Education
 
1998: BS/BA, University of California, San Diego
2003: MD, University of California, San Francisco
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1997: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
1997: Senior of the Year, UC San Diego
1998-2003: Medical Scholars Program, UC San Francisco
1999: Ralston Prize in Neuroscience, UCSF
1999: Dean's Research Prize Finalist, UC San Francisco
2001: David B. Anderson American Brain Tumor Association Fellowship
2001: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Training Fellowship
2002: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Continued Support Fellowship
2004: Edwin F. Boldrey Award for Basic Science Research, San Francisco Neurological Society
2005: Invited Lecturer, Frye-Halloran Symposium on Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurological Surgery
2006: Congress of Neurological Surgeons Dandy Clinical Fellowship
2007: Guest Editor, Neurosurgery Clinics of North America
2007: Kaiser Award for Clinical Resarch, San Francisco Neurological Society
2007: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Research Training Grant (NIH-NINDS)
 
Contact
 
Nader Sanai MD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
Email: sanain@neurosurg.ucsf.edu
 
Professional Memberships
 
American Association of Cancer Research
American Society of Clinical Oncology
San Francisco Neurological Society
Society for Neuroscience
American Brain Tumor Association
National Brain Tumor Foundation
San Francisco Medical Society
California Medical Society
American Medical Association
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Sanai N, Berger MS. Glioma Extent of Resection and Its Impact on Patient Outcome. Neurosurgery 2008;62(4):753-66.
 
Sanai N, Fullerton H, Karl TR, Lawton MT. Aortocarotid bypass for hemispheric hypoperfusion in a child. J Neurosurg Pediatrics 2008;1(4):343-7.
 
Sanai N, Mirzadeh Z, Berger MS. Functional Outcome after Language Mapping for Glioma Resection. N Engl J Med 2008;358(1):18-27.
 
Sanai N, Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Narvid J, Kunwar S. Safety and efficacy of the direct endonasal transsphenoidal approach for challenging sellar tumors. J Neurooncol 2007;[Epub ahead of print].
 
Acosta FL Jr, Sanai N, Chi JH, Dowd CF, Chin C, Tihan T, Chou D, Weinstein PR, Ames CP. Comprehensive management of symptomatic and aggressive vertebral hemangiomas. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2008;19(1):17-29.
 
Sanai N, Berger MS, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A. Comment on "Human neuroblasts migrate to the olfactory bulb via a lateral ventricular extension." Science 2007;318(5849):393.
 
Quinones-Hinojosa A, Sanai N, Gonzalez-Perez O, Garcia-Verdugo JM. The human brain subventricular zone: stem cells in this niche and its organization. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2007;18(1):15-20.
 
Sanai N, Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Gupta NM, Perry V, Sun PP, Wilson CB, Lawton MT. Pediatric intracranial aneurysms: durability of treatment following microsurgical and endovascular management. J Neurosurg 2006;104(2 Suppl Pediatrics):82-89.
 
Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Sanai N, Soriano-Navarro M, Gonzalez-Perez O, Mirzadeh Z, Gil-Perotin S, Romero-Rodriguez R, Berger MS, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A. Cellular composition and cytoarchitecture of the adult human subventricular zone: A niche of neural stem cells. J Comp Neurol 2006;494(3):415-34.
 
Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Ware ML, Sanai N, McDermott MW. Assessment of Image Guided Accuracy in a Skull Model: Comparison of Frameless Stereotaxy Techniques vs. Frame-Based Localization. J Neurooncol 2006;76(1):65-70.
 
Sanai N, Alvarez-Buylla A, Berger MS. Neural Stem Cells and the Origin of Gliomas. N Engl J Med 2005;353(8):811-822.
 
Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Sanai N, Smith JS, McDermott MW. Techniques to assess the proliferative potential of brain tumors. J Neurooncol 2005;74(1):19-30.
 
Sanai N, Tramontin AD, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Barbaro NM, Gupta N, Kunwar S, Lawton MT, McDermott MW, Parsa AT, Manuel-Garcia Verdugo J, Berger MS, Alvarez-Buylla A. Unique astrocyte ribbon in adult human brain contains neural stem cells but lacks chain migration. Nature 2004;427(6976):740-4.
 
Lawton MT, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Sanai N, Malek JY, Dowd CF. Combined microsurgical and endovascular management of complex intracranial aneurysms. Neurosurgery 2003;52(2):263-74; discussion 274-5.
 
Quinones-Hinojosa A, Ojemann SG, Sanai N, Dillon WP, Berger MS. Preoperative correlation of intraoperative cortical mapping with magnetic resonance imaging landmarks to predict localization of the Broca area. J Neurosurg 2003;99(2):311-8.
 
Quinones-Hinojosa A, Sanai N, Fischbein NJ, Rosenberg WS. Extensive intradural arachnoid cyst of the lumbar spinal canal: case report. Surg Neurol 2003;60(1):57-9.
 
Ruan H, Hu L, Wang J, Ozawa T, Sanai N, Zhang M, Lamborn KR, Deen DF. Hypoxia-inducible expression of BAX: application in tumor-targeted gene therapy. Neurosurg Focus [serial on the Internet] 2000 [cited 2004 Jul 1];8(4):[7 p]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/apr00/8-4-5.pdf.