Neurosurgery
Meet the Team

Meet the Neurosurgery Team

Director

Francesco T. Mangano, DO, FACS, FAAP, FACOS

Professor, UC Department of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
Advanced MRI imaging techniques in children with congenital hydrocephalus.

Faculty

Karin Bierbrauer, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Head injury; biomedical informatics
Research Interests
Developmental neurobiology; transcriptional control of neural cell subtype specification; neuronal circuit formation

Steven A. Crone, PhD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
Neural circuits that control breathing; airway protection; spinal cord injury; neurodegenerative disease; sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)

June Goto, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
Pediatric hydrocephalus; genetic basis of hydrocephalus; cellular basis of hydrocephalus; ependymal cell biology; choroid plexus and cerebrospinal...

Smruti K. Patel, MD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
Spina bifida; transitional care; fetal neurosurgery; neuro-oncology; pediatric skull base surgery

Jesse Skoch, MD, FAANS, FACS

Associate Professor, UC Department of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
Epilepsy; optical imaging; biomedical engineering; hydrocephalus
Research Interests
Neuro-oncology; epilepsy; spasticity

Sudhakar Vadivelu, DO

Associate Professor, UC Department of Neurosurgery
Research Interests
Stem cells; neurogenesis; modulation of cytokine activity