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  • Robert A. Groff Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery

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Sullivan, P. Z., AlBayar, A., Burrell, J. C., Browne, K. D., Arena, J., Johnson, V., Smith, D. H., Cullen, D. K., Ozturk, A. K. Implantation of Engineered Axon Tracts to Bridge Spinal Cord Injury Beyond the Glial Scar in Rats , Tissue Eng Part A: 2021


Smith, D. H., Dolle, J. P., Ameen-Ali, K. E., Bretzin, A., Cortes, E., Crary, J. F., Dams-O'Connor, K., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Edlow, B. L., Folkerth, R., Hazrati, L. N., Hinds, S. R., Iacono, D., Johnson, V. E., Keene, C. D., Kofler, J., Kovacs, G. G., Lee, E. B., Manley, G., Meaney, D., Montine, T., Okonkwo, D. O., Perl, D. P., Trojanowski, J. Q., Wiebe, D. J., Yaffe, K., McCabe, T., Stewart, W. COllaborative Neuropathology NEtwork Characterizing ouTcomes of TBI (CONNECT-TBI) , Acta Neuropathol Commun, 9(1): 2021,32


Gan, Z. S., Stein, S. C., Swanson, R., Guan, S., Garcia, L., Mehta, D., Smith, D. H. Blood Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury: A Quantitative Assessment of Diagnostic and Prognostic Accuracy , Front Neurol, 10: 2019,446


Smith, D. H., Stewart, W. ''Concussion'' is not a true diagnosis , Nat Rev Neurol, 16(9): 2020,457-458


Smith, D. H., Stewart, W. Genetic interplay with soccer ball heading , Nat Rev Neurol: 2020


Chen, H. I., Jgamadze, D., Lim, J., Mensah-Brown, K., Wolf, J. A., Mills, J. A., Smith, D. H. Functional Cortical Axon Tracts Generated from Human Stem Cell-Derived Neurons , Tissue Eng Part A, 25(9-10): 2019,736-745


Johnson, V. E., Stewart, W., Smith, D. H. Widespread tau and amyloid-beta pathology many years after a single traumatic brain injury in humans , Brain Pathol, 22(2): 2012,142-9


Verma, R., Swanson, R. L., Parker, D., Ould Ismail, A. A., Shinohara, R. T., Alappatt, J. A., Doshi, J., Davatzikos, C., Gallaway, M., Duda, D., Chen, H. I., Kim, J. J., Gur, R. C., Wolf, R. L., Grady, M. S., Hampton, S., Diaz-Arrastia, R., Smith, D. H. Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel With Possible Exposure to Directional Phenomena in Havana, Cuba , JAMA, 322(4): 2019,336-347


Dolle, J. P., Jaye, A., Anderson, S. A., Ahmadzadeh, H., Shenoy, V. B., Smith, D. H. Newfound sex differences in axonal structure underlie differential outcomes from in vitro traumatic axonal injury , Exp Neurol, 300: 2018,121-134


Smith, D. H., Johnson, V. E., Stewart, W. Chronic neuropathologies of single and repetitive TBI: substrates of dementia? , Nat Rev Neurol, 9(4): 2013,211-21


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