About
Guy L. Clifton, M.D. is Professor of Neurosurgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston where he was founding chairman and holds the Runnells Distinguished Chair in Neurosurgery. 
Dr. Clifton was a 2006-2007 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow where he completed a one-year stint in the office of Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican, Utah).
During the years of his practice in Houston he was frequently listed among America’s top doctors. Internationally recognized for clinical research in the treatment of severe brain injury, he has published over one hundred scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and has been principal investigator of two NIH/NINDS-funded multi-center clinical trials of hypothermia treatment for severe brain injury, a treatment he developed and is testing.
He has received a number of awards for his research and community leadership. Dr. Clifton earned degrees from Texas A & M University and The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston with internship at the University of Minnesota and neurosurgery residency at UTMB. He has held faculty positions at Baylor College of Medicine and the Medical College of Virginia and is a member of the Academy of Distinguished Former Students of the Texas A&M University College of Science.
Dr. Clifton is donating the proceeds from Flatlined to San Jose Clinic, Houston, Texas.
Dr. Clifton can be contacted at guyclifton@gmail.com