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Yasunori Nagahama, MD, Neurosurgery, New Brunswick, NJ, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

YasunoriNagahamaMD

Neurosurgery • New Brunswick, NJ

Epilepsy Surgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery

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  • Office

    10 Plum Street, 5th Floor
    Dept Of Neurosurgery, Rutgers - RWJMS
    New Brunswick, NJ 08901
    Phone+1 732-235-6333
    Fax+1 732-235-7095
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Summary

  • I am an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Rutgers – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and I serve as Director of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery.



    I received my medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2012. During my medical training, I was awarded with a prestigious HHMI-NIH Research Scholars Program (“Cloister Program”) fellowship, sponsored by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The fellowship enabled me to spend a dedicated year in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the guidance of a world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Leslie Ungerleider, investigating a higher-order brain function involved in complex processing of visual information.



    I completed a residency in neurosurgery at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, during which I spent elective time in Tokyo, Japan, learning complex glioma surgery with use of intraoperative MRI, language mapping, and additional neurophysiologic monitoring. I subsequently completed a functional neurosurgery fellowship at UCLA Medical Center, with a focus on adult and pediatric epilepsy. I completed a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Children’s Hospital Colorado, with a continued focus on pediatric epilepsy surgery.



    I specialize in epilepsy surgery as well as general pediatric neurosurgery, and I utilize all types of epilepsy surgery techniques, ranging from traditional resection/disconnection and neuromodulation surgery, such as lesionectomy, anterior temporal lobectomy, corpus callosotomy, functional hemispherotomy, and vagal nerve stimulation, to minimally invasive MRI-guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT), to newer neuromodulation techniques, such as responsive neurostimulation (RNS) and deep brain stimulation (DBS). I also use intracranial recording, both craniotomy for electrode placement and stereo-electroencephalography (stereo-EEG), to localize a seizure focus and guide epilepsy surgery

Education & Training

  • University of Colorado
    University of ColoradoFellowship, Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2020 - 2021
  • UCLA
    UCLAFellowship, Functional Neurosurgery, 2019 - 2020
  • University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
    University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2012 - 2019
  • Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Georgetown University School of MedicineClass of 2012

Certifications & Licensure

  • NJ State Medical License
    NJ State Medical License 2021 - 2025
  • CO State Medical License
    CO State Medical License 2020 - 2023
  • ND State Medical License
    ND State Medical License 2020 - 2021
  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2019 - 2021
  • ME State Medical License
    ME State Medical License 2019 - 2020
  • IA State Medical License
    IA State Medical License 2012 - 2020

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Authored Content

  • Intracranial EEG for Seizure Focus Localization: Evolving Techniques, Outcomes, Complications, and Utility of Combining Surface and Depth Electrodes RelatedMay 2018
  • Intracranial EEG for Seizure Focus Localization: Evolving Techniques, Outcomes, Complications, and Utility of Combining Surface and Depth ElectrodesMay 2018
  • Accuracy of Detecting Enlargement of Aneurysms Using Different MRI Modalities and Measurement ProtocolsMarch 2018
  • Deep Brain Stimulation Hardware–Related Infections: 10-Year Experience at a Single InstitutionMarch 2018
  • Accuracy of Detecting Enlargement of Aneurysms Using Different MRI Modalities and Measurement ProtocolsMarch 2018
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Press Mentions

  • Some Shunts Used After Epilepsy Surgery May Risk Brain Shifting and Chronic Headaches
    Some Shunts Used After Epilepsy Surgery May Risk Brain Shifting and Chronic HeadachesMay 11th, 2022
  • Brain Implant for Adults with Epilepsy Can Help Kids, Too
    Brain Implant for Adults with Epilepsy Can Help Kids, TooJanuary 24th, 2022
  • Responsive Neurostimulation Tolerated in Pediatric Epilepsy
    Responsive Neurostimulation Tolerated in Pediatric EpilepsyJanuary 10th, 2022
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Professional Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

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