Edward R Laws

Edward R Laws, Jr, MD, FACS, is Director at the Neuroendocrine/Pituitary Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts and Professor of Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. During his surgical career he has performed more than 7,000 brain tumor operations, of which 5,400 have been pituitary lesions. He is the fifth neurosurgeon to become President of the American College of Surgeons, and was elected a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science. He remains actively involved in pituitary tumor and neuroendocrine research and surgery. Dr Laws has served as President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, President of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Editor of Neurosurgery, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for International Education in Neurosurgery, Director of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and President of the Pituitary Society. He has authored over 500 scientific papers and book chapters, and is co-editor of the encyclopedic volume, Brain Tumors, which is in its third edition. Dr Laws received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University with honors in Economics and Sociology in the Special Program in American Civilization, and then attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed his surgical internship and neurosurgical residency at Johns Hopkins under A Earl Walker.