Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer Primary Organization 
Aqueduct Critical Care
Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Samuel Browd is an attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Children’s Hospital where he performs over 160 shunt procedures and over 300 procedures annually. As a surgeon performing a high volume of procedures every year, Samuel Browd is keenly aware of the problems with current technologies marketed for cerebral spinal fluid management. In fact, the
inadequacy of existing technology was his motivation to invent improved technology and start Aqueduct. Inventing is not new to Samuel Browd; he has filed and received a patent in a completely different area, a vacuum fixation head bag to immobilize heads – a product that is now being evaluated for commercialization.
Samuel Browd is the lead site investigator for the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network (HCRN) at the University of Washington (UW), which has been involved in protocol implementation and data gathering for improvement of hydrocephalus treatment strategies. Samuel Browd’s research efforts outside of the HCRN have focused on image guided neuro-navigation for optimal catheter positioning during shunt placement. He is the co-founder of another company to pursue that technology. Samuel Browd is currently collaborating on various basic science projects to determine the causes of hydrocephalus and shunt malfunction. Samuel Browd is a Professor of Neurological Surgery at the UW School of Medicine where he is the Director of the Hydrocephalus Program.
