OCD ruled Moksha Patel’s life until a rare surgical procedure changed everything

Moksha Patel is a successful senior instructor at CU School of Medicine and MBA candidate at CU Denver. He has been dealing with severe OCD his whole life. When he came to CU Anschutz as a fellow in hospital medicine, his advisors intervened. After a year of clearing insurance and procedural hurdles, Patel underwent deep brain stimulation - an invasive surgery that delivers currents to the brain through generators in the chest - at UCHealth, where he was patient number eight to receive the surgery.