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CURRICULUM VITAE

William Gross MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Division of Clinical

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Froedtert Hospital
9200 W Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
08/2001 - 05/2004 BA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
08/2005 - 05/2012 MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
07/2007 - 06/2010 PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2012 - 06/2013 Resident, Neurosurgery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, WI
07/2013 - 06/2014 Research Fellow, Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
07/2014 - 06/2018 Resident, Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
07/2018 - 06/2019 Clinical Fellow, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
12/2020 - Present Clinical Research Scholars Program, CTSI, Medical College of Wisconsin

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
07/2018 - 06/2019 Instructor, Anesthesiology
07/2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Neurology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Board Certified
Issue DateExpiration
Anesthesiology
03/05/2020
12/31/2030
   
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
Testamer, Basic PTE
National Board of Echocardiography
12/02/2020
None
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2018 - 2019 Outstanding Medical Student Teachers Award, Medical College of Wisconsin
2021 Supportive Faculty Award, Department of Anesthesiology

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2003 - Present Society for Neuroscience (SfN) (Member)
2014 - Present American Society of Anesthesiologists (Member)
2018 - Present Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC) (Member)

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Editorial Board
06/2023 - Present Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
Journal Review
03/2020 - Present NeuroImage
05/2020 - Present Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
07/01/2019 - 09/01/2020 Member, Research Committee, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC)
09/01/2019 - 09/01/2022 Member, Trainee Engagement Committee, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC)
09/01/2020 - Present Member, Communications Committee, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC)
05/01/2021 - 09/01/2022 Member, Scientific Affairs Committee, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesia and Critical Care (SNACC)

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Peer Review
Title:
Decoding mental concept identities using electrocorticography
Source:
NIH NIDCD R21 DC021013
Role:
Principal Investigator
Dates:
05/2023 - 05/2026
Direct Funds:
$375,000
  
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
Defining the Neural Dynamics of Concept Retrieval Using Electrocorticography
Source:
NIH NCATS KL2TR001438
Role:
Principal Investigator
Dates:
01/01/2021 - 12/31/2022
Direct Funds:
$279,400
  
Title:
Localizing critical areas for concept identification with fMRI
Source:
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin
Role:
Principal Investigator
Dates:
10/01/2021 - 09/30/2022
Direct Funds:
$20,000
  

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
12/2019 - Present Member, Education Committee, Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
01/2020 - Present Member, Quality Committee, Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
07/2021 - Present Member, Clinical Competency Committee, Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin
 
Hospital
05/2021 - Present Member, Accountable Care Team, Neurosurgery / ENT, Froedtert Hospital
 

MCW STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED:
Medical Students
Ying Qiu Zhou, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2013 - 2014
Ashley Perry, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - Present
Benjamin Maruska, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - Present
Ipsit Shah, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - Present
 
Graduate Students
PhD Committees
Alexander Helfand, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2019 - 2020
Aleksandra Winiarz, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - Present
Stephen Mazurchuk, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - Present
 
Residents
Kevin Beitz, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2019 - 2023 Resident Mentor
Pooria Bakheshi, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2020 - 2021 Resident Mentor
Saagar Sheth, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - Present Resident Mentor
Marcus Cooley, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2022 - Present Resident Mentor
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
Educational Programs
Resident
2020 - Present Anesthesiology Professionalism Curriculum
 
 
 
 


