GeoffreyRossBargerMD

Neurology • Detroit, MI

Neurooncology

Associate Professor of Neurology, Wayne State University

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4201 St Antoine
Suite 8d
Detroit, MI 48201
Phone+1 313-745-4275

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Summary

Dr. Geoffrey Barger, MD is a board certified neurologist in Detroit, Michigan. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in Michigan, California, and Pennsylvania. He is affiliated with DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital & University Health Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, and DMC Harper University Hospital.

Education & Training

University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Neurology, 1976 - 1979
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityInternship, Transitional Year, 1975 - 1976
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityClass of 1975

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1979 - Present
MI State Medical License 1990 - 2024
PA State Medical License 1977 - 1988
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2009-2014
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2006-2013

Clinical Trials

Combination Chemotherapy Plus Radiation Therapy in Treating Adult Patients With Brain Cancer Start of enrollment: 1999 May 04
Completed
Phase 2
Observation or Radiation Therapy With or Without Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Low-Grade Glioma Start of enrollment: 1998 Oct 01
Completed
Phase 2, Phase 3
S9811 Hydroxyurea in Treating Patients With Unresectable Benign Meningioma Start of enrollment: 1998 Nov 01
Completed
Phase 2

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

The First Human Application of an F-18-Labeled Tryptophan Analog for PET Imaging of Cancer.
Otto Muzik, Anthony F Shields, Geoffrey R Barger, Huailei Jiang, Csaba Juhász, Chamiraju, P.> ;Molecular Imaging and Biology. 2024 Feb 1
1 citations
Depression and tryptophan metabolism in patients with primary brain tumors: Clinical and molecular imaging correlates.
Flóra John, Sharon K. Michelhaugh, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Brain Imaging and Behavior. 2021 Apr 1
85 citations
Comprehensive Genomic Analysis in NRG Oncology/RTOG 9802: A Phase III Trial of Radiation Versus Radiation Plus Procarbazine, Lomustine (CCNU), and Vincristine in High-...
Erica Hlavin Bell, Peixin Zhang, Edward G. Shaw, Jan C. Buckner, Geoffrey R. Barger, Dennis E. Bullard, Minesh P. Mehta, Mark R. Gilbert, Paul D. Brown, Keith J. Stelz...> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2020 Jul 24
4 citations
Multimodal Imaging of Nonenhancing Glioblastoma Regions.
Flóra John, Natasha L. Robinette, Alit J Amit-Yousif, Edit Bosnyák, Geoffrey R. Barger, Keval D Shah, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Molecular Imaging. 2019 Nov 18
29 citations
Multimodal imaging-defined subregions in newly diagnosed glioblastoma: impact on overall survival.
Flóra John, Edit Bosnyák, Natasha L. Robinette, Alit J Amit-Yousif, Geoffrey R. Barger, Keval D Shah, Sharon K. Michelhaugh, Neil V. Klinger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Neuro-Oncology. 2019 Feb 14
3 citations
Feasibility of Multimodal MRI-Based Deep Learning Prediction of High Amino Acid Uptake Regions and Survival in Patients With Glioblastoma
Jeong-Won Jeong, Min-Hee Lee, Flóra John, Natasha L. Robinette, Alit J Amit-Yousif, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Frontiers in Neurology. 2019 Dec 17
Glioblastoma metastatic to the ovary, a very different Krukenberg tumor?
Robin E. Bonomi, Josh Kovoor, Mark Zaki, Mark Szlaczky, Michael Christensen, William J. Kupsky, Geoffrey R. Barger, Steven Miller, Michael M. Dominello> ;Practical Radiation Oncology. 2018 Apr 7
8 citations
Amino Acid PET Imaging of the Early Metabolic Response During Tumor-Treating Fields (TTFields) Therapy in Recurrent Glioblastoma.
Edit Bosnyák, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sharon K. Michelhaugh, Natasha L. Robinette, Alit J Amit-Yousif, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2017 Dec 1
21 citations
Prognostic Molecular and Imaging Biomarkers in Primary Glioblastoma.
Edit Bosnyák, Sharon K. Michelhaugh, Neil V. Klinger, David O. Kamson, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2017 May 1
33 citations
Alternating electric tumor treating fields for treatment of glioblastoma: rationale, preclinical, and clinical studies
Sandeep Mittal, Neil V. Klinger, Sharon K. Michelhaugh, Geoffrey R. Barger, Susan C. Pannullo, Csaba Juhász> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2017 Feb 24
46 citations
Phase III randomized study of radiation and temozolomide versus radiation and nitrosourea therapy for anaplastic astrocytoma: results of NRG Oncology RTOG 9813.
