DzungHongDinhMDMBA

Neurosurgery • Peoria, IL

Brain & Spinal Tumor, Neurosurgical Spine Surgery, Pituitary Surgery, Skull Base

Professor of Neurological Surgery. Director of Spine Fellowship. U of IL College of Medicine at Peoria

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Office
200 E Pennsylvania Ave
Peoria, IL 61605
Phone+1 309-676-0766

Fax+1 309-676-5920

Summary

Dzung Dinh, MD is a highly experienced Neurosurgeon based in Peoria, IL. He has subspecialties in Brain & Spinal Tumor, Neurosurgical Spine Surgery, Pituitary Surgery, and Skull Base. He completed his residency at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and has been actively associated with multiple hospitals including OSF Saint Francis Medical Center and Carle Health Methodist Hospital since 1999. Dr. Dinh is proficient in neurosurgical oncology, neurosurgical spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, discectomy, and skull base surgery. He is also a published author with contributions to a number of reputable medical journals. He has been honored with several awards including the CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification and America’s Top Physicians from the Consumers’ Research Council of America in 2004.

Education & Training

University of Illinois College of Medicine at PeoriaResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1986 - 1991
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center/Parkland Memorial HospitalInternship, Transitional Year, 1985 - 1986
University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of MedicineClass of 1985
Coe CollegeB.A., Chemistry, Gen. Science, 1977 - 1981

Certifications & Licensure

IL State Medical License 1986 - 2026
LA State Medical License 1991 - 2013
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2013
America’s Top Physicians Consumers’ Research Council of America, 2004
Residency Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence, Neurological Surgery University of Illinois at Peoria, 2001, 2003
Phi Beta Kappa 1981
Phi Kappa Phi 1981
General Science Scholarship 1977
National Honor Society 1976
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
Fellow (FAANS) American Association of Neurological Surgeons
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Clinical Trials

Activ-L™ Artificial Disc Treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease in the Treatment of Degenerative Disc Disease Start of enrollment: 2007 Jan 01
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

54 citations
SPARC-Induced Migration of Glioblastoma Cell Lines via uPA-uPAR Signaling and Activation of Small GTPase RhoA
Sateesh Kunigal, Christopher S. Gondi, Meena Gujrati, Sajani S. Lakka, Dzung H. Dinh
International Journal of Oncology. 2006-12-01
34 citations
MMP-2 mediates mesenchymal stem cell tropism towards medulloblastoma tumors.
Praveen Bhoopathi, Chandramu Chetty, Venkateswara Rao Gogineni, Meena Gujrati, Dzung H. Dinh
Gene Therapy. 2011-07-01
56 citations
Human umbilical cord blood stem cells upregulate matrix metalloproteinase-2 in rats after spinal cord injury.
Krishna Kumar Veeravalli, Venkata Ramesh Dasari, Andrew J. Tsung, Dzung H. Dinh, Meena Gujrati
Neurobiology of Disease. 2009-10-01

Books/Book Chapters

Surgical Anatomy and Techniques to the Spine
Chapter: Surgical Anatomy of the Craniovertebral Junction
Dinh DH, Lee W, Mattei T, Karanth SEditors: Kim DH, Vaccaro A, Dickman C, Cho S, Lee SK, Kim I.Elsevier, Philadelphia, PAEdition 2nd,2013
Functional Biomaterials
Chapter: Mechanisms of Titanium release from posterior cervical spine plates in a canine model based on computational and biocompatibility studies
Villarraga ML, Anderson RC, Hart RT, Bundy KJ, Dinh DHEditors: Katsube N, Soboyejo WO, Sacks M.Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Winterthur, Switzerland2001
Advanced Understanding of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Chapter: Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for apoptosis after spinal cord injury
Dasari VR, Veeravalli KK, Rao JS, Fassett D, Dinh DHEditors: Chang R.InTech

