DavidIanSandbergMD

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Professor and Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Co-director Pediatric Brain Tumor Program, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Office
6431 Fannin St
Msb 5.144
Houston, TX 77030
Phone+1 713-500-7370

Fax+1 713-500-7352
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Education & Training

Children's Hospital of Los AngelesFellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2003 - 2004
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Neurological Surgery, 1998 - 2003
New York Presbyterian HospitalInternship, Transitional Year, 1997 - 1998
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 1997

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2002 - Present
OK State Medical License 2022 - 2025
GA State Medical License 2022 - 2025
AL State Medical License 2022 - 2024
LA State Medical License 2022 - 2024
TX State Medical License 2012 - 2024
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
American Board of Pediatric Neurological SurgeryPediatric Neurosurgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2012-2014
Top Doctors:SE Texas Castle Connolly, 2013
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2011-2013
Top Doctors:South Florida Castle Connolly, 2012
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Clinical Trials

Methotrexate Infusion Into the Fourth Ventricle in Children With Malignant Fourth Ventricular Brain Tumors: A Pilot Study Start of enrollment: 2012 Dec 27
Completed
Early Phase 1
ShuntCheck-Micro-Pumper Pediatric Clinical Outcomes Study Start of enrollment: 2013 May 01
Unknown status
Phase 4
Methotrexate and Etoposide Infusions Into the Fourth Ventricle in Children With Recurrent Posterior Fossa Brain Tumors Start of enrollment: 2016 Oct 01
Recruiting
Early Phase 1
Infusion of 5-Azacytidine (5-AZA) Into the Fourth Ventricle in Patients With Recurrent Posterior Fossa Ependymoma Start of enrollment: 2019 Feb 08
Recruiting
Phase 1
Infusion of Panobinostat (MTX110) Into the Fourth Ventricle in Children and Adults With Recurrent Medulloblastoma Start of enrollment: 2020 Apr 21
Recruiting
Early Phase 1
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Elevation of Depressed Skull Fracture in Neonates Using a Breast Pump and a Custom-Molded Flange.
Martinez, E., Welscher, A., Shah, M., Sandberg, D.> ;Operative Neurosurgery. 2024 Feb 1
4 citations
Future Directions for Global Clinical Neurosurgical Training: Challenges and Opportunities.
Caitlin Hoffman, Roger Härtl, Nathan A Shlobin, Tshibambe N Tshimbombu, Samer K Elbabaa, Michael M Haglund, Andrés M Rubiano, Michael C Dewan, Martina Stippler, Muhamm...> ;World Neurosurgery. 2022 Oct 1
Choroid plexus cauterization to treat inadequate abdominal cerebrospinal fluid absorption: case report
Laura A. Zima, Ahmed M. Belal, David I. Sandberg> ;Child's Nervous System. 2021 Jul 26
3 citations
Indications for Inpatient Magnetoencephalography in Children – An Institution’s Experience
Michael W. Watkins, Ekta G. Shah, Michael E. Funke, Stephanie Garcia-Tarodo, Manish N. Shah, Nitin Tandon, Fernando Maestú, Christopher Laohathai, David I. Sandberg, J...> ;Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2021 Jun 4
Distraction osteogenesis with temporal bone remodeling for unicoronal craniosynostosis.
Phuong D Nguyen, Ahmed Belal, George N Washington, Matthew R Greives, David I Sandberg, Stephen A Fletcher, Manish N Shah> ;Neurosurgical Focus. 2021 Apr 1
Spontaneous resolution of large subdural hematoma with midline shift: a case report.
Corinne Mayap Fotso, David I. Sandberg> ;Child's Nervous System. 2021 Feb 1
4 citations
Clinical characterization of adult medulloblastoma and the effect of first-line therapies on outcome; The MD Anderson Cancer Center experience.
Nazanin Majd, Maximilan Mastall, Heather Lin, Seyede Shiva Dibaj, Kenneth R. Hess, Ying Yuan, Manuela Martin-Bejarano Garcia, Gregory N. Fuller, Kristin Alfaro, Maria ...> ;Neuro-Oncology Advances. 2021 Jan 1
Posttreatment Maturation of Medulloblastoma into Gangliocytoma: Report of 2 Cases.
Grace Nehme, Leomar Y. Ballester, Meenakshi B. Bhattacharjee, Darshan Trivedi, Manish N. Shah, Gregory N. Fuller, Wafik Zaky, David I. Sandberg, > ;Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2020 Sep 3
43 citations
Phase I study of intraventricular infusions of autologous ex vivo expanded NK cells in children with recurrent medulloblastoma and ependymoma
Soumen Khatua, Laurence J.N. Cooper, David I. Sandberg, Leena Ketonen, Jason M. Johnson, Michael Rytting, Diane D. Liu, Heather Meador, Prashant Trikha, Robin J Nakkul...> ;Neuro-Oncology. 2020 Aug 17
2 citations
De novo thalamic arteriovenous malformation in a boy with a brainstem cavernous malformation
Victor Lopez-Rivera, Faheem G. Sheriff, David I. Sandberg, Spiros Blackburn, Mark J Dannenbaum, Sunil A Sheth, Arthur L. Day, Peng R Chen> ;Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2020 Jun 1
3 citations
