NEUROSURGERY RESEARCH AT MUSC
The Department has a long tradition of basic and clinical research
in spinal cord injury. Dr. Phanor Perot headed an NIH funded program
project grant in this area for many years. The department has
refocused it's research activities in the area of high quality
translational, clinical and outcome research. This focus is manifested
in each of the neurosurgical subspecialties practiced within the
department. Collaborative efforts with other departments at MUSC,
the Center for Health Care Research and the Center for Clinical
Innovation and Evaluation provide the department with outstanding
capabilities in many areas of clinical research.
Dr. Bailey...
is the department's liaison to the American Brain Injury Consortium
and institutional investigator for the multi center trial of two
investigational agents for severe head injury.
Dr. Patel...
is the institutional principal investigator for studies of direct
infusion of immunotoxins into recurrent glioblastoma. He also
leads the department's participation in the Glioma Outcomes Project.