Jerre and Mary Joy Stead have gifted $12.5 million to the Department of Neurological Surgery to support transformative clinical and research innovation and entrepreneurship. Their gift establishes the Stead Family Neurological Surgery Innovation Fund, the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Family Chair in Neurological Surgery, and the Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Family Neurosurgical Innovation Lab.

The gift supports USC President Carol Folt’s Health Sciences 3.0 “moonshot” — an ambitious expansion of health sciences work across the university — and enabled the recruitment of Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc (Dr. Cohen), one of the nation’s most highly regarded neurosurgeons. Cohen joined Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC in July as vice chair of innovation and professor of neurological surgery. The education and innovation platform he founded, the Neurosurgical Atlas, features novel techniques and is used by more than 90% of practicing neurosurgeons.

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