Seunggu J. Han MD

Expected Graduation Date: 2016

 

 

 

Education and Training

2005: BS, University of California, Los Angeles
2010: MD, University of California, San Francisco

Selected Honors and Awards

2008-2009: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship for Medical Students, University of California, San Francisco
2006: Dean’s Research Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
2005: Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society Member, University of California, Los Angeles
2005: Highest Honors in the Department of Neuroscience, University of California, Los Angeles
2005: The Helen Caldwell Award for Outstanding Minor in the Department of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles
2003: Undergraduate Research Scholars Program Award, University of California, Los Angeles

Selected Recent Publications

Jian BJ, Han SJ, Yang I, Waldron JS, Tihan T, Parsa AT. Surgical resection and adjuvant radiotherapy for a large pineal hemangiopericytoma. J Clin Neurosci 2010;17(9):1209-11.

Deipolyi AR, Han SJ, Parsa AT. Development of a symptomatic intracranial meningioma in a male-to-female transsexual after initiation of hormone therapy [published online ahead of print Jun 29, 2009]. J Clin Neurosci.

Crane CA, Han SJ, Barry JJ, Ahn BJ, Lanier LL, Parsa AT. TGF-beta downregulates the activating receptor NKG2D on NK cells and CD8+ T cells in glioma patients. Neuro Oncol 2010;12(1):7-13.

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.

Han SJ, Yang I, Ahn BJ, Otero JJ, Tihan T, McDermott MW, Berger MS, Prados MD, Parsa AT. Clinical characteristics and outcomes for a modern series of primary gliosarcoma patients. Cancer 2010;116(5):1358-66.

Jian BJ, Bloch OG, Yang I, Han SJ, Aranda D, Tihan T, Parsa AT. Adjuvant radiation therapy and chondroid chordoma subtype are associated with a lower tumor recurrence rate of cranial chordoma. J Neurooncol 2010;98(1):101-8.

Han SJ, Yang I, Tihan T, Chang SM, Parsa AT. Secondary gliosarcoma: a review of clinical features and pathological diagnosis. J Neurosurg 2010;112(1):26-32.

Yang I, Huh NG, Smith ZA, Han SJ, Parsa AT. Distinguishing glioma recurrence from treatment effect after radiochemotherapy and immunotherapy [Review]. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2010;21(1):181-6.

Kaur G, Han SJ, Yang I, Crane C. Microglia and central nervous system immunity [Review]. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2010;21(1):43-51.

Han SJ, Kaur G, Yang I, Lim M. Biologic principles of immunotherapy for malignant gliomas [Review]. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2010;21(1):1-16.

Yang I, Han SJ, Kaur G, Crane C, Parsa AT. The role of microglia in central nervous system immunity and glioma immunology [Review]. J Clin Neurosci 2010;17(1):6-10.

Han SJ, Yang I, Otero JJ, Ahn BJ, Tihan T, McDermott MW, Berger MS, Chang SM, Parsa AT. Secondary gliosarcoma after diagnosis of glioblastoma: clinical experience with 30 consecutive patients. J Neurosurg 2010;112(5):990-6.

Yang I, Sughrue ME, Han SJ, Aranda D, Pitts LH, Cheung SW, Parsa AT. A comprehensive analysis of hearing preservation after radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma. J Neurosurg 2010;112(4):851-9.

Han SJ, Yang I, Tihan T, Prados MD, Parsa AT. Primary gliosarcoma: key clinical and pathologic distinctions from glioblastoma with implications as a unique oncologic entity [Review]. J Neurooncol 2010;96(3):313-20.

Yang I, Han S, Parsa AT. Heat-shock protein vaccines as active immunotherapy against human gliomas. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2009;9(11):1577-82.

Han SJ, Ahn BJ, Waldron JS, Yang I, Fang S, Crane CA, Pieper RO, Parsa AT. Gamma interferon-mediated superinduction of B7-H1 in PTEN-deficient glioblastoma: a paradoxical mechanism of immune evasion. Neuroreport 2009;20(18):1597-602.

Sughrue ME, Yang I, Han SJ, Aranda D, Kane AJ, Amoils M, Smith ZA, Parsa AT. Non-audiofacial morbidity after Gamma Knife surgery for vestibular schwannoma [Review]. Neurosurg Focus 2009;27(6):E4.

Bloch OG, Jian BJ, Yang I, Han SJ, Aranda D, Ahn BJ, Parsa AT. A systematic review of intracranial chondrosarcoma and survival. J Clin Neurosci 2009;16(12):1547-51.

Yang I, Sughrue ME, Han SJ, Fang S, Aranda D, Cheung SW, Pitts LH, Parsa AT. Facial nerve preservation after vestibular schwannoma Gamma Knife radiosurgery [Review]. J Neurooncol 2009;93(1):41-8.

Yang I, Aranda D, Han SJ, Chennupati S, Sughrue ME, Cheung SW, Pitts LH, Parsa AT. Hearing preservation after stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma: a systematic review. J Clin Neurosci 2009;16(6):742-7.