Dr. Heit received his Ph.d. in neuroscience from UCLA and his M.D. from Stanford. After serving for 6 years as an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Functional Neurosurgery at Stanford, he joined the neurosurgery staff of the Permanente Medical Group of Northern California. He went to Cuzco, Peru, on a volunteer surgical mission where he performed pediatric and intracranial surgery.
pediatric and intracranial surgery.