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Greene AJ, Gross WL, Elsinger CL, Rao SM. An FMRI analysis of the human hippocampus: inference, context, and task awareness. J Cogn Neurosci. 2006 Jul;18(7):1156-73. PMCID: PMC2078243
2. Gross WL, Greene AJ. Analogical inference: the role of awareness in abstract learning. Memory. 2007 Nov;15(8):838-44.
3. Greene AJ, Gross WL, Elsinger CL, Rao SM. Hippocampal differentiation without recognition: an fMRI analysis of the contextual cueing task. Learn Mem. 2007 Aug;14(8):548-53. PMCID: PMC2078244
4. Nielson KA, Seidenberg M, Woodard JL, Durgerian S, Zhang Q, Gross WL, Gander A, Guidotti LM, Antuono P, Rao SM. Common neural systems associated with the recognition of famous faces and names: an event-related fMRI study. Brain Cogn. 2010 Apr;72(3):491-8. PMCID: PMC2935638
5. Binder JR, Gross WL, Allendorfer JB, Bonilha L, Chapin J, Edwards JC, Grabowski TJ, Langfitt JT, Loring DW, Lowe MJ, Koenig K, Morgan PS, Ojemann JG, Rorden C, Szaflarski JP, Tivarus ME, Weaver KE. Mapping anterior temporal lobe language areas with fMRI: a multicenter normative study. Neuroimage. 2011 Jan 15;54(2):1465-75. PMCID: PMC2997157
6. Langford J, Gross WL. Psychosis in the context of sodium oxybate therapy. J Clin Sleep Med. 2011 Dec 15;7(6):665-6. PMCID: PMC3227714
7. Gross WL, Binder JR. Alternative thresholding methods for fMRI data optimized for surgical planning. Neuroimage. 2014 Jan 01;84:554-61. PMCID: PMC3919165
8. Fernandino L, Binder JR, Desai RH, Pendl SL, Humphries CJ, Gross WL, Conant LL, Seidenberg MS. Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics. Cereb Cortex. 2016 May;26(5):2018-34. PMCID: PMC4830284
9. Fernandino L, Humphries CJ, Seidenberg MS, Gross WL, Conant LL, Binder JR. Predicting brain activation patterns associated with individual lexical concepts based on five sensory-motor attributes. Neuropsychologia. 2015 Sep;76:17-26. PMCID: PMC4638171
10. Binder JR, Pillay SB, Humphries CJ, Gross WL, Graves WW, Book DS. Surface errors without semantic impairment in acquired dyslexia: a voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study. Brain. 2016 May;139(Pt 5):1517-26. PMCID: PMC5006249
11. Liu X, Lauer KK, Douglas Ward B, Roberts C, Liu S, Gollapudy S, Rohloff R, Gross W, Chen G, Xu Z, Binder JR, Li SJ, Hudetz AG. Propofol attenuates low-frequency fluctuations of resting-state fMRI BOLD signal in the anterior frontal cortex upon loss of consciousness. Neuroimage. 2017 Feb 15;147:295-301. PMCID: PMC5303656
12. Pillay SB, Binder JR, Humphries C, Gross WL, Book DS. Lesion localization of speech comprehension deficits in chronic aphasia. Neurology. 2017 Mar 07;88(10):970-975. PMCID: PMC5333516
13. Liu X, Lauer KK, Ward BD, Roberts CJ, Liu S, Gollapudy S, Rohloff R, Gross W, Xu Z, Chen G, Binder JR, Li SJ, Hudetz AG. Fine-Grained Parcellation of Brain Connectivity Improves Differentiation of States of Consciousness During Graded Propofol Sedation. Brain Connect. 2017 Aug;7(6):373-381. PMCID: PMC5685154
14. Pillay SB, Gross WL, Graves WW, Humphries C, Book DS, Binder JR. The Neural Basis of Successful Word Reading in Aphasia. J Cogn Neurosci. 2018 Apr;30(4):514-525. PMCID: PMC9926535
15. Liu X, Lauer KK, Ward BD, Roberts CJ, Liu S, Gollapudy S, Rohloff R, Gross W, Xu Z, Chen S, Wang L, Yang Z, Li SJ, Binder JR, Hudetz AG. Regional entropy of functional imaging signals varies differently in sensory and cognitive systems during propofol-modulated loss and return of behavioral responsiveness. Brain Imaging Behav. 2019 Apr;13(2):514-525. PMCID: PMC6239968
16. Gross WL, Lauer KK, Liu X, Roberts CJ, Liu S, Gollapudy S, Binder JR, Li SJ, Hudetz AG. Propofol Sedation Alters Perceptual and Cognitive Functions in Healthy Volunteers as Revealed by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Anesthesiology. 2019 Aug;131(2):254-265. PMCID: PMC6640651
17. Swanson SJ, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, LeDoux M, Raghavan M, Mueller WM, Allen L, Gross WL, Anderson CT, Carlson CE, Busch RM, Lowe M, Tivarus ME, Drane DL, Loring DW, Jacobs M, Morgan VL, Szaflarski J, Bonilha L, Bookheimer S, Grabowski T, Phatak V, Vannest J, Binder JR, FMRI in Anterior Temporal Epilepsy Surgery (FATES) study. Changes in description naming for common and proper nouns after left anterior temporal lobectomy. Epilepsy Behav. 2020 May;106:106912. PMCID: PMC7195239
18. Youssofzadeh V, Stout J, Ustine C, Gross WL, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Binder JR, Raghavan M. Mapping language from MEG beta power modulations during auditory and visual naming. Neuroimage. 2020 Oct 15;220:117090.
19. Binder JR, Tong JQ, Pillay SB, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Raghavan M, Mueller WM, Busch RM, Allen L, Gross WL, Anderson CT, Carlson CE, Lowe MJ, Langfitt JT, Tivarus ME, Drane DL, Loring DW, Jacobs M, Morgan VL, Allendorfer JB, Szaflarski JP, Bonilha L, Bookheimer S, Grabowski T, Vannest J, Swanson SJ, fMRI in Anterior Temporal Epilepsy Surgery (FATES) study. Temporal lobe regions essential for preserved picture naming after left temporal epilepsy surgery. Epilepsia. 2020 Sep;61(9):1939-1948. PMCID: PMC7722029
20. Gross WL, Sacho RH. Intracranial Vascular Procedures. Anesthesiol Clin. 2021 Mar;39(1):1-18.
21. Gross WL, Helfand AI, Swanson SJ, Conant LL, Humphries CJ, Raghavan M, Mueller WM, Busch RM, Allen L, Anderson CT, Carlson CE, Lowe MJ, Langfitt JT, Tivarus ME, Drane DL, Loring DW, Jacobs M, Morgan VL, Allendorfer JB, Szaflarski JP, Bonilha L, Bookheimer S, Grabowski T, Vannest J, Binder JR, FMRI in Anterior Temporal Epilepsy Surgery (FATES) Study. Prediction of Naming Outcome With fMRI Language Lateralization in Left Temporal Epilepsy Surgery. Neurology. 2022 Jun 07;98(23):e2337-e2346. PMCID: PMC9202528
22. Pillay SB, Gross WL, Heffernan J, Book DS, Binder JR. Semantic network activation facilitates oral word reading in chronic aphasia. Brain Lang. 2022 Oct;233:105164. PMCID: PMC9948519
23. Youssofzadeh V, Conant L, Stout J, Ustine C, Humphries C, Gross WL, Shah-Basak P, Mathis J, Awe E, Allen L, DeYoe EA, Carlson C, Anderson CT, Maganti R, Hermann B, Nair VA, Prabhakaran V, Meyerand B, Binder JR, Raghavan M. Late dominance of the right hemisphere during narrative comprehension. Neuroimage. 2022 Dec 01;264:119749. PMCID: PMC9772156
24. Pillay SB, Gross WL, Janecek JK, Binder JR, Oleksy AJ, Swanson SJ. Reliable change on the selective reminding test in a series of left-hemisphere language dominant patients with right temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2023 Jan;138:109004. PMCID: PMC9885384