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Current Residents - Shabbar Danish, MD

Resident Physician, PGY-7

Shabbar F. Danish, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, Silverstein 3
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 662-3487
DanishS@uphs.upenn.edu

 
Biographical Sketch

Dr. Danish received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1997 and his medical degree from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 2001. He completed his internship in the Department of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a PGY-7 in the Department of Neurosurgery.

Publications

Jason T. Moyer, Shabbar F. Danish, Jeffrey G. Keating, Leif H. Finkel, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. Implementation of dual simultaneous microelectrode recording systems during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. Neurosurgery. 2007 Feb; 60 (2 Suppl 1): E177-E178.

Jason T. Moyer, and Shabbar F. Danish. Stimulation Induced Dyskinesias Inform Basal Ganglia Models and the Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation. J Neurosci. 2007 Feb 21; 27(8): 1799-1800.

Djamil Fertikh, MD, Alain Cunqueiro, MD, Shabbar Danish, MD, Riyadh Alokaili, MD, Jaroslaw.Krejza, MD, PhD, and Elias R. Melhem, MD. Discrimination of capsular stage brain abscesses from necrotic or cystic neoplasms using diffusion weighted MR imaging. J Neurosurg. 2007 Jan; 106(1): 76-81.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Gordon H. Baltuch, Jurg L. Jaggi, and Leif Finkel. The utility of signal frequency plotting for the prediction of subthalamic nucleus location during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. ( abstract only) Acta Neurochiurgica (Wien). 2006; vol. 148, no. 10. XVII.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jurg L. Jaggi, Jason T. Moyer, Leif Finkel, and Gordon H. Baltuch. Conventional MR imaging is inadequate in delineating the relationship between the red nucleus and subthalamic nucleus in Parkinson's disease. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2006. Apr 19; 84 (1) 12-18.

Shabbar F. Danish, Amer F. Samdani, Amgad Hanna, Phillip Storm, and Leslie Sutton. Experience with acellular human dura and bovine collagen-matrix for duraplasty after posterior fossa decompression for Chiari malformations. J Neurosurg. 2006 Jan; 104 (1 Suppl): 16-20.

Shabbar F. Danish, Amer F. Samdani, Phillip B. Storm, and Leslie Sutton. The use of allogeneic skin graft for the closure of large meningomyeloceles. Neurosurgery. 2006 Apr; 58 (4 Suppl 2): ONS-E376; discussion ONS-E376.

Shabbar F. Danish, Mark G. Burnett, Seema S. Sonnad, Eileen Maloney-Wilensky, Joseph Ong, and Sherman C. Stein. Prophylaxis for Deep Venous Thrombosis in Craniotomy Patients: A Decision Analysis. Neurosurgery. 2005 Jun; 56 (6): 1286-92; discussion 1292-4

Beau M. Ances, Shabbar F.Danish, Dennis L. Kolson, Kevin D. Judy, and David S. Liebeskind. Cerebral Gumma mimicking Glioblastoma Multiforme. Neurocrit Care. 2005; 2(3): 300-302.

Shabbar F. Danish, and Eric L. Zager. Cervical Meningioma presenting as Otalgia. Neurosurgery. 56 (3): E 621, March 2005.

Shabbar F. Danish, Mark G. Burnett, and Sherman C. Stein. Deep Venous Thrombosis in Craniotomy Patients: A Review. Neurosurgery Focus 17 (4): E2, October 2004.

George I. Jallo, Shabbar Danish, Linda Velasquez, and Fred Epstein. Intramedullary low-grade astrocytomas: long-term outcome following radical surgery. Journal of Neuro-Oncology 53: 61-66, 2001.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Leif H. Finkel, Gordon H. Baltuch, Jurg L. Jaggi, Alberto Priori, and Guglielmo Foffani. High-frequency oscillations in the human non-parkinsonian subthalamic nucleus. (in press, Brain Research Bulletin)

Jessica A. Wilden, Shabbar F. Danish, Joel Bauman, and James Schuster. Iatrogenic paraplegia in two morbidly obese patients with ankylosing spondilytis undergoing total hip arthroplasty. (in press, Journal of Neurosurgery)

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Jurg L. Jagi, Gordon H. Baltuch, Gregory G. Heuer, Kevin A. strauss, D. Holmes Morton, and Guglielmo Foffani. Insights into Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology from Glutaric Acduria Type I. (Submitted, Brain)

Shabbar F. Danish and Paul J. Marcotte Clinical and radiographic analysis of cervical disc arthroplasty compared with allograft fusion: a randomizd controlled clinical trial. Letter to the Editor. (submitted, Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine)

Amer Samdani, Shabbar Danish, and Randal Betz Torticollis manifest after a minor fall with associated underlying bony anomalies and a hypoplastic vertebral artery. (submitted, Journal of Neurosurgery)

Brad Lega, Shabbar F. Danish, Michael Husson, Phillip Koo, San S. Han, and Gordon H. Baltuch. Atlantoaxial chondrosarcoma in a Vietnam veteran exposed to Agent Orange. (submitted, Neurosurgery)

Presentations

Shabbar F. Danish, Mark G. Burnett, and Sherman C. Stein. 2004 Poster presentation. Deep Venous Thrombosis in Craniotomy Patients. Philadelphia Neurosurgical Society, Annual Conference. July 17-18. Hershey, Pa.

