Dr. Ben Allen Strickland's major area of clinical interest is brain, skull base, and pituitary surgery. His practice incorporates a variety of endoscopic and minimally invasive open neurosurgical techniques as well as stereotactic radiosurgery. He is a South Carolina native from Columbia. He graduated summa cum laude from Clemson University with a double major in Economics and Biology. He received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. He completed his neurosurgical training at the University of Southern California. He received advanced fellowship training in minimally invasive brain tumor and skull base oncology under Dr. Gabriel Zada. After residency, he completed an additional fellowship in skull base and cerebrovascular neurosurgery under Dr. Dan Barrow at Emory University. He is passionate about applying cutting-edge technology toward the comprehensive management of brain tumors to his patients.

Dr. Strickland also has a strong academic interest in brain tumor and skull base surgery. During his training, he completed an NIH research year investigating differential epigenetic expression patterns in meningioma. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and dozens of book chapters and has received several grants, mostly focusing on brain and skull base tumors. He runs a laboratory to translate basic cancer immunology into novel therapies against aggressive meningioma and glioblastoma. He aims to develop targeted immunotherapies against tumors not amendable to surgical interventions.