Pain Neurosurgery

Oren Sagher, MD, accepted a position on the neurosurgical faculty at the University of Michigan after completing his residency at the University of Virginia. He became Chief of Neurosurgery at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital, a position he held until 1996. He then completed a fellowship in Pain and Functional Neurosurgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University, and took over as the Director of Neuromodulation at the University of Michigan. As the primary functional neurosurgeon at the University of Michigan, Dr. Sagher takes care of such problems as epilepsy, pain, Parkinson's Disease, and other movement disorders. Dr. Sagher is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgeons, and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). He has served on the Executive Council on the AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pain, which he chaired from 2003 to 2005.Emily Levin, MD, graduated from JohnsHopkins University in 2002, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine with her Doctor of Medicine. Following completion of her surgical internship and residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Michigan, she completed a fellowship in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco. While in San Francisco, she received specialized training in the surgical treatment of movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia. She also focused on surgery for treating epilepsy and pain. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at University of Michigan and the Chief of Neurosurgery for the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Medical Center.Julie G. Pilitsis, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience at Albany Medical College and Chair for the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics. She completed herneurosurgery residency at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. During that time, she also obtained a PhD in neurophysiology and became active in both basic science and translational research. She went on to complete a fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL. To date, she has served as Chair of the Joint Section on Pain of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)/Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) as well as AANS/CNS Chair of Joint Section for Women in Neurosurgery. She is currently an Executive Council Member of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Scientific Program for the AANS, and on the NANS Board of Directors. With the support of the NANS Board of Directors, she began the NANS Women in Neuromodulation Section where she was the first chair and currently serves as senior advisor. Dr. Pilitsis maintains an NIH sponsored research program focused on device optimization for neuromodulation and haspublished over 100 journal articles, 4 books, and numerous chapters. She serves as section editor of functional neurosurgery in Operative Neurosurgery, is on the editorial board of Neuromodulation, and sits on multiple NIH study sections.

[A]n excellent review of the most common pain conditions and their respective managementAll health care providers involved in treating patients with these pain conditions should read this book.

• Chapter 1: Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia in the Healthy Patient Oren SagherChapter 2: Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia in the ElderlyKunal Raygor, Anthony Lee, and Edward ChangChapter 3: Secondary Trigeminal Neuralgia (Balloon Compression Rhizolysis) Jeffrey A. BrownChapter 4: Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia Oren SagherChapter 5: Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain Mandana A. Behbahani, Nauman S. Chaudhry, Konstantin V. SlavinChapter 6: Postherpetic Neuralgia: Motor Cortex Stimulation and Nucleus Caudalis DREZ Lesioning Sebastian Rubino, Roy S. Hwang, and Julie G. PilitsisChapter 7: Occipital Neuralgia Richard L. WeinerChapter 8: Geniculate Neuralgia Emily Lehmann LevinChapter 9: Dorsal Root Entry Zone (DREZ) lesioning for Brachial Plexus Avulsion Pain Daniel R. Cleary and Sharona Ben-HaimChapter 10: Percutaneous Cordotomy for Cancer-associated Pain Marian Bercu, Timothy Shepherd, and Alon Y. MogilnerChapter 11: Spinal Cord Injury Transitional Zone Pain Oren Sagher Chapter 12: Chronic Lumbar Radiculopathy: Spinal Cord Stimulation and Intrathecal Drug Delivery Brian J.A. Gill, Farhan A. Khan, Christopher J. WinfreeChapter 13: Intrathecal Drug Therapy for Painful Vertebral Metastases Sebastian Rubino, Shelby Sabourin, and Julie G. PilitsisChapter 14: Pelvic/Visceral Cancer Pain Ashwin ViswanathanChapter 15: Painful Diabetic NeuropathyEmily Lehmann LevinChapter 16: Cluster HeadacheEmily Lehmann LevinChapter 17: Postherpetic Neuralgia of the Trigeminal Nerve (Trigeminal Tractotomy-Nucleotomy) Zoe Teton and Ahmed M. RaslanChapter 18: Cingulotomy for Intractable Pain Patrick J. Hunt, Patrick J. Karas, Ashwin Viswanathan, and Sameer A. ShethChapter 19: Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain: Motor Cortex Stimulation Nicholas C. Field and Julie G. PilitsisChapter 20: Occipital Nerve Stimulation for Chronic Refractory Migraine Cletus Cheyuo, Roy S. Hwang, and Julie G. PilitsChapter 21: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Diagnosis and Surgical Management Roy S. Hwang, Claire Collison, and Julie G. PilitsisChapter 22: Post-Stroke Intractable Pain Innocent Njoku and Julie G. Pilitsis