Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV is an American

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 neurosurgeon currently married to Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School...

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Personal life

Griffith Rutherford Harsh IV was born in St. Louis in 1953. The son of his namesake, Griffith Harsh III, the younger Griff became determined to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a neurosurgeon. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and became a Rhodes Scholar

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 at the University of Oxford

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. At Oxford he obtained a master’s degree in Neurological Sciences, he moved on to complete his residency and fellowship training in the Department of Neurosurgery and the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California in San Francisco.
Griff Harsh is married to Meg Whitman

Meg Whitman

Margaret Cushing "Meg" Whitman is an American business executive. She is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard. A native of Long Island, New York, she is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School...

, the former CEO of eBay

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 and current CEO of Hewlett-Packard

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. In 2010, Meg Whitman ran for governor of California with the support of her husband. He currently resides in Atherton, California.

Career

Griffith Harsh IV graduated from Harvard University in 1980. He completed his residency at the in the Department of Neurosurgery and the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) in 1986. The following year he completed his fellowship in neurosurgery at UCSF. In addition, Griff Harsh completed a fellowship in clinical neuro-oncology at UCSF and another fellowship in skull base surgery and acoustic neuromas at the University of Pittsburgh.
During his career, Harsh has focused on the surgical and radiation treatment of pituitary adenomas, glial tumors, and acoustic neuromas. He currently serves as the director of the Stanford Brain Tumor Center. He also serves as a Professor of Neurosurgery at the Stanford University Medical Center and an Associate Program Director of Neurosurgery Residency at Stanford.
He is certified in neurological surgery by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.

Neurosurgical Advancements

Harsh has been credited with the creation of a device that assists in aggressive intratumoral radiation. In 2001, Stanford released news of this device and preliminary studies indicated that the risks associated with radiation therapy for brain tumors are noticeably lower when using this device. Approved by the FDA, the device was tested in a study sponsored by the National Cancer Institute and the Stanford Brain Tumor Center currently uses it in patients with newly diagnosed or recurring primary or metastatic brain tumors.