Abstracts/Posters

Targeting PDK-1 and EGFR by human umbilical cord blood stem cells reverses Warburg effect in glioblastoma multiforme
Velpula KK, Bhasin A, Dasari VR, Asuthkar S, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Tsung AJ, AACR, 1/1/2013
Transcriptional knockdown of urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor induces apoptosis in glioblastoma xenograft cells by activation of p53
Chetty C, Ponnala S, Veeravalli KK, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
Soluble uPAR plays a critical role in the progression of meningioma by autocrine signaling
Gogineni VR, Nalla AK, Velpula KK, Rao JS, Dinh DH, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
MMP-2 knockdown leads to anoikis and inhibits migration and invasion by attenuating alphavbeta3/EGFR/Pak4 survival signaling in human glioma xenograft cells both in vi...
Kesanakurti D, Chetty C, Maddirela D, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
MMP-2 suppression abrogates irradiation-induced microtubule formation in endothelial cells by inhibiting alphavbeta3-mediated SDF-1/CXCR4 signaling
Maddirela D, Kesanakurti D, Chetty C, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
Urokinase plasminogen activator receptor and integrin alpha5-beta1 regulates plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 activity in medulloblastoma cells
Nalla AK, Asuthkar S, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
Protease-Integrin regulates mitochondrial biogenesis in glioma xenograft cells
Ponnala S, Chetty C, Veeravalli KK, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
Cord blood stem cells revert EMT to MET in glioma stem cells by downregulating synergistic transcriptional activation of Sox2 and Twist1
Velpula KK, Dasari VR, Tsung AJ, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
Radiation induced hypomethylation triggers urokinase plasminogen activator transcription in meningioma cells
Velpula KK, Gogineni VR, Nalla AK, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2012
Gadd45a sensitizes medulloblastoma cells to irradiation and modulates the cellular switch from migratory to stationary cell phase by downregulating MMP-9
Asuthkar S, Nalla AK, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Mohanam S, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2011
Downregulation of XIAP by cord blood stem cells is associated with inhibition of heat shock protein 90 in glioblastoma
Dasari VR, Velpula KK, Dinh DH, Tsung AJ, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2011
Inhibition of PI3K/AKT and MEK/ERK pathways act independently on p27 upregulation induced by downregulation of cathepsin B and uPAR in glioma
Gopinath S, Alapati K, Malla RR, Gondi CS, Mohanam S, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2011
SPARC stimulates neuronal differentiation of medulloblastoma cells via the IL-6/STAT3 pathway
Bhoopathi P, Chetty C, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Lakka SS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
SPARC enhances radiosensitivity by inhibiting radiation-induced SOX-4 transcription factor in medulloblastoma
Chetty C, Bhoopathi P, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Lakka SS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
MMP-2 regulates Rac1- and Cdc42-mediated cell migration via integrin alphavbeta3/FAK in U87 and U251 glioblastoma cell lines
Chetty C, Lakka SS, Bhoopathi P, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Induction of apoptosis in glioma cells by downregulation of X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP)
Dasari VR, Kaur K, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Radiation-inducible silencing of uPA and uPAR in vitro and in vivo in meningioma
Gogineni VR, Nalla AK, Gupta R, Gorantla B, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) interacts with nuclear HOXA5 and inhibits p53 expression in glioma stem cells
Gondi CS, Gorantla B, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Simultaneous downregulation of uPAR and cathepsin B inhibits angiogenesis and migration and induces caspase 8-mediated apoptosis in U87 stem cells and 4910 glioma xeno...
Gopinath S, Malla RR, Gondi CS, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Downregulation of uPA/uPAR inhibits epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in intermittent hypoxic DAOY and D283 medulloblastoma cells
Gupta R, Chetty C, Bhoopathi P, Lakka SS, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Sensitizing radiation-induced integrin beta-1 signaling by targeting uPAR in medulloblastoma cells
Nalla AK, Kotapatruni RP, Ganji PN, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
uPA and uPAR siRNA inhibits angiogenesis by blocking nuclear localization of angiogenin and angiopoietin1 signaling in glioblastoma cell lines
Raghu H, Song JH, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Interaction of CD44 with matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) is crucial to maintain adhesion, migration and invasion in glioblastoma xenograft cells
Vanamala S, Gondi CS, Veeravalli KK, Chetty C, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Integrin-mediated inhibition of adhesion, migration and invasion in glioma xenografts by MMP-9, uPAR and cathepsin B gene silencing
Veeravalli KK, Vanamala SK, Chetty C, Fassett D, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS, Proc Amer Assoc Cancer Res, 1/1/2010
Specific knockdown of uPA/uPAR attenuates invasion in glioblastoma cells and xenografts by inhibition of cleavage and trafficking of Notch 1 receptor
Raghu H, Gondi CS, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Rao JS, Society of Neuro-Oncology, Montreal, Canada, 1/1/2010
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Lectures

Cervical Spine
East Peoria, IL - 5/17/2012
Spinal cord regeneration with stem cells – current status
Peoria, IL - 4/6/2012
Motion Sparing Technology
East Peoria, IL - 5/12/2011
Conflict of Interest: Staying Alive
Peoria, IL - 2/12/2010
XLIF for Junctional Stenosis
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL - 4/25/2008
X-LIF – A New Minimally Invasive Surgical Approach
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL - 8/17/2007
Neurosurgery Updates
Peoria, IL - 9/1/2006
XLIF hand-on course
Peoria, IL - 9/1/2006
Spinal Instrumentation Course
Memphis, TN - 4/1/2006
Spinal cord regeneration in Lewis rats with cord blood stem cells
Peoria, IL - 3/1/2006
Artificial Disc: the New Frontier
Peoria, IL - 9/1/2005
Traumatic Thoracic and Lumbar Spine Injuries: Surgical Indication and Techniques
St. Louis, MO - 5/14/2005
Artificial Disc: Hype vs. Reality
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL - 3/18/2005
Artificial Disc: Preliminary Clinical Results
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL - 2/27/2004
Hands-on Spinal Instrumentation Course (Medtronic Mobile Lab)
Chicago IL, 2003; Peoria, IL - 1/1/2004
Evaluation and Treatment of Back Pain, Holistic Approach
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2004
Cauda Equina Syndrome
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2003
Surgical Treatment of Osteoporosis
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2003
Kyphoplasty
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2003
Economic Analysis of Spinal Fixation
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2003
Artificial Discs (Invited Speaker)
New Orleans, LA - 1/1/2002
Neurosurgical Treatment of Back Pain
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2002
Thoracolumbar Fracture
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL - 7/26/2001
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Peoria, IL - 5/16/2001
Bionic Dics
Peoria, IL - 1/1/2001
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