Talks & Teaching
Lectures and talks I have given, the teaching I do, and what organisers need if they would like me to speak.
Invited lectures
- Rural Health. Social Determinants of Health Grand Rounds, UAB Heersink School of MedicineJuly 2024
- Systematic Review Methodology. Project:RISE Research Equity Lecture, UAB2024
Oral presentations
- Thrash GW, Holland MT. Restless legs syndrome and spinal cord stimulation. UAB Neurosurgery Teaching Conference, Birmingham, AL, June 2026.
- Thrash GW, Boudreau H*, Stacey GK, Razi R, Rives C, Massey H, Brockington D, Cho H, George J, Holland MT. Diverging perceptions between program leadership and applicants on the neurosurgery arms race to research: a single-center survey. Galbraith Neurosurgery Research Symposium, Birmingham, AL. *Presented by second author.
- Thrash GW. UAB Mission:Brain chapter pledge. Boston Declaration of Global Neurosurgery, Kennedy Center, Boston, MA, April 24, 2025.
- Thrash GW, Sun Y, Del Bene V, Bentley N. Intracranial recordings toward brain mapping of executive function: a systematic review. NeuroGateways Consortium of Neuroengineering and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Birmingham, AL, Spring 2024.
- Thrash GW, Mier-Aguilar C, Xu H, Raman C. UVB induction of senescent cells. Senior thesis, Birmingham-Southern College Department of Chemistry, Birmingham, AL, May 2023.
Posters and abstracts are listed with the publications.
Teaching
- 2024 – present
Research mentorship, UAB Heersink School of Medicine
Medical students- Mentor medical students in study design, scientific writing, and residency planning; mentees are co-authors on published papers, manuscripts under review, and conference presentations.
- 2024 – 2025
Multidisciplinary Research Stewardship, UAB
Neurosurgery Chair- Hosted office hours and presentations on research fundamentals for medical students and connected students interested in neurosurgery with career mentors.
- 2021 – 2023
Birmingham-Southern College
Chemistry tutor; teaching assistant, cell and molecular biology laboratory- Tutored analytical and organic chemistry and biochemistry; led laboratory sections, including grading.
For organisers
Bios and a headshot you may use as-is. For dates and topics, email gthrash@uab.edu.
Short bio
Garrett Thrash is an MD candidate (Class of 2027) at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and an incoming PhD student in Neuroengineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In Dr. Harrison Walker's lab he works on decoding intracranial recordings for adaptive deep brain stimulation. He has co-authored 14 peer-reviewed papers, coordinates the Mission:Brain Global Neurosurgery Research Group, and is a 2026–27 Doximity Op-Med Writing Fellow.
Long bio
Garrett Thrash is an MD candidate (Class of 2027) at the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and an incoming PhD student in Neuroengineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He already works in Dr. Harrison Walker's lab, where his research focuses on decoding intracranial local field potentials recorded during deep brain stimulation surgery, with the goal of stimulation that responds to what the brain is doing. His earlier research, in Dr. Marshall Holland's group, produced systematic reviews and meta-analyses in neuromodulation and neurosurgery, including work on deep brain and spinal cord stimulation for restless legs syndrome. He has co-authored 14 peer-reviewed papers. He coordinates the roughly 35-member Mission:Brain Global Neurosurgery Research Group, has served as president of the UAB Mission:Brain chapter and its regional outreach chair supporting Sierra Leone's first public neurosurgical service, and worked with the Children's of Alabama pediatric neurosurgery team on Alabama House Bill 384, which established folic acid fortification of corn masa. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society and a 2026–27 Doximity Op-Med Writing Fellow. Before medicine he studied chemistry and played football at Birmingham-Southern College, and he grew up working on a potato farm in northeast Alabama.
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