Dr. Freeman holds the academic rank of Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic, and has appointments within the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, and Critical Care. Dr. Freeman has more than 230 peer-reviewed National Library of Medicine publications, and has three textbooks, one by Cambridge and two by Oxford on hospital neurology, neuro critical care, and neurological emergencies. Dr. Freeman is the founding and current Neurosciences ICU medical director at Mayo Clinic in Florida, and co-director of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Stroke Center. Dr. Freeman is the Program Director for two separate neurocritical care fellowships one with the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties (UCNS) and other with the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS), and a cutting-edge fellowship called STR-X (Simulation, Telemedicine, Robotics, and eXperimental education). Dr. Freeman has mentored more than 100 students, residents, fellows, and allied health trainees. Dr. Freeman’s research interests include severe stroke/brain-injury as well as cutting-edge methods of health care delivery such as telemedicine, mobile and digital health, and tele-robotics. He has obtained numerous honors and awards including the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Educator award in 2015. Dr. Freeman is a Mayo Clinic Gold Quality Fellow which is an honor and distinction for his health care quality improvement initiatives inside and outside Mayo Clinic’s walls, and his health care re-design models have been nationally highlighted in Harvard Business Review, and in other news on use of robotic telemedicine inside moving ambulances for acute stroke patients. Regarding leadership roles, Dr. Freeman served as the Chair of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Critical Care and Emergency Neurology Section 2017-2019, Chair of the AAN Workforce Task Force in 2013-2015, Neurocritical care Society Board of Directors and Executive Board, and was elected and served as the President of the Mayo Clinic Florida Officers and Councilors in 2021. Dr. Freeman leads Convergence Science events that similar to the NASA and National Academies of Science and Medicine bring together multidisciplinary scientists/physicians, engineers, allied health, and other artificial intelligence and data scientists.  Dr. Freeman is passionate sharing knowledge in neurocritical care to reach global unmet needs of neurocritical care patients including traumatic brain injury, stroke and to try to address health care disparities especially in rural and underserved areas. It is through this outreach he hopes to achieve Charles’ Mayo vision of education “… to heal the sick and advance the science” for patients around the globe.

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