Vincent Nguyen

Vincent N. Nguyen, MD, is a neurosurgeon with Keck Medicine of USC specializing in blood vessel disorders of the brain and neck and skull base tumors. He offers both open microsurgery and minimally invasive, catheter-based treatment for complex cerebrovascular and skull base conditions.

Dr. Nguyen treats brain aneurysms; arteriovenous malformations and dural arteriovenous fistulas; moyamoya disease; ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke; carotid artery disease and cavernous malformations; and acoustic neuromas (vestibular schwannomas), meningiomas and other skull base tumors.

His expertise includes cerebral bypass and revascularization, aneurysm clipping, coiling and flow diversion, embolization and microsurgical treatment of vascular malformations, mechanical thrombectomy, carotid endarterectomy and stenting, cerebral angiography and skull base tumor surgery. He performs acoustic neuroma surgery in collaboration with neurotologists.

Dr. Nguyen was drawn to neurosurgery by its technical demands and by how directly an operation can change a patient’s life. At Keck Medicine, open surgical and endovascular specialists jointly review complex aneurysms and vascular malformations. This collaboration allows him to tailor treatment to each patient’s needs and, when appropriate, combine techniques. He also provides second opinions and helps patients decide whether observation, minimally invasive treatment or surgery is the best next step.

Dr. Nguyen received his medical degree from Temple University, completed neurosurgery residency training at the University of Tennessee and Semmes Murphey Clinic in Memphis and completed endovascular and open cerebrovascular fellowships at USC. Before returning to USC, he served on the neurosurgery faculty at the University of Rochester Medical Center and received the department’s Joseph V. McDonald, MD, Excellence in Teaching Award.

A clinical assistant professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Dr. Nguyen studies which patients may be at highest risk of stroke and benefit most from bypass surgery. He collaborates on multicenter stroke-device trials, has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and serves on the editorial boards of two neurosurgical journals. Raised in San Jose, he played college tennis at the University of California, San Diego, completed the Los Angeles Marathon, and enjoys hiking and spending time with his family.

• University of Rochester, Department of Neurosurgery: Joseph V. McDonald, M.D. Excellence in Teaching Award, 2025
   – 2026
• LINNC Americas, Sao Paulo: Best Cases Submitted Online (Staged Embolization of High-Grade Ruptured Tentorial dAVF), 2025
• North American Skull Base Society Annual Meeting: Best Videos (EC-IC/IC-IC Bypass with Radial and DLCFA Interposition Grafts for Giant MCA Aneurysm), 2025
• LINNC, Paris: Best Cases Submitted Online (Combined V3 Access for Basilar Aneurysm), 2024
• North American Skull Base Society Annual Meeting: Best Video Abstract (Combined Endovascular and Far Lateral Craniectomy for Giant Vertebrobasilar Ane, 2024
• World Neurosurgery: Editor’s Choice (Modified Orbitozygomatic Craniotomy / ‘Dallas Technique’), 2023
• Southern Neurosurgical Society (73rd Annual Meeting): Best E-Poster Award, 2023
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting: Best Abstract in Medical Education & Training, 2023
• Southern Neurosurgical Society: Augustus McCravey Resident Paper Award, 2022
• Temple University School of Medicine: Cirillo and Coulter Scholarships, 2015
• UC San Diego: Outstanding Men’s Senior Student-Athlete, 2011
• NCAA: NCAA Postgraduate Athletic Scholarship, 2011
• Temple University School of Medicine: Dean’s Award Scholarship, 2011
• Intercollegiate Tennis Association: ITA National Arthur Ashe Jr. Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship, 2009
• UC San Diego: Thurgood Marshall College Provost’s Honors, 2006
   – 2011

• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA — 06/2024 — Open Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA — 06/2023 — Endovascular Neurosurgery
• University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN — 06/2022 — Neurosurgery
• Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA — MD — 05/2015 — Medicine
• University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA — BS — 06/2011 — Biochemistry

• Vascular Neurosurgery

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• Hirsch, Joshua
• Giannotta, Steven
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• Demetriades, Demetrios
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