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Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD

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Richard G. Ellenbogen, MD

Neurosurgery, Craniofacial, Hematology-Oncology

On staff since October 1999

Children's Title: Professor and Chairman Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine

Academic Title: Theodore S. Roberts Endowed Chair of Pediatric Neurological Surgery Service Chief, Harborview Medical Center Residency and Fellowship Director UW Medicine Department of Neurological Surgery

""Love the patient more than you hate the disease.""

Recommendations

RachelLacey, Wa08.14.12
I have been seeing Dr. Ellenbogen for 16 years, and I would definitely recommend him to everyone who has a chiari because he has a lot of expertise in helping people with this disorder, he has never pressured me into anything, and he only makes recommendations based on what he thinks will help me the most. I just met with him recently because my chiari was getting worse. Based on that and my MRI results, he thought that surgical intervention would help me the most. My surgery is scheduled for this comming Tuesday, and I definitely trust him to take good care of me and do a good job on my surgery because he is very kind, has excellent bedside manners, he has been helping people like me since before I was born, and he does about 100 chiari surgeries per year. I would definitely recommend him without a doubt.
PamCincinnati, OH04.19.12
When you meet Dr. Ellenbogen, you know immediately that he has your child's best interest at heart. My daughter Amelia was born in 2001 with Spina Bifida, and proved to be very complicated. Dr. Ellenbogen not only took outstanding surgical and medical care of her, but was sincere in his dedication to listening to the family. He included us as a part of the team, and as a part of the decision-making process, without even being asked. He was honest, attentive, and amazingly skilled. I would recommend him without hesitation, and am thankful for his care.
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Overview

Board Certification(s)
Neurological Surgery
Medical/Professional School
Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence
Residency
Neurological Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston
Neurological Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Clinical Interests

Pediatric and adult brain tumors Endoscopy/minimally-invasive brain surgery Congenital disorders of the brain and spine (pediatric and adult) Cerebrovascular disease in children

Research Description

Molecular imaging/nanotechnology; hind brain abnormalities/CSF physiology; and genetic mutations in brain tumors.

Research Focus Area

Neuroscience / Neurodevelopment

Awards and Honors

Award NameAward DescriptionAwarded ByAward Date
U.S. News Top DoctorU.S. News and World Report 2012
Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2012Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2012Seattle Magazine 2012
Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2011Seattle Magazine Top Doctor - 2011Seattle Magazine 2011

