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Joseph H Piatt, Jr, MD Curriculum Vitae 5 May 2014 Home Address: 251 Linden Lane

Merion Station, PA 19066-1711 [email protected]

Office Address: Section of Neurosurgery A I duPont Hospital for Children 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 [email protected]

Education: 1972-1975 BA with High Honors, Swarthmore College (mathematics) 1975-1979 MD, University of Pennsylvania Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments: 1979-1980 Internship in Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1980-1986 Residency in Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center,

Durham, North Carolina 1986-1987 Fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery, The Hospital for Sick Children,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Military Service: 1986-1989 Medical Corps, US Army, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma,

Washington (last assignment) Faculty Appointments: 1989-1993 Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Oregon Health

Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 1993-2000 Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Oregon Health

Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 2004-2010 Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2008-2010 Adjunct Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, Temple University

School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2011- Professor of Neurological Surgery and Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical


College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hospital and Administrative Appointments: 1987-1989 Staff Neurosurgeon, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma,

Washington 1989-2000 Head, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital,

Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon 1989-2000 Consultant Neurosurgeon, Shriners’ Hospital for Children, Portland,

Oregon 1994-2000 Staff Neurosurgeon, St Vincent’s Medical Center, Portland, Oregon 1994-2000 Staff Neurosurgeon, Legacy Emanuel Hospital, Portland, Oregon 1997-2000 Staff Neurosurgeon, Portland Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center,

Portland, Oregon 1998-2000 Staff Neurosurgeon, Tuality Community Hospital, Hillsboro, Oregon 2000-2010 Chief, Section of Neurosurgery, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2001-2010 Staff Neurosurgeon, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 2002-2010 Consultant Neurosurgeon, St Luke’s Health Network, Bethlehem,

Pennsylvania 2002-2010 Courtesy Staff, Capital Mercer, Trenton, New Jersey 2004-2009 Staff Neurosurgeon, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 2004-2010 Staff Neurosurgeon, Shriners’ Hospital for Children, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania 2004-2010 Staff Neurosurgeon, Temple University Hospital and Children’s

Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2010- Staff Neurosurgeon, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington,

Delaware 2011- Staff Neurosurgeon, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012- Courtesy Staff, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware


Specialty Certification: 1980 National Board of Medical Examiners 1989 American Board of Neurological Surgery (in Maintenance of

Certification) 1996 American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery (recertified 2006) Licensure:

North Carolina (Inactive) Oregon (inactive) Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware

Awards, Honors and Membership in Honorary Societies: 1975 Phi Beta Kappa 1975 Sigma Xi (undergraduate) 1979 Alpha Omega Alpha 1979 I S Ravdin Prize in Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of

Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1996 Department of Surgery Teaching Award Oregon Health Sciences

University, Portland, Oregon 2009 Anthony E Gallo Lectureship, Oregon Health Sciences University,

Portland, Oregon 2014 Visiting Professor, Section of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children’s of

Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama


Memberships in Professional and Scientific Societies: American Academy of Pediatrics (Specialty Fellow)

1990 through the present • Immediate Past-Chair,

Executive Committee, Section on Neurological Surgery, 2008-2012

• Chair, Executive Committee, Section on Neurological Surgery, 2004-2008

• Chair-elect, Executive Committee, Section on Neurological Surgery, 2002-2004

• Steering Committee, Section on Neurological Surgery, 1998-2002

• Contributing Section Editor for Neurosurgery, AAP Grand Rounds 2001-2004

American Academy of Pediatrics Delaware Chapter

2010 through the present

American Academy of Pediatrics Pennsylvania Chapter

2002 through 2010 • Neurosurgical Liaison

American Board of Neurological Surgery

• Written Exam Committee, 2003 to present

• Guest Oral Examiner, May 2007

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

1990 through the present • Self-Assessment in Neurological

Surgery (SANS) Pediatrics Committee, 2003 to present


The AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery

1991 through the present • Committee for Continuing

Education, 1992–1994 • Committee for CPT Reform,

1993-1996 • Member-at-large, Executive

Committee, 1995-1998 • Liaison to the Executive

Committee from the AAP, 1997 -2008

American Cleft Palate – Craniofacial Association

2007 through the present

American Medical Association 1996-2004

American Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery

1994-2006

Oregon Medical Association 1989-2000

Oregon Neurosurgical Society 1990-2000 • Secretary-Treasurer, 1992-1996

Oregon Pediatric Society 1990-2000

Portland Academy of Pediatrics 1989-2000 Professional and Scientific Committees: (tabulated under Society Memberships) Editorial Positions: Contributing Section Editor AAP Grand Rounds Editorial Board Pediatric Neurosurgery

2001-2004 2003

Editorial Board Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

2004 to 2011


Advisory Board Journal of Neurosurgery

2011 to present

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Pediatrics

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Child’s Nervous System

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Journal of Pediatrics

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Pediatric Rehabilitation

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Ad Hoc Manuscript Review Neurosurgery

Academic Committees at the Thomas Jefferson University/Jefferson Medical College and Affiliated Hospitals: Not Applicable Major Teaching and Clinical Responsibilities at the Thomas Jefferson University and Affiliated Hospitals: Not Applicable


Lectures (Abbreviations: OHSU = Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon; SCHC = St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) By Competition: Wilkins RH, Piatt JH Jr: Treatment of tic douloureux and hemifacial spasm by posterior fossa surgery: Therapeutic implications of various neurovascular relationships. presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, California, April 1984. Piatt JH Jr, Erwin CW, Radtke RA, Gilmer PW, Fitch RD: Sciatic nerve potentials evoked by dorsal epidural spinal cord stimulation: Do they reflect corticospinal tract function? presented as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Electroencephalographic Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 1984. McLendon RE, Vogel FS, Piatt J, Burger PC: Hydranencephaly associated with unilateral stenosis of the intrasphenoidal segment of the internal carotid artery. presented as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Pathology, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1986. Hwang P, Piatt J, Cyr L, Becker LE: The EEG of Rasmussen's encephalitis. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers, Mount Orford, Quebec, March 1987. Hwang P, Gilday DL, Ash JM, Vimutisunthorn J, Lambert R, PiattJ, Hoffman HJ, Logan WJ, Haslam RH: Perturbations in regional cerebral blood flow detected by S.P.E.C.T. scanning with 99m Tc-HmPAO correlate with EEG abnormalities in children with epilepsy. presented at the XIII International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Montreal, Quebec, June 1987. Piatt JH Jr, Zonana J: A familial syndrome of brachydactyly, abnormal facies, hydrocephalus, and symptomatic foramen magnum stenosis. presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry, Victoria British Columbia, 14 March 1991. Arguelles JH, Piatt JH Jr: The management of craniocerebral disproportion. presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry, Victoria British Columbia, 16 March 1991. O'Neill OR, Piatt JH Jr: Sacral agenesis, sacral dysgenesis, and the caudal regression syndrome. presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Society of Neurology and Psychiatry, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 12 March 1992. O'Neill OR, Piatt JH Jr: Sacral agenesis and the caudal regression syndrome. presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Washington DC, 2 November 1992. Piatt JH Jr: A search for determinants of CSF shunt survival: Retrospective analysis of a 14 Year institutional experience. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Vancouver, British Columbia, 9 December 1992. Piatt JH Jr: A search for determinants of CSF shunt survival: Retrospective analysis of a 14 Year institutional experience. presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, St. Thomas US Virgin Islands, 2 February 1993. Nguyen TT, Piatt JH, Paschall A: Continuous fentanyl infusion in postoperative pediatric neurosurgical patients. presented as a poster at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association of Neurological Surgeons, Boston, Massachusetts, 28 April 1993. O'Neill OR, Piatt JH Jr: Spinal cord syrinx associated with sacral agenesis. presented as a poster at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association of Neurological Surgeons, Boston Massachusetts, 28 April 1993. Piatt, JH Jr: A search for determinants of CSF shunt survival: Retrospective analysis of a 14 Year institutional experience. presented as a poster at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association of Neurological Surgeons, Boston Massachusetts, 28 April 1993.


Buckon CE, Sienko Thomas S, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Assessment of upper extremity function and activities of daily living in children with spastic diplegia pre and post selective dorsal rhizotomy. presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Cerebral Palsy, Nashville, Tennessee, 8 October 1993 Sienko Thomas S, Pierce R, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Changes in the range of motion and developmental positioning of children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Cerebral Palsy, Nashville, Tennessee, 8 October 1993 Sienko Thomas S, Pierce R, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Changes in the gait patterns of children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. presented at the 1993 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Cerebral Palsy, Nashville, Tennessee, 8 October 1993 Piatt J Jr, Horgan M, Carlson C: The prevalence of epilepsy among patients treated for hydrocephalus: An actuarial study. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Antonio, Texas, 8 December 1993. Piatt JH Jr: The prevalence of epilepsy among patients treated for hydrocephalus: An actuarial study. presented as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, California, 13 April 1994. Piatt JH Jr: Do cerebrospinal fluid shunts grow old? presented at the Annual Meeting of the Neurological Surgery Research Society, Portland, Oregon, 23 June 1994. Piatt JH Jr, Buckon CE, Sienko Thomas S, Aiona MD: What does selective dorsal rhizotomy do for upper extremity function in spastic diplegia? presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, St Louis, Missouri, 7 December 1994 Piatt JH Jr: Cerebrospinal fluid shunts do not grow old. presented as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, St Louis, Missouri, 6-9 December 1994 Piatt JH Jr: Cerebrospinal fluid shunt failure: Early is different from late. presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, Manele Bay, Hawaii, 26 January 1995 Piatt JH Jr: Cerebrospinal fluid shunt failure: Early is different from late. presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Orlando, Florida, 25 April 1995 Kernan JC, Piatt JH, Merkens M: Better dead than dull? Historical and ethical issues in the treatment of medulloblastoma. presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pediatric Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Pasadena, California, 9 December 1995 Horgan MA, Piatt JH: CSF shunt surgery and shaving of the scalp. presented as a poster at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 30 April 1996. Horgan MA, Piatt JH: CSF shunt surgery and shaving of the scalp. presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Montreal, Quebec, 2 October 1996 Kellog JX, Piatt JH Jr: Cerebello-medullary fissure approach to the fourth ventricle: Resection of fourth ventricle tumors without splitting the vermis. presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Joint Section of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Charleston, South Carolina, 11 December 1996 Horgan MA, Piatt JH Jr: Shaveless cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery. presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, Carambola, St Croix, US Virgin Islands , 29 January 1997 Buckon C, Sienko-Thomas S, Freeling R, Kumar K, Harris G, Piatt J Jr, Sussman M, Aiona M: An objective measure of muscle strength following selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia. presented


