Dr.Freeman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1977, and his M.D. in Medicine in 1981 from Johns Hopkins University School of Med. He then took a Resident and Chief Resident position at New York University Medical Center, NY in 1982. He was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Of South Florida, College Of Medicine in 1988.Dr.Freeman is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, and is also the Medical Director of the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair. Dr. Freeman is First in the world to prove that fetal grafts survive in the human brain, for both PD and HD.
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Freeman, T.B., Vawter, D.E.: Presidential lecture: From the laboratory to the clinic: unique issues in the clinical evaluation of neural reconstruction therapies. Amer. Soc. Neural Transplantation and Repair Abst. 2004, Exp. Neurol.,187:203, 2004.

Vawter, D.E., Gervais, K.G., Freeman, T.B.: Does placebo surgery-controlled research call for new provisions to protect human research participants? American Journal of Bioethics, 3:53-56, 2003.

Newman, MB; Freeman, TB; Davis, CD; & Sanberg, PR: Neural stem cells for cellular therapy in humans. Neural Stem Cells: Development and Transplantation, Kluwer Academic, NY, XIII, 2003.

Freeman, T.B., Goetz, C.G., Kordower, J.H., Godbold, J.H., Stoessl, J., Olanow, C.W.: A prospective surgical placebo-controlled trial of human fetal tissue transplantation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. J. Neurosurg., 98:688, 2003.

Freeman, T.B., Goetz, C.G., Kordower, J.H., Stoessl, A.J., Brin, M.F., Shannon, K.M., Perl, D., Godbold, J., Olanow, C.W.: Double blind controlled trial of bilateral fetal nigral transplantation in Parkinson's disease. Exp. Neurol. 2003:181;91, 2003.