Josue M. Avecillas-Chasin, MD, PhD

Stereotactic & Functional Fellowship Director
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Neurosurgery

Josue Avecillas-Chasin is an assistant professor of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Dr. Avecillas received his medical degree from the Universidad de Guayaquil in Ecuador and his PhD at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. He completed his neurosurgery residency training in Madrid-Spain at the Hospital Clinico San Carlos. After completing his residency training, Dr. Avecillas completed subspecialized training in neurosurgical oncology and radiosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic and stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the Vancouver General Hospital in Canada and Mount Sinai Health System in New York.

Dr. Avecillas is fluent in English and Spanish. As a stereotactic and functional neurosurgeon, Dr Avecillas has expertise implanting neuromodulation devices in the brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. He also has expertise in frame-based, frameless, and robotic stereotactic techniques.  His main clinical interests include movement disorders, psychiatric disorders, and epilepsy and this is the main source of his research interests. He also treats patients with pain including trigeminal neuralgia, cancer pain, persistent chronic neuropathic pain after spine surgery, and other pain conditions.