Outcomes and prognostic factors of pediatric patients with a Glasgow Coma Score of 3 after blunt head trauma.
Duncan J. Trimble, Samantha L. Parker, Liang Zhu, Charles S. Cox, Ryan S. Kitagawa, Stephen A. Fletcher, David I. Sandberg, Manish N. Shah> ;Child's Nervous System. 2020 May 6
5-Year-Old Girl with Worsening Seizure Disorder.
Fatima Iqbal, Leomar Y. Ballester, Nfn Aakash, David I. Sandberg, Meenakshi B. Bhattacharjee> ;Brain Pathology. 2020 May 1
5 citations
High-dose MTX110 (soluble panobinostat) safely administered into the fourth ventricle in a nonhuman primate model
David I. Sandberg, Natasha Kharas, Bangning Yu, Christopher F. Janssen, Amanda Trimble, Leomar Y. Ballester, Rajan Patel, Afroz S. Mohammad, William F. Elmquist, Racha...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics. 2020 May 1
67 citations
Intrathecal drug delivery in the era of nanomedicine
Martha J Fowler, Jennifer D Cotter, B.E. Knight, Eva M. Sevick-Muraca, David I. Sandberg, Rachael W. Sirianni> ;Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 2020 Mar 3
9 citations
Is Less Actually More? An Evaluation of Surgical Outcomes Between Endoscopic Suturectomy and Open Cranial Vault Remodeling for Craniosynostosis.
Alyson A Melin, Joseph K. Moffitt, David C Hopkins, Manish N. Shah, Stephen A. Fletcher, David I. Sandberg, John F. Teichgraeber, Matthew R. Greives> ;The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 2020 Feb 7
42 citations
Fate of nanoparticles in the central nervous system after intrathecal injection in healthy mice.
Kyle T. Householder, S. Dharmaraj, David I. Sandberg, Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, Rachael W. Sirianni> ;Scientific Reports. 2019 Aug 29
1 citations
Correction to: Monitoring of intracerebellarly-administered natural killer cells with fluorine-19 MRI.
Bridget Kennis, Keith A. Michel, William Brugmann, Álvaro Macedo Laureano, Rong-Hua Tao, Srinivas S. Somanchi, Samuel A. Einstein, Javiera Bravo-Alegria, Shinji Maegaw...> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2019 May 1
22 citations
Monitoring of intracerebellarly-administered natural killer cells with fluorine-19 MRI
Bridget Kennis, Keith A. Michel, William Brugmann, Álvaro Macedo Laureano, Rong-Hua Tao, Srinivas S. Somanchi, Samuel A. Einstein, Javiera Bravo-Alegria, Shinji Maegaw...> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2019 Feb 20
17 citations
Infusion of 5-Azacytidine (5-AZA) into the fourth ventricle or resection cavity in children with recurrent posterior Fossa Ependymoma: a pilot clinical trial.
David I. Sandberg, Bangning Yu, Rajan Patel, John P. Hagan, Emilie L Miesner, Jennifer Sabin, Sarah Smith, Stephen A. Fletcher, Manish N. Shah, Rachael W. Sirianni, Mi...> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2019 Jan 1
9 citations
Analysis of pediatric gunshot wounds in Houston, Texas: A social perspective
Joe W. Brewer, Charles S. Cox, Stephen A. Fletcher, Manish N. Shah, Michelle Sandberg, David I. Sandberg> ;Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2019 Apr 1
8 citations
Development of best practices to minimize wound complications after complex tethered spinal cord surgery: a modified Delphi study
Nikita G. Alexiades, Edward S. Ahn, Jeffrey P. Blount, Douglas L. Brockmeyer, Samuel R. Browd, Gerald A. Grant, Gregory G. Heuer, Todd C. Hankinson, Bermans J. Iskanda...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics. 2018 Sep 14
26 citations
Pediatric blunt cerebrovascular injury: the McGovern screening score.
Joseph P Herbert, Sidish S. Venkataraman, Ali H Turkmani, Liang Zhu, Marcia Kerr, Rajan Patel, Irma T. Ugalde, Stephen A. Fletcher, David I. Sandberg, Charles S. Cox, ...> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics. 2018 Mar 16
1 citations
Phase-contrast cerebrospinal fluid flow magnetic resonance imaging in qualitative evaluation of patency of CSF flow pathways prior to infusion of chemotherapeutic and ...
Rajan Patel, Clark Sitton, Leena Ketonen, Ping Hou, Jason M. Johnson, Seferino Romo, Stephen A. Fletcher, Manish N. Shah, Marcia Kerr, Wafik Zaky, Michael Rytting, Sou...> ;Child's Nervous System. 2018 Mar 1
2 citations
Survey of Techniques Utilized to Access Ventricular Shunts and Reservoirs.
Claudia I. Martinez, Stephen A. Fletcher, Manish N. Shah, Marcia Kerr, David I. Sandberg> ;Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2017 Jan 1
2 citations
Correlating Prenatal Imaging Findings of Fetal Ventriculomegaly with the Need for Surgical Intervention in the First 3 Months after Birth.
Joshua L. Gu, Anthony Johnson, Marcia Kerr, Kenneth J. Moise, Claudia Pedroza, David I. Sandberg> ;Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2017 Jan 1
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Press Mentions

Celebrating 20 Years of Run for the RoseApril 6th, 2023
A Baby Born with an Indent in His Skull Had the Bone Sucked Back into Position by a Breast PumpDecember 5th, 2022
How One Houston Doctor Provides Hope for Families Across the NationAugust 24th, 2021
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