Shabbar Danish, Susan Guzzardo, Linda Velasquez, and I.R. Abbott. 2001 Platform presentation. Long term outcome of patients treated with selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity. AANS Annual Conference. Toronto, ON.

George Jallo, Shabbar Danish, Linda Velasquez, and Fred J. Epstein. 2000 Poster presentation. Low grade astrocytomas of the spinal cord: Long term survival and quality of life. AANS Annual Conference. San Francisco, Ca.

Shabbar Danish, Wendy Feng, and G.T. Montelione. 1997 Poster presentation. Biophysical Properties of the major cold shock protein, CspA, in E. coli. Howard Hughes Fellows Research Seminar. New Brunswick, NJ.

Abstracts

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Jurg L. Jaggi, Gordon H. Baltuch, Gregory G. Heuer, Kevin A. Strauss, D. Holmes Morton, and Guglielmo Foffani. 2007 Poster presentation. Insights into Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology from Glutaric Aciduria Type I. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, Ca. Nov 3-7. (submitted)

Casey Halpern, Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. 2007 "" presentation. Cerebrospinal fluid loss correlates with subcortical structure displacement during deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society Meeting. Hershey, Pa. July 21-22, 2007. (submitted)

Shabbar F. Danish, Casey Halpern, and Gordon H. Baltuch. 2007 Poster presentation. The History of Deep Brain Stimulation. AANS Annual Meeting, Washington DC. April 14-17, 2007.

Casey Halpern, Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. 2007 Oral presentation. Cerebrospinal fluid loss correlates with subcortical structure displacement during deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. AANS Annual Meeting. Washington DC. April 14-19, 2007.

Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. 2006 Oral presentation. Prediction of stimulating electrode location using neurophysiologically refined subthalamic nucleus border determination after deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. Pennsylvania Neurosurgery Society Meeting. Hershey, Pa. July 14-15, 2006.

Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, Jurg L. Jaggi, and Stephen Wong. 2006 Platform presentation. Determination of STN boundaries in the de-spiked microelectrode track in DBS surgery. Neural Interface Meeting. Bethesda, Maryland. Aug 21-23, 2006.

Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, Jurg L. Jaggi, and Stephen Wong. 2006 Poster presentation. Determination of STN boundaries in the de-spiked microelectrode track in DBS surgery. Neural Interface Meeting. Bethesda, Maryland. Aug 21-23, 2006.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Jurg L. Jaggi, Gordon H. Baltuch, Leif H. Finkel, Alberto Priori, and Guglielmo Foffani. 2006 Poster presentation. The relationship between 300-Hz oscillations and single-neuron firing in the subthalamic nucleus of patients with Parkinson's disease. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. Oct 15, 2006.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Leif Finkel, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. 2006 Oral presentation. The utility of signal frequency plotting for the prediction of subthalamic nucleus location during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. ESSFN Annual Meeting. Montreaux, Switzerland. Oct.

Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. 2006 Poster presentation. Accuracy of a Euclidean distance algorithm in predicting the stimulating electrode after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. Oct.

Shabbar F. Danish, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Jurg L. Jaggi. 2006 Oral presentation. Prediction of stimulating electrode location using neurophysiologically refined subthalamic nucleus border determination after deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease. ASSFN Annual Meeting. Boston, Ma.

Jason T. Moyer, Shabbar F. Danish, Jeffrey G. Keating, Leif H. Finkel, Jurg L. Jaggi, and Gordon H. Baltuch. 2006 Poster presentation. Implementation of dual simultaneous microelectrode recording systems during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkisnon's disease. ASSFN Annual Meeting. Boston, Ma

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, Jurg L. Jaggi, Gordon H. Baltuch, and Leif H. Finkel. 2005 Oral presentation. A computerized algorithm for predication of subthalamic nucleus location along the microelectrode track during deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's Disease. PAN Philadelphia Conference, Philadelphia, Pa.

Suresh N. Magge, Donna McDonald-McGinn, Shabbar F. Danish, Denis Drummond, Elaine H. Zackai, Phillip Storm, Leslie Sutton. 2005 Poster presentation. Cervical spine compression in pediatric patients with the q22q11.2 deletion. Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurologic Surgeons. Oct. Orlando, Fla.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jurg L. Jaggi, Jason T. Moyer, Leif H. Finkel, and Gordon H. Baltuch. 2005 Poster presentation. Anatomic Variability in the Red Nucleus and Subthalamic Nuceus Relationship in Parkinson's Disease. Neural Interface Meeting. Sept. 7-9. Bethesda, MD.

Shabbar F. Danish, Amer F. Samdani, Phillip B. Storm, and Leslie Sutton. 2005 Poster presentation. The use of allogeneic skin graft for the closure of large meningomyeloceles. Congress of Neurologic Surgeons Annual Meeting. Oct. Boston, Ma.

