Tadanori Tomita, MD

Division Head, Neurosurgery; Medical Director, Falk Brain Tumor Center; Yeager Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery

Professor of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Co-director, Falk Brain Tumor Center; Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery Laboratory, Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute

Languages: Japanese

Appointments & Referrals

1.800.543.7362 (1.800.KIDS DOC)

About Me

Clinical Interests: Brain tumors, brain and spinal cord defects, head trauma, hydrocephalus, skull deformity, brain cysts, neuro-endoscopy and vascular malformation

Specialties, Programs & Conditions

Specialties:

Neurosurgery

Programs & Conditions:

Brain Tumor Program

Education & Training

Education: Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan, 1970

Postgraduate Training: Residency in general surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1980-1981; Residency in neurosurgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 1974-1980

Board Certifications: Neurological Surgery

Research

Research Interests: Acute care surgery; brain tumors; cancer: brain and nervous system; congenital malformations; head trauma; hydrocephalus; neuro-Oncology; neuroscience; neurosurgery; pediatric neurology; pediatrics; radiosurgery; spinal cord tumors; spinal tumors

Publications

Most recent publications

Prospective feasibility and safety assessment of surgical biopsy for patients with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma Neuro Oncol20 (11): 1547-1555
Chiari type I malformation of infants and toddlers Childs Nerv Syst34 (6): 1169-1176
In memory of Professor Satoshi Matsumoto Childs Nerv Syst34 (1): 7-10
Overexpression of TEAD4 in atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor: New insight to the pathophysiology of an aggressive brain tumor Pediatr Blood Cancer64 (7):
CD133 and DNA-PK regulate MDR1 via the PI3K- or Akt-NF-kappaB pathway in multidrug-resistant glioblastoma cells in vitro Oncogene35 (42): 5576
Extensive miRNA expression analysis in craniopharyngiomas Childs Nerv Syst32 (9): 1617-24
Cerebellopontine angle tumors in infants and children Childs Nerv Syst31 (10): 1739-50
Pediatric neurosurgery-science, art, and humility: reflection of personal experience Childs Nerv Syst29 (9): 1403-14
Use of Onyx for endovascular embolization of pediatric spinal perimedullary (Type IV) fistula: Case report Clin Neurol Neurosurg115 (10): 2260-3
Genome-wide quantitative assessment of variation in DNA methylation patterns Nucleic Acids Res39 (10): 4099-108

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