ReidThompsonMD

Neurosurgery • Nashville, TN

Brain & Spinal Tumor, Skull Base

Professor and Department Chair Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University

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Office
1161 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232
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Education & Training

Johns Hopkins UniversityResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1990 - 1996
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 1989 - 1990
Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1996 - Present
TN State Medical License 2002 - 2025
AL State Medical License 2020 - 2020
MD State Medical License 1995 - 1997
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2009-2014
Nashville Lifestyles Magazine Castle Connolly, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013-2014
America's Top Doctors for Cancer Castle Connolly, 2008-2013
Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2012
Fellow (FAANS) American Association of Neurological Surgeons
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Clinical Trials

Study of a Drug [DCVax®-L] to Treat Newly Diagnosed GBM Brain Cancer Start of enrollment: 2006 Dec 01
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
A Study of Rindopepimut/GM-CSF in Patients With Relapsed EGFRvIII-Positive Glioblastoma Start of enrollment: 2011 Dec 01
Completed
Phase 2

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding "Does Plastic Surgery Involvement Decrease Complications After Cranioplasty? A Retrospective Cohort Study".
Dambrino, R. J., Dambrino, R. J., Dambrino, R. J., Dambrino, R. J., Dambrino, R. J., Robert J Dambrino 4th, Hani Chanbour, Jeffrey W Chen, Rohan V Chitale, Peter J Mor...> ;World Neurosurgery. 2024 Jan 1
Techniques to Reduce the Rate of Infection in Surgeries for Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting in Adults.
Wong, G., Wong, B., Wisecarver, S., Tang, A., Conwell, T., Thompson, R., Englot, D.> ;World Neurosurgery. 2024 Mar 1
Clinical and descriptive characteristics associated with high-grade meningioma in a large clinical series.
Sepideh Mokhtari, Noah C Peeri, Andre Beer-Furlan, Mark D Anderson, Sajeel Chowdhary, Renato V LaRocca, Aaron G Mammoser, L Burt Nabors, Jeffrey J Olson, Reid C Thomps...> ;British Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023 Jun 7
1 citations
An immunosuppressed microenvironment distinguishes lateral ventricle-contacting glioblastomas.
Todd Bartkowiak, Sierra M Lima, Madeline J Hayes, Akshitkumar M Mistry, Asa A Brockman, Justine Sinnaeve, Nalin Leelatian, Caroline E Roe, Bret C Mobley, Silky Chotai,...> ;JCI Insight. 2023 Jun 22
2 citations
J-Difference editing (MEGA) of lactate in the human brain at 3T.
Ryan K Robison, Justin R Haynes, Sandeep K Ganji, Charles P Nockowski, Zoltan Kovacs, Wellington Pham, Victoria L Morgan, Seth A Smith, Reid C Thompson, Reed A Omary, ...> ;Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. 2023 Sep 1
1 citations
Conditional Recurrence-Free Survival After Surgical Resection of Meningioma.
Alan R Tang, Silky Chotai, Bradley S Guidry, Lili Sun, Fei Ye, Patrick D Kelly, Jake R McDermott, Candace J Grisham, Peter J Morone, Reid C Thompson, Lola B Chambless> ;Neurosurgery. 2023 Aug 1
1 citations
Association between preoperative hematologic markers and aggressive behavior in meningiomas.
Bradley S Guidry, Silky Chotai, Alan R Tang, Chi H Le, Candace J Grisham, Jake R McDermott, Patrick D Kelly, Peter J Morone, Reid C Thompson, Lola B Chambless> ;Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2023 Mar 1
1 citations
Author Correction: Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection.
Pati, S., Baid, U., Edwards, B., Sheller, M., Wang, S., Reina, G., Foley, P., Gruzdev, A., Karkada, D., Davatzikos, C., Sako, C., Ghodasara, S., Bilello, M., Mohan, S....> ;Nature Communications. 2023 Jan 26
1 citations
Comparison of supratentorial meningioma resection outcomes by dural reconstruction technique.
Silky Chotai, Alan R Tang, Jake R McDermott, Bradley S Guidry, Candace J Grisham, Aaron M Yengo-Kahn, Peter J Morone, Reid C Thompson, Lola B Chambless> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2023 Jan 1
Labyrinthitis With Negative MRI As a Precursor to Rapidly Developing Primary CNS Lymphoma of the Cerebellopontine Angle.
Emily Brignola, Elizabeth S Longino, Nathan R Lindquist, Nathan D Cass, Reid C Thompson, David S Haynes> ;Otology & Neurotology Open. 2022 Dec 1
1 citations
Author Correction: Failure of human rhombic lip differentiation underlies medulloblastoma formation.
Liam D Hendrikse, Parthiv Haldipur, Olivier Saulnier, Jake Millman, Alexandria H Sjoboen, Anders W Erickson, Winnie Ong, Victor Gordon, Ludivine Coudière-Morrison, Aud...> ;Nature. 2022 Dec 1
