Michael T. Lawton is an American neurological surgeon.
He serves as the President and CEO of Barrow Neurological Institute and the Robert F. Spetzler Chair in Neuroscience in the Department of Neurosurgery.
Lawton received a degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University.
[1] He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed a residency at Barrow in 1997 which included a fellowship with Robert F.
[2] He served as the vice chairman and chief of vascular neurosurgery at the UCSF for 20 years.