Dr. Fields has dedicated his career to a deeply personal mission: restoring movement to individuals living with paralysis. Before medical school, he served as a firefighter captain, paramedic, and neural rehabilitation personal trainer, bearing witness to the devastating onset and scarce treatment options available for individuals living with neural disabilities. These experiences compelled Dr. Fields to pursue a career as a neurosurgeon-scientist where his clinical practice and research program utilize network-guided electrotherapeutics to restore movement for individuals with ischemic, traumatic, genetic, and degenerative neural disease.
Dr. Fields is a Staff Surgeon at the Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, and McKnight Brain Institute Scholar. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as private organizations; including the Live Like Lou Foundation, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and Chuck Noll Foundation.
Dr. Fields has been recognized with several nationally competitive awards and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health, and National Science Foundation in addition to funding from private organizations such as the National Football League, Pittsburgh Steelers, Merck Pharmaceuticals, and the Live Like Lou Foundation. Dr. Fields was Live Like Lou's inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow in 2022 during his studies at the University of Pittsburgh. View Dr. Daryl Fields' publications on PubMed.
