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Aneela Darbar, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery Areas of Interest: Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery, Neuro-endoscopy Department of Neurological Surgery Saint Louis University School of Medicine
EDUCATION

2008-2009 Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Cranial Neurosurgery with Dr. Charles Teo, Sydney,
Australia.

2002 – 2008 Residency in Department of Neurosurgery.
State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.
2008 Medtronic Midas Rex Institute, skull base workshop, Fort Worth, TX.

2007 Neuroendoscopy seminar for residents
Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, Buffalo, NY
2007 Health Stream Endoscopic Techniques in Neurosurgery course.
2006 Health Stream Intracranial Endoscopy course.

2005 American Board of Neurological Surgery Exam. Completed and passed for credit.
2005/2007 Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course completed.

2001 6 months attachment in Department of Neurosurgery.
Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford, England.

2000 – 2001 Pre- residency fellowship in Department of Neurosurgery.
State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.

1999 - 2000 Internship in Department of General Surgery.

State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.

1999 Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course completed.
1997 -1999
Department of Neurosurgery, Research Laboratories Post-Doctoral M.D. Research fellow.
State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse.
Certification by Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (# 0-544-862-6)
1991 - 1996
M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan.
Awards & Teaching
2009 Teaching Instructor for the Advanced Intracranial Endoscopy course.
Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia.
2006 First prize for poster in the category of Pain.
Efficacy of Gamma Knife Radio-surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia associated with Multiple
Sclerosis.
74th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA.

2005 Teaching Assistant for Neuroanatomy course for medical students.
State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Syracuse.

2005 Professional Development Award for research.
State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Syracuse.

2003 Teaching and humanitarian award amongst 550 upstate residents.


Extra Curricular Achievements

2007 Member of the Library Advisory Committee, State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate
2006 Contributor to SANS competency module.

2005-2006 Resident delegate for Council State of Neurosurgical Society (CSNS).

2005 Participated in Boiler-Maker run 15K, Utica, NY.

Conference Abstract Presentation

2008 A. Darbar, W. Jacobsen and J.W. Holsapple.
Percutaneous Balloon Gangliolysis for the treatment of Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia and
Secondary Facial pain: Results of first time procedure.
76th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Chicago, IL.
(Electronic poster presentation)

2008 A. Darbar, A. H. Siddqui.
Delayed manifestation of a Giant traumatic Carotid Artery Aneurysm as a Carotid Cavernous
fistula after gunshot injury to face.
76th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Chicago, IL.

2008 A. Darbar, R. R. Moquin
Delayed Psoas Abscess from Migrated Fractured Piece of Anterior Spinal reconstruction Implant.
76th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Chicago, IL.
2007 A. Darbar, C. Mihai and C.J. Hodge.
Gamma Knife Radio-surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia associated with multiple Sclerosis.
59thAnnual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology at Boston. MA.
(Poster presentation)
2007 Brian V. Nahed, Aneela Darbar, Edward Ahn and Edward R. Smith. Acute Hydrocephalus secondary to obstruction of Foramen of Monro and Cerebral Aqueduct by a
Choroid Plexus cyst of the lateral ventricle.
75th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Washington, DC.
(Poster presentation)

2007 A. Darbar, A. A. Khalil and E. R. Smith.
Double split cord malformation: A novel type of congenital split cord.
75th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Washington, DC.
(Poster presentation)

2006 A. Darbar, R.T. Stevens, B.R. Krauss, A.H. Siddiqui, C.J. Hodge.
Pharmacological modulation of Cortical Plasticity.
74thAnnual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at San Francisco, CA.
(Poster presentation)

2006 A. Darbar, L. Mitchell, C.J. Hodge.
Efficacy of Gamma knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia associated with Multiple
Sclerosis.
74thAnnual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at San Francisco, CA.

2006 A. Darbar, Krishnamurthy S., Bhatt A., Swarnkar A.
Aneurysm size and chances of rupture.
74th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at San Francisco, CA.
(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, R. T. Stevens, B. R. Krauss, A. H. Siddiqui and C. J. Hodge
Opposing effects of Dilantin and Amphetamine in post-lesion functional recovery of rat barrel cortex. XVIIIth Annual meeting of Barrels at Baltimore, MD.
(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, R.T. Stevens, B.R. Krauss, A. H. Siddiqui and C. J. Hodge
Effects of Dilantin on functional recovery of rat somatosensory barrel cortex.
35th Annual meeting of Society of Neuroscience at Washington, DC.
(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, S. Krishnamurthy.
Grotenhuis Endoscopic Perforator: Efficacy of the device in Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy.
55th Annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Boston, MA.
(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, S. Krishnamurthy, Charles J. Hodge
Jr. Ventral thoracic spinal cord herniation: Frequently misdiagnosed entity. 73rd Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at New Orleans, LA.
(Poster presentation)

1999 A. Darbar, N.M. Szeverenyi, A.V.Apkarian.
Somatotopy of thermal Pain: Dependence on Dominance and body part stimulated.
29th Annual meeting of Society of Neuroscience, at Miami, FL.
(Poster presentation)

