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Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol, MD, MSc

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Dr. Cohen sees patients in Suite 535 at the Methodist Hospital office and in Suite 250 at the St. Vincent office.

Scheduling details
Office visits are by appointment only.  To schedule an appointment or to change an existing appointment with Dr. Cohen-Gadol, please call 317-396-1300.

Testimonials
"I wanted to let Dr. Cohen know that the surgery was a success, and my quality of life gets better each day! Dr. Cohen was a blessing and a godsend!"
     Eileen J. - patient of Aaron Cohen-Gadol, MD

Publications

 

Medical School

University of Southern California (USC)
Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 1993-1997
M.D. Degree with Highest Distinction, May 1997


Residencies
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, July 1997 – June 1999

Neurological Surgery, Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, July 1999 - June 2002

Chief Resident Associate
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, July 2004 - June 2005

Master’s Degree
Clinical Research - Mayo Graduate School
Rochester, MN, July 2003 - June 2005

 

Experience

Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine (formerly Indianapolis Neurosurgical Group - ING)
Clarian Neuroscience Center (Methodist, Indiana University, and Riley Hospitals)
Clinical Assistant Professor
Indiana University Department of Neurosurgery
Indianapolis, IN
September 2006 - present

Arkansas Children Hospital
Attending Neurosurgeon
Little Rock, AR
November 2005 - June 2006

University of Arkansas Medical Sciences Center
Instructor in Neurosurgery
Attending Neurosurgeon
Little Rock, AR
November 2005 - June 2006

University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Attending Neurosurgeon
Los Angeles, CA
July 2005 - October 2005
 

Board Certifications and Licenses

Indiana: Number 01062386A
California: Number A68020
Minnesota: Number 42401
Arkansas: Number E-4433

American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS): Board Certified
 

Professional Memberships

American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (CSNS)
American Epilepsy Society (AES)
International Brain Mapping and Intra-operative Surgical
Planning Society (IBMISPS)
The Hemispherectomy Foundation – Co-Chair of the Medical Advisory Board



Editorial Boards
Biomedicine International – Editor-in-Chief
Neurosurgery – Ad Hoc
Epilepsia – Ad Hoc
NeuroImage – Ad Hoc
World Journal of Radiology – Editorial Board 2009-
International Journal of the History of Medicine–Editorial Board 2009
Clinical Endocrinology - Ad Hoc
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery – Ad Hoc
Clinical Anatomy – Ad Hoc
Neurological Research – Ad Hoc
Childs Nervous System – Ad Hoc
Seizure – Ad Hoc
Life Sciences – Ad Hoc
Eastern Journal of Medicine – Associate Editor
Clinical Medicine Insights: Geriatrics – Editorial Board 2007-
Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy – Ad Hoc
Journal of Pediatric Neurology – Editorial Board 2007-
Neurology India – Editorial Board 2003-
Practical Reviews in Neurosurgery 2003-2005
Journal of Neurosurgery – Assistant reviewer to Dr. Dennis Spencer 2002-2003
 

Publications & Presentations

See Dr. Cohen's Current Publications

Books
Cohen-Gadol AA. Nuances of Neurosurgical Techniques : A Multimedia Atlas. In Progress.
Expected date of publication (Web-based) – 2011.

Cohen-Gadol AA and Spencer DD. The Legacy of Harvey Cushing: Profiles of Patient Care. Thieme, New York (586 pages) 2007

Association of American Publishers (AAP) awarded the above book an honorable mention in the Clinical Medicine category in the AAP's recognition of the best professional and scholarly books published in 2007. Two awards are given per year in Clinical Medicine.

Tubbs RS and Cohen-Gadol AA. Glossopharyngeal Nerve Stimulation: Potential Application in Patients with Epilepsy. VDM Publishing House, Leipzig, 2009

Book Chapters
Wetjen NM, Junna MR, Radhakrishnan K, Cohen-Gadol AA, Cascino GD. Resective surgery for neoplasms. Shorvon SD et al, ed: The Treatment of Epilepsy, 3rd Ed. Wiley-Blackwell.

