Authors and Editors for The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery - The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery

Editor-in-Chief

Director, Surgical Neuro-oncology, Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Professor Neurosurgery and Pediatrics
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery
Montefiore Medical Center
111 E. 210th St
Bronx, NY 10467
USA

Telephone: 001 718 920-8512

Website: http://www.cham.org/patients-families/find-a-doctor/search-results?Name=Abbott&Expertise=&PatientType=&Gender=&ZipCode=&Distance=0&Language=

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Editor-In-Chief: The ISPN Guide

Author, Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors in Children

Contributor: Tips and Techniques for Managing Hydrocephalus in Children

Ira R. (Rick) Abbott MD, is a Clinical Professor in the Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and practices pediatric neurosurgery at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in Bronx, New York (Rick Abbott).

Rick has held positions on committees for chairman appointments and academic advancement committees at his institution and has served as a Director for The American Board for Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Chairman of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurosurgeons, President of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, and President of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. He has been a reviewer and editor for the journals Neurosurgery and Child’s Nervous System and currently is the Editor-in-Chief of The ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery.

Rick has been the Bruce Hendricks Lecturer at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the Sanat Bhagwati Lecturer for the Indian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, the Fred Epstein Lecturer for the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology, and the Kenneth Till Memorial Lecturer at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. He has spoken at regional, national, and international scientific conferences in addition to participating as an instructor at national and international continuing educational courses for physicians on pediatric neurosurgical topics. He has edited books on spasticity and endoscopy, contributed chapters to 19 books, and authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles on pediatric neurosurgical topics.

Authored Journal Articles

Section Editors

Adrián Cáceres, M.D.

Bermans J. Iskandar, M.D.

Dominic Thompson, MBBS BSc FRCS(SN)

Douglas Brockmeyer, M.D.

Division Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery

Professor of Neurosurgery, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
University of Utah
Primary Children's Hospital
Pediatric Neurosurgery
100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113
USA

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Section Editor:Spinal Diseases and Anomalies in Children

Author: Cervical Spine Anomalies in Children

[KK1]Add link?Douglas Brockmeyer, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Chief for the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Utah/Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah (Douglas Brockmeyer).

Dr. Brockmeyer is the Surgical Director of the Children’s Brain and Spine Center at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City. Doug is a member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons, a Director for the Accreditation Council for Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowships, an Executive Board Member for the Chiari and Syringomyelia Foundation, an Executive Committee Member for the American Academy of Pediatric’s Section on Neurosurgery, and the Founder of the Pediatric Craniocervical Society.

Dr. Brockmeyer is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Neurosurgery–Pediatrics and is or has been an editor for Pediatric Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Focus in Pediatric Cervical Spine, Neurosurgery Clinics of North America Pediatric Spine Disorders, and section editor for Neurosurgery. He is the Spinal Diseases and Anomalies Section Editor for the ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery. Dr. Brockmeyer has authored 89 peer-reviewed journal articles, 20 book chapters, and 1 book on Advanced Pediatric Craniocervical Surgery. Dr. Brockmeyer has given numerous local, regional, and national lectures. He has been a visiting Professor at multiple institutions, most recently at the William Coxe Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis, Boston Children’s Hospital, New York University Medical Center, Stanford University Medical Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Connecticut Children’s Hospital, and University of California at San Francisco Medical Center. Doug has given multiple international lectures, including two for the Japan Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, one for the Madurai Neurological Academy, two for the Dutch Spine Society, and one in Cartagena, Columbia, for the Latin American Congress in Pediatric Neurosurgery.[KK1]

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Edward R. Smith, M.D.

Gianpiero Tamburini, M.D.

Graham Fieggen, M.D.

Jeffrey P. Blount, M.D.

Kristian Aquilina, M.D.

Oguz Cataltepe, M.D., FACS

Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery

UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus
55 Lake Avenue North
Worcester, MA 01655

Telephone: 508-334-0605

Website: https://physicians.umassmemorial.org/details/2366/oguz-cataltepe-neurological_surgery-spine-surgery-worcester

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Section Editor: Functional Disorders in the Nervous Systems in Children

Oguz Cataltepe, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at University of Massachusetts Medical School and is the Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery and the Director of Epilepsy Surgery at the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. Oguz Cataltepe has a particular interest in the surgical treatment of epilepsy, hydrocephalus and endoscopic procedures.

Oguz Cataltepe has held positions on committees for Chairman Appointments and for Academic Advancements at his institution, and has served in several committees including Faculty Council, Medical Student Admission Committee, Pediatric Trauma Committee and Quality Assurance Committee. He is a member of many national and international professional societies and serves on the editorial boards of several neurological and neurosurgical journals. He is the editor of a well-known textbook on Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery.He is also co-section editor of the Functional Neurosurgery section of the ISPN Guide to Pediatric Neurosurgery, editor of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery textbook. He has been reviewer for many journals including Neurosurgery, J Neurological Sciences and Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy.

Dr. Catatepe’s publications include many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He has been invited speaker at many national and international meetings and institutions. He has conducted some research projects using small animal models that include developing novel surgical techniques to repair peripheral nerve injuries in mice, studies addressing the patterns of post-injury electrophysiological phenomena, its behavioral correlates, and changes in Glutamate and GABA concentrations in cerebrospinal fluid of immature rats during and after hypoxia-ischemia induced seizures as well as apoptosis and DNA fragmentation patterns in rats with kainate induced seizures. His most recent research study is related to the role of Fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) expression in cerebral vascular malformations and brain tumors.

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Sandip Chatterjee, MBBS,DNB(SURG),FRCS(SN),MNAMS(Neurosurg)

Shlomi Constantini, M.D.