Dr. Erik Middlebrooks is a Professor and Consultant of Neuroradiology and Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Florida since 2017. He is currently the Program Director for the Neuroradiology Fellowship and Vice Chair of the Mayo Clinic Enterprise Radiology Research Committee.

Dr. Middlebrooks focuses on advanced neuroimaging including fMRI, Diffusion Imaging, and PET. His clinical and research interests include functional targeting for surgical treatment of movement disorders and functional imaging for brain tumor surgery with language and motor preservation. His research interests also focus on novel methods to improve data quality and processing, which have yielded an international patent for real-time fMRI quality analysis using machine-learning systems.

Dr. Middlebrooks has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts including multiple publications in prestigious journals such as Brain, Journal of Neurosurgery, and American Journal of Neuroradiology.