1999 B.R.Krauss, A. Darbar, P.S.Thomas, A.V.Apkarian.
Performance on a Decision-making task in sympathetically mediated Chronic Pain (RSD CRPS I) patients: Evidence for Cognitive impairment. 9th World Congress of Pain, Vienna, Austria.
(Poster presentation)

1999 A.V.Apkarian, A.Darbar, B.R.Krauss, P.A.Gelnar, N.M.Szeverenyi.
In search of cortical areas related to conscious, subjective Pain Perception: temporal analysis of
fMRI activations in a painful thermal task.
9th World Congress on Pain, Vienna, Austria.
(Poster presentation)

1998 A. Darbar, Krauss B., Szeverenyi, N. & A. V Apkarian.
The Somatotopy of Cortical representation of thermal Pain.
4th International Conference on Human Brain Imaging, Montreal, Canada.
(Poster presentation)

1998 A. Darbar, Krauss B., Szeverenyi N. & A.V Apkarian.
fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) study of Cortical Somatopy for Thermal Pain.
Society for Neuroscience, 28th Annual meeting, Los Angeles, California.
(Poster presentation)

PUBLICATIONS
2009: Little A.S., Sheean T., Manoharan R., Darbar A., Teo C.
The management of completely resected childhood intracranial ependymoma: the argument for
observation only.
Childs Nerv Syst 25(3): 281-184

2008: Aneela Darbar, Peter D. Kim, Igor Yusupov, Satish Krishnamurthy.
Use of Grotenhuis perforator in endoscopic third ventriculostomy and cyst fenestration.
Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery 51: 126-129

2008 Aneela Darbar, Richard T. Stevens, Adnan H. Siddiqui, James S. McCasland, Charles J. Hodge.
Pharmacological modulation of cortical plasticity following kainic acid lesion in rat barrel
cortex.
J. Neurosurgery 109(1):108-116

2007 Brian V. Nahed, Aneela Darbar, Robert Doiron, Ali Saad, Caroline D. Robson, Edward R.
Smith.
Acute Hydrocephalus secondary to obstruction of the foramen of Monro and cerebral aqueduct
caused by a choroid plexus cyst in the lateral ventricle.
J. Neurosurgery 107 (3): 236-239.

2006 Stefania Morbidini-Gaffney, Chung-Taik Chung, Tracy Erin Alpert, Nancy Newman, Seung Shin
Hahn, Hemangini Shah, Lisa Mitchell, Daniel Bassano, Aneela Darbar, Saeed Bajwa, Charles
J. Hodge.
Doses greater than 85 Gy and two isocenters in gamma Knife surgery for trigeminal neuralgia: updated results. J. Neurosurgery (Suppl) 105: 107-111.

2005 Aneela Darbar, Satish Krishnamurthy, James W. Holsapple, Charles J. Hodge.
Ventral Thoracic Spinal cord Herniation: Frequently misdiagnosed entity. Spine 31 (17): E600-E605.

2001 Aneela Darbar, M.D.
Nutritional requirements in Severe Head Injury.
Nutrition 17 (1):71-72.

1999 A. Vania Apkarian, Aneela Darbar, Beth R. Krauss, Petricia Gelnar and Nikolaus Szeveryni.
Differentiating Cortical Areas related to Pain perception from stimulus identification: Temporal
analysis of fMRI activations in a painful thermal task. J. Neurophysiology 81:2956-63.



MANUSCRIPT IN PREPARATION
2009 Endoscopic assisted Mini Craniotomies for the resection of intra-axial glioma.
2009 Application of Endoscopic Keyhole Techniques in the Surgical Management of Insular Gliomas: early
results and long-term survival.

2009 Radical Resection for Supra-tentorial Low-Grade Gliomas
2009 When does the neurosurgeon say enough is enough?
The Impact of Radical Resection on Survival for Recurrent or Transformed Glioblastoma Multiforme.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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2007 A. Darbar.
Succeeding in the Men’s Club.
On the Other Side of Glass Ceiling: Reflections on the status of Women in Science & Academia (key
note speaker Donna Shalala)
Syracuse Stage, Syracuse, NY.

2006 A. Darbar, R.T. Stevens, C.J. Hodge.
Effects of Amphetamine and Dilantin on post lesion functional recovery of rat barrel cortex. Neuro Research Day. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

2006 Krishnamurthy S., A. Darbar, Bhatt A. Swarnkar A.
Neuro Research Day. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

2006 A. Darbar, C.J. Hodge.
Effects of drugs on Cortical Plasticity. Neurology/Neurosurgery Grand Rounds. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

2005 A. Darbar, R.T. Stevens, C.J. Hodge.
Effect of Dilantin on functional recovery of rat somatosensory barrel cortex. Neuro Research Day. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

2003 A. Darbar, Krishnamurthy S.
Syringomyelia: Review of pathogenetic theories. Neurology/Neurosurgery Grand Rounds. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

2002 A. Darbar.
Neurology/Neurosurgery Grand Rounds. Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

Membership In Professional Societies

2004 Congress of Neurosurgeons.

2002 American Association of Neurosurgeons.

1998 Society for Neuroscience.

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