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Neurosurgical Research Programs

Integrative Research in the Prevention and Treatment of
Diseases and Injury of the Brain and Spine



Neurosurgeon Scholars and the Research Team

Clinician Scholars

Northwestern Memorial Hospital faculty and their research interests

H. Hunt Batjer, MD, Chair
Neurovascular diseases, cerebral protection

Bernard R. Bendok, MD
Cerebral aneurysm biology, MRI perfusion, stents, bioactive coils

James P. Chandler, MD
Brain tumor biology and therapeutics 

Aruna Ganju, MD
Spine biomechanics, the role of the spinal column in ambulation, posttraumatic syringomyelia 

Christopher C. Getch, MD
Cerebral vasospasm, microvascular decompression, hemorrhagic stroke

Tyler Koski, MD
Spine surgery, adult deformity, spinal oncology, trauma, sagittal alignment, spinal biomechanics

Robert M. Levy, MD, PhD 
Neuropathic pain, gamma knife applications, HIV, neurostimulation, neuromodulation

John C. Liu, MD 
Minimally invasive techniques in spine surgery

Kenji Muro, MD
Surgical and stereotactic radiosurgical management of primary and metastatic tumors of the brain, spinal cord, and spine

Stephen L. Ondra, MD 
Spinal deformity, motion analysis of the spine, sagittal spinal alignment

Joshua M. Rosenow, MD 
Parkinson's disease, epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation

John K. Song, MD 
Spinal disorders, including degenerative and traumatic instability, deformity, and neoplasm; minimally invasive techniques; spinal biomechanics; analysis and development of novel medical devices
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Children’s Memorial Hospital faculty and their research interests

Tadnori Tomita, MD
Pediatric brain tumors

Tord D. Alden, MD
Stem cell biology, bone morphogenic protein, gene therapy 

Robin M. Bowman, MD
Myelomeningocele, spinal dysraphism, pediatric hydrocephalus, Chiari malformations, pediatric brain tumors

Arthur DiPatri, MD
Pediatric epilepsy and brain tumors

David G. McLone, MD
Pediatric myelomeningocele and pediatric spinal dysraphism

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Evanston Northwestern Healthcare faculty and their research interests

Issam A. Awad, MD
Biology of cerebral vascular malformations and aneurysms, outcomes studies in hemorrhagic stroke, thrombolytic aspiration of cerebral hemorrhage

Ivan S. Ciric, MD
Outcomes studies and surgical approaches for pituitary and benign brain tumors, outcomes studies for spinal stenosis

Jeffrey W. Cozzens, MD
Brain tumor research, epilepsy research, movement disorders research

Yevgeniy A. Khavkin, MD
Complex spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, intracranial surgery


Research Faculty and Project Scientists

Kimberley Anderson, PhD

Barbara Mania-Farnell, PhD

Markus Bredel, MD, PhD
Pathobiology of human high-grade gliomas, identification of novel tumor suppressor and oncogenes in high-grade gliomas, integration of functional and computational genomics, network modeling of genome-wide molecular portraits in high-grade gliomas, molecular mechanisms of high-grade glioma evolution, molecular mechanisms of chemoresistance of high-grade gliomas

Shekhar Mayanil, PhD

Robert Shenkar, PhD
Neurovascular biology

Jin-cheng Zhao, PhD
Neuroanatomic and microvascular techniques, skull base surgery


Neurosurgery Residents

Sunit Das, MD

Chris Eddleman, MD

Ryan Halpin, MD

Patrick Hsieh, MD

Peter Lee, MD

Stefan Mindea, MD

David Moller, MD

Brian O'Shaughnessy, MD

Glenn Pollock, MD

Patrick Shih, MD

Nicholas Slimack, MD

Patrick Sugrue, MD
Robert Thiele, MD
Benson Yang, MD


Research Nurses and Technical Staff

David George

Chris McCabe

Jason Monroe

Jeyakumar Natarajan

Beth Stahl

Heather Synder

Sara Thompson

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