OUR PEOPLE
Faculty Members
Volunteer Faculty Members
Michael Muhonen, M.D., William Loudon, M.D., & Laurie Ackerman, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professors of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Muhonen attended Oral Roberts School of Medicine and completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Iowa in 1993. Dr. Loudon attended the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, completed his neurosurgery residency at Medical College of Virginia in 1999, and a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2000. Dr. Ackerman attended the University of Iowa College of Medicine, completed her neurosurgery residency at the University of Iowa in 2003 and a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Indiana University in 2004. Dr. Muhonen serves as Head of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Service at UC Irvine Medical Center. He and his colleagues provide general pediatric neurosurgery care both at UCI Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). CHOC will serve as one of the major affiliated hospitals in the planned UCI neurosurgery residency training program.
E. Thomas Chappell, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery and a member of the voluntary neurosurgery faculty at UC Irvine Medical Center. Dr. Chappell attended Bowman Grey School of Medicine and completed his neurosurgery residency at George Washington University in 1994. Research interests, that he is pursuing at UCI, include traumatic brain injury, neurocritical care, intracranial pressure physiology, brain tumor kinetics, and clinical outcomes studies.
Christopher Duma, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Duma attended Cornell University School of Medicine, completed his neurosurgery residency at Georgetown University in 1993, and an intra-residency fellowship in stereotactic neurosurgery including radiosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 1991-1992. Dr. Duma serves as Head of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery Service for the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC Irvine Medical Center and will coordinate and oversee that service for the planned UCI neurosurgery residency training program. He also is an affiliate member of the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Neuro-Oncology Program.
Richard Kim, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Kim attended St Louis University School of Medicine, completed his neurosurgery residency at New York University in 1997, and an epilepsy surgery fellowship at Yale University in 1998.
Robert Jackson, M.D., Bradley Noblett, M.D., and Sylvain Palmer, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professors of Neurological Surgery. They participate in patient care and teaching through on call patient care coverage and educational conference participation at UC Irvine Medical Center.
Joint Appointment Faculty Members
Fong Tsai, M.D.
Oswald Steward, M.D.
House Physicians
Chrisopher Owen, M.D.
Originally form upstate New York, Dr. Owen completed a magna cum laude honors degree in Philosophy at SUNY Binghamton before attending SUNY Upstate College of Medicine. Interested in pursuing a career in clinical neurosurgery, he finished his surgical internship at Stanford Medical Center before joining the UCI Neurological Surgery Department as a post-doctoral researcher. Dr. Owen is interested in adapting novel brain imaging modalities to the study of epilepsy. He will be leading the effort to use modulated optical imaging techniques in in vivo models to gain new insight into the mechanisms of epilepsy.
Research Faculty
Kim Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC Irvine Medical Center, and core faculty member of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center for spinal cord injury. Dr. Anderson received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 2000, and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Reeve-Irvine Research Center in 2004. She has been NIH funded for studies manipulating gene expression after spinal cord injury in the mouse by using a nervous system specific RNA-binding protein. She assisted in developing the national standard rodent model for objectively quantifying cervical spinal cord recovery after cord hemisection. She is involved in clinical research projects involving humans living with spinal cord injury. She is the organizer and founder of the Orange County Spinal Cord Injury Networking Group.
Yi-Hong Zhou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery and
Biological Chemistry, Head of the Neurosurgery Neuro-Oncology Research Laboratory at UC Irvine Medical Center. Dr. Zhou received her Ph.D. in
molecular biology from Dalhousie University in
Halifax, Canada in 1994. After completing two
post-doctoral fellowships in human genetics
(1996), and the other in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology (1999), she went on to become a research
instructor in neuro-oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in
Houston, Texas and then an Assistant Professor in charge of the
brain tumor research laboratory at Arkansas Cancer Research
Center. Dr. Zhou's research interests include the characterization of PAX6-mediated novel putative tumor suppression pathways in brain tumor
development, and molecular epidemiology and biomakers for brain
tumors.
Post-Graduate Research Fellowship
Marlon Matthews, M.D.
Dr. Mathews completed his medical education at Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India. He then completed a neuroscience fellowship specializing in spinal cord injury at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Following completion of a general surgery internship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of California, Irvine, as a postdoctoral scholar where he currently researches the use of optical techniques in neurodiagnostics and therapeutics a filed known as neurophotonics. Marlon’s long term goal is to be an academic neurosurgeon and continue research in neurosurgery.
Staff
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PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
Michael Blasko
James Lee
Margie Gabriel
Anna Ho |
ADMINISTRATION
Sharon McCarthy, Department Administrator
Eldean Burrow, Assistant to Chairman
Peggy Stoffel, Administrative Assistant
Valerie Miran, NPH Clinical Coordinator
Oliver Quines, Administrative Assistant
Patricia Rosas, Administrative Assistant
Debra Randall, Administrative Assistant |
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
John Kusske, M.D., Vice-Chairman
Stanley Lee, Programmer Analyst |
