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Pediatric Neurosurgery Brochure.Pdf Pediatric SERVICES Neurosurgery Why Choose Us: · Consistently superior outcomes · Largest epilepsy, spasticity, craniosynostosis, and brain tumor programs in the region · Chosen site for setting patient care protocols with pioneers in the field · Short wait times for appointments To refer a patient, call 510-428-3319 or 800-550-1529 www.childrenshospitaloakland.org GUIDE TO COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO COMPREHENSIVE Pediatric Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland How to Refer GUIDE TO Call 510-428-3319 or COMPREHENSIVE 800-550-1529 SERVICES Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. We Offer: Fax: 510-597-7034 The most comprehensive spasticity program in Email: [email protected] Northern California. The Peacock Center for Cerebral · Short wait times for appointments Palsy & Movement Disorders program honors Warwick Peacock, MD, a pioneer in selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery, · Phone consults available and a consulting member of the Children’s Hospital affiliate · Outpatient services in Oakland, Walnut team. Page 5 Creek, Reno and Modesto. · After hours/weekends: All calls should be Brain tumor and neuro-oncology programs with directed to 510-428-3000. consulting physician Jonathan Finlay, MD, the leading U.S. pediatric neuro-oncologist. Neuro-oncology director Joe Torkildson, MD, and oncologist Caroline Hastings, MD, see the largest number of brain tumors in the adjoining 10 Children’s counties, as well as patients from out of state. Page 6 Neurosurgery Statistics A surgical epilepsy program led by Rachel Kuperman, MD. The program offers treatment-resistant patients a chance Since 2000, the surgical volume at major improvement and possible cure. Page 8 increased from 240 cases to almost 400 cases a year. A multidisciplinary program for complex pediatric spinal disorders that combines orthopedics, Average 30-day mortality rate on rehabilitation, and physical therapy. Children with complex craniotomies, excluding trauma spinal disorders have the most favorable outcomes when 0 = 0.0%. treated collaboratively by an orthopedic spine surgeon and a pediatric neurosurgeon. Page 9 CHILDREN’S VENTRICULAR SHUNT INFECTION RATE, 2002-09 A screening clinic for head shape and sacral The shunt infection rate in 2009 = 0.45%. dimple disorders, with no initial imaging required. The 5% clinic is managed by nurse practitioner Sue Ditmyer and 2002 physician assistant Patrick Wong. Page 10 4% 2003 Advanced treatment of hydrocephalus. Endoscopic 2005 2007 3% 2006 third ventriculostomies have eliminated the need to place VP 2004 2% shunts in some patients, and rapid acquisition MRI scans protect children from unnecessary exposure to radiation. 1% Page 11 2008 2009 0 - 2 - Neurosurgery Clinic Children’s Hospital & Locations Research Center Oakland Children’s Hospital Oakland Northern California’s regional pediatric Outpatient Center, 5th floor 744 52nd St., Oakland, CA 94609 medical center 510-428-3319 510-428-3000 13 e e t Av . r J g n i emon K Av uck r tt 123 e Clar 24 h t u Sha e L n i t r Av o a M bl Pa e 2nd St 5 ay San San aph Av oadw gr Br le OAKLAND % 80 Te 580 Children’s Specialty Care Walnut Creek 2401 Shadelands Dr., Suite 180 Walnut Creek, CA 94598 925-939-8687 23 Wiget L . Lennon L vd ane lands Dr t Bl Bancr y Rd. ea Shade lle Tr ane of t R Ygnacio Va 53 oad 680 y Rd. lle Wiget L Ygnacio Va Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland has helped Heather Wa Farms lnut Av ane improve children’s health in the Bay Area and northern e Diablo Hills California for almost 100 years. In addition to being a tertiary Golf Club y Rd. lle care center for the region’s sickest children, the hospital serves as a major primary care provider for children in the Ygnacio Va East Bay. Children’s offers 30 services, representing all major Renown Regional Medical Center pediatric medical and surgical subspecialties. The medical Pediatric Specialty Suite center has the only pediatric Level 1 trauma center in 1155 Mill St., Reno, NV 89502 northern California exclusively for kids—as well as: 510-428-3319 • A 44-bed Neonatal Intensive Care unit; 80 • A 23-bed Critical Care unit; 80 . E 4th St • A 12-bed Pediatric Rehabilitation unit; and 395 Ki Mil • A 26-bed Hematology/Oncology unit including a 12-bed l man l St . K immuno-compromised unit for Blood iet Av zk e. and Marrow Transplantation and Oncology patients. e Ln S Vir . ginia St Vassar St. Reno-Tahoe Intl Airport www.childrenshospitaloakland.org . - 3 - PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland • www.childrenshospitaloakland.org Neurosurgery Care Team Peter P. Sun, MD Rachel Kuperman, MD Jennifer Oryn, MA, CCLS Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery Medical Director, Epilepsy Program Child Life Specialist Listed in Best Doctors in America, Ali Mostajelean, MD Keri Rash, LCSW 