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Thomas C. Steineke, MD, PhD
Area of Specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Minimally Invasive
Skull-base and Intracranial Surgery, Neuro-oncology
Professional Appointments: Pediatric Neurosurgeon at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey.
Academic Appointments: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange, New Jersey.
Graduate Education: Pediatric Neurosurgery Fellowship, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 2003-2004; Neurosurgery Residency, UCLA Center for Health Sciences, 1997-2003; General Surgery Internship, UCLA Center for Health Sciences, 1996-1997.
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1996.
Specialty Board Certification: Board Eligible, American Board of Neurological Surgery
Research Interest: Current research: "Predictors of post-operative outcome in patients with Chiari I Malformation". We are evaluating a 170 patient surgical series to determine factors that predict good post-operative outcomes in patients with Chiari I malformation that have undergone a decompressive operation.
Professional Memberships: Congress of Neurological Surgeons; American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Honors and Awards:
Physician of the Year nominee, UCLA, 1997; President's Award, Loma
Linda University, 1994; Selma Andres Merit Scholarship, Loma Linda
University, 1993; Fellow, Society of Pediatric Research, 1992; Honorable
Mention, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - NIH, 1991; Mitchell Leadership
Scholarship, 1989; Nominated to Who's Who Among American Colleges
and Universities, 1988, 1989, 1991-1993, 1996.
Representative Publications:
Kirby MA, Steineke TC. Morphogenesis of retinal ganglion cells: a
model of dendritic, mosaic, and foveal development. Perspect Dev Neurobiol.
1996;3(3):177-94.
Steineke TC, Kirby MA. Early axon outgrowth of retinal ganglion cells
in the fetal rhesus macaque. Brain Res Dev Brain Res. 1993 Aug 20;74(2):151-62.
Kirby MA, Steineke TC. Morphogenesis of retinal ganglion cells during
formation of the fovea in the Rhesus macaque. Vis Neurosci. 1992 Dec;9(6):603-16.
Kirby MA, Steineke TC. Early dendritic outgrowth of primate retinal
ganglion cells. Vis Neurosci. 1991 Dec;7(6):513-30.