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Bio
Dr. Adam Lipson is a board certified neurosurgeon specializing in brain tumors, pituitary tumors, and minimally invasive techniques for spinal surgery. He graduated from Harvard Medical School with honors in 2000 then continued his training with the neurosurgical residencies at the University of Washington and Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA.
His clinical interests are in minimally invasive spinal surgery, spinal deformity, spinal cord stimulation surgery for chronic pain syndromes, radiosurgery, brain tumors, spine tumors, and deep brain stimulation for movement disorders. He performed the first frameless Deep Brain Stimulation procedure for movement disorders at Overlook Hospital in the spring of 2010. Dr. Lipson believes that this practice provides him with great opportunity to provide expert and personalized medical care.
In 1998 he was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to study neuro-regeneration at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2011 he traveled to Vietnam to perform scoliosis surgery on children and educate local surgeons for Project Butterfly. Committed to helping advance his field, he gives numerous talks and lectures each year to colleagues and other medical professionals. He has written over 20 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
Dr. Lipson is an active member of several national and international professional organizations including the American Association of Neurosurgical Surgeons, Congress of Neurosurgical Surgeons, North American Spine Society, North American Neuromodulation Society and AO Spine.
Education
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University - Residency
Hershey, PA
October 2006 - June 2008
Chief Resident in the Department of Neurosurgery, under Dr. Robert Harbaugh, with subspecialty training in movement disorder surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, and gamma knife radiosurgery.
University of Washington - Residency
Seattle, WA
July, 2000 - September, 2006
Resident physician in the Department of Neurological Surgery, under Dr. H. Richard Winn until 2003, and then Dr. Richard G. Ellenbogen until 2006.
International fellowship as senior Specialist Registrar in Neurosurgery, Atkinson Morley Wing, St. Georges Hospital, London UK, July 2004-November 2005.
Fellowship in skull base and craniocervical surgery with Dr. Atol Goel, Professor of Neurosurgery at KEM Hospital in Mumbai, India, funded by a grant from the St.
George's NHS trust, 2006.
Completed internship in general surgery, 2000-2001.
Harvard Medical School - Medical Education
Boston, MA
September, 1995 - June, 2000
MD
Graduated Cum Laude, with M.D., "Honors in a Special Field (Neuroscience)" in June, 2000.
1996-97, awarded one year part-time research funding by the Harvard committee on research activities.
1995-97, elected class secretary for the Class of 1999.
U.S. Fulbright Fellowship - Fellowship
Stockholm, Sweden
August, 1998 - August, 1999
Awarded grant for studies in neuroregeneration at Karolinska Institutet, under Dr.
Lars Olson, Department of Neuroscience.
Dartmouth College - Pre-Professional Education
Hanover, NH
September, 1991 - June, 1995
B.A.in Chemistry, B.A. in History
Graduated Cum Laude in June, 1995. Competed 3 years on the nationally ranked Varsity heavyweight crew team. Presidential Scholar, awarded in synthetic organic chemistry.
Golden Key National Honor Society.
Alpha Delta fraternity. Dartmouth Outing Club.
Certifications
ABNS board-certified, November 2012
ATLS certified through March 2011
ACLS certified through 2010
Publications
Misplacement of a vena cava filter into the spinal canal.
J Vase Surg
2009
Other contributors include: Cuadra SA, Sales CM, Armstrong CA.
Brain MRI changes following sorafenib and sunitinib chemotherapy in patients with advanced renal cell and breast carcinoma.
Journal of Neurosurgery
2009
Other contributors include: Hill, K, Sheehan, JM.
Idiopathic hypertrophic spinal pachymeningitis: a review of 3 cases of interdural lesions.
Neurosurgery
2011
Other contributors include: Rizk E, Ranasinghe M, Sheehan J, Harbaugh K, Nguyen D, Harbaugh RE.
Late de novo basilar aneurysm after carotid artery injury: case illustration.
Journal of Neurosurgery
2008
Other contributors include: Foltz G, West AG, Newell D, Britz GW.
