Dr. Adler subsequently completed a radiosurgery fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, where he worked alongside Professor Lars Leksell.
Professor Leksell is credited with inventing the Gamma Knife and the field of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), a non-invasive alternative to surgery for treating brain tumors and other intracranial functional and vascular diseases.
When he returned to Stanford he worked with faculty in the engineering school to build a prototype SRS system, and by 1987 was pitching his invention, the CyberKnife, to venture capitalists.
The company ran out of money in 1994 and had other struggles; Adler took a leave of absence from Stanford in 1999 and took over as CEO, serving in that role until 2002, when he stepped back into being CMO.
[4] In 2022, Cureus was acquired by Springer Nature [5] In April 2010, Adler was appointed vice president and chief of New Clinical Applications at Varian Medical Systems.