YasunoriNagahamaMD

Summary

• I am an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and I serve as Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery.
  
  
  
  I received my medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2012. During my medical training, I was awarded with a prestigious HHMI-NIH Research Scholars Program (“Cloister Program”) fellowship, sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The fellowship enabled me to spend a dedicated year in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the guidance of a world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Leslie Ungerleider, investigating a higher-order brain function involved in complex processing of visual information.
  
  
  
  I completed a residency in neurosurgery at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, during which I spent elective time in Tokyo, Japan, learning complex glioma surgery with use of intraoperative MRI, language mapping, and additional neurophysiologic monitoring. I subsequently completed a functional neurosurgery fellowship at UCLA Medical Center, with a focus on adult and pediatric epilepsy. I completed a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado, with a continued focus on pediatric epilepsy surgery.
  
  
  
  I specialize in epilepsy surgery as well as general pediatric neurosurgery, and I utilize all types of epilepsy surgery techniques, ranging from traditional resection/disconnection and neuromodulation surgery, such as lesionectomy, anterior temporal lobectomy, corpus callosotomy, functional hemispherotomy, and vagal nerve stimulation, to minimally invasive MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), to newer neuromodulation techniques, such as responsive neurostimulation (RNS) and deep brain stimulation (DBS). I also use intracranial recording, both craniotomy for electrode placement and stereo-electroencephalography (stereo-EEG), to localize a seizure focus and guide epilepsy surgery