Pocket Neurosurgeon

Joel D. MacDonald, MD graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Medicine in 1989. Following his general surgery internship at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, Dr. MacDonald completed his neurosurgery residency at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah in 1991 and followed with fellowship training in cerebrovascular neurosurgery at the University of Florida School of Medicine in 1995. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. MacDonald's other accomplishments include being Editor of NEUROSURGERY://ON-CALL(r), principal architect and engineer of OPCODER, procedural tracking software for residency credentially, co-chairman of the University of Utah, Brain Attack Program and guest abstract reviewer for NEUROSURGERY. Dr. MacDonald has lectured on topics such as aneurysmal disease and subarachnoid hemorrhage, arterial venous malformations, and dural arteriovenous malformations. Mark Greenberg, MD, attended medical school at Northwestern University in Chicago, and received his neurosurgical training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center under the direction of John M. Tew, Jr., MD. Currently, Dr. Greenberg is in private practice in a large, multi-specialty group in Lakeland, Florida, where he also enjoys the sunshine and raising his two children. Dr. Greenberg is also author of the "Handbook of Neurosurgery".

CONGENITAL / BRAIN * Chiari I* Chiari II Malformation (AC2)* Congenital Lipoma* Dandy-Walker Spectrum (DW)* Neurofibromatosis Type 1* Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2)* Tuberous Sclerosis (TSC)* Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL) CONGENITAL / SPINE * Craniovertebral Junction* Dermal Sinus* Diastematomyelia* Myelomeningocele* Tethered Cord TRAUMA / BRAIN * Axonal Injury* Cortical Contusions* Epidural Hematoma (EDH)* Herniations* Non-Accidental Trauma (N.A.T.)* Traumatic Subarachnoid (tSAH)* Subdural Hematoma (SDH) TRAUMA / SPINE * Brachial Plexus Avulsion* Burst Fracture* Central Cord Syndrome* Dens Fracture* Hangman's Fracture* Jefferson Fracture* Radiation Plexopathy* Rotatory Trauma with Facet Lock* Syrinx INFECTION / BRAIN * Abscess* Empyema* Meningitis INFECTION / SPINE * Epidural Abscess* Pyogenic Spondylitis VASCULAR / BRAIN * Aneurysmal Hemorrhage (aSAH)* AV Malformation (AVM)* Capillary Telangiectasia (CT)* Carotid Stenosis* Cavernous Malformation (CM)* Dissection* Dural AV Shunts (dAVSs)* Hypertensive Hemorrhage (hICH)* Primary Hemorrhage (pICH)* Saccular Aneurysm* Venous "Angioma" (VA)* Venous Occlusion VASCULAR / SPINE * Arteriovenous Malformation* Cavernous Malformation* Dural Arteriovenous Fistula NEOPLASM / BRAIN * Anaplastic Astrocytoma (AA)* Choroid Plexus Tumors* Craniopharyngioma (CP)* DNETs* Ependymoma* Ganglioglioma* Germinoma* Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)* Gliomatosis Cerebri (GC)* Hemangioblastoma* Low Grade Astrocytoma* Medulloblastoma (PNET-MB)* Meningioma* Metastatic Disease* Oligodendroglioma* Pilocytic Astrocytoma (PA)* Pineal Parenchymal Tumors* Pituitary Macroadenoma* Pituitary Microadenoma* Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma* Primary CNS Lymphoma NEOPLASM / HEAD AND NECK * Acoustic Schwannoma* Facial Nerve Schwannoma* Neurofibroma (NF)* Paraganglioma, Jugular Foramen* Meningioma, Jugular Foramen* Optic Nerve Glioma* Schwannoma, Jugular Foramen NEOPLASM / SPINE * Brachial Plexus Neuroma* Cord Astrocytoma* Cord Ependymoma* Extradural Metastases* Myxopapillary Ependymoma* Spinal Hemangioblastoma* Spinal Meningioma* Spinal Neurofibroma* Spinal Schwannoma* Vertebral Hemangioma*CYSTS* Aneurysmal Bone Cyst* Arachnoid Cyst* Colloid Cyst* Dermoid Cyst* Epidermoid Cyst DEGENERATIVE / SPINE * Disc Extrusion* Disc Herniation* Facet Joint Synovial Cyst* Ligamentous Ossifications* Spondylolysis with Spondylolisthesis MISC. / BRAIN * Intracranial Hypotension* Normal Pressure Hydro (NPH)* Obstructive Hydrocephalus (OH)