Faculty Interests and Expertise

Clinical Interests
Cerebrovascular disease, severe trauma, intensive care, cerebral blood flow and metabolism facial pain, specific pain syndromes

Surgical Expertise
Complex aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations, carotid and vertebral constructive surgery, skull base tumors, hearing preservation in acoustic tumors, medulla oblongata and spinal DREZ lesions, peripheral nerve surgery including brachial plexus surgery, spinal interbody fusion techniques.

Research Interests and/or Investigations
Design, implementation and conduct of clinical trials in severe head injury and subarachnoid hemorrhage. Monitoring of cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume and metabolism with various techniques in patients Metabolism and basic mechanisms and pharmacotherapy in experimental brain injury.

Clinical Interests
Pituitary region tumors, pediatric neurosurgery, malignant brain tumors, tumors of the skull base, use of lasers in the treatment of neurosurgical disorders, chronic pain.

Surgical Expertise
Neuro-oncology, especially pituitary and skull base tumors
Pediatric neurosurgery
Chronic pain
Laser surgery

Research Interests and/or Investigations
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) of brain tumors

Investigates PDT of brain tumors, and use of laser light activation of photosensitizing localize drugs that in tumors.

Boron-Neutron capture therapy and imaging
Laser-based spectroscopy

Clinical Expertise
Neuroradiology
Interventional neuroradiology

Research Interests and/or Investigations
Hemodynamics
Cerebral vascular abnormalities
Endovascular therapy
Clinical neuroscience

Clinical Interests
Complex spinal disease

Surgical Expertise
Complex, computer-assisted, minimally-invasive spinal surgery including instrumentation, movement disorder surgery, radiosurgery

Research Interests and/or Investigations
Computer-assisted spinal surgery, cadaveric study of the spine; spinal biomechanics, movement disorders

Clinical Interests
Dr. Schrot is experienced in general neurosurgery, with a focus on intrinsic brain tumors and degenerative spinal disorders. He is also skilled in computer-assisted stereotaxy and neuroendoscopy.

Research Interests and/or Investigations
His research interests focus on brain tumors and stem cells.

Clinical Interests
Pituitary region and skull base tumors.  Cranial nerve disorders.  Epilepsy and movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, and essential tremor surgery.  Surgical and neurocritical care management of severe traumatic brain injury.

Surgical Expertise
Minimally invasive neurosurgical approaches, including expanded endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA) surgery, supraorbital keyhole craniotomy, and posterior fossa surgery.  Pituitary region tumors (endoscopic).  Microvascular decompression (endoscopic-assisted).  Deep brain stimulation surgery.  Epilepsy surgery.

Research Intersts and/or investigations
Principle investigator for various pre-clinical and clinical trials for management of traumatic brain injury, including targeted delivery of novel pharmaceuticals and deep brain stimulation to enhance cognitive outcome.  Novel therapies for epilepsy and advanced movement disorders.

Clinical and Surgical Expertise
Anatomic physiology
Abnormalities of cerebral circulation
Central nervous system trauma

Research
Writing and editing 4th Edition of six-volume textbook
Neurological Surgery used world-wide

Clinical interest
Pediatric Neurosurgery

Surgical expertise
Fellowship trained pediatric neurosurgeon with expertise in the treatment of:

• Hydrocephalus (including endoscopic treatment)
• Pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors
• Spinal dysraphism (spina bifida, tethered cord syndrome, lipomyelomeningocele)
• Epilepsy (including resection, callosotomy, multiple pial transections, and Vagus Nerve Stimulation)
• Craniofacial disorders (including endoscopic treatment and cranial distraction)
• Spasticity
• Cerebral trauma

Research interest
Traumatic brain injury: Development of clinically relevant experimental pediatric brain injury models. Study of repetitive concussion in experimental and clinical brain injury.