Daniel Donoho, MD
- Co-Director, Pituitary and Skull Base Program
- Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics
- Neurosurgeon
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- Fellowship, Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital, TX, (2021)
- Residency, Neurological Surgery, Los Angeles County / University of Southern California Medical Center, CA, (2020)
- Fellowship, Pituitary Surgery and Neuroendoscopy, Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital, MA, (2019)
- MD, Medicine, State University of New York - Stony Brook, NY, (2013)
- AB, Economics, Dartmouth College, NH, (2002)
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Daniel Aharon Donoho, MD, is a neurosurgeon at Children's National and co-director of the Pituitary and Skull Base Program. His research focuses on making operative care more measurable and reproducible by creating systems that understand surgical workflow and turn multimodal real world data into objective, clinically meaningful insights that can support training, quality improvement and outcomes research. His clinical expertise includes minimally invasive brain and spine surgery as well as fetal surgery. Additionally, he has significant interest in device development, particularly software-as-a-medical device and AI-enabled devices in medicine for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
He leads work in surgical scene understanding and performance assessment using computer vision and machine learning, supported by an NIH K23 career development award for “Video Analysis of Neurosurgical Technical Performance and Adverse Events”, and has been recognized with a CNRI Pilot Award, Chief Academic Officer Award and Global Health Institute Award and nominated for the Golden Apple (Best Clinical Teacher) award at GWU School of Medicine. He has published 100+ peer-reviewed manuscripts, invited works,and book chapters, and serves on the boards of several nonprofit research organizations.