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Peter A. Zahos, M.D., FACS
Area of Specialty: Brain Tumors; Functional Neurosurgery , Radiosurgery, Spinal Surgery
Professional Appointments: Co-Director, Surgical Neuro-Oncology, Brain Tumor and Movement Disorder Surgery, New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey.
Academic Appointments: Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange , New Jersey .
College Education: B.A. (religious studies), Yale University , New Haven , CT , 1984
Medical Education: M.D., George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington , D.C. , 1990
Advanced Training: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx , NY (surgical internship and neurosurgery residency) University of California , Los Angeles , CA (functional neurosurgery and stereotactic radiosurgery fellowship)
Certification: American Board of Neurological Surgery
Research Interests: Neural stem cells in brain tumors, therapeutic gene delivery into the CNS.
Professional Experience: University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , Neurosurgery Faculty, 1997-2001
Jacobi Medical Center , Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx , NY , Chief, Division of Neurosurgery 2001-2003
Geisinger Health System, Danville , PA , Director, Brain Tumor Program, 204-2005
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami , FL , Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Dept. of Neurosurgery, 2006-2008
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH, Associate, Brain Tumor Institute, 2005-2008, Joint Appointment, Dept. of Neurosurgery, 2006-2008
Cleveland Clinic Florida , Chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, 2005-2008, Director, Brain Tumor Institute, 2005-2008
Professional Societies:
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American College of Surgeons, Fellow
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Council of State Neurosurgical Societies
North American Spine Society
World Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Representative Publications:
Linnik, M.D., Zahos, P.A., Geschwind, M.D., and Federoff, H.J., Expression of bcl-2 from a Defective Herpes Simplex Virus-1 Vector Limits Neuronal Death in Focal Cerebral Ischemia, Stroke 26:1670-1675, 1995
Zahos, P.A., Goodman L.A. , Onesti, S.T., and Michelsen, W.J., Dorsal Endodermal Cyst of the Upper Cervical Spine- A Case Report and Review of the Literature, J. Spinal Disorders 9(6):536-539, 1996.
Onesti, S.T., Zahos, P.A., Ashkenazi, E., Spontaneous Hemorrhage Into A Convexity Meningioma, Acta Neurochirurgica (Wien) 138(10):1250-1251, 1996.
Samdani, A.F., Goranzik, I.M., Jallo G., Eberhart C.G. , Zahos, P., Spinal Angiolipoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature, Acta Neurochirurgica (Wien) 146(3):299-302, 2004.
Samdani, A.F., Goranzik, I.M., Zahos, P., Subdural hematoma following diagnostic lumbar puncture, American Journal of Emergency Medicine 22(4):316-7, 2004