2006-2010 (Best Doctors, Inc.) Epilepsy Program Social Worker, Neurosurgery Kurtis I. Auguste, MD Sarah Reyes Jacob Neufeld, MD, MSPH Director, Epilepsy Surgery Out-of-Area Liaison, Neurosurgery Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2010 Rehabilitation Medicine (Best Doctors, Inc.) Traci Thomas, PA-C Jim Policy, MD Physician Assistant, Neurosurgery Chief, Spinal Surgery Christine Aguilar, MD Patrick Wong, PA-C Joe Torkildson, MD Director, Rehabilitation Medicine Physician Assistant, Neurosurgery Neuro-Oncology Program Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2010 (Best Doctors, Inc.) Seth Ubogy, MD Affiliate Team Members Neuro-Psychology Jonathan Finlay, MD Warwick Peacock, MD Consultant, Spasticity Neuro-Oncologist, Childrens Janine Cole, RN Management Program Hospital Los Angeles Neurology Nalin Gupta, MD Robert Haining, MD Susan Ditmyer, PNP Attending Physician, Rehabilitation Medicine Clinical Nurse Coordinator, UCSF, Dept. of Neurosurgery Listed in Best Doctors in America, Neurosurgery 2007-2010 (Best Doctors, Inc.) Shirley Duran Michael Sheinberg, MD Administrative Coordinator, Attending Physician, Caroline Hastings, MD Children’s Hospital Oakland Hematologist/Oncology Neurosurgery Listed in Best Doctors in America, Pat Farsca, MA, CCLS Gordon Tang, MD 2007-2009 (Best Doctors, Inc.) Child Life Specialist Attending Physician, Alta Bates Medical Center Scott Hoffinger, MD Dina Hankin, PhD Division Chief, Orthopedics Psychology Listed in Best Doctors in America, Kayla Lewis We are the 2007-2010 (Best Doctors, Inc.) Surgical Planner, Neurosurgery regional leader in Nicolle Ionascu, MD Jessica Martin, PT complex pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine Neuro-Psychology neurosurgical care • Consistently superior outcomes from our multidisciplinary approach to care • Largest epilepsy, spasticity, craniosynostosis, and brain tumor programs in the region • Chosen site for setting patient care protocols with pioneers in the field, including Warwick Peacock, MD, and Jonathan Finlay, MD • Short wait times for appointments - 4 - Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland • www.childrenshospitaloakland.org PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY Peacock Center for Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders We have the largest spasticity program in CASE STUDY: the region. Creighton, 9 Overview: Born premature at 25 Children with cerebral palsy often cannot walk, due to spasticity in their legs. weeks with cerebral palsy. The Children’s Peacock Center for Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders Treatment: Surgery corrected is led by neurosurgeon Peter Sun, MD, orthopedic surgeon Scott Hoffinger, the spastic diplegia by selectively MD, and Rehabilitation Medicine physiatrists Jacob Neufeld, MD, MSPH, cutting dorsal nerve rootlets determined to be improperly Christine Aguilar, MD, and Robert Haining, MD. balancing the brain and muscle Warwick Peacock, MD, the modern pioneer of selective dorsal rhizotomy signals to Creighton’s legs. in the U.S., has chosen Children’s Hospital Oakland to continue his Outcome: Following eight weeks innovative work in the treatment of spasticity. The center bears his name in of intense physical therapy, recognition of this distinguished honor. Creighton can now walk on his own without using a cane. PROCEDURES FOR TREATING CEREBRAL PALSY (CP) AND Testimonial: Creighton’s mother SPASTICITY says, “We had a year to digest Selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery (SDR) was popularized in North whether SDR surgery was a good decision for us. Taking into America by Children’s Hospital Neurosurgery consultant Warwick Peacock, account how much we valued Dr. MD. Dr. Peacock taught the operation to the neurosurgeons who now Sun’s skills and opinions, I was perform the majority of rhizotomies ready to follow him anywhere.” in the U.S. Rhizotomy reduces spasticity in INPATIENT SPASTICITY the lower extremities of children CASES, 2008-09 with spastic diplegia. Combined Children’s treated with intensive rehabilitation and nearly half of all of subsequent orthopedic surgery, northern California’s pediatric spasticity rhizotomy enables some children cases in 2008-09. with spastic diplegia to become Primary & Secondary Service Areas (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus);Ages 0-17; ©2010 Children’s lifetime walkers, instead of being Hospital & Research Center Oakland confined for life to a wheelchair. Another procedure for patients with cerebral palsy involves surgical Children’s placement of a pump to deliver Hospital 8 other Oakland Baclofen to the intrathecal space in northern California the spine. Baclofen reduces spasticity hospitals and pain, improving the patients’ quality of life, and allowing them to be cared for more easily. Dr. Peacock with Creighton - 5 - PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY
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