Publications

Chlorotoxin bound magnetic nanovector tailored for cancer cell targeting, imaging, and siRNA delivery.
Biomaterials , 2010 Nov: 8032-42
Transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery.
Neurosurgery , 2010 Sep: 16-28
Use of transcranial Doppler ultrasonography and jugular oximetry to optimize hemodynamics during pediatric posterior fossa craniotomy.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia , 2010 Aug 25
Chlorotoxin labeled magnetic nanovectors for targeted gene delivery to glioma.
ACS nano , 2010 Aug 24: 4587-94
DTI fiber tracking to differentiate demyelinating diseases from diffuse brain stem glioma.
NeuroImage , 2010 Aug 1: 217-23
How to recycle a used brain surgeon.
Neurosurgery , 2010 Aug: 234-6
Little evidence of association between severity of trigonocephaly and cognitive development in infants with single-suture metopic synostosis.
Neurosurgery , 2010 Aug: 408-15; discussion 415-6
PEG-mediated synthesis of highly dispersive multifunctional superparamagnetic nanoparticles: their physicochemical properties and function in vivo.
ACS nano , 2010 Apr 27: 2402-10
Characterization of the human ventricular cerebrospinal fluid proteome obtained from hydrocephalic patients.
Journal of proteomics , 2010 Apr 18: 1156-62
Neurologic signs and symptoms in fibromyalgia.
Arthritis and rheumatism , 2009 Sep: 2839-44
A new fiber-mediated carbon dioxide laser facilitates pediatric spinal cord detethering. Technical note.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics , 2009 Sep: 280-4
Specific targeting of brain tumors with an optical/magnetic resonance imaging nanoprobe across the blood-brain barrier.
Cancer research , 2009 Aug 1: 6200-7
PEI-PEG-Chitosan Copolymer Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Safe Gene Delivery: synthesis, complexation, and transfection.
Advanced functional materials , 2009 Jul 24: 2244-2251
From bench to the operating room: a tale of the omnidirectional mirror fiber.
Neurosurgery , 2009 Jul: N10
A survey of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) awareness among neurosurgeons in Washington State.
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) , 2009 May: 551-5
Symptom outcomes following cranial vault expansion for craniosynostosis in children older than 2 years.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery , 2009 Jan: 289-97; discussion 298-9
Comparison of computed tomographic imaging measurements with clinical findings in children with unilateral lambdoid synostosis.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery , 2009 Jan: 300-9
Is postoperative CT scanning predictive of subdural electrode placement complications in pediatric epileptic patients?
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2009: 345-9
The Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to fighters of global epidemics.
Neurosurgery , 2008 Dec: 10
Tumor-targeted drug delivery and MRI contrast enhancement by chlorotoxin-conjugated iron oxide nanoparticles.
Nanomedicine (London, England) , 2008 Aug: 495-505
SATB1: the convergence of carcinogenesis and chromatin conformation.
Neurosurgery , 2008 Aug: N6
New severity indices for quantifying single-suture metopic craniosynostosis.
Neurosurgery , 2008 Aug: 318-24; discussion 324-5
Cerebral revascularization for ischemia, aneurysms, and cranial base tumors.
Neurosurgery , 2008 Jun: 1373-408; discussion 1408-10
Incidence of hypo- and hypercarbia in severe traumatic brain injury before and after 2003 pediatric guidelines.
Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies , 2008 Mar: 141-6
Retrospective review of multilevel spinal fusion combined with spinal cord transection for treatment of kyphoscoliosis in pediatric myelomeningocele patients.
Spine , 2007 Oct 15: 2493-501
Apnea caused by mesial temporal lobe mass lesions in infants: report of 3 cases.
Journal of child neurology , 2007 Sep: 1079-83
Tumor paint: a chlorotoxin:Cy5.5 bioconjugate for intraoperative visualization of cancer foci.
Cancer research , 2007 Jul 15: 6882-8
Postoperative ketorolac tromethamine use in infants aged 6-18 months: the effect on morphine usage, safety assessment, and stereo-specific pharmacokinetics.
Anesthesia and analgesia , 2007 May: 1040-51, tables of contents
Isolated sagittal and coronal craniosynostosis associated with TWIST box mutations.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A , 2007 Apr 1: 678-86
Acute care surgery: challenges and opportunities from the neurosurgical perspective.
Surgery , 2007 Mar: 321-3
Magnesium sulfate for neuroprotection after traumatic brain injury: a randomised controlled trial.
Lancet neurology , 2007 Jan: 29-38
Spontaneous subdural fluid collections following transection of a fatty filum terminale: case report and review of the literature.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2007: 507-11
The mathematics of failure: observations from Galileo to the Institute of Medicine--presidential address CNS 2006.
Clinical neurosurgery , 2007: 28-35
Delivery of emergency neurosurgical care.
Journal of the American College of Surgeons , 2006 Dec: 962-6
Pediatric intradural extramedullary synovial sarcoma: case report.
Neurosurgery , 2006 Dec: E1339; discussion E1339
Vagus nerve stimulation for intractable seizures in children.
