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Michael Lawton, M.D.

Vascular neurosurgeon

Dr. Michael T. Lawton specializes in the surgical treatment of aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, dural fistulas, cavernous malformations and atherosclerotic disease. His research at the Center for Neurological Cerebrovascular Research (CCR) focuses on cerebral ischemia, angiogenesis related to cerebrovascular malformations and the development of endovascular technologies for treating aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations. He is an associate professor of neurological surgery, a faculty member of the UCSF Center for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, director of the Cerebrovascular Disorders Program and co-director of Skull Base Surgery.

He received numerous research awards as a resident and received the Young Neurosurgeon Award from the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and the International Congress of Neurological Surgery. Lawton graduated with honors from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. He earned a medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed a general surgery internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed a neurosurgical residency and fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull-base surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

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.

Neurovascular Disease and Stroke Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-8897
Fax: (415) 353-8705

Hours: Monday to Friday
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

More about Michael Lawton

Additional Languages

French

Education

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1990

Residencies

Johns Hopkins Hospital, General Surgery 1991

Fellowships

St. Joseph's Hospital, Cerbrovascular/Skull Base Surgery 1996
St. Joseph's Hospital, Neurological Surgery 1997

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Potts MB, Chang EF, Young WL, Lawton MT. Transsylvian-Transinsular Approaches to the Insula and Basal Ganglia: Operative Techniques and Results With Vascular Lesions. Neurosurgery. 2012 Apr; 70(4):824-834.
  2. Hetts SW, Moftakhar P, English JD, Dowd CF, Higashida RT, Lawton MT, Douglas VC, Halbach VV. Spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas and intrathecal venous drainage: correlation between digital subtraction angiography, magnetic resonance imaging, and clinical findings. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 May; 16(5):433-40.
  3. Hasan DM, Mahaney KB, Magnotta VA, Kung DK, Lawton MT, Hashimoto T, Winn HR, Saloner D, Martin A, Gahramanov S, Dósa E, Neuwelt E, Young WL. Macrophage Imaging Within Human Cerebral Aneurysms Wall Using Ferumoxytol-Enhanced MRI: A Pilot Study. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2012 Apr; 32(4):1032-8.
  4. Rodríguez-Hernández A, Josephson SA, Lawton MT. Bypass surgery for the prevention of ischemic stroke: current indications and techniques. Neurocirugia (Astur). 2012 Feb; 23(1):5-14.
  5. Davies JM, Kim H, Young WL, Lawton MT. Classification schemes for arteriovenous malformations. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2012 Jan; 23(1):43-53.
  6. Rodríguez-Hernández A, Josephson AS, Langer D, Lawton MT. Bypass for the prevention of ischemic stroke. World Neurosurg. 2011 Dec; 76(6 Suppl):S72-9.
  7. Sughrue ME, Saloner D, Rayz VL, Lawton MT. Giant intracranial aneurysms: evolution of management in a contemporary surgical series. Neurosurgery. 2011 Dec; 69(6):1261-71.
  8. Bharatha A, Faughnan ME, Kim H, Pourmohamad T, Krings T, Bayrak-Toydemir P, Pawlikowska L, McCulloch CE, Lawton MT, Dowd CF, Young WL, Terbrugge KG. Brain arteriovenous malformation multiplicity predicts the diagnosis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: quantitative assessment. Stroke. 2012 Jan; 43(1):72-8.
  9. Englot DJ, Han SJ, Lawton MT, Chang EF. Predictors of seizure freedom in the surgical treatment of supratentorial cavernous malformations. J Neurosurg. 2011 Dec; 115(6):1169-74.
  10. Taub PR, Fields JD, Wu AH, Miss JC, Lawton MT, Smith WS, Young WL, Zaroff JG, Ko NU. Elevated BNP is associated with vasospasm-independent cerebral infarction following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2011 Aug; 15(1):13-8.
  11. Rodríguez-Hernández A, Lu DC, Miric S, Lawton MT. Aneurysms associated with non-moyamoya collateral arterial networks: report of three cases and review of literature. Neurosurg Rev. 2011 Oct; 34(4):517-22.
  12. Rodríguez-Hernández A, Rhoton AL, Lawton MT. Segmental anatomy of cerebellar arteries: a proposed nomenclature. Laboratory investigation. J Neurosurg. 2011 Aug; 115(2):387-97.
  13. Boussel L, Rayz V, Martin A, Lawton M, Higashida R, Smith WS, Young WL, Saloner D. Temporal stability of dysmorphic fusiform aneurysms of the intracranial internal carotid artery. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2011 Jul; 22(7):1007-11.
  14. Walker EJ, Su H, Shen F, Choi EJ, Oh SP, Chen G, Lawton MT, Kim H, Chen Y, Chen W, Young WL. Arteriovenous malformation in the adult mouse brain resembling the human disease. Ann Neurol. 2011 Jun; 69(6):954-62.
  15. Lawton MT. Selecting therapy for complex aneurysms. World Neurosurg. 2011 Mar-Apr; 75(3-4):408.
  16. Gabarrós A, Young WL, McDermott MW, Lawton MT. Language and motor mapping during resection of brain arteriovenous malformations: indications, feasibility, and utility. Neurosurgery. 2011 Mar; 68(3):744-52.
  17. Kim YB, Young WL, Lawton MT. Parafalcine and midline arteriovenous malformations: surgical strategy, techniques, and outcomes. J Neurosurg. 2011 Apr; 114(4):984-93.
  18. Mikhak B, Weinsheimer S, Pawlikowska L, Poon A, Kwok PY, Lawton MT, Chen Y, Zaroff JG, Sidney S, McCulloch CE, Young WL, Kim H. Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) gene polymorphisms and risk of brain arteriovenous malformations. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2011; 31(4):338-45.
  19. Kanematsu Y, Kanematsu M, Kurihara C, Tada Y, Tsou TL, van Rooijen N, Lawton MT, Young WL, Liang EI, Nuki Y, Hashimoto T. Critical roles of macrophages in the formation of intracranial aneurysm. Stroke. 2011 Jan; 42(1):173-8.
  20. Martin AJ, Hetts SW, Dillon WP, Higashida RT, Halbach V, Dowd CF, Lawton MT, Saloner D. MR imaging of partially thrombosed cerebral aneurysms: characteristics and evolution. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2011 Feb; 32(2):346-51.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions by logging on to UCSF Profiles.

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