Education
 
1997: AB, Harvard University, Graduated with Honors
2002: MD, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1993: National Hispanic Merit Scholar
1995-1997: Harvard College Scholarship for Academic Distinction
1997: Harvard College Graduation with Honors
1998: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology Fellowship
1999: Chrysalis Scholar
2000: Harvard Medical School Summer Research Award
2000: Dana Scholarship at Harvard Medical School
2001: Boston Globe Foundation Scholarship
2002: Harvard Medical School Honors Thesis
2005: Ronald Tasker Young Investigator Award
2006: Kaiser Award for Clinical Research
 
Professional Memberships
 
American College of Surgeons
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
CNS/AANS Cerebrovascular Section
 
Contact
 
Rene Sanchez Mejia MD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
E-mail: Rene.Sanchez-Mejia@ucsf.edu
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Lawton MT. Distal aneurysms of basilar perforating and circumferential arteries. Report of three cases. J Neurosurg 2007;107(3):654-9.
 
Aryan HE, Sanchez-Mejia RO, Ben-Haim S, Ames CP. Successful treatment of cervical myelopathy with minimal morbidity by circumferential decompression and fusion [published online ahead of print January 11, 2007]. Eur Spine J. doi: 10.1007/s00586-006-0291-9.
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Limbo M, Cheng JS, Camara Quintana J, Ward MM, Barbaro NM. Ronald Tasker Award: retreatment of medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia. Clin Neurosurg 2006;53:313-5.
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Chennupati SK, Gupta N, Fullerton H, Young WL, Lawton MT. Superior outcomes in children compared with adults after microsurgical resection of brain arteriovenous malformations. J Neurosurg 2006;105(2 Suppl):82-7.
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Limbo M, Tihan T, Galvez MG, Woodward MV, Gupta N. Intracranial dermoid cyst mimicking hemorrhage. Case report and review of the literature. J Neurosurg 2006;105(4 Suppl):311-4.
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Ojemann SG, Simko J, Chaudhary UB, Levy J, Lawton MT. Sacral epithelioid angiosarcoma associated with a bleeding diathesis and spinal epidural hematoma: case report. J Neurosurg Spine 2006;4(3):246-50.
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Pham DN, Prados M, Tihan T, Cha S, El-Sayed I, McDermott MW. Management of a Sporadic Malignant Subfrontal Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor. J Neurooncol 2006;76(2):165-9.
 
Sanchez-Mejia RO, Limbo M, Cheng JS, Camara J, Ward MM, Barbaro NM. Recurrent or refractory trigeminal neuralgia after microvascular decompression, radiofrequency ablation, or radiosurgery. Neurosurg Focus 2005;18(5):[6 p.]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/may05/18-5-12.pdf
 
Cheng JS, Sanchez-Mejia RO, Limbo M, Ward MM, Barbaro NM. Management of medically refractory trigeminal neuralgia in patients with multiple sclerosis. Neurosurg Focus 2005;18(5):[5 p.]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/may05/18-5-13.pdf
 
Zhang Y, Li M, Drozda M, Chen M, Ren S, Sanchez Mejia RO, Leavitt BR, Cattaneo E, Ferrante RJ, Hayden MR, Friedlander RM. Depletion of wild-type huntingtin in mouse models of neurologic diseases. J Neurochem 2003;87(1):101-6.
 
Sanchez Mejia RO, Ona VO, Li M, Friedlander RM. Minocycline reduces traumatic brain injury-mediated caspase-1 activation, tissue damage, and neurological dysfunction. Neurosurgery 2001;48(6):1393-9; discussion 1399-401.
 
Sanchez Mejia RO, Friedlander RM. Caspases in Huntington's disease [Review]. Neuroscientist 2001;7(6):480-9.
 
Sanchez Mejia RO, Lam BK, Arm JP. Matrix-associated transforming growth factor-beta1 primes mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells for increased high-affinity Fc receptor for immunoglobulin E-dependent eicosanoid biosynthesis. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2000;22(55):557-65.
 
Fujishima H, Sanchez Mejia RO, Bingham CO 3rd, Lam BK, Sapirstein A, Bonventre JV, Austen KF, Arm JP. Cytosolic phospholipase A2 is essential for both the immediate and the delayed phases of eicosanoid generation in mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999;96(9):4803-7.