Warf is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Neuro Kids, a nonprofit that advocates for the treatment of children with neurological disorders in under-served areas around the world.
[2] He also serves on the Global Experts Panel of the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus and was the founding Executive Committee Chair of the PUSH!
After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1984, Warf completed his neurosurgical residency training at Case Western University in 1991, and was the first Fellow in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital from 1991 to 1992.
While there, Warf pioneered a novel treatment for infant hydrocephalus using a minimally invasive endoscopic technique (ETV/CPC) that greatly reduces the number of children requiring implantation of and lifelong dependence on ventriculoperitoneal shunts.
[4] This procedure is known as an ETV/CPC, a combination of endoscopic third ventriculostomy and choroid plexus cauterization,[5] which is now being performed in major children's medical centers throughout North America and internationally.