Additionally, individual investigators within the Department continue to carry out groundbreaking research in a multitude of clinical, translational, and outcomes-related areas including but not limited to:
- Brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgical reconstruction strategies and outcome assessments
- Interdisciplinary collaboration on brachial plexus and peripheral nerve research with Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Plastic Surgery, Anesthesiology, Obstetrics, and Movement Science
- Role of iron toxicity in causing brain injury post intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage risk factors and clinical outcomes
- Acute brain injury and brain-tissue oxygen guided management of patients with severe Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as a variety of noninvasive tools for the assessment of intracranial physiology in acute brain injury
- Volume outcome relationship for hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke
- Surgical treatment of and functional mapping for resection of brain metastases, as well as effects of radiation therapy on metastases and the surrounding brain
- Spine metastases, including the growth of metastatic tumor in the spine, different aspects of the bone microenvironment that may play a role in spine metastases, as well as current treatment paradigms and codification of patients who benefit from different treatment modalities
- Spine surgery clinical outcomes through spine registry data analysis
- Spinal deformity and interbody fusion techniques (lateral interbody fusion) through prospective multi-center studies
- Retrospective analysis on spinal topics including degenerative conditions, trauma, oncology, deformity, minimally invasive techniques, and novel spinal technologies
- Collaboration with Biomedical Engineering to develop innovative treatments, such as:
- Histotripsy (ultrasound-based technique) for intracerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors, and hydrocephalus
- Development of a thrombectomy tool
- Development of an automated drill for burr hole and intracranial pressure monitoring
- Development of techniques for brain cooling
- Resident procedural learning: using different feedback systems to examine how residents best learn surgery
