Pain Neurosurgery

Edited by Dr. Oren Sagher, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health System, Edited by Dr. Emily Levin, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health System, and Edited by Dr. Julie Pilitsis, Chair; Professor, Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics; Neurosurgery and Neuroscience & Experimental Therapeutics; Albany Medical College

Oren Sagher, MD, accepted a position on the neurosurgical faculty at the University of Michigan after completing his residency at the University of Virginia. He became Chief of Neurosurgery at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital, a position he held until 1996. He then completed a fellowship in Pain and Functional Neurosurgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University, and took over as the Director of Neuromodulation at the University of Michigan. As the primary functional neurosurgeon at the University of Michigan, Dr. Sagher takes care of such problems as epilepsy, pain, Parkinson's Disease, and other movement disorders. Dr. Sagher is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). He has served on the Executive Council on the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain, which he chaired from 2003 to 2005. Emily Levin, MD, graduated from Johns

Hopkins University in 2002, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with her Doctor of Medicine. Following completion of her surgical internship and residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan, she completed a fellowship in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. While in San Francisco, she received specialized training in the surgical treatment of movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia. She also focused on surgery for treating epilepsy and pain. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Michigan and the Chief of Neurosurgery for the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Julie G. Pilitsis, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience at Albany Medical College and Chair for the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics. She completed her

neurosurgery residency at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. During that time, she also obtained a PhD in neurophysiology and became active in both basic science and translational research. She went on to complete a fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. To date, she has served as Chair of the Joint Section on Pain of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) as well as AANS/CNS Chair of Joint Section for Women in Neurosurgery. She is currently an Executive Council Member of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Scientific Program for the AANS, and on the NANS Board of Directors. With the support of the NANS Board of Directors, she began the NANS Women in Neuromodulation Section where she was the first chair and currently serves as senior advisor. Dr. Pilitsis maintains an NIH sponsored research program focused on device optimization for neuromodulation and has

published over 100 journal articles, 4 books, and numerous chapters. She serves as section editor of functional neurosurgery in Operative Neurosurgery, is on the editorial board of Neuromodulation, and sits on multiple NIH study sections.

Mandana A. Behbahani, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
The University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Sharona Ben-Haim, MD
Associate Physician
Department of Neurosurgery
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Marian Bercu, MD
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Grand Rapids, MI

Jeffrey A. Brown, MD
Neurological Surgery, PC
Northwell Health
Lake Success, NY

Edward Chang, MD
Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Nauman S. Chaudhry, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
The University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Cletus Cheyuo, MD, PhD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV

Daniel R. Cleary, MD, PhD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA

Claire Collison, MS
Department of Neurosurgery
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Morgantown, WV

Nicholas C. Field, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY

Brian J.A. Gill, MD
Resident
Department of Neurological Surgery
Columbia University Neurological Institute
New York, NY

Patrick J. Hunt, BS
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Roy S. Hwang, MD, MS
Department of Neurosurgery
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY

Patrick J. Karas, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Farhan A. Khan, BS
Columbia Unviersity
New York, NY

Anthony Lee, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Innocent Njoku, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY

Ahmed M. Raslan, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Kunal Raygor, MD
Resident
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Sebastian Rubino, MD
Resident
Department of Neurosurgery
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY

Shelby Sabourin, BS
Neurosurgery Research Intern
Albany Medical Center
Albany, NY

Timothy Shepherd, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiology
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Sameer A. Sheth, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Director, Psychiatric Neurosurgery Service
Department of Neurology
Columbia University
New York, NY

Konstantin V. Slavin, MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Head, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery section
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Zoe Teton, BS
Department of Neurological Surgery
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Ashwin Viswanathan, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Richard L. Weiner, MD, FACS, FAANS
Partner
Dallas Neurosurgical and Spine Associates
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
UT Southwestern Medical School
Dallas, TX

Christopher J. Winfree, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurological Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

"[A]n excellent review of the most common pain conditions and their respective managementAll health care providers involved in treating patients with these pain conditions should read this book." - Line Jacques, Neurosurgery