JONATHAN L. BRISMAN, M.D.

JFK Medical Center

New Jersey Neuroscience Institute

65 James Street

Edison, N.J., 08818

drbrisman@avmresearchfund.org

 

 

CURRENT POSITION:

 

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Seton Hall University

Director, Cerebrovascular and Endovascular Services

New Jersey Neuroscience Institute

JFK Medical Center, Edison, N.J.

 

TRAINING:

 

1/2005-6/2005 Microvascular Neurosurgical Fellowship

Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA

1/2003-12/2004 Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowship

Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY

7/2002-12/2002 Chief Neurosurgical Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital

7/1996-7/2002 Neurosurgical Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH):

7/1995-7/1996 Surgical Intern, Massachusetts General Hospital

7/1994-5/1995 Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D.)

7/1993-7/1994 Research Assistant, Helen Hayes Hospital (Under Robert Sloviter, Ph.D.)

8/1990-7/1993 Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D.)

9/1986-6/1990 Harvard College: A.B. Magna Cum Laude in History and Science

9/1982-6/1986 The Frisch School: Salutatorian

 

 

MEMBERSHIPS

 

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Congress of Neurological Surgeons 

 

EDITORIAL/LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

 

 

Co-Chairman, Medical Board of Directors, AVM and Neurological Research Fund, a Foundation Dedicated to Supporting Neurological Research: Lead The Medical Board In The Effort To Properly Allocate Funds To Research Projects And To Direct Medical Education and Outreach

 

Reviewer, Medical Science Monitor, an International Medical Journal For Experimental and Clinical Research: Review Manuscripts For Publication

 

Editorial Board Member, www.neurosurgerynurse.com, A Website Dedicated to Neurosurgical Nursing: Contribute Medical Content to This Educational Website

 

 

 

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

 

 

Vascular/Skull Base

 

Publications

 

Brisman, JL Niimi, Y, Song JK et al: Aneurysmal Rupture During Coiling: Low Incidence and Good Outcomes at a Single Large Volume Center Neurosurgery, in press

 

Brisman, JL Song, JK, Niimi, Y et al: Treatment Option For Wide-Necked Intracranial Aneuyrsms Using a Self-expandable Hydrophilic Coil and Self-expandable Stent Combination. Technical Note AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26(5):1237-40, 2005

 

Song, JK, Niimi, Y, Brisman, JL et al: Multiple Cerebral Aneurysms In a Neonate: Occlusion and Rupture Journal of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, January, 2005  

 

Song, JK, Niimi, Y, Brisman, JL, et al: Simultaneous Bilateral Internal Carotid Artery 3-D Rotational Angiography. Technical Note, AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 25(10):1787-9, 2004

 

Brisman, JL, Niimi Y, and Berenstein, A: Sinus Pericranii Involving the Torcular Sinus in a Patient with Hunter's Syndrome and Trigonocephaly: Case Report and Review of the literature, Neurosurgery, 55(2):433, 2004

 

Brisman, JL, Roonprapunt, C, Song, JK, et al: Intentional Partial Coiling Followed By Delayed Clipping Of Wide-Neck MCA Aneurysms Presenting With Severe Vasospasm, Journal of Neurosurgery 101(1): 154-158, 2004

 

Song, JK, Niimi Y, Brisman, JL, et al.: Thrombus Formation During Intracranial Aneurysm Coiling: Treatment With Intra-arterial Reopro, Am J Neuroradiol 25(7):1147-53, 2004

 

Brisman, JL and Berenstein, A: Factors Related To Hydrocephalus After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Letter to the Editor, Neurosurgery 54: 1031, 2004

 

Brisman, JL and Berenstein, A: Received Wisdom vs. Evidence in Stroke Prevention: Carotid Stenting Will Soon Replace Endarterectomy in Patients Requiring Such Revascularization, Medscape General Medicine, 5(4), 2003, http://www.medscape.com/px/viewindex/more?Bucket=columns&SectionId=1962

 

Brisman, JL, Ogilvy, CS, and Borges, LF: Extramedullary Hemangioblastoma of The Conus Medullaris: Case Report Acta Neurochir (Wien) 142(9): 1059-62, 2000

 