Melamed I, Cohen-Gadol AA. Early post-surgical management of patients with epilepsy. In: Luders H, ed. Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery. London, United Kingdom: Informa Healthcare; 2008: 1309-1312

Connolly PJ, Spencer DD, Cohen-Gadol AA. A brief history of epilepsy surgery in the United States. In Luders H, ed. Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery. London, United Kingdom: Informa Healthcare; 2008: 116-117

Cohen-Gadol AA, Al-Mefty O. Skull base tumors. In: Berger MS, Bernstein M, eds. Neuro-Oncology: The Essentials. 2nd ed. New York: Thieme, 2008: 320-333

Cohen-Gadol AA, Spencer DD. MRI-normal medial temporal lobe epilepsy has a less favorable surgical outcome. Miller JW, Silbergeld DL, eds. Epilepsy Surgery: Principles and Controversies. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006: 100-104

Cohen-Gadol AA, Spencer DD. Lesionectomy is often adequate for neocortical epilepsy. Miller JW, Silbergeld DL, eds. Epilepsy Surgery: Principles and Controversies. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006: 532-536

Cohen-Gadol AA, Jacob JT, Ahlskog JE. Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system. In: Noseworthy J, ed. Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice. Vol 1. 2nd ed. New York: Martin Dunitz; 2006:742-748

Maher CO, Cohen-Gadol AA, Raffel C. Pediatric Neurosurgery, In: Pollock BE, ed. Guiding Neurosurgery by Evidence. Basel, Switzerland: Karger; 2006. Prog Neurol Surg. Vol 19, 97-106

Cohen-Gadol AA, Maher CO, Krauss WE. The unstable spine after trauma. In: Rabinstein AA, Wijdicks EFM, eds. Tough Calls in Acute Neurology. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004: 309-18

Cohen-Gadol AA, Krauss WE. Spinal meningiomas. In: Berger MS, Prados M, eds. Textbook of Neuro-oncology. Philadelphia, Elsevier, 2004: 489-492

Cohen-Gadol AA, Yanez P, Marsh WR, Dekutoski MB. Lateral mass fractures: Diagnosis and surgical management. In: Vaccaro AR, ed. Fractures of the Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Spine. New York: Marcel-Dekker, 2003: 239-253.

Dekutoski MB, Cohen-Gadol AA. Flexion distraction injuries of the cervical spine: A clinical spectrum. In: Vaccaro AR, ed. Fractures of the Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Spine. New York: Marcel-Dekker, 2003: 191-205.

Cohen-Gadol AA, Pichelmann MA, Manno EM.Management of head trauma and spinal cord injury in adults. In: Noseworthy J, ed. Neurological Therapeutics: Principles and Practice. Vol 1. 1st ed. New York: Martin Dunitz, 2003: 1221-37

Stoffman MR, Cohen-Gadol AA, Spencer SS, Spencer DD. Presurgical epilepsy evaluation in patients with tumors. In: Rosenow F and Luders HO, eds. Presurgical assessment of the epilepsies with clinical neurophysiology and functional imaging. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 2004. Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol 3. 383-394

Wetjen NM, Radhakrishnan K, Cohen-Gadol AA, Cascino GD. Lesional epilepsy: Tumors, Vascular Lesions, and Infections. In Shorvon SD, Perucca E, Fish D, Dodson WE, eds. The Treatment of Epilepsy, 2nd Edition, Blackwell Scientific, Oxford 757-770, 2004

Cohen-Gadol AA, Wetjen NW, Quast LM, Ebersold MJ. Retrosigmoid approach to vestibular schwannomas, In Spetzler RF et al, (eds): Operative Techniques in Neurosurgery. 4(1): 19-23 WB Saunders Co, 2001.

