Dr. Fernandez-Miranda is Professor of Neurosurgery and Surgical Director of the Stanford Brain Tumor, Skull Base, and Pituitary Centers. He is internationally renowned for his expertise in endoscopic skull base and pituitary surgery, open skull base surgery, and complex brain tumor surgery. He has performed over 4,000 cranial operations for skull base and brain lesions including more than 2,000 endoscopic endonasal operations for pituitary tumors and other skull base lesions. He is highly regarded for his innovative contributions to the development and refinement of endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery and for his ability to select the most effective and less invasive approach to each individual patient. He has been recently ranked by Expertscape as World-Expert (top 0.05%) on Skull Base Surgery and #1 Neurosurgeon Expert on Skull Base Tumors (pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, craniopharyngiomas, chordomas, chondrosarcomas, schwannomas, esthesioneuroblastomas, and others) on the US Pacific Region and Pacific Rim.