at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Annual Meeting 1997, Portland, Oregon, 18 September 1997 Sienko-Thomas S, Kumar KS, Buckon CE, Freeling RP, Harris GF, Piatt JH II, Sussman MD, Aiona MD: Assessment of the quantitative changes in tone about the knee in children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. presented at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Annual Meeting 1997, Portland, Oregon, 18 September 1997 Piatt JH Jr: External hydrocephalus: A pitfall in the evaluation of suspected child abuse. presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Joint Section of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 3 December 1997 Piatt JH Jr, D'Agostino A: Chiari II malformation: Lesions found within the fourth ventricle. presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Joint Section of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, New Orleans, Louisiana, 3 December 1997 (withdrawn because of illness) Piatt JH Jr: External hydrocephalus: A pitfall in the evaluation of suspected child abuse. presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 April 1998 Tien R, Piatt JH: Evaluation of cerebrospinal fluid shunt function by percutaneous access of the valve assembly. presented as a poster at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana, 26 April 1999 Piatt JH Jr: External hydrocephalus and subdural hematomas – A troublesome association. Presented at Hydrocephalus 2000, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 8 March 2000. Buckon CE, Sienko-Thomas S, Harris GF, Piatt JH Jr, Sussman MD, Aiona MD: Strength and cocontraction after rhizotomy for spastic diplegia. presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery of the AANS/CNS, New York New York, 29 November 2001 Sienko-Thomas S, Buckon CE, Piatt JH Jr, Sussman MD, Aiona MD: Energy efficiency of gait: Rhizotomy and orthopedic surgery. presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery of the AANS/CNS, New York New York, 29 November 2001 Selden NR, Allen RM, Sandquist MA, Piatt JH: Isolated lumbosacral strawberry nevi do not indicate the presence of occult spinal dysraphism. presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery of the AANS/CNS, Scottsdale, Arizona, 6 December 2002 Johnston M, Goldstein L, Sienko-Thomas S, Piatt JH Jr, Aiona M, Sussman M: Spinal deformity after selective dorsal rhizotomy in ambulatory patients with cerebral palsy. presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons, Paradisus Playa Conchal Resort, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 5 February 2004 Starly B, Piatt JH, Sun W, Faerber E: Image-guided craniofacial reconstructive surgery. presented as a poster at Drexel University Annual Research Day, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 May 2004 Piatt JH, Starly B, Sun W, Faerber E: Image-guided craniofacial reconstructive surgery. presented at Advanced Digital Technology in Head and Neck Reconstruction, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 12 March 2005 Piatt JH Jr, Cosgriff MP: Monte Carlo simulation of CSF shunt failure and definition of the unstable patient with shunt-treated hydrocephalus. presented as a poster at the 36th Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery, South Beach, Florida, 26 November 2007 Piatt JH Jr, Neff DA: Severe traumatic brain injury in childhood: Epidemiology, trends, and disparities. presented as a poster at the 2012 Templeton Pediatric Trauma Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 March 2012


Langhans SA, Lindsey S, Piatt JH, Schneider JP, Pochan DJ: Developing peptide hydrogels as multi-component stem cell delivery systems in spinal cord injury. presented as a poster at Stem Cell Regulation in Homeostasis and Disease, a Keystone Symposium, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 24 – 28 February 2013 Piatt JH Jr, Freibott CE: The Revision Quotient – a quality measure for surgical treatment of hydrocephalus – can be risk adjusted. presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 December 2013 By Invitation: Piatt JH Jr: “Cerebrovascular Trauma” presented at Surgical Grand Rounds, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, 19 September 1987 Piatt JH Jr: "Neurosurgical Management of Obstetrical Brachial Plexus Injury" presented at Neurosurgical Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 17 September 1988 Piatt JH Jr: "Posterolateral Exposure of the Lumbosacral Spine" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 23 September 1989 Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. Refinement in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy.” presented at the Portland Academy of Pediatrics, Portland, Oregon, 4 December 1989 Piatt JH Jr: "Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. Refinement in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 7 December 1989 Piatt JH Jr: "Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. Refinement in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy" presented at Surgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 19 December 1989 Piatt JH Jr: "CSF Shunts - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 17 February 1990 Piatt JH Jr: "Office Management of Hydrocephalus.” presented to the Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Pediatric Society, Portland, Oregon, 8 March 1990 Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. Refinement in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy.” presented at Pediatric Conference, Good Samaritan Hospital, Eugene, Oregon, 9 April 1990 Piatt JH Jr: “Office Management of Hydrocephalus.” presented at Grand Rounds, Salem Hospital, Salem, Oregon, 4 May 1990 Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy. Refinement in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy.” presented at Neurology/Neurosurgery Update 1990, Salishan Resort, Glenedon Beach, Oregon, 10 June 1990 Piatt JH Jr: “Office Management of Hydrocephalus.” presented at Noon CME Conference, Mercy Medical Center, Roseburg, Oregon, 22 October 1990 Piatt JH Jr: “Surgical Approaches for Spasticity and Intractable Pain in Spinal Cord Injury.” presented at Management of Spinal Cord Injury: Current Issues in Acute Care, Rehabilitation and Follow-up Care at Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland, Oregon, 27 October 1990 Piatt JH Jr: “Neurological Monitoring of ICU Patients.” presented at the 17th Annual Symposium on Critical Care Medicine, Portland, Oregon, 15 November 1990 Piatt JH Jr: "Surgery of the Pediatric Skull - Craniosynostosis" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 15 December 1990


Piatt JH Jr: "Brain Tumors in Infants and Children" presented at Pediatric Surgery Conference, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 9 January 1991

Piatt JH Jr: "Surgery of the Pediatric Skull - Craniosynostosis" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 10 January 1991

Piatt JH Jr: "Neurosurgical Aspects of Child Abuse" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 23 February 1991 Piatt JH Jr: "Neurosurgical Aspects of Child Abuse" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 18 April 1991

Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy at the Portland Shriners Hospital.” presented at The Dillehunt Lectures, Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Portland, Oregon, 26 April 1991. Piatt JH Jr: "Neurosurgical Management of Spasticity in Cerebral Palsy" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 4 May 1991 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: Office Management.” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Oregon Pediatric Society, Portland, Oregon, 18 May 1991 Piatt JH Jr: “Developments and Directions in Pediatric Neurooncology.” presented at Neurology/Neurosurgery Update 1991, Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Warm Springs, Oregon, 15 September 1991 Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy at the Portland Shriners Hospital.” presented to the Operating Room Nurses' Association, St. Vincent's Hospital, Portland, Oregon, 18 September 1991 Piatt JH Jr: “Neurosurgical Emergencies in Intensive Care Medicine: The Management of Seizures and the Control of Intracranial Pressure.” presented at Critical Care Medicine Review Course, Portland, Oregon, 27 September 1991 Piatt JH Jr: "Medulloblastoma, a Prototype of Central Nervous System Cancer in Childhood" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 21 November 1991 Piatt JH Jr: "Medulloblastoma, a Prototype of Central Nervous System Cancer in Childhood" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 4 January 1992 Piatt JH Jr: "Myelomeningocele - Quality of Life among Survivors to Adulthood" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 9 May 1992

Piatt JH Jr: "Spinal Trauma in Infants and Children" presented to the PICU Nursing Staff, OHSU, Portland OR, 3 August 1992 and to the OHSU Trauma Program, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 4 August 1992

Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy.” presented to the Annual Seminar of the Oregon Society of Electroencephalographic Technologists, Vancouver, Washington, 26 September 1992 Piatt JH Jr: “CSF Shunts: Recent Clinical Research.” presented at Neurosurgery Update 1992, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 4 October 1992 Piatt JH Jr: "Birth Trauma - Neurosurgical Considerations" presented at the Oregon Neonatal Seminar Series, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 14 October 1992 Piatt JH Jr: "Craniosynostosis" presented at Radiology Residents' Noon Conference, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 28 October 1992 Piatt JH Jr: "Birth Trauma - Neurosurgical Considerations" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 5 November 1992 Piatt JH Jr: “Diagnosis and Treatment of Occult Spinal Dysraphism.” presented at Current Issues in the Care of Children with Disabilities, Sacred Heart General Hospital, Eugene, Oregon, 21 November 1992


