Penn Medicine Provider
Katherine Wilson Scangos, MD, PhD

About me

  • Adjunct Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Education and training

  • Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Residency: UC Davis Medical Center
  • Fellowship: University of California San Francisco

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Scangos is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

My research

Siddiqi SH, Chen L, Trapp NT, Bukhari-Parlakturk N, Taylor JJ, Boes AD, Brown JC, Barbour T, Camprodon JA, Fox MD, Kopell BH, MacMillan C, Fasano A, Fisher RS, Nahas Z, Revuelta GJ, Riva-Posse P, Rolston JD, Scangos K, Shafi MM, Smith AH, Wong J, Halpern CH, Mayberg HS, Williams NR. Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits , Brain Stimulation, 18(2): 2025,298-305


Liming Qiu, Young-Hoon Nho, Robert Seilheimer, Min Jae Kim, Altona Tufanoglu, Nolan R. Williams, Anna Wexler, David W. Oslin, Bruno Millet, Katherine W. Scangos, Bijan Pesaran, A. Eden Evins, R. Mark Richardson, Anna-Rose Childress, Casey H. Halpern Localizing electrophysiologic cue-reactivity within the nucleus accumbens guides deep brain stimulation for opioid use disorder , BioRXiv: 2025


Starkweather CK, Sugrue LP, Cajigas I, Speidel B, Krystal AD, Scangos K, Chang EF Stereoelectroencephalography Electrode Implantation for Inpatient Workup of Treatment-Resistant Depression , Neurosurgery, 95(4): 2024,941-948


Robert Seilheimer, Liming Qiu, Younghoon Nho, Gustavo Campos, Wonkyung Choi, Kristie Bauman, Taneeta Ganguly, Mario Cristancho, Michael Jensen, Kai Miller, Desmond Oathes, Lily Brown, Katherine Scangos, Nolan Williams, Dan Barbosa, Casey Halpern Stereo-Electroencephalography-Guided Multi-Lead Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder , NYC Neuromodulation Conference: 2024


Scangos, K.W, Sugrue, L.P. From sweet spots to causal circuits: navigating deep brain stimulation targeting through anatomic, connectomic, and personalized approaches. , Biol. Psych , 96(2): 2024,82-84


Johnson, K.A., Okun, M.S., Scangos, K.W., Mayberg H.S., de Hemptinne C. Deep brain stimulation for refractory major depressive disorder: a comprehensive review. , Mol Psychiatry, 29(4): 2024,1075-87


Gustavo Campos, Liming Qiu, Robert Seilheimer, Harvey Huang, Min Jae Kim, Zhengjia Wang, Younghoon Nho, Katherine W. Scangos, Dora Hermes, Kai J. Miller, Daniel A.N. Barbosa, Casey H. Halpern Combining tractography and electrophysiological connectivity for hypothesis-driven network probing in stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG)-guided deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (trOCD) , American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Meeting: 2024


Younghoon Nho, Liming Qiu, Gustavo Campos, Rob Seilheimer, Camarin Rolle, Lily Brown, Desmond Oathes, Bijan Pesaran, Katherine Scangos, Daniel Barbosa, Casey H. Halpern Circuit-based relevant electrophysiology modulation of personalized evocation was associated with amelioration in OCD-related distress , American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Biennial Meeting: 2024


Robert Seilheimer, Liming Qiu, Younghoon Nho, Gustavo Campos, Neda Kaboodvand, Kristie Bauman, Taneeta M. Ganguly, Mario Cristancho, Michael Jensen, Kai J. Miller, Lily A. Brown, Desmond J. Oathes, Katherine W. Scangos, A. Moses Lee, Nolan Williams, Daniel A.N. Barbosa, Casey H. Halpern Stereo-electroencephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder , Brain Conference: 2024


Liming Qiu, Younghoon Nho, Robert Seilheimer, Altona Tufanoglu, David W Oslin, Katherine W Scangos, Anna Rose Childress, Casey H Halpern Personalized Evocation of Cue-hyperreactivity May Optimize Deep Brain Stimulation for Opioid Use Disorder , American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Biennial Meeting: 2024