Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Specialty - Cerebrovascular
Experience:
Fellowship:
Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery
Barrow Neurological Institute, Pheonix, AZ
Chief Residency:
Neurosurgical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Residency:
Neurosurgical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Internship:
Department of Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Education:
Medical School:
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Certification:
Board Certified:
American Board of Neurological Surgery
Medical Licensure:
Illinois
Arizona
Appointments:
Clinical:
Assistant Professor, Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
Director, Residency Program at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
Hospital:
University of Illlinois at Chicago Medical Center
St. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago
Clinical Interests:
Cerebrovascular Surgery: including intracranial aneurysms, bypass surgery, moya-moya disease, carotid artery disease, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations
Skull Base and Tumor Surgery: including acoustics, meningiomas and pituitary tumors
Research Interests:
Outcomes of extracranial - intracranial bypass surgery
Management algorithm for assessing vertebrobasilar disease
Carotid disease and cognitive outcomes
Flow assisted techniques for aneurysm surgery
Computer modeling for simulation of cerebrovascular disease
Use of quantitative MR technology in cerebrovascular disease
Awards/Achievements:
Council of State Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeon Award, 2003
Galbraith Award, AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery, 1999
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society (faculty), The University of Illinois, 2005
Selected Publications:
Amin-Hanjani S, Ogilvy CS, Ojemann RG, Crowell RM: Risks of surgical management for cavernous malformations of the central nervous system. Neurosurgery 42:1220-1227, 1998.
Charbel FT, Zhao M, Amin-Hanjani S, Hoffman W, Du X, Clark ME: A patient specific computer model to predict balloon occlusion test outcomes. J Neurosurg 101:977-988, 2004.
Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Mlinarevich N, Meglio G, Zhao M, Charbel FT: The cut flow index: an intraoperative predictor of the success of EC-IC bypass for occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Neurosurgery 56 (Suppl1):75-85, 2005.
Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Zhao M, Walsk K, Malisch TW, Charbel FT: Use of quantitative magnetic resonance angiography to stratify stroke risk in symptomatic vertebrobasilar disease. Stroke 36:1140-1145, 2005.
Amin-Hanjani S, Butler WE, Ogilvy CS, Carter BS, Barker FG II: Extracranial to intracranial bypass in the treatment of occlusive cerebrovascular disease and intracranial aneurysms in the United States, 1992-2001: a population based study. J Neurosurg, 2005
Selected Chapters:
Amin-Hanjani S, Ogilvy CS: Indications and techniques for emergent carotid exploration, in Loftus CM, Kresowik TF (eds): Carotid Artery Surgery. Thieme, 2000, pp303-313.
Amin-Hanjani S, Harsh GR IV: Unusual malignancies of the cerebral hemispheres, in Kaye AH, Black PMcL (eds): Operative Neurosurgery. Churchill Livingstone, 2000, pp 481-491.
Amin-Hanjani S, Harsh GR IV: Tumors: Cerebral metastases and lymphoma, in Moore AJ, Newell DW (eds): Springer Specialist Surgery Series - Neurosurgery, Principles and Practice, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Amin-Hanjani S, Charbel FT: Carotid endarterectomy and novel surgical therapies for cerebral ischemia., In Gorelick PB, Sloan MA (eds): Atlas of Cerebrovascular Disease, Science Press Internet Services Ltd, 2004.
Amin-Hanjani S, Ojemann RG, Ogilvy CS: Surgical management of cavernous malformations of the nervous system, in Schmidek H (ed): Schmidek and Sweet: Operative neurosurgical technique, 5th edition, Elsevier, 2005