Aaron Clark MD, PhD

Expected Graduation Date: 2014

 

 

 

Education, Training, and Previous Positions

1999: BS, University of California, San Diego
2008: MD, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia

Selected Professional Memberships and Appointments

American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Selected Honors and Awards

2011: 1st place E-poster, Tumor Section, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
2003: Charles C. Clayton Award, Dept. of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia
2002: Lucien J. Rubinstein Memorial Award, American Brain Tumor Association
2002: Susan J. Mellette Fund Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia
2002: First Place – Honors Day Abstract Presentation, “CD25+ T Cells Modulate the Immune Response Involved in Adoptive Immunotherapy,” Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia
2001: Association of Pathology Chairs Honor Society, Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia
1999: Cum laude, University of California, San Diego
1999: Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, San Diego
1995-1999: Provost’s Honors List, University of California, San Diego

Selected Recent Publications

Cage TA, Clark AJ, Aranda D, Gupta N, Sun PP, Parsa AT, Auguste KI. A systematic review of treatment outcomes of pediatric intracranial ependymomas [published online ahead of print March 29, 2013]. J Neurosurg Pediatr. DOI: 10.3171/2013.2.PEDS12345

Clark AJ, Jahangiri A, Garcia RM, George J, Sughrue ME, McDermott MW, El-Sayed I, Aghi MK. Endoscopic surgery for tuberculum sellae meningiomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis [published online ahead of print April 2013]. Neurosurg Rev. DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0458-x

Safaee M, Clark AJ, Bloch O, Oh MC, Singh A, Auguste KI, Gupta N, McDermott MW, Aghi MK, Berger MS, Parsa AT. Surgical outcomes in choroid plexus papillomas: an institutional experience [published online ahead of print March 7, 2013]. J Neurooncol. DOI: 10.1007/s11060-013-1097-3

Ivan ME, Cheng JS, Gurvinder K, Sughrue ME, Clark A, Kane AJ, Aranda D, McDermott M, Barani IJ, Parsa AT. Association of morbidity with extent of resection and cavernous sinus invasion in sphenoid wing meningiomas. Skull Base 2011;21(S 02):e5

Tate M, Clark AJ, McDermott MW. The watering can technique for prevention of postoperative epidural hematoma recurrence. Cureus 2012:4(11):e65. doi:10.7759/cureus.65

Clark AJ, Cage TA, Aranda D, Parsa AT, Sun PP, Auguste KI, Gupta N. A systematic review of the results of surgery and radiotherapy on tumor control for pediatric craniopharyngioma [published online ahead of print October 23, 2012]. Childs Nerv Syst. doi: 10.1007/s00381-012-1926-2

Clark AJ, Cage TA, Aranda D, Parsa AT, Auguste KI, Gupta N. Treatment-related morbidity and the management of pediatric craniopharyngioma. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2012;10(4):293-301.

Clark AJ, Butowski NA, Chang SM, Prados MD, Clarke JL, McDermott MW, Parsa AT, Berger MS, Aghi MK. Neurosurgical management and prognosis of patients with glioblastoma that progress during bevacizumab treatment. Neurosurgery 2012;70(2):361-70.

Clark AJ, Kuperman R, Auguste KI, Sun PP. Intractable episodic bradycardia resulting from progressive lead traction in an epileptic child with a vagus nerve stimulator: Case report of a delayed complication. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2012;9(4):389-93.

Clark AJ, Auguste KI, Sun PP. Cervical spinal stenosis and sports-related cervical cord neurapraxia. Neurosurg Focus 2011;31(5):E7

Han SJ, Clark AJ, Ivan ME, Parsa AT, Perry A. Pathology of pineal parenchymal tumors. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2011;22(3):335-40.

Clark AJ, Sughrue ME, Aranda D, Parsa AT. Contemporary Management of Pineocytoma. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2011;22(3):403-7.

