Tadanori Tomita, MD

Division Head, Neurosurgery; Medical Director, Falk Brain Tumor Center; Yeager Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery; Member, Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation

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: English, 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

Evaluation of Protein Kinase Inhibitors with PLK4 Cross-Over Potential in a Pre-Clinical Model of Cancer
Int J Mol Sci20 (9):
Global Reduction of H3K4me3 Improves Chemotherapeutic Efficacy for Pediatric Ependymomas
Neoplasia21 (6): 505-515
Phase I study of gene-mediated cytotoxic immunotherapy with AdV-tk as adjuvant to surgery and radiation for pediatric malignant glioma and recurrent ependymoma
Neuro Oncol21 (4): 537-546
Resection of an Embolized Cirsoid Aneurysm With Intracranial Venous Drainage: 2-Dimensional Operative Video
Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown)16 (3): E94
Erythropoietin-mediated activation of aquaporin-4 channel for the treatment of experimental hydrocephalus
Childs Nerv Syst34 (11): 2195-2202

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