Casey Gower MD

Education

Bachelors in Neuroscience, 2015, George Mason University
Doctor of Medicine, 2019, USUHS SOM
Adult Neurology Residency, 2023, NCC
Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship, 2024, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

Biography

Dr. Gower is an Eagle Scout that grew up in the Houston, TX area. Most of the time in his youth was spent in outdoor activities and community service. He entered into military service in 2004, enlisting as a 68 W (combat medic) with the US Army. He went to airborne school and spent his enlisted time with various paratrooper units in Alaska and Texas. He deployed with these units to Iraq and Afghanistan. He then decided to pursue further education, completing his undergraduate degree in a little over 2 years, majoring in Neuroscience. Out of a strong commitment to his country and sense of duty, he pursued medical school with USUHS to continue on in the military medical mission. Despite keeping an open mind as to which residency program to pursue, the mysteries of the nervous system were still the most fascinating to him and Neurology was the natural choice. From 2019 to 2023, while training in Neurology the complexities and issues of the cognitive functions of the brain were his primary area of interest. Luckily he was able to pursue these interests further with Fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. Now, he is back at Walter Reed and enthusiastically working to expand the capabilities of care within the MHS to address some of the most difficult cognitive/behavioral issues that our beneficiaries experience, from TBI to neurodegenerative disease. He has a strong interest research in improved fMRI diagnostics, Biomarkers for cognitive disorders, novel therapeutics for cognitive/behavioral disorders (including psychedelic assisted therapies), and treatments that improve outcomes in Functional Neurologic Disorder. When not working, he is usually out hiking or doing something near a mountain with his wife, and sometimes is able to drag along one of their children (their teenagers, so they resist).

Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications

Deployment: OIF 2006-2007

Deployment: OEF 2012

Awards/Badges: Parachutist, Combat Medical Badge, Expert Field Medical Badge

Capstone Project SOM 2019: Developing metrics of resting-state networks as an imaging biomarker for concussion

ANPA Annual Meeting 2024 ‘When Hearing Voices Is Not Psychotic: A Case Series of Atypical Auditory Hallucinations’

ANPA Annual Meeting ‘Social Apoptosis: An Evolutionary Model of Depression and Suicide'