Professional Background

Dr. Brian Milligan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at The University of Kansas Health System (TUKHS), where his clinical practice focuses on complex cranial surgery utilizing advanced techniques including awake brain surgery. His main interests include: brain and spinal tumors especially glioma, pituitary tumors, meningioma and acoustic neuroma; cerebrovascular disease including aneurysms, AVMs, carotid stenosis and Moyamoya; and uncommon conditions including Chiari malformation, intracranial hypertension, and spontaneous encephalocele/CSF leak.

After growing up in the Kansas City area, this University of Kansas undergraduate alumni matriculated to the Stanford University School of Medicine, completing his MD in 2004. He completed residency in Neurological Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in 2011. He and his family then spent most of the next year in Portland, OR while Dr Milligan pursued Skull Base and Cerebrovascular Surgery fellowship under the mentorship of Dr Johnny Delashaw.

Returning to Kansas City in 2012, Dr. Milligan developed a busy complex cranial practice and served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery and Orthopedics for the University of Missouri - Kansas City, teaching UMKC medical students about neurosurgery and helped to form committees focused on quality improvement, peer review, electronic medical record customization/efficiency, and stroke certification.

He came to TUKHS in March 2020 and is looking forward to again being involved in clinical excellence and quality improvement projects. He is a Neurosurgery Liaison for the Career And Specialty Advising (CASA) program in the medical school, Chair of the Neurosurgery Department Quality Comittee and Co-Chair of the Neuro Disease Working Group that oversees brain cancer clinical trial at KUMC.

• BChE, Chemical Engineering, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
• MD, Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
• Residency, Neurological Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
• Clinical Fellowship, Skull Base and Cerebrovascular Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

• Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery
• Medicine and Surgery, The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts
• Physician and Surgeon, Missouri State Board of Registration for the Healing Arts

• American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Member, 2013 - Present
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Member, 2013 - Present
• North American Skull Base Society, Member, 2012 - Present