Atom Leadership

Jayant Menon, MD

Medical Director

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Jayant Menon MD is Atom Limbs’ Medical Director and reports to CEO Tyler Hayes.

Jayant is an experienced neurosurgeon currently currently practicing at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center.

Jayant is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford Health Care, teaching trauma surgery and neurosurgery residents about the care of critically ill patients.

Previously, Jayant was both a neurosurgeon and Director of Medical Operations at Neuralink. Jayant created the clinical trial team and was the original first author of Neuralink’s First-in-Human Early Feasibility FDA Clinical Trial. Jayant also performed robot-assisted implantation of cortical micro-electrodes in pre-clinical FDA studies.

Prior to Neuralink, Jayant was Director of Health at IDEO, working as a physician-designer on BCIs, collaborating with DARPA, Medtronic, and Johnson & Johnson.

Jayant did his fellowship at Stanford and medical internship and residency at UCSD.