Susan M. Chang, Peixin Zhang, J. Gregory Cairncross, Mark R. Gilbert, Jean Paul Bahary, Carol A. Dolinskas, Arnab Chakravarti, Kenneth D. Aldape, Erica Hlavin Bell, Da...> ;Neuro-Oncology. 2016 Dec 18
13 citations
Preradiation Chemotherapy for Adult High-risk Medulloblastoma: A Trial of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group (E4397).
Paul L. Moots, Anne O'Neill, Harold Londer, Minesh P. Mehta, Deborah T. Blumenthal, Geoffrey R. Barger, Margaret L. Grunnet, Stuart A. Grossman, Mark R. Gilbert, David...> ;American Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2016 Sep 1
28 citations
GBM-associated mutations and altered protein expression are more common in young patients
Sherise D. Ferguson, Joanne Xiu, Shiao Pei Weathers, Shouhao Zhou, Santosh Kesari, Stephanie E. Weiss, Roeland Verhaak, Raymond J. Hohl, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep K....> ;Oncotarget. 2016 Aug 25
600 citations
Radiation plus Procarbazine, CCNU, and Vincristine in Low-Grade Glioma
Jan C. Buckner, Edward G. Shaw, Stephanie L. Pugh, Arnab Chakravarti, Mark R. Gilbert, Geoffrey R. Barger, Stephen W. Coons, Peter Ricci, Dennis E. Bullard, Paul D. Br...> ;The New England Journal of Medicine. 2016 Apr 6
16 citations
Tryptophan PET predicts spatial and temporal patterns of post-treatment glioblastoma progression detected by contrast-enhanced MRI.
Edit Bosnyák, David O. Kamson, Natasha L. Robinette, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2016 Jan 1
7 citations
Imaging cerebral tryptophan metabolism in brain tumor-associated depression.
Edit Bosnyák, David O. Kamson, Michael E. Behen, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba Juhász> ;EJNMMI Research. 2015 Oct 17
14 citations
Multi-modal imaging of tumor cellularity and Tryptophan metabolism in human Gliomas
Jeong-Won Jeong, Csaba Juhász, Sandeep Mittal, Edit Bosnyák, David O. Kamson, Geoffrey R. Barger, Natasha L. Robinette, William J. Kupsky, Diane C. Chugani> ;Cancer Imaging. 2015 Aug 6
8 citations
Clinical Significance of Tryptophan Metabolism in the Nontumoral Hemisphere in Patients with Malignant Glioma
David O. Kamson, Tiffany J. Lee, Kaushik Varadarajan, Natasha L. Robinette, Otto Muzik, Pulak K. Chakraborty, Michael Snyder, Geoffrey R. Barger, Sandeep Mittal, Csaba...> ;Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2014 Oct 1
31 citations
Increased tryptophan uptake on PET has strong independent prognostic value in patients with a previously treated high-grade glioma
David O. Kamson, Sandeep Mittal, Natasha L. Robinette, Otto Muzik, William J. Kupsky, Geoffrey R. Barger, Csaba Juhász> ;Neuro-Oncology. 2014 Mar 26
73 citations
Effect of the Addition of Chemotherapy to Radiotherapy on Cognitive Function in Patients With Low-Grade Glioma: Secondary Analysis of RTOG 98-02
Roshan S. Prabhu, Minhee Won, Edward G. Shaw, Chen Hu, David Brachman, Jan C. Buckner, Keith J. Stelzer, Geoffrey R. Barger, Paul D. Brown, Mark R. Gilbert, Minesh P. ...> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014 Feb 20
33 citations
Differentiation of glioblastomas from metastatic brain tumors by tryptophan uptake and kinetic analysis: a positron emission tomographic study with magnetic resonance ...
David O. Kamson, Sandeep Mittal, Amy Buth, Otto Muzik, William J. Kupsky, Natasha L. Robinette, Geoffrey R. Barger, Csaba Juhász> ;Molecular Imaging. 2013 Jul 1
3 citations
Central diabetes insipidus and adipsia due to astrocytoma: diagnosis and management
Imad Modawi, Geoffrey R. Barger, Noreen F. Rossi> ;CEN Case Reports. 2013 May 1
28 citations
Targeting and killing of glioblastoma with activated T cells armed with bispecific antibodies
Ian M Zitron, Archana Thakur, Oxana Norkina, Geoffrey R. Barger, Lawrence G. Lum, Sandeep Mittal> ;BMC Cancer. 2013 Feb 22
23 citations
Tryptophan PET in pretreatment delineation of newly-diagnosed gliomas: MRI and histopathologic correlates
David O. Kamson, Csaba Juhász, Amy Buth, William J. Kupsky, Geoffrey R. Barger, Pulak K. Chakraborty, Otto Muzik, Sandeep Mittal> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2013 Jan 9
224 citations
Randomized Trial of Radiation Therapy Plus Procarbazine, Lomustine, and Vincristine Chemotherapy for Supratentorial Adult Low-Grade Glioma: Initial Results of RTOG 9802
Edward G. Shaw, Meihua Wang, Stephen W. Coons, David Brachman, Jan C. Buckner, Keith J. Stelzer, Geoffrey R. Barger, Paul D. Brown, Mark R. Gilbert, Minesh P. Mehta> ;Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2012 Sep 1
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Hospital Affiliations

DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital & University Health CenterDetroit, Michigan
DMC Harper University HospitalDetroit, Michigan
Karmanos Cancer CenterDetroit, Michigan