Find a Doctor
Francisco A. Ponce, MD
Neurosurgeon
Cranial Neurosurgery
- (602) 406-3181
- Fax: (602) 294-4495
The highest volume DBS surgeon
A pioneer of “asleep DBS”
Investigating surgical treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
Francisco Ponce, MD, is the Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. He also serves as director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program at Barrow. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Ponce’s expertise includes deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, as well as focused ultrasound for essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s. He is also active in the operative management of cranial and spinal trauma.
Dr. Ponce earned his medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago in Illinois and an undergraduate degree in physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Barrow and a fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Ponce has published extensively on DBS and other neurosurgical procedures in peer-reviewed journals. He presents regularly at national and international conferences.
Please call (602) 406-3181 to request an appointment with Dr. Ponce.
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Cigna
- Medicare Part B
- Mercy Care at the Phoenix and Chandler Locations
- MultiPlan/AMN/RAN
- United Healthcare
- Fellowship, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Fellowship, Complex Spinal Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Fellowship, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University of Toronto
- Residency, Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Internship, General Surgery, Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix
- MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Graduate studies, Oxford University
- Undergraduate studies, Harvard University
Introduction. Functional neurosurgery for pain and movement disorders with a special emphasis on spasticity.
Date: 06/2024
Authors: Kim J Burchiel, Francisco Ponce, Francisco A Ponce, Albert Lee, Ahmed M Raslan, Sharona Ben-Haim, Marc Sindou
WarpDrive: Improving spatial normalization using manual refinements.
Date: 01/2024
Authors: Simón Oxenford, Ana Sofía Ríos, Barbara Hollunder, Clemens Neudorfer, Alexandre Boutet, Gavin J B Elias, Jurgen Germann, Aaron Loh, Wissam Deeb, Bryan Salvato, Leonardo Almeida, Kelly D Foote, Robert Amaral, Paul B Rosenberg, David F Tang-Wai, David A Wolk, Anna D Burke, Marwan N Sabbagh, Stephen Salloway, M Mallar Chakravarty, Gwenn S Smith, Constantine G Lyketsos, Michael S Okun, William S Anderson, Zoltan Mari, Francisco A Ponce, Andres Lozano, Wolf-Julian Neumann, Bassam Al-Fatly, Andreas Horn
Robotic-Assisted Navigation for Stereotactic Neurosurgery: A Cadaveric Investigation of Accuracy, Time, and Radiation.
Date: 12/2023
Authors: William Anderson, Francisco A Ponce, Michael J Kinsman, Sepehr Sani, Brian Hwang, Diana Ghinda, Michael Kogan, Jonathan M Mahoney, Dhara B Amin, Margaret Van Horn, Joshua P McGuckin, Dominic Razo-Castaneda, Brandon S Bucklen
Deep brain stimulation in PD: risk of complications, morbidity, and hospitalizations: a systematic review.
Date: 01/2023
Authors: Markey C Olson, Holly Shill, Francisco Ponce, Francisco A Ponce, Sana Aslam
Advances in Technical Aspects of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery.
Date: 01/2023
Authors: Michael Schulder, Akash Mishra, Antonios Mammis, Andres Horn, Alexandre Boutet, Patric Blomstedt, Stephan Chabardes, Oliver Flouty, Andres M Lozano, Joseph S Neimat, Francisco Ponce, Francisco A Ponce, Philip A Starr, Joachim K Krauss, Marwan Hariz, Jin Woo Chang
- English
- (602) 406-3181
- Fax: (602) 294-4495
Francisco A. Ponce, MD
Neurosurgeon
Cranial Neurosurgery
- (602) 406-3181
- Fax: (602) 294-4495
The highest volume DBS surgeon
A pioneer of “asleep DBS”
Investigating surgical treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
Francisco Ponce, MD, is the Chief of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. He also serves as director of the Neurosurgery Residency Program at Barrow. He is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
Dr. Ponce’s expertise includes deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery for Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor, and dystonia, as well as focused ultrasound for essential tremor and tremor-dominant Parkinson’s. He is also active in the operative management of cranial and spinal trauma.
Dr. Ponce earned his medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago in Illinois and an undergraduate degree in physics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Barrow and a fellowship in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Ponce has published extensively on DBS and other neurosurgical procedures in peer-reviewed journals. He presents regularly at national and international conferences.
Please call (602) 406-3181 to request an appointment with Dr. Ponce.
- (602) 406-3181
- Fax: (602) 294-4495
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Cigna
- Medicare Part B
- Mercy Care at the Phoenix and Chandler Locations
- MultiPlan/AMN/RAN
- United Healthcare
- Fellowship, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Fellowship, Complex Spinal Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Fellowship, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University of Toronto
- Residency, Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Internship, General Surgery, Banner Good Samaritan Hospital, Phoenix
- MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
- Graduate studies, Oxford University
- Undergraduate studies, Harvard University
Introduction. Functional neurosurgery for pain and movement disorders with a special emphasis on spasticity.
Date: 06/2024
Authors: Kim J Burchiel, Francisco Ponce, Francisco A Ponce, Albert Lee, Ahmed M Raslan, Sharona Ben-Haim, Marc Sindou
WarpDrive: Improving spatial normalization using manual refinements.
Date: 01/2024
Authors: Simón Oxenford, Ana Sofía Ríos, Barbara Hollunder, Clemens Neudorfer, Alexandre Boutet, Gavin J B Elias, Jurgen Germann, Aaron Loh, Wissam Deeb, Bryan Salvato, Leonardo Almeida, Kelly D Foote, Robert Amaral, Paul B Rosenberg, David F Tang-Wai, David A Wolk, Anna D Burke, Marwan N Sabbagh, Stephen Salloway, M Mallar Chakravarty, Gwenn S Smith, Constantine G Lyketsos, Michael S Okun, William S Anderson, Zoltan Mari, Francisco A Ponce, Andres Lozano, Wolf-Julian Neumann, Bassam Al-Fatly, Andreas Horn
Robotic-Assisted Navigation for Stereotactic Neurosurgery: A Cadaveric Investigation of Accuracy, Time, and Radiation.
Date: 12/2023
Authors: William Anderson, Francisco A Ponce, Michael J Kinsman, Sepehr Sani, Brian Hwang, Diana Ghinda, Michael Kogan, Jonathan M Mahoney, Dhara B Amin, Margaret Van Horn, Joshua P McGuckin, Dominic Razo-Castaneda, Brandon S Bucklen
Deep brain stimulation in PD: risk of complications, morbidity, and hospitalizations: a systematic review.
Date: 01/2023
Authors: Markey C Olson, Holly Shill, Francisco Ponce, Francisco A Ponce, Sana Aslam
Advances in Technical Aspects of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery.
Date: 01/2023
Authors: Michael Schulder, Akash Mishra, Antonios Mammis, Andres Horn, Alexandre Boutet, Patric Blomstedt, Stephan Chabardes, Oliver Flouty, Andres M Lozano, Joseph S Neimat, Francisco Ponce, Francisco A Ponce, Philip A Starr, Joachim K Krauss, Marwan Hariz, Jin Woo Chang
- English