Carter, BS, Brisman, JL, and Ogilvy, CS: Spontaneous AVM Obliteration Associated With Head Trauma: Case Illustration Journal of Neurosurgery 94(1): 139, 2000

 

Brisman, JL, Feldstein NA, Tarbell, NJ et al.: Eosinophilic Granuloma of the Clivus: Case Report, Follow-up of Two Previously Reported Cases, and Review of the Literature on Cranial Base Eosinophilic Granuloma Neurosurgery 41:273-279, 1997

 

Aghi, M, Valery-Coumans, J, Brisman, JL: Subarachnoid Hematoma, Hydrocephalus, and Aseptic Meningitis Resulting From a High Cervical Myelogram J Spinal Disord 17:348-351, 2004

 

 

Presentations

 

Brisman, JL, Song JK, Setton A: Endosaccular Treatment Of Intracranial Aneurysms Using A New Hydrogel-Coated Self-Expandable Coil (HydroCoil): Early Experience From A Single Large Volume Center Oral Presentation, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, 2004

 

Niimi, Y, Brisman, JL, Setton, A, and Berenstein, A: Aneurysm Rupture During Coiling: Low Incidence and Good Outcomes At a Single Large Volume Center Oral Presentation, 19^th Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society of Intravascular Neurosurgery, November, 2003

 

Brisman, JL, Carter, BS, Putman, C, Budzik, R, and Ogilvy, CS: Factors Associated With Outcome In Surgically High-Risk Patients Treated With GDC For intracranial Saccular Aneurysms

Oral Presentation, AANS Joint Section Cerebrovascular Meeting, 2001

 

 

Epilepsy/Radiosurgery:

 

Awards

 

American Association of Neurological Surgeons 2001 Resident Award (Stereotactic & Functional): Acute Effects of Stereotactic Proton Beam Irradiation of the Rodent Hippocampus

 

Grants

 

Center For Innovative Minimally Invasive Therapy (MGH): The Use of Proton Beam Radiosurgery For Intractable Epilepsy: Principal Investigator for this $50,000 fellowship to study the use of radiosurgery to alter the electrophsyiologic and anatomic injury in a rodent model of limbic epilepsy (1999-2000)

 

Publications

 

Brisman, JL Cosgrove, GR, Thornton, AF et al: Hyperacute Neuropathological Findings After Proton Beam Radiosurgery of the Rat Hippocampus Neurosurgery, in press

 

Rabinov JD, Brisman JL, Cole AJ et al: MRI Changes in the Rat Hippocampus following Proton Radiosurgery Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 19;82(4):156-164, 2004

 

Brisman, JL, Cole, AJ, Cosgrove, GR et al. Proton Beam Radiosurgery of the Rodent Hippocampus: MRI, Neurophysiologic, Histologic, and Behavioral Findings Neurosurgery 53(4):951-61, 2003

 

Brisman, JL, Cosgrove, GR, and Cole, AJ: Phosphorylation of P42/P44 MAP Kinase and DNA Fragmentation in the Rat Perforant Pathway Stimulation Model of Limbic Epilepsy Brain Research 933(1):50-59, 2002

 

Sloviter, RS and Brisman, JL: Lateral Inhibition And Granule Cell Synchrony In The Rat Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus The Journal of Neuroscience 15(1): 811-820, 1995

 

 

Presentations

 

Brisman, JL, Cosgrove, GR, Cole, AJ et al: MRI Changes in the Rat Hippocampus Following Proton Radiosurgery Oral Presentation, Quadrennial Meeting of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, May, 2003

 

Brisman, JL, Cosgrove, GR, Bradley-Moore, M et al: Acute Effects of Stereotactic Proton Beam Irradiation of the Rat Hippocampus Oral Presentation, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, 2001

 

 

General Neurosurgery

 

Publications

 

Aghi, M, Kiehl, T-R, and Brisman, JL: Breast adenocarncinoma metastatic to epidural cervical spine meningioma: case report and review of the literature Journal of Neuro-Oncology, in press

 

Brisman, JL, Kirsch, AJ, Taylor, JA et al.: Pulmonary Lymphangiomyomatosis in Tuberous Sclerosis: Association with Chronic Renal Failure P&S Medical Review 2(1):17-19, 1994