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Andrew T. Parsa, M.D.

Neurosurgeon

Dr. Andrew Parsa is a neurosurgeon who specializes in brain and spinal cord tumors in adults. He's experienced in the surgical treatment of skull base tumors, acoustic neuromas and intraoperative mapping of brain function to optimize tumor resection and is an active member of the Gamma Knife radiosurgery program. Parsa's research interests include the development of a brain tumor vaccine.

Parsa won the 2003 Young Clinician Investigator Award from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He earned a medical degree at the Brooklyn College of Medicine at the State University of New York and completed a residency in neurosurgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Neuro-Oncology Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-2966
Fax: (415) 353-2167

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Neurosurgery Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-7500
Fax: (415) 353-2939

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

More about Andrew T. Parsa

Additional Languages

French

Education

SUNY, Brooklyn College of Medicine 1996

Residencies

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Neurosurgery 2002

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Crane CA, Ahn BJ, Han SJ, Parsa AT. Soluble factors secreted by glioblastoma cell lines facilitate recruitment, survival, and expansion of regulatory T cells: implications for immunotherapy. Neuro Oncol. 2012 May; 14(5):584-95.
  2. Clark AJ, Lamborn KR, Butowski NA, Chang SM, Prados MD, Clarke JL, McDermott MW, Parsa AT, Berger MS, Aghi MK. Neurosurgical management and prognosis of patients with glioblastoma that progresses during bevacizumab treatment. Neurosurgery. 2012 Feb; 70(2):361-70.
  3. Kane AJ, Sughrue ME, Rutkowski MJ, Aranda D, Mills SA, Lehil M, Fang S, Parsa AT. Atypia predicting prognosis for intracranial extraventricular neurocytomas. J Neurosurg. 2012 Feb; 116(2):349-54.
  4. Garret MA, Parsa AT, Cheung SW. Posterior fossa mass with multiple cranial neuropathies. J Clin Neurosci. 2011 Nov; 18(11):1571.
  5. Bloch O, Kaur G, Jian BJ, Parsa AT, Barani IJ. Stereotactic radiosurgery for benign meningiomas. J Neurooncol. 2012 Mar; 107(1):13-20.
  6. Rutkowski MJ, Bloch O, Jian BJ, Chen C, Sughrue ME, Tihan T, Barani IJ, Berger MS, McDermott MW, Parsa AT. Management of recurrent intracranial hemangiopericytoma. J Clin Neurosci. 2011 Nov; 18(11):1500-4.
  7. Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. Nature. 2011 Oct 6; 478(7367):103-9.
  8. Rutkowski MJ, Jian BJ, Bloch O, Chen C, Sughrue ME, Tihan T, Barani IJ, Berger MS, McDermott MW, Parsa AT. Intracranial hemangiopericytoma: Clinical experience and treatment considerations in a modern series of 40 adult patients. Cancer. 2012 Mar 15; 118(6):1628-36.
  9. Fong B, Barkhoudarian G, Pezeshkian P, Parsa AT, Gopen Q, Yang I. The molecular biology and novel treatments of vestibular schwannomas. J Neurosurg. 2011 Nov; 115(5):906-14.
  10. Kaur G, Bloch O, Jian BJ, Kaur R, Sughrue ME, Aghi MK, McDermott MW, Berger MS, Chang SM, Parsa AT. A critical evaluation of cystic features in primary glioblastoma as a prognostic factor for survival. J Neurosurg. 2011 Oct; 115(4):754-9.
  11. Nagasawa D, Yew A, Safaee M, Fong B, Gopen Q, Parsa AT, Yang I. Clinical characteristics and diagnostic imaging of epidermoid tumors. J Clin Neurosci. 2011 Sep; 18(9):1158-62.
  12. Jian BJ, Bloch OG, Yang I, Han SJ, Aranda D, Parsa AT. A comprehensive analysis of intracranial chordoma and survival: a systematic review. Br J Neurosurg. 2011 Aug; 25(4):446-53.
  13. deipolyi AR, Han SJ, Sughrue ME, Litt L, Parsa AT. Awake far lateral craniotomy for resection of foramen magnum meningioma in a patient with tenuous motor and somatosensory evoked potentials. J Clin Neurosci. 2011 Sep; 18(9):1254-6.
  14. Bloch O, Sughrue ME, Mills SA, Parsa AT. Signaling pathways in cranial chondrosarcoma: potential molecular targets for directed chemotherapy. J Clin Neurosci. 2011 Jul; 18(7):881-5.
  15. Parsa AT, Bruce JN. Pineal region tumors. Preface. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2011 Jul; 22(3):xi.
  16. Tate M, Sughrue ME, Rutkowski MJ, Kane AJ, Aranda D, McClinton L, McClinton L, Barani IJ, Parsa AT. The long-term postsurgical prognosis of patients with pineoblastoma. Cancer. 2012 Jan 1; 118(1):173-9.
  17. Guss ZD, Batra S, Limb CJ, Li G, Sughrue ME, Redmond K, Rigamonti D, Parsa AT, Chang S, Kleinberg L, Lim M. Radiosurgery of glomus jugulare tumors: a meta-analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Nov 15; 81(4):e497-502.
  18. Han SJ, Clark AJ, Ivan ME, Parsa AT, Perry A. Pathology of pineal parenchymal tumors. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2011 Jul; 22(3):335-40, vii.
  19. Clark AJ, Sughrue ME, Aranda D, Parsa AT. Contemporary management of pineocytoma. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2011 Jul; 22(3):403-7, ix.
  20. Tate MC, Rutkowski MJ, Parsa AT. Contemporary management of pineoblastoma. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2011 Jul; 22(3):409-12, ix.

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