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Nalin Gupta, Ph.D., M.D.

Chief of Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Dr. Nalin Gupta, chief of Pediatric Neurological Surgery at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, is an expert in the evaluation and surgical management of neurological disorders in children, including conditions such as brain tumors, hydrocephalus, cranial and spinal congenital anomalies and epilepsy. His primary research focuses on the role of inflammation in brain tumor progression. He also is involved in national clinical studies of brain tumors and the effectiveness of fetal surgery for spina bifida.

Gupta is an associate professor of neurological surgery and principal investigator of the Brain Tumor Research Center at UCSF. He completed residency training in neurological surgery at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and fellowship training in pediatric neurosurgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. He completed an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and residency training at the University of Toronto. He earned a doctorate in biophysics at UCSF, a medical degree at the University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree at McGill University in Montreal. He also served as an attending neurosurgeon at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Center for Craniofacial Anomalies
513 Parnassus Avenue, S-747
San Francisco, CA 94143-0570
Phone: (415) 476-2271

Child Neuro-Oncology
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2966

Epilepsy Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Suite A-889
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2437

Neurosurgery
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-7500

Spina Bifida Program
400 Parnassus Ave., Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-3899

Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-3682

More about Nalin Gupta

Education

University of Toronto School of Medicine 1987

Residencies

University of Toronto Hospital, Neurosurgery 1997

Fellowships

University of Toronto Hospital, Pediatric Neurosurgery 1998

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Sanai N, Wachhorst SP, Gupta NM, McDermott MW. Transcerebellar stereotactic biopsy for lesions of the brainstem and peduncles under local anesthesia. Neurosurgery. 2008 Sep; 63(3):460-6; discussion 466-8.
  2. Klimo P, Ware ML, Gupta N, Brockmeyer D. Cervical spine trauma in the pediatric patient. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2007 Oct; 18(4):599-620.
  3. Wu Y, Green NL, Wrensch MR, Zhao S, Gupta N. Ventriculoperitoneal shunt complications in California: 1990 to 2000. Neurosurgery. 2007 Sep; 61(3):557-62; discussion 562-3.
  4. Dinca EB, Sarkaria JN, Schroeder MA, Carlson BL, Voicu R, Gupta N, Berger MS, James CD. Bioluminescence monitoring of intracranial glioblastoma xenograft: response to primary and salvage temozolomide therapy. J Neurosurg. 2007 Sep; 107(3):610-6.
  5. Liang Y, Bollen AW, Gupta N. CC chemokine receptor-2A is frequently overexpressed in glioblastoma. J Neurooncol. 2008 Jan; 86(2):153-63.
  6. Liang Y, Diehn M, Bollen AW, Israel MA, Gupta N. Type I collagen is overexpressed in medulloblastoma as a component of tumor microenvironment. J Neurooncol. 2008 Jan; 86(2):133-41.
  7. Wang VY, Barbaro NM, Lawton MT, Pitts L, Kunwar S, Parsa AT, Gupta N, McDermott MW. Complications of lumboperitoneal shunts. Neurosurgery. 2007 Jun; 60(6):1045-8; discussion 1049.
  8. Gupta N, Park J, Solomon C, Kranz DA, Wrensch M, Wu YW. Long-term outcomes in patients with treated childhood hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg. 2007 May; 106(5 Suppl):334-9.
  9. Bakshi P, Srinivasan R, Rao KL, Marwaha RK, Gupta N, Das A, Nijhawan R, Rajwanshi A. Fine needle aspiration biopsy in pediatric space-occupying lesions of liver: a retrospective study evaluating its role and diagnostic efficacy. J Pediatr Surg. 2006 Nov; 41(11):1903-8.
  10. Hsieh MH, Perry V, Gupta N, Pearson C, Nguyen HT. The effects of detethering on the urodynamics profile in children with a tethered cord. J Neurosurg. 2006 Nov; 105(5 Suppl):391-5.
  11. Sanchez-Mejia RO, Limbo M, Tihan T, Galvez MG, Woodward MV, Gupta N. Intracranial dermoid cyst mimicking hemorrhage. Case report and review of the literature. J Neurosurg. 2006 Oct; 105(4 Suppl):311-4.
  12. Sanchez-Mejia RO, Chennupati SK, Gupta N, Fullerton H, Young WL, Lawton MT. Superior outcomes in children compared with adults after microsurgical resection of brain arteriovenous malformations. J Neurosurg. 2006 Aug; 105(2 Suppl):82-7.
  13. Liang Y, Bollen AW, Aldape KD, Gupta N. Nuclear FABP7 immunoreactivity is preferentially expressed in infiltrative glioma and is associated with poor prognosis in EGFR-overexpressing glioblastoma. BMC Cancer. 2006; 6:97.
  14. Smith JS, Lin H, Mayo MC, Bannerjee A, Gupta N, Perry V, Cha S. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging abnormalities in pediatric patients with surgically-treated intracranial mass lesions. J Neurooncol. 2006 Sep; 79(2):203-9.
  15. Mishra KK, Puri DR, Missett BT, Lamborn KR, Prados MD, Berger MS, Banerjee A, Gupta N, Wara WM, Haas-Kogan DA. The role of up-front radiation therapy for incompletely resected pediatric WHO grade II low-grade gliomas. Neuro Oncol. 2006 Apr; 8(2):166-74.
  16. Sanai N, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Gupta NM, Perry V, Sun PP, Wilson CB, Lawton MT. Pediatric intracranial aneurysms: durability of treatment following microsurgical and endovascular management. J Neurosurg. 2006 Feb; 104(2 Suppl):82-9.
  17. Gupta N. A modification of the Mayfield horseshoe headrest allowing pin fixation and cranial immobilization in infants and young children. Neurosurgery. 2006 Feb; 58(1 Suppl):ONS-E181; discussion ONS-E181.
  18. Auguste KI, Gupta N. Pediatric intramedullary spinal cord tumors. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2006 Jan; 17(1):51-61.
  19. Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Jun P, Manley GT, Knudson MM, Gupta N. Airbag deployment and improperly restrained children: a lethal combination. J Trauma. 2005 Sep; 59(3):729-33.
  20. Chi JH, Fullerton HJ, Gupta N. Time trends and demographics of deaths from congenital hydrocephalus in children in the United States: National Center for Health Statistics data, 1979 to 1998. J Neurosurg. 2005 Aug; 103(2 Suppl):113-8.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions by logging on to UCSF Profiles.

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