Professor of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
Neurosurgery
Dr. Mitchel Berger, MD
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Mitchel Berger is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. She studied medicine at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine is ranked 45/0 in Research/PrimaryCare. She received 4 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors for Cancer", "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Fellow (FACS)". Mitchel Berger has written publications. She has 97 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Magnetic resonance analysis of malignant transformation in recurrent glioma.' Mitchel Berger is registered with Medicare.
Publications
- Association of traumatic brain injury with subsequent neurological and psychiatric disease: a meta-analysis.
- Magnetic resonance analysis of malignant transformation in recurrent glioma.
- Surgical assessment of the insula. Part 2: validation of the Berger-Sanai zone classification system for predicting extent of glioma resection.
- Surgical assessment of the insula. Part 1: surgical anatomy and morphometric analysis of the transsylvian and transcortical approaches to the insula.
- Intraoperative mapping during repeat awake craniotomy reveals the functional plasticity of adult cortex.
- Targeting a Plk1-controlled polarity checkpoint in therapy-resistant glioblastoma-propagating cells.
- Clinical outcome and prognostic factors for central neurocytoma: twenty year institutional experience.
- Improving Patient Safety in Neurologic Surgery.
- In reply: reoperation for recurrent high-grade glioma: does tumor genetics play a role?
- The Potential Benefits of Awake Craniotomy for Brain Tumor Resection: An Anesthesiologist's Perspective.
- Survival and low-grade glioma: the emergence of genetic information.
- Introduction: Glioblastoma: an update on pathophysiology and management strategies.
- Management of Planum/Olfactory Meningiomas: Predicting Symptoms and Postoperative Complications.
- Radiotherapy followed by aurora kinase inhibition target tumor-propagating cells in human glioblastoma.
- Surgery for primary supratentorial brain tumors in the United States, 2000-2009: effect of provider and hospital caseload on complication rates.
- Contemporary model of language organization: an overview for neurosurgeons.
- The Long-term Effects of Repetitive Mild Head Injuries in Sports.
- Familial gliomas: cases in two pairs of brothers.
- Return to Play for Neurosurgical Patients.
- Reoperation for Recurrent High-Grade Glioma: A Current Perspective of the Literature.
- Optimal timing of pulse onset for language mapping with navigated repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.
- Role of surgical resection in low- and high-grade gliomas.
- Targeting Wee1 for the treatment of pediatric high-grade gliomas.
- Phase II Trial of 7days on/7 days off temozolmide for recurrent high-grade glioma.
- Editorial: The fluorescein-guided technique.
- Editorial: Use of 5-aminolevulinic acid helps see the way beyond MRI.
- Pharmacokinetics, tumor accumulation and antitumor activity of nanoliposomal irinotecan following systemic treatment of intracranial tumors.
- Heat-shock protein peptide complex-96 vaccination for recurrent glioblastoma: a phase II, single-arm trial.
- Mutational Analysis Reveals the Origin and Therapy-Driven Evolution of Recurrent Glioma.
- Frequency and predictors of complications in neurological surgery: national trends from 2006 to 2011.
- Philanthropy Funding for Neurosurgery Research and Program Development.
- Na+/K+-ATPase β2-subunit (AMOG) expression abrogates invasion of glioblastoma-derived brain tumor-initiating cells.
- Subependymal spread of recurrent glioblastoma detected with the intraoperative use of 5-aminolevulinic acid: case report.
- Disseminated progression of glioblastoma after treatment with bevacizumab.
- Language mapping with navigated repetitive TMS: Proof of technique and validation.
- Using a preclinical mouse model of high-grade astrocytoma to optimize p53 restoration therapy.
- Meeting report from the Society for Melanoma Research 2012 Congress, Hollywood, California.
- Surgical outcomes in choroid plexus papillomas: an institutional experience.
- Editorial: Low-grade gliomas.
- Modern surgical outcomes following surgery for sphenoid wing meningiomas.
- Comparing routes of delivery for nanoliposomal irinotecan shows superior anti-tumor activity of local administration in treating intracranial glioblastoma xenografts.
- The prognostic implications of Hyam's subtype for patients with Kadish stage C esthesioneuroblastoma.
- Super-Resolution Track Density Imaging of Glioblastoma: Histopathologic Correlation.
- Inherited variant on chromosome 11q23 increases susceptibility to IDH-mutated but not IDH-normal gliomas regardless of grade or histology.
- Analysis of the subcomponents and cortical terminations of the perisylvian superior longitudinal fasciculus: a fiber dissection and DTI tractography study.
- Individual Patient-Specific Immunity against High-Grade Glioma after Vaccination with Autologous Tumor Derived Peptides Bound to the 96 KD Chaperone Protein.
- Impact of extent of resection for recurrent glioblastoma on overall survival: clinical article.
- Expression of miR-124 inhibits growth of medulloblastoma cells.