Piatt JH Jr, Lee WM: “Late Outcomes in Myelomeningocele.” presented at the Portland Academy of Pediatrics, Portland, Oregon, 4 January 1993. Piatt JH Jr: “Birth Trauma - Neurosurgical Considerations.” presented at Neonatal-Perinatal Lecture Series, Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford, Oregon, 19 January 1993. Piatt JH Jr: “Birth Trauma - Neurosurgical Considerations" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 23 January 1993 Piatt JH Jr: "Hydrocephalus: An Ironic and Incomplete History" presented at Surgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 5 April 1993 Piatt JH Jr: “Skull Deformities: Craniosynostosis and Its Imitators.” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Oregon Pediatric Society, Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge, Warm Springs, Oregon, 23 May 1993 Piatt, JH Jr, Paschall AJ: “Pediatric Head Injuries: Are Children Really So Different from Adults?” presented at Noon Conference, McKenzie-Willamette Hospital, Springfield, Oregon, 17 June 1993 Piatt JH Jr: "Developments and Directions in Pediatric Neurooncology" presented at Radiation Therapy Noon Conference, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 30 June 1993 Piatt JH Jr: “The Late Biomechanics of Spinal Cord Trauma: Syringomyelia and Related Conditions.” presented at Neurosurgery Update 1993, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 18 September 1993 Piatt JH Jr: "The Late Biomechanics of Spinal Cord Trauma: Syringomyelia and Related Conditions" presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 12 October 1993 Piatt JH Jr: “Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy for the Treatment of Spasticity.” presented to the Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Pediatric Society, Portland, Oregon, 6 March 1993 Piatt JH Jr: “Spinal Injury in Infants and Children.” presented to Noon Conference, St. Johns Medical Center, Longview, Washington, 28 March 1994 Piatt JH Jr: “Spina Bifida Occulta.” presented at Surgical Problems in the Pediatrician's Office, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, 9 April 1994. Piatt JH Jr: "Pediatric Head Injury: Transport Considerations" presented to Transport Team Inservice, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 27 April 1994 Piatt JH Jr: "Hydrocephalus and the Pediatrician" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 12 May 1994 Piatt JH Jr: "Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy -- Revisited" presented at Neurosciences Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 12 October 1994 Piatt JH Jr: "Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Grows Up" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 17 November 1994 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: An Ironic and Incomplete History.” presented at the Monthly Meeting of the Department of Neuroscience, Sacred Heart Hospital, Eugene, Oregon, 20 February 1995 Piatt JH Jr: "Head Trauma in the Emergency Department" presented at Emergencies and Procedures in Pediatrics, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 11 March 1995 Piatt JH Jr: "Craniosynostosis and Imitators" presented at Medical Genetics Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 11 January 1996 Piatt JH Jr: “Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus Is Still with Us.” presented at Neonatal-Perinatal Lecture Series, Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford, Oregon, 27 February 1996.


Wheatley MJ, Piatt JH Jr: “Craniosynostosis and Imitators.” presented to the Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Pediatric Society, Tigard, Oregon, 15 March 1996 Piatt JH Jr: "Craniosynostosis and Imitators" presented at Neuroscience Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland OR, 27 March 1996 Piatt JH Jr: "Head Trauma in the Emergency Department" presented at Emergencies and Procedures in Pediatrics, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 4 May 1996 Piatt JH Jr: "Better Dead than Dull? Historical and Ethical Developments in the Management of Medulloblastoma" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 27 June 1996 Piatt JH Jr: "Myelomeningocele and Related Neural Tube Defects" presented as a Special Health Needs Teleconference through the Biomedical Information and Communications Center, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 2 October 1996 Piatt JH Jr: “Pandering to the Patient: Cranial Endoscopic Surgery and Shaveless Neurosurgery.” presented at Oregon Neuroscience 1996, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 19 October 1996 Piatt, JH Jr: “Pediatric Head Trauma in Perspective.” presented at Grand Rounds, Bay Area Hospital, Coos Bay, Oregon, 7 November 1996 Piatt JH Jr: "Pediatric Brain Tumors -- An Overview" presented to Radiation Oncology Residents' Conference, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 23 April 1997 Piatt JH Jr: “Mechanisms of Head Injury in Infants and Children: What Is Plausible? What Is Not?” presented at Multidisciplinary Care of the Craniospinal Trauma Patient, Benson Hotel, Portland, Oregon, 18 October 1997 Piatt JH Jr (Chesnut R): “Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury: Development and Implementation.” presented at Multidisciplinary Care of the Craniospinal Trauma Patient, Benson Hotel, Portland, Oregon, 18 October 1997 Piatt JH Jr: "Management of Spasticity in Children with Cerebral, Palsy and Related Movement Disorders" presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds (with Robert Nickel, MD), OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 30 October 1997 Piatt JH Jr: “Headaches and Structural Diseases of the Brain.” presented at Pediatric Ophthalmology for the Primary care Provider -- Headaches in Children, Casey Eye Institute, Portland, Oregon, 15 November 1997 Piatt JH Jr: “Neurosurgical Options: Rhizotomy and Baclofen.” presented to the monthly PT/OT Inservice, Child Development and Rehabilitation Center, Eugene, Oregon, 11 March 1998 Piatt JH Jr: “SCIWORA.” presented at the Ninth Annual Northwest States Trauma Conference, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 1 May 1998 Piatt JH Jr: “Spinal Dysraphism.” presented at the Douglas County Medical Society Weekly CME Program, Douglas County Community Hospital, Roseburg, Oregon, 11 May 1998 Piatt JH Jr: "The Chiari I Malformation and Its Clinical Contexts" presented at Neuroscience Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 24 June 1998 Piatt JH Jr: "Myelomeningocele: A Common, Chronic, Neurological Disease" presented at Neuroscience Grand Rounds, OHSU, Portland, Oregon, 21 October 1998 Piatt JH Jr: “Selection and Maintenance of CSF Shunts.” presented at the Washington/Oregon Neurosurgical Societies 1999 CME Meeting, Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, 5 June 1999 Piatt JH Jr: “Serious Head Injury in Children: Progress or Not?” presented at Emergency Medical Services for Children Conference, Rogue Valley Medical Center, Medford, Oregon, 26 August 1999


Piatt JH Jr: What Primary Physicians Should Know about Hydrocephalus.” presented at Noon Conference, St Luke’s Hospital, Boise, Idaho, 27 September 1999 Piatt JH Jr: “Not Craniosynostosis: Torticollis and Positional Skull Flattening.” presented at Children’s Surgical Problems in the Primary Physician’s Office, Portland, Oregon, 16 October 1999 Piatt JH Jr: “Spina Bifida Occulta.” presented at Children’s Surgical Problems in the Primary Physician’s Office, Portland, Oregon, 16 October 1999 Piatt JH Jr: “The Neurosurgeon’s Contribution to the Management of Spasticity in Children.” presented at Management of Cerebral Palsy in Children, Shriners Hospital for Children, Portland, Oregon, 19 November 1999 Piatt JH Jr: “Care of the VP Shunt: When Is It Broke?” presented at Spina Bifida: An Education Update, Shriners Hospital for Children, Portland, Oregon , 7 April 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “Habilitative Pediatric Neurosurgery” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25 August 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “What Pediatricians Need to Know about Hydrocephalus” presented to Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 September 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at Pediatric Departmental Conference, St Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 17 October 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at Pediatric Departmental Conference, Community Medical Center, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 31 October 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at the First Annual Pediatric Seminar, Easton Hospital, Easton, Pennsylvania, 29 November 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “Birth Trauma of the Nervous System” presented to Neonatology Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 January 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at Pediatric Departmental Conference, Abington General Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania, 27 February 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Surgical Management of Spasticity” presented at Cerebral Palsy Update, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 March 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Habilitative Pediatric Neurosurgery.” presented at Surgery Grand Rounds, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 April 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “A Cerebellomedullary Fissure Approach to the Fourth Ventricle.” presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 May 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Habilitative Pediatric Neurosurgery.” presented at John Heinz Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 6 June 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at Neonatal Conference, Abington General Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania, 19 June 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Evidence-Based Management of Pediatric Head Injury.” presented at Trauma Grand Rounds, Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 August 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 September 2001


Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at Noon Pediatric Conference, Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Pennsylvania, 20 September 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at Noon Conference, Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 3 October 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 October 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at the 5th Annual St Christopher’s Hospital for Children Pediatric Update, Adam’s Mark Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 October 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Sports for the Young Athlete: Concussion” presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 October 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Sports for the Young Athlete: Concussion” presented at Sports for the Able-bodied and Physically Challenged Young Athlete, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 November 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 November 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus Is Out There” presented to Emergency Department Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 November 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “14 YO Male with Tethered Cord, Asymptomatic.” Point-Counterpoint at The Thirteenth, Pennsylvanian-Philadelphia Neurosurgery Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 December 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus Is Out There” presented to Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 December 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Evidence-Based Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 February 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at Grand Rounds, Warminster Hospital, Warminster, Pennsylvania, 27 February 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at CME Conference, Holy Redeemer Medical Center, Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, 13 March 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Acrania.” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 March 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7 May 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Evidence-Based Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 October 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Blood Conservation in Craniofacial Reconstructive Surgery” presented at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 March 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus Is Out There” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 April 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 June 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Evidence-Based Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at Trauma Conference, Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25 July 2003


Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 September 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Prevention and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood: Recent Developments” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 October 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Topics in Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at Pediatric / Emergency Medicine Conference, St Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, 8 October 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: Engineering Aspects.” presented at Pediatric Engineering: Inaugural Colloquium, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 October 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus.” presented at Neonatal Conference, Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania, 21 October 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Topics in Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 November 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Neonatology Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 November 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “The Child with an Abnormally Shaped Head.” presented at Progress in Pediatrics, Marriott Seaview Resort and Spa, Galloway, New Jersey, 9 November 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Clefts and Dimples.” presented at Progress in Pediatrics, Marriott Seaview Resort and Spa, Galloway, New Jersey, 9 November 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Prevention and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood: Recent Developments.” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 November 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: Practical Aspects.” presented at Pediatric Departmental Conference, St Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 18 November 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Topics in Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at the MCP Trauma Symposium, MCP Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 December 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood.” presented at The Annual Day of Trauma, Union League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 December 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented at the Fairmount and Broad Clinic, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18 December 2003 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small.” presented to Pediatric Residents’ Conference, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, 9 January 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: Practical Aspects.” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, 9 January 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Spinal Dysraphism” presented to Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 9 March 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Topics in Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27 April 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Developmental Neurobiological Aspects of Recovery after Brachial Plexus Birth Injury.” presented at Progressive Management of Brachial Plexus Birth Palsy, Shriners Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 May 2004


Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Department of Pediatrics Noon Conference, Capital Mercer Health Center, Trenton, New Jersey, 24 September 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Recognition of Abusive CNS Injury” presented at Mini Symposium on Child Abuse, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 October 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “The Chiari Malformations” presented at Neurology / Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 November 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Pediatric Neurosurgery: A Technological Trifle and a Prevention Breakthrough” presented at the 16PPthPP Annual Pan Philadelphia Neurosurgery Conference, The Union League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 December 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Residents’ Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 December 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 April 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Skull Deformities” presented to Operating Room In-Service, Temple University Children’s Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 April 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Clinical Perspectives on TBI in Childhood” presented to Pediatric Grand Rounds, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 12 April 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Nursing In-Service, NICU, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 April 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Topics in Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 26 April 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Seminar, Easton Hospital, Easton, Pennsylvania, 5 May 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Strange and Wonderful: Incidental Findings on Brain Imaging” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 June 2005 Piatt J, Kothare S, Grant M, Valencia I: “Brain Tumors, Epilepsy, and Cortical Localization” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 23 September 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood” presented to Nursing Trauma Education, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 October 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus and CSF Shunts: Common Questions and Straight Answers” presented at A Day in Pediatrics at Reading Hospital, Reading, Pennsylvania, 7 October 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Management of Acute and Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury” presented at the Annual Spinal Cord Injury Conference, Shriners’ Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 October 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Neurosurgical Management of Pain and Spasticity in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury” presented at the Annual Spinal Cord Injury Conference, Shriners’ Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 October 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Neuropathic Pain” presented at the Annual Spinal Cord Injury Conference, Shriners’ Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 October 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Emerging Concepts in Clinical Management of Spinal Cord Injury” presented at the Annual Templeton Pediatric Trauma Symposium, Union League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 March 2006


Piatt JH Jr: “Neurosurgical Options in Tone Management” presented at Multidisciplinary Care for the Child with Cerebral Palsy, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 26 April 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Brain Teasers – Delaware Valley Child Neuroscience Update, Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4 June 2006 Piatt J, Kothare S, Grant M, Valencia I: “Brain Tumors, Epilepsy, and Cortical Localization” presented at Blood Conservation Seminar, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 June 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Nursing In-Service, NICU, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 10 August 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Emergency Department Consults for the Pediatric Neurosurgeon” presented at Neurology / Neurosurgery Grand Grounds, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 29 September 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Congenital and Developmental Conditions of the Spinal Cord” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, New Jersey, 18 October 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury in Children” presented to Pediatric Grand Rounds, St Luke’s Hospital, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 14 November 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Congenital and Perinatal Conditions of the Spinal Cord” presented at Neonatal Noon Conference, Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania, 21 November 2006 Kothare S, Faerber E, Piatt JH Jr, Cruz M: “Multidisciplinary Case Conference” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 December 1006 Piatt JH Jr: “It’s the Shunt, Stupid” presented at the Annual Pan Philadelphia Neurosurgical Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 January 2007 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Nursing In-Service, NICU, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 April 2007 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 May 2007 Piatt JH Jr: “Neurosurgical Fundamentals” presented at Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 June 2007 Piatt JH Jr, Cosgriff MP: “Monte Carlo Simulation of CSF Shunt Failure and Identification of the Unstable Shunt Patient.” presented as a poster at Research Day, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 July 2007 Spector N, Melvin J, Smergel E, Piatt J, McNesby F: “Multidisciplinary Case Conference” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 October 2007 Long, S, Faerber E, Piatt J, Pascasio J, Stearns D: “Multidisciplinary Case Conference” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 December 2007 Piatt JH Jr: “Careers in Neurosurgery” for the Student Interest Group in Neurology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Queen Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19 February 2008 Piatt JH Jr: “Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering: Applications to Craniofacial Reconstructive Surgery“ for MEM 478/800: Computer-Aided Tissue Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University College of Engineering, 27 February 2008

Long S, Faerber E, Stearns D, Piatt J: “Multidisciplinary Case Conference” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 March 2008

Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Nursing In-Service, NICU, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 May 2008


Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus” presented to Hydrocephalus Support Group, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24 June 2008 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Nursing In-Service, Career Development Center, Nelson Pavilion, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27 August 2008 Piatt JH Jr: “Neonatal Hydrocephalus” presented to Nursing In-Service, Career Development Center, Nelson Pavilion, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24 October 2008 Piatt JH Jr: “Management of Brachial Plexus Injury in the Neonate” presented to OB / Pediatric Conference, Our Lady of Lourdes, Camden, New Jersey, 20 November 2008

Piatt JH Jr: “Management of Elevated Intracranial Pressure” presented to Neurology Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15 January 2009

Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 21 April 2009

Smergel E, Hardison H, Piatt J: “Multidisciplinary Case Conference” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 17 July 2009

Piatt JH Jr: “Habilitative Neurosurgery in Childhood” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8 September 2009 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: What I Did Not Learn in Training” presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 November 2009 Long S, Faerber E, Rezvani G, Piatt J: “Multidisciplinary Case Conference” presented at Grand Rounds, St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 February 2010 Piatt J: “Cervical Spine Challenge” presented at the 10th Annual Templeton Pediatric Trauma Conference, Union League, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 6 March 2010 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 25 August 2010 Piatt JH Jr: “Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Where We Are. Where We May Go” presented at Pediatric Trauma: Protecting Our Future, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 24 September 2010. Published at PedsEducation.org http://www.pedseducation.org/online_education/UnitPage.cfm?unitID=20110502 Piatt JH Jr: “Challenging Case: Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia.” presented at Neurology Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 6 April 2011 Ty J, Piatt JH Jr: “Brachial Plexus Birth Palsy” presented at Neurology Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 27 April 2011 Piatt J, Grissom L: “Developmental Anatomy of the Atlas by Computed Tomography” presented as a poster at the Delaware Trauma Symposium, Chase Center, Wilmington, Delaware, 5 May 2011 Piatt JH Jr: “Heads’ Tales: Too Big, Misshapen, Too Small” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 30 August 2011 Neff DA, Piatt JH Jr: “Epidemiology of Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: 1997 – 2009. A Neurosurgical Perspective” presented at Trauma Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 9 November 2011 Piatt JH Jr: “What Neurosurgeons Wish That ED Physicians Had Learned in Training” presented to Emergency Medicine Fellows’ Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 16 November 2011


Piatt JH Jr, Neff DA: “Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood: Epidemiology, Trends, and Disparities” presented to Pediatric Grand Rounds, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 11 April 2012 Piatt JH Jr, Neff DA: “Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood: Epidemiology, Trends, and Disparities” presented at New Waves in Trauma 2012, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 23 May 2012 Piatt JH Jr: “The Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia” presented at Neurology Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 26 September 2012 Piatt JH Jr: “The Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia” presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 28 September 2012 Piatt JH Jr: “Traumatic Brain Injury: A Neurosurgical Perspective” presented to the Brain Injury Association of Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware, 19 October 2012 Piatt JH Jr: “Brachial Plexus Birth Injury” presented to Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residents’ Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 20 March 2013 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 26 March 2013 Piatt JH Jr: “Infant Heads” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 April 2013 Piatt JH Jr, Neff DA: “Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood: Epidemiology, Trends, and Disparities” presented at Pediatric Noon Conference, Bayhealth – Kent General Hospital, Dover, Delaware, 23 April 2013 Piatt JH Jr: “Moyamoya” presented at Neurovascular Conference, Christiana Care Health Services, Newark, Delaware, 6 September 2013 Piatt JH Jr: “Moyamoya” presented at Neurology Noon Conference, A I duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, Delaware, 25 September 2013

Piatt JH Jr: “Moyamoya” presented at Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8 November 2013 Piatt JH Jr: “The Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia” presented at Pediatric Grand Rounds, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2 April 2014

National

Piatt JH Jr: “Ventriculomegaly vs Hydrocephalus. To Treat or Not to Treat...” presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, California, 17 October 1995 Piatt JH: Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy and Membrane Fenestration: A Good Idea That Still Needs Some Work.” presented at a breakfast seminar at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1 May 1996. Piatt JH Jr, Sikora D: “What Caregivers Need to Know about Hydrocephalus.” presented as an Instructional Course at the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine Annual Meeting 1997, Portland, Oregon, 18 September 1997 Piatt JH Jr: “Adventures and Misadventures in Cranial Endoscopic Surgery. Indications and Complication Avoidance.” presented at Neuroscope '97, New Orleans, Louisiana, 30 September 1997 Rekate HL, Drake JM, Piatt JH Jr: “Subtle Forms of CSF Shunt Dysfunction.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the 27th Annual Meeting of the Joint Section of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Indianapolis, Indiana, 4 December 1998