116 citations
Association of Autologous Tumor Lysate-Loaded Dendritic Cell Vaccination With Extension of Survival Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Glioblastoma: A P...
Linda M Liau, Keyoumars Ashkan, Steven Brem, Jian L Campian, John E Trusheim, Fabio M Iwamoto, David D Tran, George Ansstas, Charles S Cobbs, Jason A Heth, Michael E S...> ;JAMA Oncology. 2023 Jan 1
2 citations
Matched case-control analysis of outcomes following surgical resection of incidental meningioma.
Silky Chotai, Alan R Tang, Rishabh Gupta, Bradley S Guidry, Jake R McDermott, Candace J Grisham, Peter J Morone, Reid C Thompson, Lola B Chambless> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2022 Nov 1
2 citations
Does Plastic Surgery Involvement Decrease Complications After Cranioplasty? A Retrospective Cohort Study.
Robert J Dambrino 4th, Jeffrey W Chen, Hani Chanbour, Rohan V Chitale, Peter J Morone, Reid C Thompson, Scott L Zuckerman> ;World Neurosurgery. 2022 Dec 1
39 citations
Failure of human rhombic lip differentiation underlies medulloblastoma formation.
Liam D Hendrikse, Parthiv Haldipur, Olivier Saulnier, Jake Millman, Alexandria H Sjoboen, Anders W Erickson, Winnie Ong, Victor Gordon, Ludivine Coudière-Morrison, Aud...> ;Nature. 2022 Sep 1
1 citations
Assessment of safety and effectiveness of non-neurosurgical management for minimal traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Jeffrey W Chen, Aaron Yengo-Kahn, Silky Chotai, Akshay Bhamidipati, Candice Smith, Philip Davis, Rebecca A Reynolds, Mary Peyton Boyd, Tyler W Barrett, Elizabeth S Com...> ;Injury. 2023 Jan 1
Outcomes following surgical resection of cystic intracranial meningiomas.
Alan R Tang, Silky Chotai, Candace J Grisham, Bradley S Guidry, Jake R McDermott, Chi H Le, Peter J Morone, Reid C Thompson, Lola B Chambless> ;Journal of Neuro-Oncology. 2022 Oct 1
1 citations
Impact of Thrombocytopenia on Preoperative Hematoma Expansion for Acute Traumatic Subdural Hematoma.
Rut Thakkar, Silky Chotai, Bradley S Guidry, Aaron Yengo-Kahn, Harrison C Thomas, Alan R Tang, Lola B Chambless, Reid C Thompson, Peter J Morone, Sermarini, A.> ;World Neurosurgery. 2022 Nov 1
11 citations
Current and future treatment approaches for Barth syndrome.
Reid C. Thompson, John L. Jefferies, Suya Wang, William T. Pu, Clifford Takemoto, Brittany Hornby, Andrea Heyman, Michael T. Chin, Hilary J. Vernon> ;Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 2021 Oct 29
3 citations
The Influence of Extent of Resection and Tumor Morphology on Facial Nerve Outcomes Following Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery.
Elizabeth L. Perkins, Nauman F. Manzoor, Douglas J. Totten, Alexander D. Sherry, Nathan D. Cass, Reid C. Thompson, Kareem O. Tawfik, Matthew R O'Malley, Marc L. Bennet...> ;Otology & Neurotology. 2021 Oct 1
1 citations
Outcomes of Transzygomatic Middle Cranial Fossa Approach for Skull Base Tumors-A Single Institutional Experience.
Nauman F. Manzoor, Peter J. Morone, Patrick D. Kelly, Silky Chotai, Robert J. Yawn, Lola B. Chambless, Reid C. Thompson, Alejandro Rivas> ;Journal of Neurological Surgery. Part B, Skull Base. 2021 Jul 1
40 citations
The transcriptional landscape of Shh medulloblastoma.
Patryk Skowron, Hamza Farooq, Florence M.G. Cavalli, A. Sorana Morrissy, Michelle Ly, Liam D. Hendrikse, Evan Y. Wang, Haig Djambazian, Helen He Zhu, Karen Mungall, Qu...> ;Nature Communications. 2021 Mar 19
1 citations
Vasorelaxing cell permeant phosphopeptide mimetics for subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Peter J. Morone, Wei Yan, Jamie Adcock, Padmini Komalavilas, J. Mocco, Reid C. Thompson, Colleen M. Brophy, Joyce Cheung-Flynn> ;European Journal of Pharmacology. 2021 Jun 5
3 citations
Prognostic relevance of CSF and peri-tumoral edema volumes in glioblastoma
Nishit Mummareddy, Sanjana Salwi, Nishant Ganesh Kumar, Zhiguo Zhao, Fei Ye, Chi H. Le, Bret C. Mobley, Reid C. Thompson, Lola B. Chambless, Akshitkumar M. Mistry> ;Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2021 Feb 1
16 citations
Hyperoxemia and Cerebral Vasospasm in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.
Rebecca A. Reynolds, Shaunak N Amin, Sumeeth V. Jonathan, Alan R. Tang, Matthews Lan, Chunxue Wang, Julie A. Bastarache, Lorraine B. Ware, Reid C. Thompson> ;Neurocritical Care. 2021 Aug 1
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Press Mentions

Florida Doctor Becomes Vanderbilt's First Black Female Neurosurgery Medical ResidentApril 14th, 2023
An HBCU Alumna Has Become Vanderbilt’s First Black Woman Neurosurgery ResidentMarch 22nd, 2023
Goodell Names Dr. Allen Sills as NFL's Chief Medical OfficerMarch 26th, 2017
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