CURRICULUM VITAE
William Gross MD, PhD
William Gross MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
9200 West Wisconsin Avenue |
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 - 06/2024 Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Neurology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering |
07/01/2024 - Present Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Neurology, Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering |
SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION: |
Board Certified | Issue Date | Expiration |
Anesthesiology | 03/05/2020 | 12/31/2030 |
Certificates | Issued By | Issue Date | Expiration |
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 - 01/01/2025 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: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 |
2013 - 2014 Ying Qiu Zhou, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2021 - Present Ashley Perry, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2021 - Present Benjamin Maruska, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2021 - Present Ipsit Shah, Medical College of Wisconsin |
Graduate Students |
PhD Committees |
2019 - 2020 Alexander Helfand, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2021 - Present Aleksandra Winiarz, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2022 - Present Stephen Mazurchuk, Medical College of Wisconsin |
Residents |
2019 - 2023 Kevin Beitz, Resident Mentor, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2020 - 2021 Pooria Bakheshi, Resident Mentor, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2021 - Present Saagar Sheth, Resident Mentor, Medical College of Wisconsin |
2022 - Present Marcus Cooley, Resident Mentor, Medical College of Wisconsin |
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 |
25. Gross WL, Swanson SJ, Helfand AI, Pillay SB, Humphries CJ, Raghavan M, Mueller WM, Carlson CE, Conant LL, Busch RM, Lowe M, Tivarus ME, Drane DL, 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. Predicting memory decline from left temporal lobe epilepsy surgery using preoperative fMRI: a multicenter study. Neuroimage Clin. 2025;46:103804. PMCID: PMC12156247 |
26. Pillay S, Maruska B, Butts AM, Saber M, Gross WL. The Differential Effects of Propofol and Dexmedetomidine on Intraoperative Neuropsychological Testing During Awake Craniotomies. World Neurosurg. 2025 Oct;202:124400. |
27. Anderson AJ, Fernandino L, Gross WL, Rey HG, Binder JR. Neural decoding of autobiographical mental image features with a general semantic model. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 12;16(1):11208. PMCID: PMC12714718 |
28. Youssofzadeh V, Binder JR, Heffernan J, Bock E, Jaiswal A, Stout J, Ustine C, Chikara RK, Shah-Basak P, Humphries C, Mathis J, Conant LL, Gross WL, Carlson C, Anderson CT, Hermann B, Meyerand B, Raghavan M. Determining hemispheric language dominance from MEG beta-power modulations: Concordance with fMRI. Neuroimage. 2026 Sep;338:122051. PMCID: PMC13373884 |
29. Manir SB, Kothari AN, Gross WL, Deshpande P. Multimodal text-audio sentiment in clinical aphasia speech using NLP. Front Digit Health. 2026;8:1740270. PMCID: PMC13500762 |
