Education
 
1995: BA, Rice University
1999: MD, University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine
1999-2000: Internship, Department of Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
2002-2003: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
 
Selected Honors and Awards
 
1999: Alpha Omega Alpha
2006: Preuss Award for Outstanding Brain Tumor Research Abstract, Congress of Neurological Surgeons
 
Contact
 
James Waldron MD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
E-mail: James.Waldron@ucsf.edu
 
Selected Recent Publications
 
Parsa AT, Waldron JS, Panner A, Crane CA, Parney IF, Barry JJ, Cachola KE, Murray JC, Tihan T, Jensen MC, Mischel PS, Stokoe D, Pieper RO. Loss of tumor suppressor PTEN function increases B7-H1 expression and immunoresistance in glioma. Nat Med 2007;13(1):84-8.
 
Waldron JS, Tihan T, Parsa AT. Solitary fibrous tumor arising from Cranial Nerve VI in the prepontine cistern: case report and review of a tumor subpopulation mimicking schwannoma [Review]. Neurosurgery 2006;59(4):E939-40; discussion E940.
 
Waldron JS, Cha S. Radiographic features of intramedullary spinal cord tumors. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2006;17(1):13-9.
 
Waldron JS, Tihan T. Epidemiology and pathology of intraventricular tumors [Review]. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2003;14(4):469-82.
 
Waldron JS, Ames C: Benign Tumors of the Spine, in Prados M and Berger MS (Eds.): Textbook of Neuro-Oncology. Philadelphia, WB Saunders.
 
Waldron JS, Parsa AT. Treatment Principles: Immunobiology/Immunotherapy. In Prados M, Berger MS (eds): Textbook of Neuro-Oncology. Philadelphia, WB Saunders.
 
Waldron JS, Weinstein, P. Nerve Sheath Tumors of the Spine. In Prados M, Berger MS (eds): Textbook of Neuro-Oncology. Philadelphia, WB Saunders.