTD: Board Member/Officer/Trustee (Ongoing), Ownership Interest (Ongoing)

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