Michelle A. Wedemeyer, MD

Michelle A Wedemeyer, MD, PhD, is a pediatric neurosurgeon at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and a principal investigator at the Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine. She is also an assistant professor of Neurological Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Wedemeyer obtained her Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from the University of California San Diego where she worked as an engineer at the Orthopedic Biomechanics Research Center at Rady Children’s Hospital under orthopedic surgeon, Peter O. Newton, MD. She then obtained her medical and doctoral degrees in Biomedical Sciences in the Medical Scientist Training program at the University of California Irvine where she was a California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) scholar. She completed her residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Southern California and her fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospitals.

Dr. Wedemeyer’s clinical and research interests span several fields within neurosurgery including spine biomechanics, outcomes research in the management of skull base tumors, transplantation of stem cell derived cellular therapies, and the epigenetics of brain tumors. Her current pursuits include analysis of the cellular diversity of brain tumors at the single-cell level, characterization of the developing hindbrain to identify novel targets for pediatric brain tumors, and the refinement of methylation-array based classifiers for brain tumors.