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| The Third Dudley S. Dinner Distinguished Epileptologist’s Lecture - Dennis Spencer, MD | ||
Dr. Spencer is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Yale University School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine and completed his neurosurgical residency at Yale in 1977. He joined the Yale neurosurgery faculty following his residency, and became Chief of neurosurgery in 1987. He has an international reputation in the surgical treatment of neurological diseases causing epilepsy and developed a widely used neocortical sparing surgical approach for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. The primary focus of Dr. Spencer’s clinical work is surgery for medically intractable epilepsy, seizure disorders associated with brain tumors, and pituitary tumors. Besides chairing the Department of Neurosurgery, he directs the Epilepsy Surgery and Pituitary Tumor Programs. His research has brought together basic scientists and clinicians
around a program concerning energetics, glutamate metabolism
and the neurobiological study of human epileptogenic tissue.
Study techniques include 4T MRS, C13 intraoperative glucose
turnover studies, and in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology and
microdialysis, immunohistochemistry, confocal and EM microscopy,
and molecular biology. In particular, laboratory discoveries are
correlated with the epileptogenic substrate in order to help define
human epilepsy pathogenesis and potential therapies. |
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| Invited Guest Faculty | ||
Mario Alonso, MD Frederick Andermann, OC, MD, FRCP Rachel Bialik, RN Andrew Bleasel, MBBS Carlos Carlotti, MD Mar Carreño, MD, PhD Greg Cascino, MD Fernando Cendes, MD, PhD Stephan Chabardes, MD Patrick Chauvel, MD Nathan Crone, MD Francois Dubeau, MD Michael Duchowny, MD Jean Gotman, PhD Mark Holmes, MD Hans Holthausen, MD Akio Ikeda, MD Csaba Juhasz, MD Philippe Kahane, MD, PhD Giorgio LoRusso, MD |
Helio Machado, MD Riki Matsumoto, MD, PhD Lorella Minotti, MD Armin Mohamed, MD Eliseu Paglioli, MD Andre Palmini, MD, PhD Americo Sakamoto, MD Paul Shkurovich, MD Dennis Spencer, MD Laura Tassi, MD Eugan Trinka, MD Ingrid Tuxhorn, MD Walter van Emde Boas, MD Howard Weiner, MD Hung Tzu Wen, MD Carl Fredrik Westin, MD Peter Widdess-Walsh, MD Friedrich Woermann, MD Greg Worrell, MD, PhD |
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Diane Cleary, RN |
Chetan Malpe, MD Chong Wong, MD |
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