Dr. Michael W. McDermott is Professor in Residence, Vice-Chairman and Residency Program Director in the Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF. He is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Chair in Meningioma Research and the Co-Director of the Skull Base Surgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Programs. Dr. McDermott completed medical school at the University of Toronto and Neurosurgical Residency at the University of British Columbia. He was awarded a research fellowship in the Neuro-Oncology Program of the Brain Tumor Research Center at UCSF Medical Center. Thereafter, he joined UCSF for two years as a Neuro-Oncology fellow at the Brain Tumor Research Center (BTRC) and then returned to the University of British Columbia for two years. Since 1992, he has been on the faculty at UCSF and has a clinical interest in skull base and meningioma surgery as well as radiosurgery. Dr. McDermott cares for patients with a wide range of conditions, including brain tumors, neurological cancers, central nervous system infections, and hydrocephalus. He is published in over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed literature. Currently, his research interests are meningioma cell lines and animal models in the BTRC at UCSF. Dr. McDermott's clinical specialty interests include stereotactic neurosurgery and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery, in particular for tumors of the central nervous system, meningiomas, and skull base surgery. Co-director of the UCSF Gamma Knife® Radiosurgery Program, he also practices in the Department's Adult Brain Tumor Program, Clinical Neuro-Oncology Program, Central Nervous System Infections and AIDS Program, and Hydrocephalus and Shunt Program for Adults. Dr. McDermott's research includes studies related to malignant meningiomas and novel agents for treatment, toxicity to normal tissue after radiosurgery in a rat model, and the ability of a biologic compound to enhance the delivery of oxygen to tumors and thereby increase the effectiveness of therapy. Dr. McDermott's clinical research is focused on correlations of intraoperative tumor pathology with spectroscopy of genetic markers in primary brain tumors and comparative genomic hybridization techniques, and he is a participating research clinician in the human gene therapy clinical trials at UCSF. Selected Honors and Awards 1982: Frank K. Horner Silver Medal Award, Graduate with Honors, University of Toronto Medical School 1988: Graduating Residents Award, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia 1991: Master Teacher in Surgery Award, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia 1995: Harold Rosegay Resident Teaching Award, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco Selected Recent Publications Jahangiri A, Chin AT, Wagner JR, Kunwar S, Ames C, Chou D, Barani I, Parsa AT, McDermott MW, Benet A, El-Sayed IH, Aghi MK. Factors predicting recurrence after resection of clival chordoma using variable surgical approaches and radiation modalities. Neurosurgery 2015;76(2):179-85; discussion 185-6. Ivan ME, Bryan Iorgulescu J, El-Sayed I, McDermott MW, Parsa AT, Pletcher SD, Jahangiri A, Wagner J, Aghi MK. Risk factors for postoperative cerebrospinal fluid leak and meningitis after expanded endoscopic endonasal surgery. J Clin Neurosci 2015;22(1):48-54. Desai SJ, Lawton MT, McDermott MW, Horton JC. Vertical diplopia and ptosis from removal of the orbital roof in pterional craniotomy. Ophthalmology 2015;122(3):631-8. Abla AA, Rutledge WC, Seymour ZA, Guo D, Kim H, Gupta N, Sneed PK, Barani IJ, Larson D, McDermott MW, Lawton MT. A treatment paradigm for high-grade brain arteriovenous malformations: volume-staged radiosurgical downgrading followed by microsurgical resection. J Neurosurg 2015;122(2):419-32. Osorio JA, Benet A, Hess CP, McDermott MW, Abla AA. Primary vertebral artery reanastomosis during retrosigmoid skull base approach following iatrogenic near-transection with monopolar electrocautery. Neurosurgery 2014;10 Suppl 4:631-9. Zygourakis CC, Sughrue ME, Benet A, Parsa AT, Berger MS, McDermott MW. Management of planum/olfactory meningiomas: predicting symptoms and postoperative complications. World Neurosurg 2014;82(6):1216-23. Zygourakis CC, Kaur G, Kunwar S, McDermott MW, Madden M, Oh T, Parsa AT. Modern treatment of 84 newly diagnosed craniopharyngiomas. J Clin Neurosci 2014;21(9):1558-66. Kram YA, Lustig LR, McDermott MW, Cheung SW. Transcanal blind sac closure of the external auditory canal after skull base surgery to treat CSF leak: technique and results. Otol Neurotol 2015;36(2):307-10. Wang DD, Lau D, Rolston JD, Englot DJ, Sneed PK, McDermott MW. Pain experience using conventional versus angled anterior posts during stereotactic head frame placement for radiosurgery. J Clin Neurosci 2014;21(9):1538-42. Potts MB, Sheth SA, Louie J, Smyth MD, Sneed PK, McDermott MW, Lawton MT, Young WL, Hetts SW, Fullerton HJ, Gupta N. Stereotactic radiosurgery at a low marginal dose for the treatment of pediatric arteriovenous malformations: obliteration, complications, and functional outcomes. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2014;14(1):1-11. Safaee M, Oh T, Sun MZ, Parsa AT, McDermott MW, El-Sayed IH, Bloch O. Pigmented villonodular synovitis of the temporomandibular joint with intracranial extension: A case series and systematic review. Head Neck. 2014 Apr 25. doi: 10.1002/hed.23717. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24764167.