Oral and Poster Presentations
Pendleton C, Zaidi H, Cohen-Gadol AA, Quinones-Hinojosa A. Harvey Cushing’s Use of Fat Grafts to Repair Dural Defects: Early Utilization of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, April 2010

Pendleton C, Zaidi HA, Raza H, Chaichana K, Carson BS, Cohen-Gadol AA, Quinones-Hinojosa A. Harvey Cushing’s Contributions to Mapping the Motor and Sensory Cortex 1896-1912
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, April 2010

Pendleton C, Zaidi H, Sperle K, Cohen-Gadol AA, Quinones-Hinojosa A. Dr. Harvey Cushing’s Early Experience with Pituitary Disorders at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1896-1912
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, April 2010

Junna MR, Buechler, RD, Cohen-Gadol, AA, Cascino GD. Prognostic Importance of Risk Factors for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Patients Undergoing Surgical Treatment.
American Epilepsy Society meeting, December 2007

Some of Harvey Cushing’s contributions to posterior fossa neurosurgery
UCLA Neurosurgery Ground Rounds. August 2005

Liu JK, Abeloff D, Cohen-Gadol AA, Crosby RW, Lees GP, Couldwell WT. Max Brödel: His art, legacy, and contributions to neurosurgery through medical illustration
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, 2005

Perforating arteries of the proximal anterior cerebral circulation: surgical anatomy and clinical implications
Mayo Clinic Neurosurgery Department Ground Rounds. October 8, 2004

Cohen-Gadol AA, Piepgras DG, Krishnamurthy S, Fessler RD. Resident duty-hours reform: The results of a national survey of the program directors and residents in neurosurgery training programs
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, 2004

Functional hemispherectomy for intractable epilepsy
Mayo Clinic Pediatric Neurology Division Ground Rounds. May 13, 2004

Torticollis surgery
Mayo Clinic Neurosurgery Department Ground Rounds. May 8, 2004

Functional hemispherectomy: indications and technical considerations
Mayo Clinic Neurosurgery Department Ground Rounds. March 13, 2004

Temporal lobe epilepsy. Emerging concepts in diagnosis and surgical treatment
Mayo Clinic Neurosurgery Department Ground Rounds. October 28, 2003

Cohen-Gadol AA, Pan JW, Kim J, Spencer DD, Hetherington H. Spectroscopic MR imaging and correlation with histopathology in temporal lobe epilepsy
American Epilepsy Society Meeting, Boston, 2003

Westerveld M, Spencer SS, Cohen-Gadol AA, Alvarez-Carilles J, Stoddard K, Kim J, Spencer DD. Further support for dissociation of naming and memory in relation to hippocampal pathology. American Epilepsy Society Meeting, Boston, 2003

Cohen-Gadol AA, Clarke MJ, Ebersold MJ, Cabanela ME. Long-term outcome for the surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis of the cervical spine. Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Denver, 2003

White JB, Cohen-Gadol AA, Cambier DM, Meyer FB, Marsh WR, Cascino GD. Long-term outcome of epilepsy surgery in 526 patients with pharmacoresistant localization-related epilepsy. Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Denver, 2003

Torres-Russotto D, Friedman JA, Cohen-Gadol AA, Meyer FB. Hemorrhage risk of giant arteriovenous malformations
Cerebrovascular section meeting, San Diego, 2003

Perforators of the proximal anterior cerebral circulation: Surgical Anatomy and Clinical Implications
Yale Neurosurgery Department Ground Rounds. May 28, 2003

White JB, Cohen-Gadol AA, Koch CA, Krauss WE. Dysphonia and dysphagia following anterior cervical spine surgery
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, April 2003

Cohen-Gadol AA, Koch CA, Raffel C, Spinner RJ. Confirmation of research publications reported by neurological surgery applicants American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, April 2003

Cohen-Gadol AA, Matsumoto JY, Ahlskog JE, Davis DH. Selective peripheral denervation for intractable torticollis: The Mayo Clinic experience with 168 patients American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Diego, April 2003

