Michael R. Egnor, MD

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Author | Lecturer | Researcher | Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics — Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University

Michael R. Egnor, MD, is Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and trained in neurosurgery at the University of Miami. He has been on faculty at Stony Brook since 1991. He is the neurosurgery residency director and has served as the director of pediatric neurosurgery and as vice-chairman of neurosurgery at Stony Brook Medicine. In addition to a full-time neurosurgical practice, he directs a research program on intracranial dynamics, cerebral blood flow and hydrocephalus and has lectured at scientific meetings worldwide and published in leading medical journals including the Journal of Neurosurgery and Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. He has a strong interest in Thomistic philosophy, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, evolution and intelligent design, and bioethics and has published and lectured extensively on these topics. Dr. Egnor was named one of New York’s best doctors by New York Magazine in 2005.

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The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul

The human brain is incredible, mysterious, and powerful. But it’s not what makes us who we are. The soul does that. Drawing on the most important rese...

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Is The Soul Real?

A Neurosurgeon Explores The Evidence at the 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith Does science prove the existence of the soul? Here award-win...

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Historical Ignorance

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