Howard J. Senter, M.D., F.A.C.S

Undergraduate Education:
Hunter College
City University of New York 1965-69 B.A., 1969, Chemistry

Graduate School:
Tufts University
School of Medicine
Boston, Mass. 1969-73 M.D., 1973

Post-Graduate School:
Tufts New England
Medical Center
Boston, Mass. 1973-74 Intern, Surgery

New York University
Bellevue Medical Center
New York, N.Y. 1974-75 Resident, Neurology

Yale – New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Conn. 1975-80 Neurosurgery

Licensure:
Pennsylvania MD024681E 1981-Present
Connecticut 1975-81
New York 1974-75
Massachusetts 1973-74

Board Certification:
American Board of Neurological Surgeons, 1982

Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 1984

Active Member, Joint Section, Cerebrovascular
Surgery (CNS and AANS), 1988

Fellow, Stroke Council, American Heart
Association, 1990

Active Member, Joint Section, Tumor
Surgery (CNS and AANS), 1991

American Academy of Disability Evaluation
Physicians Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Department of Labor and Industry, 1998

Academic Honors and Awards
Regents Scholarship New York State, 1965-69

Graduate Cum Laude City University Honors in Chemistry of New York, 1969

Jonas Salk Scholarship City University for Medicine of New York, 1969-72

Alpha Omega Alpha (Honors Medical Society) Tufts University, 1972-73

President, Alpha Omega Alpha Tufts University, 1973

Award for Neuroscience Tufts University, 1973

President, House Staff Yale-New Haven
Council Hospital, 1977-78

Academy Award American Academy
of Neurologic Surgery, 1978

Society of Salk 1989 Scholars

Physicians Recognition American Medical
Award Association, 1983-85

Third Place, Poster American Association
Session of Neurologic Surgeons, 1988

Continuing Education Award American Association in Neurosurgery of Neurological Surgeons, 1995

Continuing Education Award American Association in Neurosurgery of Neurological Surgeons, 1996-98

“2005 Top Doctors” Pittsburgh Magazine, 2005

“2006 Top Doctors” Pittsburgh Magazine, 2006

“2007 Top Doctors” Pittsburgh Magazine, 2007

Appointments:
Academic:

Research Associate Yale University
Neurosurgery School of Medicine, 1977-78

Instructor, Neurosurgery Yale University, 1979-80

Assistant Clinical Professor University of Pittsburgh 1989-Present, Neurosurgery

Assistant Clinical Professor Temple University 2003-Present (Adjunct), Dept. of School of Medicine Neurosurgery

Hospitals:
Attending Neurosurgeon Hospital of St. Raphael, 1980-81

Associate Staff Western Pennsylvania
Hospital, 1981-82

Consulting Staff St. Margaret Memorial Hospital, 1981-Present

Active Staff Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 1982-Present

Active Staff UMPC Passavant Hospital, 1987-Present

Vice President Western Pennsylvania Medical Staff Hospital, 1988-89

President Western Pennsylvania Medical Staff Hospital, 1989-91

Active Provisional Allegheny General Hospital, 1997-Present

Active Staff Forbes Regional, Chief, Division Western Pennsylvania, 1999-Present

Neurosurgery Hospital, 10/01-Present

Active Staff Butler Memorial Hospital, 09/00-Present

Courtesy Staff The Medical Center of Beaver Active Staff UPMC Shadyside, 01/04-Present

Professional Activities:
Educational:
Coma and Altered Mental States
Emergency Medicine Residency Yearly Lecture
Presbyterian University Hospital, 1982-Present

Seminar, Stroke Update
St. Margaret Hospital, 09/26/85

Quarterly Neurosurgery Lecture
Temple Medical Students

Western Pennsylvania Hospital
Yearly Lecture, Neurosurgery Update

Westmoreland Hospital Faculty, Treatment of Cancer Pain Seminar, Station Square,
Western Pennsylvania Hospital, 03/88

