University of Illinois
Medical Center
at Chicago

F. Charbel, MD

C. Agner, MD, MSc

V. Aletich, MS, MD

S. Amin-Hanjani, MD

M. Barua, MD

R. Deveshwar, MD

H. Engelhard, MD, PhD

Y. Gandhi, MD

Y. Hahn, MD

T. Hersonskey, MD

M. Lemole, MD

D. Nikas, MD

B. Roitberg, MD

S. Sinha Roy, MD

K. Slavin, MD

J. Stone, MD

University of Illinois
Department of Neurosurgery
912 S. Wood Street
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60612
phone: 312-996-4842

Experience

Fellowship:
Research fellowship in neural transplantation
and neuroprotection

Residency:
Department of Neurosurgery,
University of Illinois at Chicago Education

Education

Medical School:
Hebrew University-Hadassah

Certification

Board Certified:
American Board of Neurological Surgery

Medical Licensure:
Illinois
Indiana

Appointments

Clinical:

• Chief, Section of Reconstructive and Peripheral Nerve Neurosurgery,
  Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Illinois at Chicago
• Medical Director of Neurosurgical ICU
  University of Illinois at Chicago

Hospital:

• University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital & Medical Center
• Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village, IL

Clinical Interests

• Neuroendoscopy
• Peripheral Nerve Neurosurgery
• Neuro Critical Care
• Tumors
• Cervical Spine

Research Interests (Link to research page)

• Neurosurgical critical care; ICU outcomes
• Regeneration
• Neuroprotection
• Brain repair for Stroke and Parkinson's
• Neural transplantation
• Advanced endoscopy

Awards/Achievements

• US Patent Pending; Pleated Intravascular Stent Assembly
• Associate Editor: Surgical Neurology
• Associate Editor: World Federation Neurosurgical Society, website section on critical care
• Acting Editor in Chief: Neurological Research

Selected Publications

• Roitberg BZ, Mangubat E, Chen EY, Sugaya K, Thulborn KR, Kordower JH, Pawar A, Konecny T, Emborg ME. Survival and early differentiation of human neural stem cells transplanted in a nonhuman primate model of stroke. J Neurosurg. 2006 Jul;105(1):96-102.
• Roitberg B, Khan N, Tuccar E, Kompoliti K, Chu Y, Alperin N,
  Kordower JH, Emborg ME. Chronic ischemic stroke model in
  cynomolgus monkeys: behavioral, neuroimaging and anatomical study.
  Neurological Research 2003 Jan;25(1):68-78.
• Kordower JH, Emborg ME, Bloch J, Ma SY, Chu Y, Leventhal L, McBride J,
  Chen EY, Palfi S, Roitberg BZ, Brown WD, Holden JE, Pyzalski R, Taylor
  MD, Carvey P, Ling Z, Trono D, Hantraye P, Deglon N, Aebischer P.
  Neurodegeneration Prevented by lentiviral vector delivery of GDNF in
  primate models of Parkinson’s disease. Science 2000; 290(5492):767-73.
• Roitberg B, Khan N, Alp MS, Hersonskey T, Charbel FT, Ausman JI.
  Bedside ventriculostomy in the Neurosurgical ICU for the treatment of acute
  hydrocephalus. British Journal of Neurosurgery 2001;15(4):324-27.
• Roitberg B. Transplantation for stroke. Neurol Res. 2004
  Apr;26(3):256-64.
• Misra M, Roitberg B, Ebersole K, Charbel FT. Intensive
  thromboprophylaxis and surveillance protocol prevents deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism in a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit. Neurosurgery 2004 May;
  54(5):1099-102; discussion 1102-3.