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1515 Holcombe Blvd
Unit 0442
Houston, TX 77030Phone+1 713-792-6161Fax+1 713-794-4950
Summary
- Professor of neurosurgery at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He graduated from the Medical College of Bellary and then pursued additional training in England where he became a fellow the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond Virginia and a fellowship in Neuro-oncology at UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He has advanced the field of brain mapping and intraoperative awake surgery for the resection of tumors in eloquent brain. He is an experienced user of the intraoperative MRI (BrainSuite) and has made major contributions in this field. He has introduced a number of new technologies including laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) for the management of deep-seated brain tumors.
Education & Training
- Virginia Commonwealth University Health SystemResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1996 - 2001
- Government Medical College VijayanagarClass of 1987
Certifications & Licensure
- FL State Medical License 2021 - Present
- TX State Medical License 2003 - 2026
- OK State Medical License 2020 - 2021
- VA State Medical License 1996 - 2001
- American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Top Doctors:SE Texas Castle Connolly, 2013
- Fellow (FAANS) American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Clinical Trials
- Use of Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (nTMS) in Generated Motor and Language Mapping to Evaluate Brain Recovery Following Surgery Start of enrollment: 2014 Sep 01
- Electrocorticography in Mapping Functional Brain Areas During Surgery in Patients With Brain Tumors Start of enrollment: 2016 Jul 22
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Probabilistic Presurgical Language fMRI Atlas of Patients with Brain Tumors.Jian Ming Teo, Vinodh A Kumar, Jina Lee, Rami W Eldaya, Ping Hou
AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2024-11-07 - 1 citationsLaser interstitial thermal therapy for new and recurrent meningioma: a prospective and retrospective case series.Veronica L Chiang, Sangami Pugazenthi, William A Leidig, Analiz Rodriguez, Sujit Prabhu
Journal of Neurosurgery. 2024-09-01 - Comparative analysis of brain language templates with primary language areas detected from presurgical fMRI of brain tumor patients.Jina Lee, Vinodh A Kumar, Jian Ming Teo, Rami W Eldaya, Ping Hou
Brain and Behavior. 2024-06-01
Press Mentions
- How I Turned My Kidney and Brain Cancer Diagnoses into Something MeaningfulMay 29th, 2019
- 10-Year Glioblastoma Survivor: Get Busy LivingMay 2nd, 2019
- Astrocytoma Survivor: I Feel LuckyMarch 4th, 2019
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