Maggie E. Fitzpatrick, MD, MS

Co-Founder, NeuroRounds

Maggie E. Fitzpatrick, MD, MS, is a physician, clinical researcher, and co-founder of NeuroRounds.

Dr. Fitzpatrick's involvement with NeuroRounds began long before she earned her medical degree. Her path into medicine included an early shadowing experience with neurosurgeon Mark R. McLaughlin, MD, which developed into a longstanding mentor-mentee relationship and a shared interest in expanding meaningful clinical education beyond the traditional classroom.

When the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted clinical experiences for medical and pre-medical students, Fitzpatrick and McLaughlin recognized a particular problem: students were losing not simply time in hospitals, but opportunities to observe how physicians actually evaluate patients, interpret evidence, weigh alternatives, and make decisions.

Together, they created NeuroRounds.

What began during the pandemic as a virtual clinical case conference grew into an ongoing educational forum connecting students with physicians, scientists, researchers, and other accomplished thinkers. Fitzpatrick has remained closely involved in its development, helping broaden NeuroRounds beyond individual cases and even beyond neurosurgery to explore the larger scientific, ethical, and human questions that shape medicine.

That perspective reflects her own path. Dr. Fitzpatrick earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science on a pre-medical track from the University of South Carolina, where she participated in neuroscience research involving high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS). She subsequently earned a Master of Science in Clinical Research from New York University.

In May 2026, she received her Doctor of Medicine degree from St. George's University School of Medicine.

Throughout her education, Fitzpatrick has maintained a particular interest in mentorship, mental health advocacy, clinical research, and making opportunities in medicine more accessible to students. She has also helped bring subjects outside the boundaries of conventional clinical case discussion to the NeuroRounds community, including introducing NeuroRounds participants to the Boston Declaration.

Her own progression—from student observing medicine, to researcher, medical student, NeuroRounds co-founder, and now physician—has given Fitzpatrick an unusual perspective on the community NeuroRounds serves. She understands it both as one of its creators and as someone who has traveled the same educational path as many of the students who participate today.