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Current Residents - Robert Whitmore, MD

Resident Physician, PGY-3

Robert Whitmore, MD

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

Dr. Whitemore is currently a PGY-3 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Education

  • 9/96-5/00 B.A. Amherst College (Neuroscience, Magna Cum Laude)
  • 9/02-5/06 M.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Awards, Honors, and Membership in Honorary Societies

  • 2000 Phi Beta Kappa
  • 2005 Alpha Omega Alpha
  • American Medical Association (2002-present)
Original Papers

Legos JJ, Whitmore RG, Erhardt JA, Parsons AA, Tuma RF, Barone FC. Quantitative changes in interleukin proteins following focal stroke in the rat. Neuroscience Letters 2000 Mar 24;282(3):189 92.

Sarau HM, Griswold DE, Bush B, Potts W, Sandhu P, Lundberg D, Foley JJ, Schmidt DB, Webb EF, Martin LD, Legos JJ, Whitmore RG, Barone FC, Medhurst AD, Luttmann MA, Giardina GA, Hay DW. Nonpeptide Tachykinin Receptor Antagonists. II. Pharmacological and Pharmacokinetic Profile of SB222200, A CNS-Penetrant, Potent and Selective NK-3 Receptor Antagonist. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 2000 Oct;295(1):373-81.

Schmidt B, Scott I, Whitmore RG, Foster H, Fujimura S, Schmitz J, Levy JA. Low-level HIV infection of plasmacytoid dendritic cells: onset of cytopathic effects and cell death after PDC maturation. Virology 2004 Nov 24;329(2):280-8.

Whitmore RG, Bonhomme G, Balcer LJ, Palmer JN. Tension Pneumocephalus After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery: Case Report of Repair and Management in Absence of Obvious Skull Base Defect. Manuscript under review (ENT Journal).

Whitmore RG, Simon SL, Hurst RW, Nisenbaum HL, Kasner SE, Zager EL. Bow Hunter’s Syndrome Caused by Accessory Cervical Ossification: Posterolateral Decompression and the Use of Intraoperative Doppler Ultrasonography. Manuscript under review (Surgical Neurology).

Whitmore RG, Krejza J, Kapoor GS, Huse J, Woo JH, Bloom S, Wolf RL, Judy K, Rosenfeld MR, Biegel JA, Melhem ER, O’Rourke DM. Prediction of Oligodendroglial Tumor Subtype and Grade Using MR Perfusion-weighted Imaging. Manuscript under review (Neuro-Oncology)
Abstracts

Legos JJ, Whitmore RG, White RF, Chandra S, Parsons AA, Barone FC. Inhibition of p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Stroke: Neuroprotection Confirmed Using Histopathology, MRI, and Neurologic Deficit Analyses. Stroke 2000, 31:275A. Oral presentation, 25th American Heart Association International Stroke Conference, 2000.

Whitmore RG, Krejza J, Kapoor GS, Huse J, Woo JH, Bloom S, Wolf RL, Judy K, Rosenfeld MR, Biegel JA, Oberholtzer JC, Melhem ER, O’Rourke DM. Oligodendroglial neoplasm molecular subtypes and candidate genes predicted by magnetic resonance perfusion-weighted imaging. Poster presentation at American Association for Cancer Research—Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics Conference, 2005.

Whitmore RG, Krejza J, Kapoor GS, Huse J, Woo JH, Bloom S, Wolf RL, Judy K, Rosenfeld MR, Biegel JA, Oberholtzer JC, Melhem ER, O’Rourke DM. Profiling of Oligodendroglial Cytogenetic Subtypes by Magnetic Resonance Perfusion-weighted Imaging. Oral presentation, Scientific Session I, American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2006.

Whitmore RG, Krejza J, Kapoor GS, Huse J, Woo JH, Bloom S, Wolf RL, Judy K, Rosenfeld MR, Biegel JA, Melhem ER, O’Rourke DM. Oligodendroglial neoplasm molecular subtypes and candidate genes predicted by magnetic resonance perfusion-weighted imaging. Poster presentation. Eleventh Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, November 16-19, 2006, in Orlando, Florida

Whitmore RG, Halpern CH, Kapoor GS, Wolf RL, Baccon J, Krejza J, Bailey R, Lopinto J, Melhem ER, O ’Rourke DM. Perfusion-Weighted Imaging Utilized to Identify MR Surrogates of EGFRvIII Alterations in Glioblastoma Multiforme. Select poster presentation. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Diego, 2007.
Book Chapters

Huang JH, Whitmore RG, Zager EL. Carpal Tunnel Decompression. Invited chapter for Neurosurgical Operative Atlas 2E, Spine and Peripheral Nerve, AANS Publication committee, in press.

Huang JH, Whitmore RG, Zager EL. Obturator Nerve Injury. Invited chapter for Neurosurgical Operative Atlas, Spine and Peripheral Nerve, AANS Publication committee, in press.

Bhowmick D, Whitmore RG, Zager EL. Sciatic Nerve Injury. Invited chapter for Neurosurgical Operative Atlas, Spine and Peripheral Nerve, AANS Publication committee, in press.

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