Shabbar F. Danish, Jurg Jaggi, and Gordon H. Baltuch. 2005 Poster presentation. Anatomic Variability of the Subthalamic Nucleus and Red Nucleus in Parkinson's Disease. AANS Annual Meeting. Apr 16-21. New Orleans, La.

Michael F. Stiefel, MD PhD, Alex Spiotta, MD, Vicente H. Gracias, MD, Gregory G. Heuer, MD PhD, Shabbar F. Danish, MD, Suresh Magge, MD, Neil Malhotra, MD, Eric Jackson, MD, Kareem Zaghloul, MD PhD, Eileen Maloney-Wilensky, MSN, M. Sean Grady, MD, and Peter D. LeRoux, MD. 2005 Oral presentation. Brain Tissue Oxygen Guided Management Reduces Mortality in Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurocritical Care Society Meeting. Scottsdale, Az.

Shabbar F. Danish, Amer Samdani, Amgad Hanna, Michael F. Stiefel, Phillip Storm, and Leslie Sutton. 2004 Oral presentation. The Efficacy of Duragen as a Dural Substitute Following Chiari Decompression. Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurosurgeons- Pediatric Section. Oct 8-11. San Francisco, Ca.

Seema S. Sonnad, Shabbar F. Danish, Marc G. Burnett, and Sherman C. Stein. 2004 Poster presentation. Effectiveness of Adding Anticoagulation to Mechanical Prophylaxis for Preventing DVT in Craniotomy. Annual Meeting for the Society of Medical Decision Making. Oct. 17-20. Atlanta, Georgia.

Shabbar F. Danish, Mark G. Burnett, and Sherman C. Stein. 2004 Poster presentation. Deep Venous Thrombosis in Craniotomy Patients. Philadelphia Neurosurgical Society, Annual Conference. July 17-18. Hershey, Pa.

Valerianna Amorosa, MD, Stanley Wei, BA, Daniel Kremens, MD, JD, Daniel Skovronsky MD, PhD, Shabbar Danish, MD, Kevin Judy, MD, Scott Kasner, MD, Emily Blumberg, MD. 2003 Images in Infectious Diseases. Cerebellar Schistosomiasis. Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Infectious Disease Society of America.

Greg G. Heuer, Michael F. Stiefel, Eileen Maloney-Wilensky, Shabbar F. Danish, Carol Dolinskas, and Peter D. Leroux. 2003 Poster presentation. DuraGen is an Effective Dural Substitute: Clinical Experience in 169 Patients. AANS Annual Conference. San Diego, Ca.

Shabbar F. Danish, Susan Guzzardo, Linda Velasquez, and I.R. Abbott. 2001 Oral presentation. Long term outcome of patients treated with selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity. AANS Annual Conference. Toronto, ON.

Shabbar F. Danish, Susan Guzzardo, Linda Velasquez, and I.R. Abbott. 2001 Oral Presentation. Long term outcome of patients treated with selective dorsal rhizotomy for spasticity. Pediatric Neurosurgery Section Meeting, San Diego, Ca.

George Jallo, Shabbar F. Danish, Linda Velasquez, and Fred J. Epstein. 2000 Poster presentation. Low grade astrocytomas of the spinal cord: Long term survival and quality of life. AANS Annual Conference. San Francisco, Ca.

Shabbar F. Danish, Wendy Feng, and G.T. Montelione. 1997 Howard Hughes Thesis Defense. Biophysical Properties of the major cold shock protein, CspA, in E. coli. Rutgers College, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ.

Shabbar F. Danish, Wendy Feng, and G.T. Montelione. 1997 Poster presentation. Biophysical Properties of the major cold shock protein, CspA, in E. coli. Howard Hughes Fellows Research Seminar. New Brunswick, NJ.

Book Chapters

Shabbar F. Danish, Jason T. Moyer, and Jurg L. Jaggi. Microelectrode Recording During Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease. In Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: A Comprehensive Text. Eds. Gordon H. Baltuch and Matthew Stern. Taylor and Francis (Informa) NY, London, 2007.

Shabbar F. Danish and Gordon H. Baltuch. The History of Deep Brain Stimulation. In Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: A Comprehensive Text. Eds. Gordon H. Baltuch and Matthew Stern. Taylor and Francis (Informa) NY, London, 2007.

Jason T. Moyer, Shabbar F. Danish, and Leif H. Finkel. Deep Brain Stimulation: Anatomical, Physiological and Computational Mechanisms. In Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: A Comprehensive Text. Eds. Gordon H. Baltuch and Matthew Stern. Taylor and Francis (Informa) NY, London, 2007.

Uzma Samadani, Shabbar F. Danish, Jurg L. Jaggi, Santiago Figuereo, Gordon H. Baltuch. Surgical technique for Leksell frame based deep brain stimulation o the subthalamic nucleus. In Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease: A Comprehensive Text. Eds. Gordon H. Baltuch and Matthew Stern. Taylor and Francis (Informa) NY, London, 2007.

Mark G. Burnett, Shabbar F. Danish, Guy M McKhann II, and Peter D. Le Roux. Pathology and Pathophysiology of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. In: Management of Cerebral Aneurysms. Le Roux et al. Saunders. Philadelphia. 2004

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