University of Wisconsin–Madison

Nathaniel P. Brooks Lab

Research Interests

Surgical Interface Design Lab

The mission of the Surgical Interface Design Lab is to create and study tools that improve the ability of surgeons to perform progressively more complex procedures through more minimally invasive approaches.  The lab does this by combining navigation, visualization and robotics technologies and refining the design to provide an intuitive, natural interface for the surgeon and the patient. 

Clinical Studies Lab

The Clinical Studies Lab encompasses a variety of research initiatives involving retrospective analysis and cohort studies. Our goal is to examine correlations between data metrics of traumatic spinal cord injury, spinal metastasis, cranial decompression, traumatic brain injury, and endoscopic spine surgery versus neurological outcomes, morbidity/mortality and complication rates.