POSITION
Todd Thompson, M.D., LLC
Member Hawaii Neurosurgery Group
Honolulu, HI
2005
Peachtree Neurosurgery, P.C.
Atlanta, GA
2003 - 2005
Co-Director St. Joseph's Hospital
Gamma Knife Center, Atlanta, GA
2004 - 2005
Chief of Neurosurgery
Straub Clinic & Hospital
Honolulu, HI
2001-2003
EDUCATION
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Fellowship, Image Guided Neurosurgery
And Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
1999
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Neurosurgical Resident
1995-2001
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
General Surgery Internship
1994-1995
Temple University School of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA
1990-1994
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC
- A. Degree in chemistry
1985-1989
Sewickley Academy, High school
Sewickley, PA
1981-1985
MEDICAL HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Alpha Omega Alpha - National Medical Honor Society
Paul M. Lin Award in Neurological Surgery, May 1991
Sugita Scholar, Nagoya, Japan 2000
American Association of Neurological Surgeons Member
AANS Young Neurosurgeons Committee, Elected 1999
Advanced Trauma Life Support - Instructor 2000
Pain Management Committee- Straub Clinic 2001
Peer Review Committee- Straub Clinic 2001
Joseph E. Strode Award - Excellence in Research 2001
Physicians Advisory Group
- Operations Committee- Straub Clinic
Founding Partner, C.O.O - MDFitness, LLC 2003
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Running, Sailing, Skiing, Surfing, and Kite-surfing
Bicycling - Washington, DC to Seattle, WA 1994
Honolulu Marathon 2004, 2005
ABSTRACTS
Thompson TP, Pearson HE. Degeneration of mature retinal ganglion cells in area centralis of the cat following loss of post synaptic targets. Eastern Student Research Forum, University of Miami, December 1991.
Bonaroti EA, Rose RD, Thompson TP, Adelson PD. Histopathologic and electrophysiologic analysis of end-to-side nerve anastomosis. CNS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, September 1997.
Thompson TP, Resnick D, Marion D, Darby J. Acid-Base physiology of therapeutic hypothermia in the treatment of severe head injury. CNS Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 1998.
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD, Kondziolka D. Distinguishing Recurrent Tumor and Radiation Necrosis with Positron Emission Tomography versus Stereotactic Biopsy, American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Snowbird, Utah July 1999.
Levy EL, Niranjan A, Thompson TP, Scarrow AM, Kondziolka D, Flickinger JC, Lunsford LD. Radiosurgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations in children. AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery. New Orleans, LA. February 2000
Kondziolka D, Wechsler L, Goldstein S, Gebel J, De Cesare, Cidis-Meltzer C, Thulborn K, Jannetta P, Niranjan A, Thompson T, Elder E. Results from a Trial of Neuronal Transplantation for Patients with Fixed Motor Deficits following Stroke. American Association of Neurological Surgery. San Francisco, April 2000
PUBLICATIONS
Pearson HE, Thompson TP. Atrophy and degeneration of ganglion cells in central retina following loss of postsynaptic target neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the adult cat. Experimental Neurology 119:113-119, 1993
Thompson TP, Adelson PD. Evaluating brachial plexus birth injuries. Children s Hospital of Pittsburgh: Physician s Update. Spring 1997
Thompson TP, Albright LA. Proprionibacterium acnes infections of cerebrospinal fluid shunts. Childs Nervous System 14:378-380, 1998
Thompson TP, Jannetta PJ, Lovely TJ, Ochs M. Unilateral trismus and microvascular decompression. J OMFS 57(1):90-92, 1999
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD, Kondziolka D. Technical considerations in movement disorder surgery: frames, imaging, and intraoperative monitoring. Progress in Neurological Surgery, 15:91-102, 2000
