• Neurosurgery Services
• Brain Tumor Services
• Epilepsy Services
• Skull Base Surgery Services
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Services
• Cancer Services
• Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Services

• American Board of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery

• English
• Chinese
• Taiwanese

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Oregon Health Sciences UniversityGeneral Surgery

Oregon Health Sciences UniversityNeurological Surgery

Barrow Neurological InstituteCerebrovascular & Skull Base Surgery
Oregon Health Sciences UniversityFunctional Stereotactic & Pain Surgery

University of Maryland — PhD, Mechanical Engineering

• Professor and Chair — Department of Neurological Surgery, UCI School of Medicine
• Director — UCI Health Neurosurgery Services
• Professor — Department of Biological Engineering, UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering
• Professor — Department of Otolaryngology /Head and Neck Surgery, UCI School of Medicine

• Physicians of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association — 2018-2024
• Best Doctors in America^® — Neurological Surgery — 2015-2016

Dr. Frank P.K. Hsu is a fellowship-trained neurosurgeon who specializes in cerebrovascular, minimally invasive and open skull base surgery. He has extensive expertise in radiosurgery and functional surgery for movement disorders, deep brain stimulation, epilepsy and pain.

He also is highly skilled at treating patients with aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations and cavernous malformations, as well as malignant and benign tumors of the brain and spine, including pituitary tumors and meningiomas.

Hsu received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in Bethesda, where he previously earned a PhD in mechanical engineering. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurological surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. He completed fellowship training in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. He returned to Oregon Health Sciences University for fellowship training in functional stereotactic and pain surgery.

His research interests are in the biomechanics of cerebral aneurysms, functional neurosurgery and epilepsy.

Before coming to UCI Medical Center, he served as director of functional, cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif..

Hsu, who also speaks Mandarin and Taiwanese, sees patients in Irvine, Orange and Costa Mesa. 

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