Dr Ephraim Church

Ephraim W. Church, MD, FAANS, FACS
 
Dr Church completed undergraduate work at Northwestern University (music composition, psychology) and medical school at the University of Pennsylvania where he was a 21st Century Scholar. He completed neurosurgical training at Penn State Health, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (Perth, Australia), and Stanford University. He is currently cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgeon, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Radiology, and Director of Cerebrovascular Microsurgery at Penn State Health in Hershey, PA USA. His clinical and research interests include medical ethics, complex cerebral aneurysm treatment, cerebral bypass and moyamoya disease, and evidence-based medicine as well as neurosurgical registry science. He was bioethics fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2025 and is currently completing graduate work in ethics at the University of Oxford. His ethics interests include surgical ethics, neuroethics, beginning and end life ethics, and his work focuses on ethical perspectives on optimizing life flourishing. He serves as an elder at Hershey Presbyterian Church (PCA). He is married to Emily Church, and they have 5 children.