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
- 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
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 [published online ahead of print Dec 10, 2010]. doi: 10.3171/2010.10.JNS101042
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 [published online ahead of print Oct 29 2010]. doi:10.3171/2010.9.JNS10699
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 [published online ahead of print Sep 4, 2010]. J Neurooncol. doi: 10.1007/s11060-010-0374-7.
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 [published online ahead of print July 16, 2010]. J Neurosurg. doi: 10.3171/2010.6.JNS091246.
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 [published online ahead of print June 10, 2010]. J Neurooncol. doi: 10.1007/s11060-010-0265-y.
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.