- MIB-1 labeling index predicts recurrence in intraventricular central neurocytomas.
- Increased microglia/macrophage gene expression in a subset of adult and pediatric astrocytomas.
- Magnetoencephalographic Imaging of Resting-State Functional Connectivity Predicts Postsurgical Neurological Outcome in Brain Gliomas.
- Regional variation in histopathologic features of tumor specimens from treatment-naive glioblastoma correlates with anatomic and physiologic MR Imaging.
- PTEN promoter methylation and activation of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway in pediatric gliomas and influence on clinical outcome.
- A common 8q (MYC) amplification detected in a multifocal anaplastic astrocytoma by SNP array karyotyping.
- Longitudinal evaluation of MPIO-labeled stem cell biodistribution in glioblastoma using high resolution and contrast-enhanced MR imaging at 14.1Tesla.
- Long-term seizure control outcomes after resection of gangliogliomas.
- SSBP2 Variants Are Associated with Survival in Glioblastoma Patients.
- The superiority of conservative resection and adjuvant radiation for craniopharyngiomas.
- Dynamics of hemispheric dominance for language assessed by magnetoencephalographic imaging.
- Characteristics and treatment of seizures in patients with high-grade glioma: a review.
- Morbidity profile following aggressive resection of parietal lobe gliomas.
- Magnetic Resonance of 2-Hydroxyglutarate in IDH1-Mutated Low-Grade Gliomas.
- Clinical Stratification of Glioblastoma Based on Alterations in Retinoblastoma Tumor Suppressor Protein (RB1) and Association With the Proneural Subtype.
- Low-grade gliomas in adults.
- Natural history and surgical management of incidentally discovered low-grade gliomas.
- Extent of surgical resection predicts seizure freedom in low-grade temporal lobe brain tumors.
- Corridors of migrating neurons in the human brain and their decline during infancy.
- Factors associated with seizure freedom in the surgical resection of glioneuronal tumors.
- Asymmetry-defective oligodendrocyte progenitors are glioma precursors.
- Glioma surgery: a century of challenge.
- Intracranial hemangiopericytoma: Clinical experience and treatment considerations in a modern series of 40 adult patients.
- Neurosurgical management and prognosis of patients with glioblastoma that progress during bevacizumab treatment.
- Pediatric intracranial ependymoma: the roles of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
- A critical evaluation of cystic features in primary glioblastoma as a prognostic factor for survival.
- Novel Platform for MRI-Guided Convection-Enhanced Delivery of Therapeutics: Preclinical Validation in Nonhuman Primate Brain.
- Predictors of seizure freedom after resection of supratentorial low-grade gliomas.
- Homotopic organization of essential language sites in right and bilateral cerebral hemispheric dominance.
- Inhibition of PI3K/mTOR pathways in glioblastoma and implications for combination therapy with temozolomide.
- Choline metabolism, proliferation, and angiogenesis in nonenhancing grades 2 and 3 astrocytoma.
- T2 Imaging in Monitoring of Intraparenchymal Real-time Convection Enhanced Delivery.
- An extent of resection threshold for newly diagnosed glioblastomas.
- Anatomic location is a risk factor for atypical and malignant meningiomas.
- Results with judicious modern neurosurgical management of parasagittal and falcine meningiomas. Clinical article.
- Functional mapping-guided resection of low-grade gliomas in eloquent areas of the brain: improvement of long-term survival. Clinical article.
- Resting functional connectivity in patients with brain tumors in eloquent areas.
- Risk factors for the development of serious medical complications after resection of meningiomas. Clinical article.
- Assessment of morbidity following resection of cingulate gyrus gliomas. Clinical article.
- Postoperative seizures following the resection of convexity meningiomas: are prophylactic anticonvulsants indicated? Clinical article.
- Supratentorial cavernous malformations in eloquent and deep locations: surgical approaches and outcomes. Clinical article.
- DNA hypermethylation profiles associated with glioma subtypes and EZH2 and IGFBP2 mRNA expression.
- The genetic landscape of the childhood cancer medulloblastoma.
- Optimal region of the putamen for image-guided convection-enhanced delivery of therapeutics in human and non-human primates.
- Non-stem cell origin for oligodendroglioma.
- Comanagement of surgical patients between neurosurgeons and hospitalists.
- Impact of bevacizumab chemotherapy on craniotomy wound healing.
- The national football league and concussion: leading a culture change in contact sports.
Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors for Cancer
- Fellow (FAANS)
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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UCSF -
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Hospital
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Saint Francis Memorial Hospital -
San Francisco VA Medical Center -
San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center -
UCSF Medical Center
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| NPI NUMBER | 1538117981 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BERGER | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | MITCHEL | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 941432202 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Neurosurgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 32.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1538117981 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BERGER |
| First Name Of The Provider | MITCHEL |
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