Michael Sughrue MD

Michael Sughrue MD

 

Expected Graduation Date: 2011

 

 

 

Education, Training, and Previous Positions

2000: University of Oklahoma
2005: MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons

Professional Memberships

American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Selected Honors and Awards

1996: National Honor Society
1997: National Merit Scholarship
1997: David A. Boyd Scholarship
1999: Golden Key National Honor Society
2001: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Student Research Fellowship
2003: American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellowship
2004: American Medical Association: Seed Research Grant
2005: Alpha Omega Alpha
2005: Louis Gibofsky Memorial Prize for Excellence in Immunobiology Research
2008: American Association of Neurological Surgery: Synthes Skull Base Award
2009: AANS- NREF Resident Research Fellowship
2009: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Research Training Grant (NIH-NINDS)

Selected Recent Publications

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 [published online ahead of print Sep 11, 2009]. J Neurosurg. doi: 10.3171/2009.8.JNS0985.

Barajas RF Jr, Sughrue ME, McDermott MW. Large falcine meningioma fed by callosomarginal branch successfully removed following contralateral interhemispheric approach [published online ahead of print Aug 29, 2009]. J Neurooncol. doi: 10.1007/s11060-009-9994-1.

Sanai N, Sughrue ME, Shangari G, Chung K, Berger MS, McDermott MW. Risk profile associated with convexity meningioma resection in the modern neurosurgical era [published online ahead of print Jul 31, 2009]. J Neurosurg. doi: 10.3171/2009.6.JNS081490.

Sughrue ME, Yang I, Kane AJ, Rutkowski MJ, Fang S, James CD, Parsa AT. Immunological considerations of modern animal models of malignant primary brain tumors. J Transl Med 2009;7(1):84.

Sughrue ME, Yang I, Aranda D, Lobo K, Pitts LH, Cheung SW, Parsa AT. The natural history of untreated sporadic vestibular schwannomas: a comprehensive review of hearing outcomes [published online ahead of print June 19, 2009]. J Neurosurg. doi: 10.3171/2009.4.JNS08895.

Komotar RJ, Starke RM, Arias EJ, Garrett MC, Otten ML, Merkow MB, Hassid B, Mocco J, Sughrue ME, Kim GH, Mack WJ, Ducruet AF, Connolly ES. The complement cascade: new avenues in stroke therapy. Curr Vasc Pharmacol 2009;7(3):287-92.

Yang I, Sughrue ME, Han SJ, Fang S, Aranda D, Cheung SW, Pitts LH, Parsa AT. Facial Nerve Preservation After Vestibular Schwannoma Radiosurgery. J Neurooncol 2009;93(1):41-8.

Sughrue ME, Mocco J, Mack WJ, Ducruet AF, Komotar RJ, Fischbach RL, Martin TE, Connolly ES Jr., Bioethical Considerations in Translational Research: Primate Stroke. American Journal of Bioethics 2009;9(5):3-12.

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.

Sughrue ME, McDermott MW, Parsa AT. Vision salvage after resection of a giant meningioma in a patient with a loss in light perception. J Neurosurg 2009;110(1):109-11.
 
Yang I, Delpolyi A, Sughrue ME, Rubenstein J, Bollen AW, Parsa AT. Sarcoidosis of the pineal gland: an unusual presentation of neurosarcoidosis. J Neurooncol 2009;91(1):113-6.
 
Sughrue ME, Chang EF, Tyrell JB, Kunwar S, Wilson CB, Blevins LS Jr. Preoperative dopamine agonist therapy improves post-operative tumor control following prolactinoma resection. Pituitary 2009;12(3):158-64.
 
Komotar RJ, Zacharia BE, Sughrue ME, Mocco J, Carson BS, Tihan T, Otten ML, Burger PC, Garvin JH, Khandji AG, Anderson RC. Magnetic resonance imaging characteristics of pilomyxoid astrocytoma Neurol Res 2008;30(9):945-5.
 
Sughrue ME, Levine J, Barbaro NM. Pain as a symptom of peripheral nerve sheath tumors: clinical significance and future therapeutic directions. J Brachial Plex Peripher Nerve Inj 2008;3:6.
 
Komotar RJ, Kim GH, Sughrue ME, Otten ML, Rynkowski MA, Kellner CP, Hahn DK, Merkow MB, Garrett MC, Starke RM, Connolly ES. Neurologic assessment of somatosensory dysfunction following an experimental rodent model of cerebral ischemia. Nat Protoc 2007;2(10):2345-2347.
 
