Robert J. Maciunas, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery
Director, Brain Tumor Center and Gamma Knife & Cyberknife Radiosurgery Center
Case School of Medicine
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
Medical School:
| Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine/University of Illinois, Chicago, IL | M.D. | 1980 |
| Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN |
M.P.H. | 2004 |
Graduate Medical Education:
| Mayo Graduate School of Medicine | General Surgery | 1980 - 1981 |
| Mayo Graduate School of Medicine | Neurological Surgery | 1981 - 1986 |
| Mayo Cerebrovascular Clinical Research Center | Basic Science Research Fellow | 1983 - 1986 |
| Mayo Clinic | Cerebrovascular Fellow | 1986 |
| Mayo Clinic | Stereotactic Neurosurgery Fellow | 1986 |
Clinical Interests:
Brain Tumors, Epilepsy Surgery, Gamma Knife and Cyberknife Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Image Guided Surgery, Movement Disorders Surgery, Parkinson's Disease, Stereotatic & Functional Neurosurgery
Selected Publications (past five years):
Wu QJ, Jitprapaikulsarn S, Mathajomchan B, Einstein D, Maciunas RJ, Pillai K, Wessels BW, insella TJ, Chankong V. Clinical evaluation of a gamma knife inverse planning system. Radiosurgery 2004;5:260-266.
Sponsler JL, Werz MA, Maciunas R, Cohen M. Neurosarcoidosis presenting with simple partial seizures and solitary enhancing mass: case reports and review of the literature. Epilepsy Behav. 2005 Jun;6(4):623-30.
Willen SN, Einstein DB, Maciunas RJ, Megerian CA. Treatment of glomus jugulare tumors in patients with advanced age: planned limited surgical resection followed by staged gamma knife radiosurgery: a preliminary report. Otol Neurotol. 2005 Nov;26(6):1229-34.
Korytko T, Radivoyevitch T, Colussi V, Wessels BW, Pillai K, Maciunas RJ, Einstein DB. 12 Gy gamma knife radiosurgical volume is a predictor for radiation necrosis in non-AVM intracranial tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Feb 1;64(2):419-24.
Maciunas RJ. Computer-assisted neurosurgery. Clin Neurosurg. 2006;53:267-71.
Riley DE, Whitney CM, Maddux BN, Schoenberg MS, Maciunas RJ. Patient selection and assessment recommendations for deep brain stimulation in Tourette syndrome. Mov Disord. 2007 Jul 15;22(9):1366; author reply 1367-8.
Hu X, Maciunas RJ, Dean D. A new Gamma Knife radiosurgery paradigm: tomosurgery. Med Phys. 2007 May;34(5):1743-58.
Lewin JS, Nour SG, Meyers ML, Metzger AK, Maciunas RJ, Wendt M, Duerk JL, Oppelt A, Selman WR. Intraoperative MRI with a rotating, tiltable surgical table: a time use study and clinical results in 122 patients. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2007 Nov;189(5):1096-103.
Maciunas RJ, Maddux BN, Riley DE, Whitney CM, Schoenberg MR, Ogrocki PJ, Albert JM, Gould DJ. Prospective randomized double-blind trial of bilateral thalamic deep brain stimulation in adults with Tourette syndrome. J Neurosurg. 2007 Nov;107(5):1004-14.
Koubeissi MZ, Maciunas RJ, Tanner A, Lüders HO. Medically intractable seizures originating from the primary somatosensory hand area. Epileptic Disord. 2008 Dec;10(4):339-48.
Albert JM, Maddux BN, Riley DE, Maciunas RJ. Modeling video tic counts in a crossover trial of deep brain stimulation for Tourette syndrome. Contemp Clin Trials. 2009 Mar;30(2):141-9. Epub 2008 Nov 18.
Miller JP, Semaan M, Einstein D, Megerian CA, Maciunas RJ. Staged Gamma Knife radiosurgery after tailored surgical resection: a novel treatment paradigm for glomus jugulare tumors. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 2009;87(1):31-6. Epub 2009 Jan 28.
Selected Chapters/Textbooks:
Barnett GH, Maciunas RJ, Roberts DW (Eds). Computer-Assisted Neurosurgery, Vol. 2. New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc, 2006.
Mauer CR, Rohlfing T, Dean D, West JB, Shahidi R, Martin DP, Heilbrun MP, Maciunas RJ. Sources of error in image registration for cranial image-guided surgery. In: Advanced Techniques in Image-Guided and Spine Surgery, Germano IM (ed). New York, NY: Thieme, 2002, pp 10-36.
Maciunas RJ. The pitfalls of surgical navigation systems. In: Computer Assisted Neurosurgery, Maciunas RJ, Roberts D, Barnett G (eds). New York, NY: Marcel Dekker, Inc, 2005, pp 49-68.
Einstein DB, Maciunas RJ. Metastatic cancer to the central nervous system. In: Oncology: An Evidence-Base Approach, Chang AE, Ganz PA, Hayes DF, Kinsella T, Pass HI, Schiller JH, Steon R, Strecher V (eds). New York, NY: Springer-Verlag (in press).
Maciunas RJ. Computer-assisted Neurosurgery. In: Clinical Neurosurgery, Sollenberger J (ed). Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2006.
