Team Member
team member
Leo Sugrue, MD, PhD
Dr. Leo Sugrue is a neuroscientist and neuroradiologist who researches the brain circuits that control complex thought and behavior and their involvement in mental illness. He has a joint appointment in Psychiatry and works closely with colleagues at the Dolby Center for Mood Disorders and the Weill Institute for Neurosciences to develop novel circuit-based approaches to image and treat neuropsychiatric conditions using closed-loop brain stimulation and brain-directed focused ultrasound.
Sugrue directs the Laboratory for Precision Neuroimaging at UCSF, which emphasizes integrating brain imaging with genetic, health, and behavioral data to better understand, diagnose, and treat brain disease. He is a co-investigator for the national Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study (ABCD), and his group works to leverage “big data” from studies like ABCD to better understand neuropsychiatric disorders and improve their diagnosis and treatment in individual patients.
Sugrue completed his undergraduate education and PhD in Neuroscience at Stanford University and received his MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed residency in diagnostic radiology and fellowship in Neuroradiology at UCSF before joining the faculty in 2014. He co-founded the Fucused Ultrasound in Neuroscience program (FUN) at UCSF, a multidisciplinary effort to use brain-directed focused ultrasound to treat movement disorders like Essential Tremor and to develop it as a tool to modulate brain activity with high spatial and temporal precision. Leo grew up in Dublin and visits Ireland regularly, in his spare time he enjoys cooking, gardening, and tinkering with old motorcycles.