Education
 
2000: University of Oklahoma
2005: MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
 
Professional Affiliations
 
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1996: National Honor Society
1997: National Merit Scholarship
1997: David A. Boyd Scholarship
1999: Golden Key National Honor Society
2001: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Student Research Fellowship
2003: American Heart Association Medical Student Research Fellowship
2004: American Medical Association: Seed Research Grant
2005: Alpha Omega Alpha
2005: Louis Gibofsky Memorial Prize for Excellence in Immunobiology Research
2008: American Association of Neurological Surgery: Synthes Skull Base Award
 
Contact
 
Michael E. Sughrue MD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Komotar RJ, Kim GH, Sughrue ME, Otten ML, Rynkowski MA, Kellner CP, Hahn DK, Merkow MB, Garrett MC, Starke RM, Connolly ES. Neurologic assessment of somatosensory dysfunction following an experimental rodent model of cerebral ischemia. Nat Protoc 2007;2(10):2345-2347.
 
Mocco J, Mack WJ, Ducruet AF, King RG, Sughrue ME, Coon AL, Sosunov SA, Sciacca RR, Zhang Y, Marsh HC Jr, Pinsky DJ, Connolly ES Jr. Preclinical evaluation of the neuroprotective effect of soluble complement receptor type 1 in a nonhuman primate model of reperfused stroke. J Neurosurg 2006;105(4):595-601.
 
Mocco J, Sughrue ME, Ducruet AF, Komotar RJ, Sosunov SA, Connolly ES Jr. The complement system: a potential target for stroke therapy. Adv Exp Med Biol 2006;586:189-201.
 
Chi JH, Sughrue M, Kunwar S, Lawton MT. The "yo-yo" technique to prevent cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea after anterior clinoidectomy for proximal internal carotid artery aneurysms. Neurosurgery. 2006 Jul;59(1 Suppl 1):ONS101-7; discussion ONS101-7.
 
Mocco J, Wilson DA, Komotar RJ, Sughrue ME, Coates K, Sacco RL, Elkind MS, Connolly ES Jr. Alterations in plasma complement levels after human ischemic stroke. Neurosurgery 2006;59(1):28-33;discussion 28-33.
 
Mocco J, Mack WJ, Ducruet AF, Sosunov SA, Sughrue ME, Hassid BG, Nair MN, Laufer I, Komotar RJ, Claire M, Holland H, Pinsky DJ, Connolly ES Jr. Complement component C3 mediates inflammatory injury following focal cerebral ischemia. Circ Res 2006;99(2):209-17.
 
Sughrue ME, Mocco J, Komotar RJ, Mehra A, D'Ambrosio AL, Grobelny BT, Penn DL, Connolly ES Jr. An improved test of neurological dysfunction following transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats. J Neurosci Methods 2006;151(2):83-9.
 
Mack WJ, Sughrue ME, Ducruet AF, Mocco J, Sosunov SA, Hassid BG, Silverberg JZ, Ten VS, Pinsky DJ, Connolly ES Jr. Temporal pattern of C1q deposition after transient focal cerebral ischemia. J Neurosci Res 2006;83(5):883-9.
 
Sughrue ME, Connolly ES Jr. Possible mechanistic overlap between cavernous malformations and cerebral developmental venous anomalies. Stroke 2005;36(11):2339.
 
Ten VS, Sosunov SA, Mazer SP, Stark RI, Caspersen C, Sughrue ME, Botto M, Connolly ES Jr, Pinsky DJ. C1q-deficiency is neuroprotective against hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in neonatal mice. Stroke 2005;36(10):2244-50.
 
Imielinska C, Liu X, Rosiene J, Sughrue ME, Komotar RJ, Mocco J, Ransom ER, Lignelli A, Zacharia BE, Connolly ES Jr, D'Ambrosio AL. Toward objective quantification of perfusion-weighted computed tomography in subarachnoid hemorrhage: quantification of symmetry and automated delineation of vascular territories. Acad Radiol 2005;12(7):874-87.
 
D'Ambrosio AL, Sughrue ME, Yorgason JG, Mocco JD, Kreiter KT, Mayer SA, McKhann GM 2nd, Connolly ES Jr. Decompressive hemicraniectomy for poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage patients with associated intracerebral hemorrhage: clinical outcome and quality of life assessment. Neurosurgery 2005;56(1):12-9; discussion 19-20.
 
Komotar RJ, Mocco J, Carson BS, Sughrue ME, Zacharia BE, Sisti AC, Canoll PD, Khandji AG, Tihan T, Burger PC, Bruce JN. Pilomyxoid astrocytoma: a review. MedGenMed 2004;6(4):42.
 
Sughrue ME, Mehra A, Connolly ES Jr, D'Ambrosio AL. Anti-adhesion molecule strategies as potential neuroprotective agents in cerebral ischemia: a critical review of the literature [Review]. Inflamm Res 2004;53(10):497-508.
 
D'Ambrosio AL, Sughrue ME, Mocco J, Mack WJ, King RG, Agarwal S, Connolly ES Jr. A modified transorbital baboon model of reperfused stroke. Methods Enzymol 2004;386:60-73.
 
Winfree CJ, Mack WJ, Hoh D, King R, Ducruet AF, D'Ambrosio AL, Sughrue ME, McKinnell J, Connolly ES Jr. Laser Doppler flowmetry in non-human primate stroke studies: model refinement for pre-clinical development of cerebroprotective strategies. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2003;145(12):1105-10; discussion 1110.