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Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Washington School of Medicine
Residency: Atkinson Morley's Hospital
Fellowship: University of Washington
Residency: University of Washington

AO Spine International, International AO Spine North America Faculty, National Data monitoring and safety committee, NIH trial: Vertebroplasty for osteoporotic fractures, National The American Association of Neurological Surgeons, National

Hospital Privileges:

• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
• Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.

Selected Publications:

Baumann BC, Lustig RA, Mazzoni S, Grady MS, O'Malley BW, Lee JYK, Newman JG, Schuster JM, Both S, Lin A, Dorsey JF, Alonso-Basanta M, : A prospective clinical trial of proton therapy for chordoma and chondrosarcoma: Feasibility assessment J Surgical Oncology 120 (2): 200-205,2019.

Barzilai O, Versteeg AL, Goodwin CR, Sahgal A, Rhines LD, Sciubba DM, Schuster JM, Weber MH, Lazary A, Fehlings MG, Clarke MJ, Arnold PM, Boriani S, Bettegowda C, Gokaslan ZL, Fisher CG, Laufer I: Association of neurologic deficits with surgical outcomes and health-related quality of life after treatment for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression. Cancer : 2019.

Piazza M, Sharma N, Osiemo B, McClintock S, Missimer E, Gardiner D, Maloney E, Callahan D, Smith JL, Welch W, Schuster J, Grady MS, Malhotra NR.: Initial Assessment of the Risk Assessment and Prediction Tool in a Heterogeneous Neurosurgical Patient Population. Neurosurgery 85 (1): 50-57,2019.

AlBayar A, Sullivan PZ, Blue R, Leonard J, Kung D, Ozturk AK, Chen HI, Schuster J.: Risk Of Vertebral Artery Injury And Stroke Following Blunt and Penetrating Cervical Spine Trauma: A Retrospective Review Of 729 Patients. World Neurosurg : 2019.

Su YS, Schuster JM, Smith DH, Stein SC: Cost Effectiveness of Biomarker Screening for Traumatic Brain Injury J Neurotrauma 36 (13): 2083-2091,2019.

Berger I, Piazza M, Sharma N, Glauser G, Osiemo B, McClintock SD, Lee JYK, Schuster JM, Ali Z, Malhotra NR.: Evaluation of the Risk Assessment and Prediction Tool for Postoperative Disposition Needs After Cervical Spine Surgery. Neurosurgery : 2019.

Charest-Morin R, Fisher CG, Versteeg AL, Sahgal A, Varga PP, Sciubba DM, Schuster JM, Weber MH, Clarke MJ, Rhines LD, Boriani S, Bettegowda C, Fehlings MG, Arnold PM, Gokaslan ZL, Dea N.: Clinical presentation, management and outcomes of sacral metastases: a multicenter, retrospective cohort study. Ann Transl Med. 7 (10): 214,2019.

Glauser G, Agarwal P, Ramayya AG, Chen HI, Lee JYK, Schuster JM, Osiemo B, Goodrich S, Smith LJ, McClintock SD, Malhotra NR.: Association of Surgical Overlap during Wound Closure with Patient Outcomes among Neurological Surgery Patients at a Large Academic Medical Center. Neurosurgery : 2019.

Caplan I, Sinha, S, Schuster J, Piazza M, Glauser G, Osiemo B, McClintock S, Welch W, Sharma N, Ozturk A, Malhotra N.: The Utility of cervical spine bracing as a postoperative adjunct to single-level anteriorcervical spine surgery Asian J. of Neurosurgery 14 (2): 461-66,2019.

Barzilai O, Versteeg AL, Sahgal A, Rhines LD, Bilsky MH, Sciubba DM, Schuster JM, Weber MH, Pal VP, Boriani S, Bettegowda C, Fehlings MG, Yamada Y, Clarke MJ, Arnold PM, Gokaslan ZL, Fisher CG, Laufer I: Survival, local control, and health-related quality of life in patients with oligometastatic and polymetastatic spinal tumors: A multicenter, international study. Cancer 125 (5): 770-778,2019.

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