Piatt JH Jr: “Selection and Maintenance of CSF Shunts.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana, 26 April 1999 Piatt JH Jr: “A Cerebellomedullary Fissure Approach to the Fourth Ventricle.” presented at Practical Approaches to Pediatric Neurosurgery: A Tribute to Alexa Irene Canady, MD; Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, 2 June 2001 Piatt JH Jr: “Ventricular Catheter Insertion.” presented at luncheon seminar Shunt Update at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25 September 2002 Piatt JH Jr: “Syringomyelia Complicating Myelomeningocele: A Review of the Evidence” presented at Evidence-Based Practice in Spina Bifida: Developing a Research Agenda.; Washington, DC, 9 May 2003 Oppenheim WL, Piatt JH Jr: “Managing Motion and Tone Disorders in the Child with Cerebral Palsy.” presented as a Seminar at the 2004 National Conference and Exhibition of the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, California, 10 October 2004 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus and CSF Shunts: Common Questions and Straight Answers” presented as a “Meet the Expert” Session at the 2005 National Conference and Exhibition of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC, 9 October 2005 Piatt JH Jr: “Acute Head Injury: Diagnosis and Management” presented as a “Meet the Expert” Session at the 2006 National Conference and Exhibition of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Atlanta, Georgia, 8 October 2006 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus and CSF Shunts: Common Questions and Straight Answers” presented as a “Meet the Expert” Session at the 2006 National Conference and Exhibition of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Atlanta, Georgia, 9 October 2006 Piatt JH Jr, Haines SJ, Raffel C, Selden NRW: “Controversies in the Management of Tethered Cord.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, DC, 16 April 2007 Piatt JH Jr, Haines SJ, Raffel C, Selden NRW: “Tethered Cord Anomalies.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Chicago, IL, 29 April 2008 Piatt JH Jr: “Hydrocephalus: What I Did Not Learn in Training” presented at the Anthony E Gallo Lectures, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, 21 February 2009 Piatt JH Jr: “Neurosurgeons and Advocacy” presented at the Anthony E Gallo Lectures, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, 21 February 2009 Piatt JH Jr, Rekate H, Iskandar B, Kestle J: “Evaluation of the Child with a CSF Shunt.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, California, 5 May 2009 Piatt JH Jr, Majer C, Haines SJ, Raffel C, Selden NRW: “Tethered Cord Anomalies.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, California, 6 May 2009 Piatt JH Jr, Park TS, Iskandar B, Mapstone, T: “Evaluation of the Child with a CSF Shunt.” presented as a breakfast seminar at the 78th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 May 2010 Piatt JH Jr, “Hydrocephalus from 35 Thousand Feet.” presented at Grand Rounds, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, 1 May 2014


International Piatt JH Jr: “Randomized Controlled Trials: What Do They Have to Do with You?” presented at Hydrocephalus 2000, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 9 March 2000 Piatt JH Jr: “Syringomyelia Complicating Myelomeningocele: A Review of the Evidence” presented at Festschrift for Robin P Humphreys; The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, 31 May 2003


Organizing Roles in Scientific Meetings: CME Program Director Neurosurgery Grand Rounds

Oregon Health Sciences University September 1989 through June 1996

CME Program Director Neurology/Neurosurgery Update 1991

Kah-Nee-Ta Resort, Warm Springs, Oregon 13-15 September 1991

CME Program Director Neurosurgery Update 1992

Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon 2-4 October 1992

CME Program Director Neurosurgery Update 1993

Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon 17-19 September 1993

CME Program Director Surgical Problems in the Pediatrician's Office

Oregon Health Sciences University 9 April 1994

CME Program Director Oregon Neuroscience 1994



Salishan Lodge, Gleneden Beach, Oregon 29 September - 1 October 1995



CME Program Director Multidisciplinary Care of the Craniospinal Trauma

Patient Benson Hotel, Portland, Oregon 18 October 1997

CME Program Director

Current Trends in the Management of Cerebrovascular Disease Oregon Health Sciences University 17 October 1998


CME Program Director Children's Surgical Problems in the Primary Physician's Office Oregon Health Sciences University 16 October 1999

Program Director Tone Management in Children with Cerebral Palsy

2005 National Conference and Exhibition American Academy of Pediatrics Washington, DC 8 October 2005


Bibliography: Publications, peer reviewed: Piatt JH Jr, Campbell GA: Pineal region meningioma: Report of two cases and literature review. Neurosurgery 12: 369-376, 1983. Piatt JH Jr, Blue JM, Schold SC Jr, Burger PC: Glioblastoma multiforme after radiotherapy for acromegaly. Neurosurgery 13: 85-89, 1983. Piatt JH Jr, Wilkins RH: Treatment of tic douloureux and hemifacial spasm by posterior fossa surgery: Therapeutic implications of various neurovascular relationships. Neurosurgery 14: 462-471, 1984. Piatt JH Jr, Schiff SJ: High-dose barbiturate therapy in neurosurgery and intensive care: A review. Neurosurgery 15: 427-444, 1984. Piatt JH Jr: Massive intracerebral hemorrhage complicating cardiac catheterization with ergonovine administration. Stroke 15: 904-907, 1984. Piatt JH Jr, Radtke RA, Erwin CW: Limitations of brainstem auditory evoked potentials for intraoperative monitoring of a posterior fossa operation. Case report and technical note. Neurosurgery 16: 818-821, 1985. Piatt JH Jr, Campbell GA, Oakes WJ: Papillary meningioma involving the oculomotor nerve in an infant. Case report. J Neurosurg 64: 808-812, 1986. Piatt JH Jr, Hoffman HJ: The tethered spinal cord with focus on the tight filum terminale. A review. I, introduction, nosology and pathology, developmental aspects, biomechanical aspects. Neuro-Orthopedics 3: 67-75, 1987. Piatt JH Jr, Hoffman HJ: The tethered spinal cord with focus on the tight filum terminale. A review. II. Clinical presentations, diagnostic investigations, radiological features, urological investigations, electrophysiological evaluation, results. Neuro-Orthopedics 4: 1-11, 1987. Piatt JH Jr, Hudson AR, Hoffman HJ: Preliminary experiences with brachial plexus exploration in children: Birth injury compared with vehicular trauma. Neurosurgery 22: 715-723, 1988. Piatt JH Jr, Hwang PA, Armstrong DC, Becker LE, Hoffman HJ: Chronic focal encephalitis (Rasmussen Syndrome): Experience with six cases. Epilepsia 29: 268-279, 1988.


Piatt JH Jr, Hoffman HJ: Cor pulmonale: A lethal complication of ventriculoatrial CSF diversion. Child's Nerv Syst 5:29-31, 1989. Piatt JH Jr: Trauma case for diagnosis: Atlantooccipital dislocation. Milit Med 154:455-457, 1989. Piatt JH Jr: Correction of the occipital prominence of Beckwith Wiedemann syndrome. Pediatr Neurosci 15:233-236, 1989. Hoffman HJ, Piatt J, DeLima B, Soloniuk D, Humphreys RP, Drake JM, Becker L: Management of axial low-grade astrocytomas in childhood. Int Pediatrics 6:149-152, 1991 Piatt JH Jr, Arguelles JH: Reduction cranioplasty for craniocerebral disproportion in infancy: Indications and technique. Pediatr Neurosurg 16:265-270, 1990-91. Piatt JH Jr: Physical examination of patients with cerebrospinal fluid shunts: Is there useful information in pumping the shunt? Pediatrics 89:470-473, 1992. Sainte-Rose C, Piatt JH, Renier D, Pierre-Kahn A, Hirsch JF, Hoffman JH, Humphreys RP, Hendrick EB: Mechanical complications in shunts. Pediatr Neurosurg 17:2-9, 1991-92. Piatt JH Jr, Clunie DA: Intracranial arterial aneurysm due to birth trauma. Case Report. J Neurosurg 77:799-803, 1992.

Piatt JH Jr, Carlson CV: A Search for determinants of cerebrospinal fluid shunt survival. Retrospective analysis of a 14 year institutional experience. Pediatr Neurosurg 19:233-242, 1993. Hoffman HJ, Soloniuk DS, Humphreys RP, Drake JM, Becker LE, DeLima BO, Piatt JH Jr: Management and outcome of low-grade astrocytomas of the midline in children: A retrospective review. Neurosurgery 33:964-971, 1993. O'Neill OR, Roman-Goldstein S, Piatt J Jr: Sacral agenesis associated with spinal cord syrinx: Report of three cases. Pediatr Neurosurg 20:217-220, 1994. Bickler SW, McMahon TJ, Campbell JR, Mandel S, Piatt JH, Harrison MW: Preoperative diagnostic evaluation of children with Cushing's syndrome. J Ped Surg 29:671-676, 1994. Piatt JH Jr: How effective are ventriculopleural shunts? Pediatr Neurosurg 21:66-70, 1994.