A combined strategy of stereotactic aspiration via Ommaya reservoir and radiosurgery for treating cystic brain metastases.
Journal of Neurosurgery
2010
Other contributors include: McInerney J, Wagner H, Sheehan JM.
Epidural Metastasis from Endodermal Sinus Tumor Arising from Benign Sacral Teratoma. Case Report and Review of the Literature.
Journal of Neurosurgery (4 Suppl Pediatrics)
2007
Other contributors include: Peterson EC, Alden T, Patterson K, Friedman D, Garcia J, Avellino AM.
Progression of cervical syringomyelia in a child with untreated Chiari I malformation.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
2008
Other contributors include: Ellenbogen RG, Avellino AM.
The association of benign intracranial hypertension in patients with glomus jugulare tumors.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
2008
Other contributors include: Bull JG, Rich P, Martin AJ.
Thalidomide-Associated Thromboembolic events in patients with high-grade gliomas.
Neurosurgery
2008
Other contributors include: Cavaliere R, Farace E, Wen P, Schiff D.
Giant unilateral acoustic schwannoma in 8 year old.
Pediatric Neurosurgery
2006
Other contributors include: Bull JG, Martin AJ.
Metastatic melanoma with dural involvement: Case report and review of the literature.
Surgical Neurology
2009
Other contributors include: Mesiwala, AH, Gabikian, P, Nair, N, Silbergeld, DL.
An efficient synthesis of 2,3-Dicyanoindole.
OPPI
2004
Other contributors include: Janosik T, Gribble GW.
Neurotrophic properties of olfactory ensheathing glia.
Experimental Neurology
2003
Other contributors include: Widenfalk, J, Lindqvist, E, Ebendal, T, Olson, L.
ascular endothelial growth factor improves functional outcome and decreases secondary degeneration in experimental spinal cord contusion injury.
Neuroscience
2003
Other contributors include: Widenfalk, J, Jubran, M, Hofstetter, C, Cao, Y, Olson, L.
Potent possibilities: Endogenous stem cells in the spinal cord.
Prog. Brain Res.
2002
Other contributors include: Horner, PJ.
Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging: considerations for the operating room of the future.
J. Clin. Neurosci
2001
Other contributors include: Gargollo, PC, Black, PM.
Olfactory ensheathing glial cells in nerve growth and repair: An investigation of neurotrophic properties and potential applications for the injured spinal cord.
Graduate Thesis, Harvard Medical School
2000
The synthesis of 2,3-dicyanoindole as a novel dienophile in the normal electron-demand [4+2] Diels-Alder cycloaddition reaction.
Undergraduate Thesis for the Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College
1995
Analysis of the box I and II regulatory motif of the myelin basic protein (golli-mbp) promoter.
J. Cell. Biochem
1994
Other contributors include: Saavedra, RA, Kimbro, KS, Rosenberg, PA, and Ljubetic, C.
The structural complexities of the myelin basic protein gene from mouse are also present in shark.
J. Mol. Neurosci
1993
Other contributors include: Saavedra, RA, Kimbro, KS, and Ljubetic, C.
Subaxial cervical involvement in rheumatoid arthritis.
Clark, C.R. (ed.), The Cervical Spine, 4th edition, Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, PA
2004
Other contributors include: Lipson, S.J.
Brain trauma, concussion, and coma.
The Dana Guide for Brain Health and Disorders, The Dana Press, Washington, D.C.
2001
Other contributors include: Gargollo, P, Black, PM.
Experimental spinal cord injury models: protective and repair strategies.
kada, Y and Ohshima, N (eds.), Tissue Engineering for Therapeutic Use 5, Elsevier Science
2001
Other contributors include: Olson, L, Widenfalk, J, Josephson, A, Greitz, D, Klason, T, Kiyotani, T, Ebendal, T, Cao, Y, Hofstetter, C, Schwartz, E, Prockop, D, Månson, S, Jubran, M, Lindqvist, E, Lundströmer, K, Nosrat, I, Nosrat, C, Brene, S, and Spenger, C.
