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5115 Centre Ave# UpmcPittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone+1 412-623-7955
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Education & Training
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Neuro-Oncology, 2004 - 2005- Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Neurology, 2001 - 2004
Boston University Medical CenterInternship, Internal Medicine, 2000 - 2001
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Faculty of MedicineClass of 1999
Certifications & Licensure
PA State Medical License 2011 - 2026
MA State Medical License 2004 - 2012
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Member Best Doctors
- Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
Clinical Trials
- A Study of 131I-TM601 in Adults With Recurrent Malignant Glioma Start of enrollment: 2008 Aug 01
- A Study of Rindopepimut/GM-CSF in Patients With Relapsed EGFRvIII-Positive Glioblastoma Start of enrollment: 2011 Dec 01
- Imiquimod and Tumor Lysate Vaccine Immunotherapy in Adults With High Risk or Recurrent Grade II Gliomas Start of enrollment: 2012 Oct 01
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Corticosteroid Use Before Stereotactic Brain Biopsy for Suspected Lymphoma.Maged T Ghoche, Kenji Miki, Skyler Oken, Namya Manoj, Neslihan Nisa Gecici
Neurosurgery. 2025-10-02 - 1 citationsClinical and translational study of ivosidenib plus nivolumab in advanced solid tumors harboring IDH1 mutations.Matthew K Nguyen, Mark Jelinek, Arjun Singh, Brian Isett, Erica S Myers
Medrxiv. 2025-07-21 - 5 citationsGlucarpidase for treatment of high-dose methotrexate toxicity.Shruti Gupta, Sarah A Kaunfer, Kevin L Chen, Julie-Alexia Dias, Anitha Vijayan
Blood. 2025-04-24
Other
- Seizures in patients with primary and metastatic brain tumorsDrappatz J, Avila EK, Wen PY
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/seizures-in-patients-with-primary-and-metastatic-brain-tumors
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-04-03 - Management of vasogenic edema in patients with primary and metastatic brain tumorsDrappatz J, Wen PY
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/management-of-vasogenic-edema-in-patients-with-primary-and-metastat
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2013-02-13 - Systemic therapy for brain metastasesDrappatz J, Wen PY
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/systemic-therapy-for-brain-metastases
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-12-07
Press Mentions
Classifying Childhood Brain Cancers by Immune Response May Improve Diagnostics and TreatmentsMarch 19th, 2025
Benefits of WBRT for Brain MetastasesAugust 2nd, 2019
New Molecule Found to Cross the Blood‐Brain Barrier: Reporte... : Neurology TodayFebruary 28th, 2017
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