Pediatric neurology , 2006 Nov: 323-6
Acquired chiari malformation type I associated with a fatty terminal filum. Case report.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2006 Oct: 329-32
Cisplatin-based chemotherapy followed by focal, reduced-dose irradiation for pediatric primary central nervous system germinomas.
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology : official journal of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology , 2006 Jan: 36-9
MDCT diagnosis of the child with posterior plagiocephaly.
AJR. American journal of roentgenology , 2005 Nov: 1342-6
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease activity is associated with response to radiation and chemotherapy in medulloblastoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumors.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research , 2005 Oct 15: 7405-14
Early composite cranioplasty in infants with severe aplasia cutis congenita: a report of two cases.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association , 2005 Jul: 442-7
Vertex epidural hematoma.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2005 May-Jun: 170-2
Biomarkers: mining the biofluid proteome.
Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP , 2005 Apr: 409-18
Surgical site infections after pediatric intracranial surgery for craniofacial malformations: frequency and risk factors.
Neurosurgery , 2005 Apr: 733-9; discussion 733-9
O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, O6-benzylguanine, and resistance to clinical alkylators in pediatric primary brain tumor cell lines.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research , 2005 Apr 1: 2747-55
Endoscopic management of cerebrospinal fluid leak associated with the use of bone wax in skull-base surgery.
Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery , 2005 Mar: 418-20
Temporal lobectomy for refractory epilepsy in the U.S. military.
Military medicine , 2005 Mar: 201-5
The misdiagnosis of acute cervical spine injuries and fractures in infants and children: the 12-year experience of a level I pediatric and adult trauma center.
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery , 2005 Feb: 122-7
The SmoA1 mouse model reveals that notch signaling is critical for the growth and survival of sonic hedgehog-induced medulloblastomas.
Cancer research , 2004 Nov 1: 7794-800
Severe posttraumatic craniocervical instability in the very young patient. Report of three cases.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2004 Aug: 102-7
Concurrent chemotherapy and reduced-dose cranial spinal irradiation followed by conformal posterior fossa tumor bed boost for average-risk medulloblastoma: efficacy and patterns of failure.
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics , 2004 Mar 15: 1161-4
Failure of autologous bone-assisted cranioplasty following decompressive craniectomy in children and adolescents.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2004 Feb: 163-8
Differential diagnosis of the trapezoid-shaped head.
The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association , 2004 Jan: 13-9
Controversies in the surgical management of Chiari I malformations: what is the surgical procedure of choice? To open dura or not to open dura?
Clinical neurosurgery , 2004: 241-7
A large planum sphenoidale meningioma with sinonasal extension in a child. Case report and review of the literature.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2003 Nov: 270-4
Direct repair of the pars interarticularis for spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2003 Oct: 195-200
Ultrasound screening of the lambdoid suture in the child with posterior plagiocephaly.
Pediatric radiology , 2003 Sep: 630-6
Rapid computed tomography technique to measure ventricular volumes in the child with suspected ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure I. Validation of technique with a dynamic phantom.
Journal of computer assisted tomography , 2003 Sep-Oct: 663-7
Rapid computed tomography technique to measure ventricular volumes in the child with suspected ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure II. Clinical application.
Journal of computer assisted tomography , 2003 Sep-Oct: 668-73
BMP-2 mediates retinoid-induced apoptosis in medulloblastoma cells through a paracrine effect.
Nature medicine , 2003 Aug: 1033-8
Tumors and malformations of the caudal spinal axis.
Pediatric neurosurgery , 2003 Apr: 174-80
Focal motor seizures with secondary generalization arising in the cerebellum. Case report and review of the literature.
Journal of neurosurgery , 2002 Jul: 190-6
The diagonal ventricular dimension: a method for predicting shunt malfunction on the basis of changes in ventricular size.
Neurosurgery , 2002 Jun: 1246-51; discussion 1251-2
Pediatric spine and spinal cord injury after inflicted trauma.
Neurosurgery clinics of North America , 2002 Apr: 227-33

Primary Office

Seattle Children's
OA.9.220 - Neurosurgery
4800 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
206-987-2544

Additional Offices

Harborview Medical Center
HMC Box 359766 - Neurological Surgery
325 - 9th Ave
Seattle, WA 98104-2499
206-744-9321

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