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:
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Memorial Hospital
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Neurosurgery Research
The Neurosurgical Laboratories
Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Children's Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

Residency:
Pediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Neurosurgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth Medical School
Lebanon, NH

Internship:
General Surgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Dartmouth Medical School
Lebanon, NH

Education

Medical School:
M.D., University of Athens Medical School,
Athens, Greece

Undergraduate:
Varvakios School,
Athens, Greece

Certification

American Board of Neurological Surgery Primary Examination

Medical Licensure:
Illinois

Appointments

Clinical:

• University of Illinois at Chicago
  

Hospital:

• University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center
• Advocate Christ Medical Center
• Advocate Hope Children's Hospital

Clinical Interests

• Pediatric Neurosurgical Procedures
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors
• Craniofacial Surgery
• Congenital Spine and Brain Malformations
• Hydrocephalus - Shunts and Endoscopy
• Spasticity
• Chiari malformation

Research Interests

• Therapies for and Biology of Brain Tumors
• Photodynamic therapy

Awards/Achievements

• "Dr. Frederick E.G. Valergakis Graduate Research Grant", The Hellenic University Club of New York, NY
• "The Rowland Institute for Science Award", Cambridge, MA

Selected Publications

• Eddleman C, Nikas D, Shaibani A, Khan P, Tomita T.  HydroCoil embolization of a ruptured infectious aneurysm in a pediatric patient: case report and review of the literature.  Childs Nerv Syst  2007;23:707-712
• Nikas DC, Hartov A, Lunn K, Rick K, Paulsen K, Roberts DW.  Coregistered intraoperative ultrasonography in resection of malignant glioma.  Neurosurg Focus2003:14(2)Article 6
• Nikas DC, Foley LW, Black PM.  Fluorescent imaging in a glioma model in vivo.  Lasers Surg Med 2001;29(1):11-17
• Joki T, Heese O, Nikas DC, Bello L, Zhang J, Kraeft SK, Seyfried NT, Abe T, Chen LB, Carroll RS, Black PM.  Expression of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) in human glioma and in vitro inhibition by a specific COX-2 inhibitor, NS-398.  Cancer Res 2000;60(17):4926-31.
• Santarius T, Kirsch M, Nikas DC, Imitola J, Black PM.  Molecular analysis of alterations of the p18INK4c gene in human meningiomas.  Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2000;26(1):67-75

Selected Chapters:

• Lollis S, Nikas DC. Entrapment neuropathies of the lower extremities .  In: Schmidek HH, Roberts DW, eds. Schmidek and Sweet's Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, Methods  and Results.   Philadelphia : Saunders Elsevier, 2006:2311-2317
• Nikas DC, Ball PA.  Fluids and electrolytes in Neurosurgery.  In: Batjer HH, Loftus CM, eds.  Textbook of Neurological Surgery.  Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003:695-712
• Nikas DC,  Bello L, Black PM.  Cerebral hemisphere gliomas (adult) - low grade (Astrocytomas and Oligodendrogliomas).  In:  Kaye AH, Black PM, eds.  Operative Neurosurgery.  New York :  Churchill Livingstone, 2000:333-359
• Nikas DC, Black PM.  Parasagittal and falx meningiomas.  In:  Kaye AH, Black PM, eds.  Operative Neurosurgery.  New York :  Churchill Livingstone, 2000:505-521