Hulka F, Piatt J: An infant in a car seat on a washing machine: Epidural hematoma. Pediatrics 94:556-557, 1994. Hornyik G, Piatt JH Jr: Cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection by Neisseria sicca: Pediatr Neurosurg 21:189-191, 1994. O'Neill O, Piatt J, Roman-Goldstein S: Agenesis and dysgenesis of the sacrum: Neurosurgical implications. Pediatr Neurosurg 22:20-28, 1995. Piatt JH Jr: Peritoneal cerebrospinal fluid shunt insertion: A technique for protecting the abdominal catheter. Technical note. J Neurosurg 82:305-306, 1995. Beals RK, Piatt JH, Zonana J: Craniofacial conodysplasia. J Ped Orthop 15:633-636, 1995. Piatt JH Jr, Steinberg M: Isolated spinal cord injury as a presentation of child abuse. Pediatrics 96:780-782, 1995. Piatt JH Jr: Cerebrospinal fluid shunt failure: Early is different from late. Pediatr Neurosurg 23:133-139, 1995. Smith SA, Jett PL, Jacobson S-L, Binder ND, Kuforiji TA, Gilhooly JT, Piatt JH Jr, Pillers DM, Reynolds JW, Benda GI: Subgaleal hematoma: The need for increased awareness of risk. J Fam Pract 41:569-574, 1995. Buckon CE, Thomas SS, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Assessment of upper extremity function in children with spastic diplegia before and after selective dorsal rhizotomy. Dev Med Child Neurol 38:967-975, 1995. Piatt JH Jr, Carlson CV: Hydrocephalus and epilepsy: An actuarial analysis. Neurosurgery 39:722-728, 1996. Kernan JC, Horgan MA, Piatt JH: Tethered hindbrain: Case report. J Neurosurg 85:713-715, 1996. Sienko Thomas S, Aiona MD, Pierce R, Piatt JH Jr: Gait changes in children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. J Ped Orthop 16:747-752, 1996. Piatt JH Jr: Pumping the shunt revisited: A longitudinal study. Pediatr Neurosurg 25:73-77, 1996.


Buckon CE, Thomas SS, Pierce R, Piatt JH Jr, Aiona MD: Developmental skills of children with spastic diplegia: Functional and qualitative changes after selective dorsal rhizotomy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 78:946-951, 1997 Thomas SS, Aiona MD, Buckon CE, Piatt JH Jr: Does gait continue to improve 2 years after selective dorsal rhizotomy? J Pediatr Orthop 17:387-391, 1997 Horgan MA, Piatt JH Jr: Shaving of the scalp may increase the rate of infection in CSF shunt surgery. Pediatr Neurosurg 26:180-184, 1997. Kellogg JX, Piatt JH Jr: Resection of fourth ventricle tumors without splitting the vermis: The cerebellomedullary fissure approach. Pediatr Neurosurg 27:28-34, 1997. Huhn SL, Harris BT, Piatt JH: A preadolescent with polydipsia and polyuria. Pediatr Neurosurg 28:91-95, 1998 Kuether TA, Piatt JH Jr: Chiari malformation associated with vitamin D-resistant rickets: Case report. Neurosurgery 42:1168-1171, 1998. Drake JM, Kestle JRW, Milner R, Cinalli G, Boop F, Piatt J Jr, Haines S, Schiff SJ, Cochrane DD, Steinbok P, MacNeil N and Collaborators: Randomized trial of cerebrospinal fluid shunt valve design in pediatric hydrocephalus. Neurosurgery 43:294-305, 1998. Kernan JC, Piatt JH, D'Agostino A: Spontaneous involution of a diencephalic astrocytoma: Case report. Pediatr Neurosurg 29:149-153, 1998. Piatt JH Jr, D'Agostino A: The Chiari II malformation: Lesions discovered within the fourth ventricle. Pediatr Neurosurg 30:79-85, 1999. Dickerman RD, Piatt JH, Hsu F, Frank EH: Subdural empyema complicating cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection. Pediatr Neurosurg 30:310-311, 1999. Piatt JH Jr: A pitfall in the diagnosis of child abuse: External hydrocephalus, subdural hematoma and retinal hemorrhages. Neurosurgery Focus 7(4), 1999. Jung H, Carmel P, Schwartz MS, Witkin JW, Bentele KH, Westphal M, Piatt JH, Costa ME, Cornea A, Ma YJ, Ojeda SR: Some hypothalamic hamartomas contain transforming growth factor alpha, a puberty-inducing growth factor, but not luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone neurons. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 84:4695-4701, 1999


Downard C, Hulka F, Mullins RJ, Piatt J, Chesnut R, Quint P, Mann NC: Relationship of cerebral perfusion pressure and survival in pediatric brain injured patients. J Trauma 49:654-658, 2000. Kestle J, Drake J, Milner R, Cinalli G, Boop F, Piatt J, Haines S, Schiff S, Cochrane D, Steinbok P, MacNeil N, and Collaborators: Long term follow-up data from the Shunt Design Trial. Pediatr Neurosurg 33:230-236, 2000. Piatt JH Jr, Kellogg JX: A hazard of combining the infratentorial supracerebellar and the cerebellomedullary fissure approaches: Cerebellar venous insufficiency. Pediatr Neurosurg 33:243-248, 2000. Piatt JH Jr: Monozygotic twins discordant for external hydrocephalus. Pediatr Neurosurg 35:211-215, 2001. Buckon CE, Sienko Thomas S, Harris GE, Piatt JH Jr, Aiona MD, Sussman MD: Objective measurement of muscle strength in children with spastic diplegia after selective dorsal rhizotomy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 83:454-460, 2002. Allen RM, Sandquist MA, Piatt JH Jr, Selden NRW: Ultrasound screening of infants with lumbosacral strawberry nevi has very low yield. J Neurosurg (Spine 3) 98:247-250, 2003. Piatt JH Jr, Iocono JA: A late result of an early operation for unilateral coronal synostosis. Pediatr Neurosurg 38:334-337, 2003. Piatt JH Jr: Pump implantation for intrathecal baclofen after laparotomy for necrotizing enterocolitis: Technical note. Pediatr Neurosurg 39:166-168, 2003. Piatt JH Jr: Syringomyelia complicating myelomeningocele: A review of the evidence. J Neurosurg (Pediatrics 2) 100:101-109, 2004. Buckon CE, Sienko Thomas S, Piatt JH Jr, Aiona MD, Sussman MD: Selective dorsal rhizotomy and orthopedic surgery: A multi-dimensional assessment of outcome efficacy. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 85:457-465, 2004. Johnson MB, Goldstein L, Thomas SS, Piatt J, Aiona M, Sussman M: Spinal deformity after selective dorsal rhizotomy in ambulatory patients with cerebral palsy. J Pediatr Orthop 24:529-536, 2004 Thomas SS, Buckon CE, Piatt JH, Aiona MD, Sussman MD: A 2-year follow-up of outcomes following orthopedic surgery or selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia. J Pediatr Orthop B 13:358-366, 2004


Piatt JH Jr: Progressive syringomyelia controlled by treatment of associated hydrocephalus in an infant with birth injury. J Neurosurg (Pediatrics 2) 103:198-202, 2005 Piatt JH Jr: Detected and overlooked cervical spine injury among comatose trauma victims: From the Pennsylvania Trauma Outcomes Study. Neurosurg Focus 19 (4):E6, 2005 (http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/Oct05/19-4-6.pdf) Dabari FP, Melvin JJ, Piatt JH Jr, Adirim TA, Kothare SV: Intrathecal baclofen overdose followed by withdrawal: Clinical and EEG features. Pediatr Neurol 33:373-377, 2005 Piatt JH, Starly B, Sun W, Faerber E: Adaptation of a commercially available neurosurgical image-guidance system for craniofacial reconstructive surgery. J Neurosurg (Pediatrics 1) 104:64-67, 2006 Shirley KW, Kothare S, Piatt JH Jr, Adirim TA: Overdose of baclofen from an intrathecal pump. Pediatr Emerg Care 22:258-261, 2006 Piatt JH Jr: Detected and overlooked cervical spine injury among comatose trauma victims: Report from the Pennsylvania Trauma Outcomes Study. J Neurosurg (Spine) 5:210-216, 2006 Gupta S, Piatt J, Belay B: Cervical spinal cord neurapraxia in the setting of Klippel-Feil syndrome. Spinal Cord, 2006 (http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/sj.sc.3101999) Piatt JH Jr, Cosgriff MP: Monte Carlo simulation of CSF shunt failure and definition of the unstable patient with shunt-treated hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg (6 Suppl Pediatrics) 107:474-478, 2007 Piatt JH Jr, Garton HJL: Clinical diagnoses of CSF shunt failure among children with hydrocephalus. Pediatr Emerg Care 24:201-210, 2008 AuYong N, Piatt J Jr: Jefferson fractures of the immature spine: Report of 3 cases. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 3:15-19, 2009 Piatt JH Jr: Sagittal synostosis and ossified scalp hematoma: Cause or consequence? J Neurosurg Pediatrics 6:29-32, 2010 Piatt JH Jr: Treatment of myelomeningocele: A review of outcomes and continuing neurosurgical concerns among adults. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 6:515-525, 2010


