Bio
Dr. Paul Graham Fisher is Interim Chair of the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences; Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, and by courtesy, Neurosurgery and Epidemiology and Population Health; the Beirne Family Professor of Pediatric Neuro-Oncology; and the Dunlevie Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. He was most recently Chief of the Division of Child Neurology for 15 years.
Following his BA, with Distinction, in Human Biology from Stanford University and then his MD at UCSF, Dr. Fisher completed residencies in pediatrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and then a fellowship in neuro-oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Johns Hopkins. He also obtained a master’s degree in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. After starting out on the faculty at Hopkins, in 1997 Dr. Fisher was recruited back to Palo Alto, where he started the pediatric neuro-oncology program at Stanford University. His clinical work and research focus on epidemiology, therapy, and late effects of childhood brain tumors and other childhood cancers. He has authored over 300 scholarly publications on these and other neurology topics.
Over his time at Stanford, Dr. Fisher has served as a member of the School of Medicine Admissions Committee, IRB member, Neurology Clerkship Director, Child Neurology Residency Program Director, and Senior Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in Neurology. He is a past recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Arthur L. Bloomfield and Henry J. Kaiser Awards in the School of Medicine, as well as the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association Award for excellence in undergraduate education. He currently teaches the popular undergraduate classes “Cancer Epidemiology” and “The Human Organism” in Human Biology. He was the Bing Director of Human Biology in the School of Humanities from 2012 through 2019.
Dr. Fisher is presently the Editor-in-Chief for The Journal of Pediatrics, and he serves on the editorial board of Journal of Clinical Oncology. In 2021, he was elected to the COPE Council of the Committee on Publication Ethics, and he has interests in plagiarism, text-recycling, and the editorial process.
Dr. Fisher’s personal interests are his wife Joy and three grown children, along with downhill skiing, anything baseball, travel with intense picnicking, and his dogs Monkey and Mona.
