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University of Illinois
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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

Sepideh Amin-Hanjani, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
Specialty - Cerebrovascular

Email: hanjani@uic.edu

Experience

Fellowship:
Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery
Barrow Neurological Institute, Pheonix, AZ

Chief Residency:
Neurosurgical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Residency:
Neurosurgical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Internship:
Department of Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Education

Medical School:
Harvard Medical School, Boston

Certification

Board Certified:
American Board of Neurological Surgery

Medical Licensure:
Illinois
Arizona

Appointments

Clinical:

• Assistant Professor, Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Director, Residency Program
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago

Hospital:

• University of Illlinois at Chicago Medical Center
• St. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago

Clinical Interests

• Cerebrovascular Surgery: including intracranial aneurysms, bypass surgery, moya-moya disease, carotid artery disease, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations
• Skull Base and Tumor Surgery: including acoustics, meningiomas and pituitary tumors

Research Interests (link to research page)

• Outcomes of extracranial - intracranial bypass surgery
• Management algorithm for assessing vertebrobasilar disease
• Carotid disease and cognitive outcomes
• Flow assisted techniques for aneurysm surgery
• Computer modeling for simulation of cerebrovascular disease
• Use of quantitative MR technology in cerebrovascular disease

Awards/Achievements

• Council of State Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeon Award, 2003
• Galbraith Award, AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery, 1999
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society (faculty), The University of Illinois, 2005

Selected Publications

• Amin-Hanjani S, Ogilvy CS, Ojemann RG, Crowell RM: Risks of surgical management for cavernous malformations of the central nervous system. Neurosurgery 42:1220-1227, 1998.
• Charbel FT, Zhao M, Amin-Hanjani S, Hoffman W, Du X, Clark ME: A patient specific computer model to predict balloon occlusion test outcomes. J Neurosurg 101:977-988, 2004.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Mlinarevich N, Meglio G, Zhao M, Charbel FT: The cut flow index: an intraoperative predictor of the success of EC-IC bypass for occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Neurosurgery 56 (Suppl1):75-85, 2005. 
• Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Zhao M, Walsk K, Malisch TW, Charbel FT: Use of quantitative magnetic resonance angiography to stratify stroke risk in symptomatic vertebrobasilar disease. Stroke 36:1140-1145, 2005.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Butler WE, Ogilvy CS, Carter BS, Barker FG II: Extracranial to intracranial bypass in the treatment of occlusive cerebrovascular disease and intracranial aneurysms in the United States, 1992-2001: a population based study. J Neurosurg, 2005

Selected Chapters:

• Amin-Hanjani S, Ogilvy CS: Indications and techniques for emergent carotid exploration, in Loftus CM, Kresowik TF (eds): Carotid Artery Surgery. Thieme, 2000, pp303-313. 
• Amin-Hanjani S, Harsh GR IV: Unusual malignancies of the cerebral hemispheres, in Kaye AH, Black PMcL (eds): Operative Neurosurgery. Churchill Livingstone, 2000, pp 481-491.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Harsh GR IV: Tumors: Cerebral metastases and lymphoma, in Moore AJ, Newell DW (eds): Springer Specialist Surgery Series - Neurosurgery, Principles and Practice, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Charbel FT: Carotid endarterectomy and novel surgical therapies for cerebral ischemia., In Gorelick PB, Sloan MA (eds): Atlas of Cerebrovascular Disease, Science Press Internet Services Ltd, 2004.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Ojemann RG, Ogilvy CS: Surgical management of cavernous malformations of the nervous system, in Schmidek H (ed): Schmidek and Sweet: Operative neurosurgical technique, 5th edition, Elsevier, 2005.