Westerveld M, Cohen-Gadol AA, Stoddard K, Alvarez-Carilles J, Spencer SS, Spencer DD. Intracarotid amytal memory and hippocampal volume measurements: Validity of the Wada as an indicator of MRI determined hippocampal atrophy
International Neuropsychology Society, Berlin, July 2002

Cohen-Gadol AA, Bates LM, Meyer FB, Cascino GD. Central lobule seizures: Utilization of awake cortical mapping and subdural grid monitoring for seizure focus resection. American Epilepsy Society meeting in Seattle, December 2002

Cohen-Gadol AA, Britton JW, Sirven JI, Chabolla DR, Zimmerman RS, Marsh WR, Meyer FB, Wharen RE, Drazkowski JF, Cascino GD, Doll KE. Vagus nerve stimulation in patients older than 60: A multicenter study American Epilepsy Society meeting, Seattle, December 2002

Cohen-Gadol AA, Dekutoski MB, Kim CW, Quast LM, Krauss WE. Safety of supplemental endplate screws in thoracic pedicle hook fixation Congress of Neurological Surgeons meeting, Philadelphia, September 2002

Cohen-Gadol AA, Matsumoto JY, Ahlskog JE, Davis DH. Selective peripheral denervation for intractable torticollis: The Mayo Clinic experience with 168 patients Movement Disorder Society meeting, Miami Beach, November 2002

Kadyrov NA, Friedman JA, Nichols DA, Cohen-Gadol AA, Link MJ, Piepgras DG. Endovascular treatment of an internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm following transsphenoidal surgery. case report Cerebrovascular section meeting, February 2002

Cohen-Gadol AA, Britton JW, Marsh WR, Meyer FB. Management strategies for the side effects associated with initiation of vagus nerve stimulation American Epilepsy Society meeting in Philadelphia, November 2001

Cohen-Gadol AA, Pichelmann MA, Link MJ, Scheithauer BW, Krecke KN, Young WF, Hardy J, Giannini C. Granular cell tumor of the neurohypophysis: a clinicopathologic study of 11 cases American Association of Neurological Surgeons meeting in Toronto, April 2001


Invited Course Faculty/Lectureship
AANS Breakfast Seminar-Unexpected Intra-Operative Vascular Complications in Intracranial Surgery: What to Do Next-A Video Presentation. Philadelphia – May, 2010

Visting Professor and Key Note Speaker-University of Mississippi Dept of Neurological Surgery and Mississippi State Neurosurgical Society -Jan 2010. Brain mapping for “inoperable” gliomas: Lessons Learned

Invited Faculty: Goodman Oral Board Review Course – Cranial Surgery Topics. Houston – Texas, May 2010

CNS Luncheon Seminar: Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysms: Microsurgical and Endovascular Treatment Options. New Orleans – October, 2010

AANS Course: Nuances of Technique and Complication Avoidance in Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery for Senior Residents – Course Founder and Director – Practical Anatomy Workshop – St Louis - July 2009

Cerebrovascular Complication “3C Jackson Hole” Conference – Moderator Complications of Aneurysm Surgery – Case presentation – July 2009

AANS Course: Minimally Invasive Treatment of Trigeminal Neuralgia Weekend Practical Course. Chicago - April 2008, San Diego - April 2009 and Philadelphia – May 2010

AANS Seminar: Epilepsy: New Surgical Treatment and Management Approaches Morning Breakfast Seminar. Chicago - April 2008, San Diego - April 2009

AANS Course: “Everything You Need to Know, but Didn’t Learn in Residency: A Primer on How to Choose a Practice and Avoiding Pitfalls” Weekend practical course Atlanta - October, 2007

UCLA Radiosurgery and Functional Neurosurgery Tutorial Course Los Angeles - August 2-4, 2005

Operative Techniques with the Masters Practical Anatomy Workshop St Louise - June 5-10, 2003