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Gamma Knife Team

Referring Physician Role

The referring physician is a critical partner on the Gamma Knife treatment team. All follow-up studies, treatment plans and progress outcomes are performed in conjunction with the patient's physician. Because the patient often requires long-term follow-up care, it is essential that the referring physician and Gamma Knife team maintain a close working relationship.

The Upstate Gamma Knife Team

Treatment with the Gamma Knife is planned and administered by a multidisciplinary team of specialists including: neurosurgeons, radiation oncologists, otolargyngologist, medical physicists, neuroradiologists, and nursing staff.

 

Daniel A Bassano, PhD
Daniel A Bassano, PhD
315 464-5084
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Radiation Oncology Physics
Education: Syracuse University
Research Interests:

  • The utilazation of more effective imaging technologies and strategies for oncologic diagnosis and treatment.
  • Analysis of outcomes after Gammaknife treatment of various brain pathologies.

Clinical Interests:
  • Treating all cancers using modern external radiation techniques, radioactive sources and the Gammaknife.
  • Using accelerated [1 week],and partial breast[lumpectomy site] irradiation schemes for early breast cancer.

Jeffrey A Bogart, MD
Jeffrey A Bogart, MD
315 464-5276
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Radiation Oncology; All Cancers and Hematological Conditions; Esophageal Cancer; Lung Cancer; Prostate Cancer; Urologic Cancers; more
Education: SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse
Research Interests:

  • Lung and prostate cancer
  • Clinical investigations through cooperative clinical trials

Clinical Interests:
  • Lung cancer
  • Prostate cancer including IMRT and brachytherapy
  • Breast cancer
  • Lymphoma
Associations/Memberships: American College of Radiology (ACR); Onondaga County Medical Society

Grahame Gould, MD, FAANS
Grahame Gould, MD, FAANS
315 464-9068
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Neurological Surgery; Endovascular Surgery; Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology; Brain Abscess; Brain Aneurysm; Brain Cancer; more
Education: Yale University
Associations/Memberships: AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section; American Heart Association (AHA)

Seung Shin Hahn, MD
Seung Shin Hahn, MD
315 464-5276
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Radiation Oncology; Head and Neck Cancer; Tongue and Tonsil Cancer; Gamma Knife Radiosurgery; Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT); Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT); more
Education: Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea
Research Interests:

Radiosurgery; Radiation sensitizer and protectors; evaluation of radiation sensitivity of normal tissues.

Clinical Interests: Brain Tumors, Head and Neck Cancers,Gynecological Malignancies

Walter A Hall, MD, MBA
Walter A Hall, MD, MBA
315 464-8824
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Neurological Surgery; Brain Tumors; Gamma Knife; Pituitary Tumors; Cervical Spine; Trigeminal Neuralgia; more
Education: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Research Interests:

Brain tumors, targeted toxins, and central nervous system infections

Clinical Interests: Developing new therapeutic modalities for treating brain tumors, including stereotactic radiosurgery, fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy, blood-brain barrier disruption chemotherapy and targeted toxin therapy

Satish Krishnamurthy, MD, MCh, FAANS
Satish Krishnamurthy, MD, MCh, FAANS
315 492-3125
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Neurocritical Care; Minimally Invasive Surgery; Pediatric Neurosurgery; Pediatric Neurosurgery; Neurological Surgery; Brain Injury; more
Education: Mysore Medical College, Mysore, India
Research Interests:

Pediatric Neurosurgery; Vascular Neurosurgery

Clinical Interests: Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery; Vascular Neurosurgery
Associations/Memberships: Congress of Neurological Surgeons; American Association of Neurological Surgeons; American Medical Association, Fellow

Michael A Lacombe, MD
Michael A Lacombe, MD
315 464-5276
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Radiation Oncology; All Cancers and Hematological Conditions; Head and Neck Cancer; Tongue and Tonsil Cancer; Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT); Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT); more
Education: University Hospital, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse

Anna Shapiro, MD
Anna Shapiro, MD
315 464-5276
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Radiation Therapy
Education: SUNY Upstate Medical University

Karna T Sura, MD
Karna T Sura, MD
315 464-5276
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Radiation Oncology; Adult Lymphoma; Anal Cancer; Bile Duct Cancer; Bladder Cancer; Bone Cancer; more
Education: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Associations/Memberships: American College of Radiation Oncology (ACRO), New Practitioner Committee Member; American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)

Charles I Woods III, MD
Charles I Woods III, MD
315 464-4678
Diseases/Specialties/Treatments: Otolaryngology; Neurotology
Education: SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine
Research Interests:

 hearing loss, intracranial hypertension, Menieres disease; Study of the Brainstem Auditory Efferent Pathways Anatomy and Physiology

Clinical Interests:

medical and surgical treatment of hearing and balance disorders

Bone anchored and cochlear implants

surgery and gamma knife treatment for tumors and disorders involving the skull base

intracranial hypertension

 


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