Clark AJ, Butowski NA, Chang SM, Prados MD, Clarke J, Polley MY, Sughrue ME, McDermott MW, Parsa AT, Berger MS, Aghi MK. Impact of bevacizumab chemotherapy on craniotomy wound healing. J Neurosurg 2011;114(6):1609-16. 

Ivan ME, Sughrue ME, Clark AJ, Kane AJ, Aranda D, Barani IJ, Parsa AT. A meta-analysis of tumor control rates and treatment-related morbidity for patients with glomus jugulare tumors.  J Neurosurg 2011;114(5):1299-305. 

Clark AJ, Lu DC, Richardson RM, Tihan T, Parsa AT, Chou D, Barbaro NM, Kunwar S, Weinstein PR, Lawton MT, Berger MS, McDermott MW. Surgical technique of temporary arterial occlusion in the operative management of spinal hemangioblastomas. World Neurosurg 2010;74(1):200-205.

Chen MY, Clark AJ, Chan DC, Ware JL, Holt SE, Chidambaram A, Fillmore HL, Broaddus WC. Wilms' tumor 1 silencing decreases the viability and chemoresistance of glioblastoma cells in vitro: a potential role for IGF-1R de-repression. J Neurooncol 2011;103(1):87-102. 

Chang EF, Clark A, Smith JS, Polley MY, Chang SM, Barbaro NM, Parsa AT, McDermott MW, Berger MS. Functional mapping-guided resection of low-grade gliomas in eloquent areas of the brain: improvement of long-term survival. J Neurosurg 2011;114(3):566-73.

Sughrue ME, Yang I, Kane AJ, Fang S, Clark AJ, Aranda D, Barani IJ, Parsa AT. Endocrinologic, neurologic, and visual morbidity after treatment for craniopharyngioma. J Neurooncol 2011;101(3):463-76.

Clark AJ, Sughrue ME, Ivan ME, Aranda D, Rutkowski MJ, Kane AJ, Chang S, Parsa AT. Factors influencing overall survival rates for patients with pineocytoma. J Neurooncol 2010;100(2):255-60.

Clark AJ, Ivan ME, Sughrue ME, Yang I, Aranda D, Han SJ, Kane AJ, Parsa AT. Tumor control after surgery and radiotherapy for pineocytoma. J Neurosurg 2010;113(2):319-24.

Clark AJ, Lee K, Broaddus WC, Martin MJ, Ghatak NR, Grossman CE, Baker S Jr, Baykal A. Primary brain T-cell lymphoma of the lymphoblastic type presenting as altered mental status. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2010;152(1):163-8.

Clark AJ, Ware JL, Chen MY, Graf MR, Van Meter TE, Dos Santos WG, Fillmore HL, Broaddus WC. Effect of WT1 gene silencing on the tumorigenicity of human glioblastoma multiforme cells. J Neurosurg 2010;112(1):18-25.

Chang EF, Clark A, Jensen RL, Bernstein M, Guha A, Carrabba G, Mukhopadhyay D, Kim W, Liau LM, Chang SM, Smith JS, Berger MS, McDermott MW. Multiinstitutional validation of the University of California at San Francisco Low-Grade Glioma Prognostic Scoring System. Clinical article. J Neurosurg 2009;111(2):203-10.

Clark AJ, Dos Santos WG, McCready J, Chen MY, Van Meter TE, Ware JL, Wolber SB, Fillmore H, Broaddus WC. Wilms tumor 1 expression in malignant gliomas and correlation of +KTS isoforms with p53 status. J Neurosurg 2007;107(3):586-92.

Clark AJ, Chan DC, Chen MY, Fillmore H, Dos Santos WG, Van Meter TE, Graf MR, Broaddus WC. Down-regulation of Wilms' tumor 1 expression in glioblastoma cells increases radiosensitivity independently of p53. J Neurooncol 2007;83(2):163-72.

Li HL, Suzuki J, Bayna E, Zhang FM, Dalle Molle E, Clark A, Engler RL, Lew WY. Lipopolysaccharide induces apoptosis in adult rat ventricular myocytes via cardiac AT(1) receptors. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2002;283(2):H461-7.