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD, Kondziolka D. Restorative Neurosurgery. Opportunities for Restoration of Function in Acquired, Degenerative, and Idiopathic Neurological Diseases. Neurosurg 45(4):741-752, 1999
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD, Kondziolka D. Distinguishing Recurrent Tumor and Radiation Necrosis with Positron Emission Tomography versus Stereotactic Biopsy. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 73:9-14, 1999
Thompson TP, Levy E, Kanal E, Lunsford LD. Iatrogenic Pneumocephalus secondary to intravenous catheterization: a case report. J Neurosurgery 91:878-880, 1999
Thompson TP, Maitz AH, Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD. Radiation, Radiobiology and
Neurosurgery. Contemp Neurosurg 21(13):1-6, 1999
Thompson TP, Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD. Movement Disorder Surgery. Contemp Neurosurgery, 21(16):1-6, 1999
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD, Albright AL. Patient Selection in Movement Disorder Surgery in Yeoman's Neurological Surgery. Fifth ed. Vol 3, pp 2745-2753, Winn HR ed. Elsevier Inc., Philadelphia, 2004
Thompson TP, Kondziolka DK, Albright AL. Thalamic Stimulation for Choreiform Movement Disorders in Children. J Neurosurg 92:718-721, 2000
Kondziolka D, Lunsford LD, Thompson TP. Stereotactic Radiosurgery with the Gamma Knife in The Handbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, pp 165-177. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York. Accepted. February 2003
Thompson TP, Kondziolka D. "Acoustic Neuroma", Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, Aminoff MJ, Daroff RB (eds), Vol. 1, pp 14-16, Academic Press, San Diego. March 2003
Thompson TP, Witham T, Lunsford LD, Kondziolka D, Flickinger JC. Stereotactic Radiosurgery: Indications and Outcomes. Contemp Neurosurg 22(7), April 2000
Witham T, Thompson TP, Marion DW. Prevention wound infections in neurosurgery. Contemp Neurosurg 22(5), February 2000
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD, Flickinger JC. Radiosurgery for hemangiomas of the cavernous sinus and orbit. Neurosurg 47(3):778-783, 2000
Thompson TP, Lunsford LD. Trigeminal Neuralgia-Percutaneous Glycerol Rhizotomy pp 219-226 in Follett KA (ed), Neurosurgical Pain Management, Elsevier Inc., Philadelphia, 2004
Levy E, Niranjan A, Thompson TP, Scarrow AM, Kondziolka DK, Flickinger JC, Lunsford LD, Radiosurgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations in children, Neurosurg 47(7):834-841, 2000
Wakabayashi T, Kajita Y, Hatano N, Thompson TP, Nagasaka T, Yoshida J. Clinicopathological study of oligodendroglial tumors: the effectiveness of interferon Beta, ACNU/MCNU, and radiation (IAR/IMR) for anaplastic tumors. Brain Tumor Pathol 17:29-33, 2000
Maesawa S, Kondziolka D, Thompson TP, Flickinger JC, Lunsford LD. Brain metastasis in patients with no known primary tumor. Cancer 89(5):1095-1101, 2000
Thompson, TP, Levy E, Jho, HD, Lunsford LD. Primum non nocere: Multimodality management when multiple mass lesions strike a single patient. Surg Neurol;55;332-339, 2001
Adelson PD, Bonaroti EA, Thompson TP, Tran M, and Nystrom NA. End-to-side neurorrhaphies in a rodent model of peripheral nerve injury: a preliminary report of a novel technique. J. Neurosurg: Pediatrics; 101(1);74-78, 2004
Thompson TP, Pearce J, Madamba J, Chong G. Surfer's Myelopathy. Spine 29(16);E353-356, Aug 15, 2004.
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS
Low Back Pain. February 24, 2003. Wilcox Memorial Hospital. CME lecture
The Management of Low Back Pain, Sciatica and other Spine Disorders. February 5, 2004. Northside Hospital. Atlanta, GA
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. It's your health Atlanta. WGST, October 17, 2004. Atlanta, GA
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Channel 46 news report. November 5, 2004. Atlanta, GA
Low Back Pain. YMCA. July 06, 2005. Kailua, Hawaii
VIDEO PUBLICATIONS
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Patient Education Video.
University of Pittsburgh, Copyright 1999
Back To Fitness. MDFitness, LLC. Copyright 2004