Piatt JH Jr: Intracranial suppuration complicating sinusitis among children: An epidemiological and clinical study. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 7:567-574, 2011 Massey SI, Buland J, Hauber S, Piatt J Jr, Goraya J, Faerber E, Valencia I: Acute VI nerve palsy in a 4 year-old girl with Chiari I malformation and pontomedullary extension of syringomyelia: Case report and review of the literature. Euro J Paediatr Neurol 15:303-309, 2011 Piatt JH Jr, Grissom LE: Developmental anatomy of the atlas and axis by computed tomography. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 8:235-243, 2011 Gurgenashvili K, Massey SL, Grant M, Piatt J. Legido A, Valencia I: Intracranial localization of ictal urinary urge epileptogenic zone to the non-dominant temporal lobe. Epileptic Disord 13:430-434, 2011 de Chadarévian JP, Legido A, Halligan GE, Faerber EN, Piatt JH, Morrissette JD, Ara J, Grant ML, Katsetos CD: Cerebellar gliomatosis in a toddler: Case report of a challenging condition and review of the literature. J Child Neurol, 27:511-520, 2012 Piatt JH Jr, Neff DA: Hospital care of childhood traumatic brain injury in the United States: 1997 – 2009. A neurosurgical perspective. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 10:257-267, 2012 Piatt JH Jr, Campbell JW: Spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality and the Chiari malformation: Controlled observations. Pediatr Neurosurg 48:360-363, 2012 Barton SE, Campbell JW, Piatt JHJr: Quality measures for the management of hydrocephalus: Concepts, simulations, and preliminary field testing. J Neurosurg Pediatrics, 11:392-397, 2013 Baghdassarian A, Piatt JH Jr, Giordano K: Fracture of the anterior arch of the atlas following minor trauma of the immature spine post laminectomy. Pediatr Emerg Care, 30:340-342, 2014 Piatt JH Jr, Freibott, CE: Quality measurement in the shunt treatment of hydrocephalus: Analysis and risk adjustment of the Revision Quotient. J Neurosurg Pediatrics [accepted for publication] Piatt JH Jr: 30-day outcomes of cerebrospinal fluid shunt surgery: Data from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program – Pediatrics. J Neurosurg Pediatrics [accepted for publication]


Maher CO, Piatt JH Jr: Clinical report: Incidental findings on brain and spine imaging in children. Pediatrics [submitted] Publications, non-peer reviewed: Piatt J: Transition of care: One model that works. Hydrocephalus Association Newsletter 19(3):5, 2001


Abstracts: Piatt JH Jr, Erwin CW, Radtke RA, Gilmer PW, Fitch RD: Sciatic nerve potentials evoked by dorsal epidural spinal cord stimulation: Do they reflect corticospinal tract functions? Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophys 61: 19P, 1985. McLendon RE, Vogel FS, Piatt J, Burger PC: Hydranencephaly associated with unilateral stenosis of the intrasphenoidal segment of the internal carotid artery. Lab Invest 54: 6P, 1986. Hwang P, Gilday DL, Ash JM, Vimutisunthorn J, Lambert R, Piatt J, Hoffman HJ, Logan WJ, Haslam RH: Perturbations in regional cerebral blood flow detected by S.P.E.C.T. scanning with 99m Tc-HmPAO correlate with EEG abnormalities in children with epilepsy. J CBF Metab 7(Suppl 1): S573, 1987. Buckon CE, Sienko Thomas S, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Assessment of upper-extremity function and activities of daily living in children with spastic diplegia pre- and post-selective dorsal rhizotomy. Dev Med Child Neurol 35(suppl 69): 1994. Sienko Thomas S, Pierce R, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Changes in the gait patterns of children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. Dev Med Child Neurol 35(suppl 69): 1994. Sienko Thomas S, Pierce R, Aiona MD, Piatt JH Jr: Changes in the range of motion and developmental positioning of children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. Dev Med Child Neurol 35(suppl 69): 1994. Buckon CE, Thomas SS, Aiona MD, Piatt JH: Preliminary results in gross motor function and performance at six months and one year following selective dorsal rhizotomy. Dev Med Child Neurol 37:18-19, 1995 Horgan MA, Piatt J: Shaving of the scalp may increase the rate of infection in CSF shunt surgery. Neurosurgery 39:643, 1996 Buckon C, Sienko-Thomas S, Freeling R, Kumar K, Harris G, Piatt J Jr, Sussman M, Aiona M: An objective measure of muscle strength following selective dorsal rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegia. Dev Med Child Neurol 39(suppl 75):14-15, 1997 Sienko-Thomas S, Kumar KS, Buckon CE, Freeling RP, Harris GF, Piatt JH II, Sussman MD, Aiona MD: Assessment of the quantitative changes in tone about the knee in children with spastic diplegia following selective dorsal rhizotomy. Dev Med Child Neurol 39(suppl 75):17, 1997


Piatt JH: External hydrocephalus: A pitfall in the evaluation of suspected child abuse. J Neurosurg 88:412A, 1998 Katsetos CD, Reddy G, Legido A, Del Valle L, Tadevosyan A, Yelin K, Piatt J, de Chadarevian JP, Maraziotis T, Mork SJ, Baas PW: Alterations of gamma-tubulin cellular distribution in human gliomas: Implication of centrosome amplification in malignant tumor progression. Ann Neurol 54(Suppl 7):S117-118, 2003 Kothare SV, Katsetos CD, Valencia I, Melvin JJ, Piatt J, De Chadarevian JP, Faerber EN, Legido A: Neurological presentation of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: Unusual neuropathological findings including cerebral hemorrhage and subdural hygroma. Ann Neurol 54(Suppl 7):S158-159, 2003 Editorials, Reviews: Piatt JH Jr: Brachial plexus birth injury. Western J Med 153:542, 1990. Piatt JH Jr: Medulloblastoma in childhood: A prototype for multidisciplinary care in neuro-oncology. Doernbecher J 1(2):26-27, 1996. Piatt JH Jr: Advances in the treatment of hydrocephalus. Doernbecher J 4(1):17-20, 1997. Piatt JH Jr: Infant Heads: Too Big? Too Small? Misshapen? For the Primary Physician. Doernbecher J 6(2):25-29, 2000. Piatt JH Jr: Neurosurgical treatment of incontinence in school-age children: Unanswered questions. AAP Grand Rounds 4(3):23, 2000. Piatt JH Jr: Assessment of traumatic craniocervical instability in children. AAP Grand Rounds 4(5):48, 2000. Piatt JH Jr: Vagal nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy. AAP Grand Rounds 5(2):13, 2001. Piatt JH Jr: Surveillance imaging in children with intracranial ependymomas. AAP Grand Rounds 5(3):26-27, 2001. Piatt JH Jr: Clinical recognition of CSF shunt failure. AAP Grand Rounds 5(6):56, 2001. Piatt JH Jr: Severe head trauma: ICP or CPP management. AAP Grand Rounds 6(1):7-8, 2001.


Piatt JH Jr: Book review: The Physician’s Guide to Caring for Children with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions. Pediatr Neurosurg 35:56, 2001. Piatt JH Jr:, Pathophysiology and treatment of Chiari malformations, syringomyelia. AAP Grand Rounds 6(4):42, 2001 Piatt JH Jr: A benchmark in myelomeningocele care. AAP Grand Rounds 6(5):53-54, 2001 Piatt JH Jr: Receiver-operating characteristic curves. J Neurosurg 95:918-919, 2001 (letter) Piatt JH Jr: Why is there CSF? Pediatr Neurosurg 35:283, 2002 (editorial) Piatt JH Jr: Periodic surveillance CT to detect asymptomatic CSF shunt failure. AAP Grand Rounds 7(2):17-18,2002 Piatt JH Jr, Frim D: Glutaric aciduria type 1 and nonaccidental head injury. Pediatrics 109:554, 2002 (letter) Piatt JH Jr: Treatment of dystonia in children. AAP Grand Rounds 7(4):40-41,2002 Piatt JH Jr: Guidelines for the management of pediatric cervical spine injuries. AAP Grand Rounds 8(1):6-7,2002 Piatt JH Jr: Cost-effectiveness of alternative treatments of hydrocephalus in childhood. AAP Grand Rounds 8(3):29-30, 2002 Piatt JH Jr: The natural history of cerebral palsy. AAP Grand Rounds 8(6):63-64, 2002 Piatt JH Jr: The Chiari malformation, type 1, in early childhood. AAP Grand Rounds 9(2):18-19, 2003 Piatt JH Jr: Improvement in CSF shunt outcomes is an elusive goal. AAP Grand Rounds 9(4):44, 2003 Piatt JH Jr: Surgeon experience and CSF shunt outcomes. AAP Grand Rounds 10(2):17-18, 2003 Piatt JH Jr: Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood – Guidelines. AAP Grand Rounds 10(6):73-74, 2003


Piatt JH Jr: Skin hemangiomas and occult dysraphism. J Neurosurg (Pediatrics 2) 100:81-82, 2004 (editorial) Piatt JH Jr: Peritoneal cerebrospinal fluid shunts insertion. J Neurosurg (Pediatrics 2) 100:232, 2004 (letter) Piatt JH Jr: Folic acid supplementation does not prevent lipomyelomeningocele. AAP Grand Rounds 11(4):43-44, 2004 Piatt JH Jr: Moyamoya syndrome in children is treatable. AAP Grand Rounds 11(5):55-56, 2004 Piatt JH Jr: The Section on Neurological Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Report 2004-2005. J Neurosurg (1 Suppl Pediatrics) 104:72-74, 2006 Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: Dorsal rhizotomy. J Neurosurg (1 Suppl Pediatrics) 105:6-7, 2006 Piatt JH Jr: The Section on Neurological Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics: Annual Report. J Neurosurg (4 Suppl Pediatrics) 106:324-327, 2007 Stearns D, Piatt J: Book Review: Central Nervous System Tumours of Childhood. J Neurosurg 106:189-190, 2007 Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: Survival of shunts. J Neurosurg (6 Suppl Pediatrics) 107:445-447, 2007 Piatt JH Jr: The Section on Neurological Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics: Annual Report 2006 to 2007. J Neurosurg: Pediatrics 1:420-422, 2008 Piatt JH Jr: A case study in transition to adult care settings: Hydrocephalus. AAP News 29:20, 2008 Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: Surgical management of the Chiari malformation Type 1 – The way forward. J Neurosurg: Pediatrics 2:50-51, 2008 Piatt JH Jr: Ultrasound guidance. J Neurosurg: Pediatrics 2:292-293, 2008 (letter) Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: Tethered cord release. J Neurosurg: Pediatrics 4:26-27, 2009 Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: Neurosurgical education for pediatricians. J Neurosurg: Pediatrics 4:307-308, 2009


Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: “Never events” come to neurosurgery. J Neurosurg 112:247-248, 2010 Piatt JH Jr: Editorial: Posthemorrhagic ventricular dilation. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 6:222-223, 2010 Book Chapters Piatt JH Jr: Post-traumatic syringomyelia, in Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgery. Baltimore, Maryland, Williams & Wilkins, 1985, pp. 1761-1763. Hudson AR, Kline DD, Piatt J Jr, Mackinnon SE, Hoffman HJ: Peripheral nerve injuries in children, in McLaurin RL, Schut L, Venes JL, Epstein F (eds): Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2nd Ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, WB Saunders, 1989, pp. 318-333. Piatt JH Jr: Neurosurgical management of birth injuries of the brachial plexus. Neurosurg Clin North Am 2:175-185, 1991. Piatt JH Jr, Burchiel KJ: Technique of ventriculostomy, in Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgical Operative Atlas, Vol 1. Baltimore, Maryland, Williams & Wilkins, 1991, pp 183-187. Piatt JH Jr: Post-traumatic syringomyelia, in Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgery, 2nd Ed. New York, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp 3063-3066.

Piatt JH Jr: Hydrocephalus: Treatment, in Wilkins RH, Rengachary SS (eds): Neurosurgery, 2nd Ed. New York, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp 3633-3644. Piatt JH Jr, Lagrange A: Congenital defects of the scalp and skull, in Albright AL, Pollack IF, Adelson PD (eds): Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery. New York, New York, Thieme, 1998, pp 209-218. Piatt JH, Kernan JC: Intracranial hematomas, in McLone DG: Pediatric Neurosurgery, 4th Ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, W B Saunders, 2000. Piatt JH Jr: Insertion of ventriculoperitoneal and ventriculovenous CSF shunts. Techniques in Neurosurgery, Vol 7(3). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002, pp 197-205 Piatt JH Jr: Hydrocephalus: Treatment by shunting, in Rengachary SS, Maciunas RJ, Wilkins RH (eds): Neurosurgery, 3rd Ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, McGraw-Hill (submitted; project aborted by publisher).


Piatt JH Jr: Intramedullary spinal tumors, in Berger MS, Prados MD (eds): Textbook of Neuro-Oncology. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Elsevier Saunders, 2005, pp 801-811. Piatt JH Jr: Congenital defects of the scalp and skull, in Albright AL, Pollack IF, Adelson PD (eds): Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2nd Ed. New York, New York, Thieme, 1999, pp 209-218 Piatt JH Jr: Recognizing neurosurgical conditions in the pediatrician’s office. Pediatr Clin North Am 51:237-270, 2004. Garton HJL, Piatt JH Jr: Hydrocephalus. Pediatr Clin North Am 51:305-326, 2004. Piatt JH Jr: Birth injuries of the brachial plexus. Pediatr Clin North Am 51:421-440, 2004. Piatt JH Jr: Unexpected findings on brain and spine imaging in children. Pediatr Clin North Am 51:507-528, 2004. Piatt JH Jr: Birth injuries of the brachial plexus. Perinatol Clin North Am 32:39-60, 2005. Helton KJ, Steen RG, Piatt J: Intracranial neoplasms, in Slovis TL (ed): Caffey’s Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging, 11th Ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mosby, 2008, pp 790-823. Hedlund GL, Faerber EN, Piatt J: Tumors and tumor-like conditions, in Slovis TL (ed): Caffey’s Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging, 11th Ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mosby, 2008, pp 998-1018. Piatt JH Jr: Traumatic brain injury, in Legido A, Piatt JH Jr (eds): Clinical Pediatric Neurosciences for Primary Care. Elk Grove Village, IL, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009, pp 145-170. Piatt JH Jr: The Chiari malformation and syringomyelia, in Legido A, Piatt JH Jr (eds): Clinical Pediatric Neurosciences for Primary Care. Elk Grove Village, IL, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009, pp 495-514 Stearns D, Piatt JH Jr: Brain tumors, in Legido A, Piatt JH Jr (eds): Clinical Pediatric Neurosciences for Primary Care. Elk Grove Village, IL, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009, pp 431-458. Persing JA, Jane JA Sr, Piatt JH Jr: Craniosynostosis, in Winn HR (ed): Youman’s Neurological Surgery 6th Ed. Philadelphia, PA, Elsevier Saunders, 2011, pp 1940-


1954. Hammer CL, Piatt JH Jr: Cranial epidural abscess and subdural empyema, Albright AL, Pollack IF, Adelson PD (eds): Principles and Practice of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 3rd Ed. New York, NY, Thieme (submitted) Books: Piatt JH Jr (ed): Pediatric Neurosurgery. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, WB Saunders, 2004 [Pediatr Clin N Am 51(2), 2004] Legido A, Piatt JH Jr (eds): Clinical Pediatric Neurosciences for Primary Care. Elk Grove Village, IL, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2009 Other Peer-Reviewed Scholarships Not Listed Above: None


Community Service: Presentations “Neurosurgical Options: Rhizotomy and Baclofen” presented at the 1st Annual Conference on Cerebral Palsy of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and SW Washington, Portland, Oregon, 23 November 1996 “Spasticity Management: Physiology” presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Cerebral Palsy of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and SW Washington, Tigard, Oregon, 22 November 1997 “Spasticity Management: Intrathecal Baclofen” presented at the 2nd Annual Conference on Cerebral Palsy of the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and SW Washington, Tigard, Oregon, 22 November 1997 “An Overview of Neurosurgery in Spina Bifida” presented to the Spina Bifida Association of the Delaware Valley, Carousel House, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25 March 2001 “Pediatric Neurosurgery: ‘Hey, this IS brain surgery!’” presented at Career Day, The Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 12 April 2002 “Tethered Spinal Cord” presented at the 40th Annual United Ostomy Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 16 August 2002 “Pediatric Neurosurgery: ‘Hey, this IS brain surgery!’” presented to Youth Group, Overbrook Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 October 2002 “The Chiari Malformation, Type 2, and Syringomyelia” presented at The Spina Bifida Association of America 31st Annual Conference, Crystal City, Virginia, 22 June 2004 “Families with Young Children with Hydrocephalus” conducted at the 11th National Conference on Hydrocephalus, Cleveland, Ohio, 18 June 2010 “American Academy of Pediatrics and Transition of Care for Teens and Young Adults.” presented at the 11th National Conference on Hydrocephalus, Cleveland, Ohio, 19 June 2010 “Families with Young Children with Hydrocephalus” conducted at the 12th National Conference on Hydrocephalus, Bethesda, Maryland, 29 June 2012


Mentoring Extern Host Swarthmore College

Catherine Salussolia St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 15 – 19 January 2001

Extern Host Swarthmore College

Sumida Ai St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 14 – 18 January 2002


Garret Ash St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 13 – 17 January 2003

Shadowing Host Lower Merion HS

Amanda Gilhool St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 7 December 2004


Brandon Wolff St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 10 – 14 January 2005


Mark Mai St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 9 – 13 January 2006


Jack Keefe St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 16 – 17 January 2007


Emily Brown St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 14 – 18 January 2008


Julia Wittes St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 12 - 16 January 2009


Iris Hee Rhang Yoon St Christopher’s Hospital for Children 11 – 15 January 2010


Robert Abishek A I duPont Hospital for Children 13 – 17 January 2014


Support:

Extramural "Clinical Studies of CSF Shunt Insertion Techniques" - Principal Investigator. Awarded 1 December 1989, Medical Research Foundation of Oregon Grant #8954: ($17,000) "Intrathecal Baclofen for Treatment of Spasticity of Cerebral Origin" (ORS #2827) - Principal Investigator (IND# 37305). Awarded 28 October 1991, Medtronic Corporation: ($7,200) "Controlled Clinical Trial of Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy in the Treatment of Cerebral Palsy" - Co-Principal Investigator with Michael Aiona, M.D. Awarded 7 December 1992, Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children: ($153,373) "Shunt Design Trial" (ORS #3381) - Executive Committee and Principal Investigator (Portland site); 30 July 1993 through 2 April 1997 ($100 per patient on a contractual basis with the University of British Columbia) "Endoscopic Shunt Insertion Trial" (ORS #4146) - Executive Committee and Principal Investigator (Portland site); 10 May 1996 to 30 June 2000 ($100 per patient on a contractual basis with the University of British Columbia) Intramural "The Posterolateral Approach to the Lumbosacral Spine: An Anatomic Study" - Principal Investigator. Awarded 20 January 1989 by the Department of Clinical Investigation, Madigan Army Medical Center #89-15: ($6,000) "Late Outcomes in Myelomeningocele" - Medical Student Summer Research Faculty Supervisor. Awarded 3 May 1991 by the Dean's Office, School of Medicine, OHSU: ($2,000)

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