She has a joint position with the VA Palo Alto Health Care Services where she is an Attending Neurosurgeon caring for veterans with a variety of spinal conditions. Prior to her fellowship, Dr. Tharin completed a PhD in Genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an MD from Columbia University, and a residency in Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tharin has received multiple awards, including the AO Spine Young Investigator Research Grant Award, the Stanford McCormick Faculty Award, and an NIH/NINDS K08 Mentored Research Scientist Award. The Tharin lab brings fundamental principles of developmental neurobiology to bear on regenerative strategies for spinal cord injury treatment, including stem cell-based strategies.