Mocco J, Mack WJ, Ducruet AF, King RG, Sughrue ME, Coon AL, Sosunov SA, Sciacca RR, Zhang Y, Marsh HC Jr, Pinsky DJ, Connolly ES Jr. Preclinical evaluation of the neuroprotective effect of soluble complement receptor type 1 in a nonhuman primate model of reperfused stroke. J Neurosurg 2006;105(4):595-601.
 
Mocco J, Sughrue ME, Ducruet AF, Komotar RJ, Sosunov SA, Connolly ES Jr. The complement system: a potential target for stroke therapy. Adv Exp Med Biol 2006;586:189-201.
 
Chi JH, Sughrue M, Kunwar S, Lawton MT. The "yo-yo" technique to prevent cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea after anterior clinoidectomy for proximal internal carotid artery aneurysms. Neurosurgery. 2006 Jul;59(1 Suppl 1):ONS101-7; discussion ONS101-7.
 
Mocco J, Wilson DA, Komotar RJ, Sughrue ME, Coates K, Sacco RL, Elkind MS, Connolly ES Jr. Alterations in plasma complement levels after human ischemic stroke. Neurosurgery 2006;59(1):28-33;discussion 28-33.
 
Mocco J, Mack WJ, Ducruet AF, Sosunov SA, Sughrue ME, Hassid BG, Nair MN, Laufer I, Komotar RJ, Claire M, Holland H, Pinsky DJ, Connolly ES Jr. Complement component C3 mediates inflammatory injury following focal cerebral ischemia. Circ Res 2006;99(2):209-17.
 
Sughrue ME, Mocco J, Komotar RJ, Mehra A, D'Ambrosio AL, Grobelny BT, Penn DL, Connolly ES Jr. An improved test of neurological dysfunction following transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats. J Neurosci Methods 2006;151(2):83-9.
 
Mack WJ, Sughrue ME, Ducruet AF, Mocco J, Sosunov SA, Hassid BG, Silverberg JZ, Ten VS, Pinsky DJ, Connolly ES Jr. Temporal pattern of C1q deposition after transient focal cerebral ischemia. J Neurosci Res 2006;83(5):883-9.
 
Sughrue ME, Connolly ES Jr. Possible mechanistic overlap between cavernous malformations and cerebral developmental venous anomalies. Stroke 2005;36(11):2339.
 
Ten VS, Sosunov SA, Mazer SP, Stark RI, Caspersen C, Sughrue ME, Botto M, Connolly ES Jr, Pinsky DJ. C1q-deficiency is neuroprotective against hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal mice. Stroke 2005;36(10):2244-50.
 
Imielinska C, Liu X, Rosiene J, Sughrue ME, Komotar RJ, Mocco J, Ransom ER, Lignelli A, Zacharia BE, Connolly ES Jr, D'Ambrosio AL. Toward objective quantification of perfusion-weighted computed tomography in subarachnoid hemorrhage: quantification of symmetry and automated delineation of vascular territories. Acad Radiol 2005;12(7):874-87.
 
D'Ambrosio AL, Sughrue ME, Yorgason JG, Mocco JD, Kreiter KT, Mayer SA, McKhann GM 2nd, Connolly ES Jr. Decompressive hemicraniectomy for poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients with associated intracerebral hemorrhage: clinical outcome and quality of life assessment. Neurosurgery 2005;56(1):12-9; discussion 19-20.
 
Komotar RJ, Mocco J, Carson BS, Sughrue ME, Zacharia BE, Sisti AC, Canoll PD, Khandji AG, Tihan T, Burger PC, Bruce JN. Pilomyxoid astrocytoma: a review. MedGenMed 2004;6(4):42.
 
Sughrue ME, Mehra A, Connolly ES Jr, D'Ambrosio AL. Anti-adhesion molecule strategies as potential neuroprotective agents in cerebral ischemia: a critical review of the literature [Review]. Inflamm Res 2004;53(10):497-508.
 
D'Ambrosio AL, Sughrue ME, Mocco J, Mack WJ, King RG, Agarwal S, Connolly ES Jr. A modified transorbital baboon model of reperfused stroke. Methods Enzymol 2004;386:60-73.
 
Winfree CJ, Mack WJ, Hoh D, King R, Ducruet AF, D'Ambrosio AL, Sughrue ME, McKinnell J, Connolly ES Jr. Laser Doppler flowmetry in non-human primate stroke studies: model refinement for pre-clinical development of cerebroprotective strategies. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2003;145(12):1105-10; discussion 1110.