Yearly Lecture, Subdural & Subarachnoid
Hemorrhage, Medical Resident Lecture
Series, West Penn Hospital

‘Headache’ & Cephalgia, Guest Faculty
Lecture, Canaan Valley Pain Management
and Regional Anesthesia Symposium, 02/02

Presentations:
Extracranial Vertebral Bypass
American Association

Senter, JH; Bittar, S; Long, ET of Neurological
Surgeons Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1985

Anterior Cervical Discectomy American Association
and Hydroxylapatite Fusion of Neurological
Senter, HJ; Kortyna, R; Kemp Surgeons Annual
WR meeting, Toronto, 1988

Professional Organizations:
Alpha Omega Alpha, 1972
New England Neurosurgical Society, 1980
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 1981
The Pittsburgh Neuroscience Society, 1981
Mid-Atlantic Neurosurgical Society, 1981
Allegheny County Medical Society, 1981
Pennsylvania Medical Society, 1981
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1983
American College of Surgeons, 1984
Joint Section Cerebrovascular Surgery AANS-CNS, 1988
Joint Section on Tumors AANS-CNS, 1991

Publications:
Senter, HJ; Lieberman; AN; and Pinto, R: Cerebral Manifestations of Ergotism. Stroke 7(1), 1976.

Gordon, H; Holzman, R; and Senter, HJ: Aspergillus Meningitis, JAMA 235: 529-532, May, 1976.

Senter, HJ; Burgess, DL; and Metzler, J: An Improved Technique for Measurement of Spinal Cord Blood Flow. Brain Res, 149: 197-203, 1978.

Senter, HJ and Venes, JL: Altered Blood Flow and Secondary Injury in Experimental Spinal Cord Trauma. J. Neurosurg, 49: 569-578, 1978.

Senter, HJ; Venes, JL; and Kauer, JS: Alteration of Posttraumatic Ischemia Following Experimental Spinal Cord Trauma. J Neurosurg, 50: 198-206, 1979.

Senter, HJ and Venes, JL: Loss of Autoregulation and Posttraumatic Ischemia Following Experimental Spinal Cord Trauma. J Neurosurg,
50: 198-206, 1979.

Lohse, DL; Senter, HJ; Kauer, J; and Collins, WF: Spinal Cord Blood Flow Following Transient Experimental Paraplegia. Surgical Forum, 30:
450-452, 1979.

Senter, HJ: Spinal Cord Blood Flow in Experimental Spinal Cord Trauma.
Advances in Neurosurgery #7. Springer-Verlad, 1980.

Lohse, DL; Senter, HJ; and Kauer, J: Spinal Cord Blood Flow Following
Transient Experimental Paraplegia. J Neurosurg, 52: 335-345, 1980.

Cawthon, DF; Senter, HJ; and Stewart, WB: Comparison of Hydrogen Clearance and C-14 Antipyrine Autoradiography in the Measurement of
Spinal Cord Blood Flow After Severe Impact Injury. J Neurosurg, 52: 801-807, 1980.

Senter, HJ; Wolfe, A; and Wagner, FC: Intracranial Pressure in Nontraumatic Ischemic and Hypoxic Cerebral Insults. J Neurosurg, 54: 489-493, 1981.

Senter, HJ and Sarwar, M: Nontraumatic Dissecting Aneurysm of the Vertebral Artery. J Neurosurg, 56: 128-130, 1982.

Senter, HJ and Miller, DJ: Interoptic Course of the Anterior Cerebral Artery Associated with Anterior Cerebral Artery Aneurysm. J Neurosurg, 56: 302-304, 1982.

Senter, HJ and Long, ET: Combined Subclavian to External Carotid and Superficial Temporal to Middle Cerebral Artery Bypass Graft. Surgical Neurology, 18: 432-434, 1982.

Senter, HJ: Cerebral Microvascular Bypass for Preventing and Treating Strokes, Pennsylvania Medicine, May 1982.

Senter, HJ and Long, ET: Subclavian to Distal Vertebral Artery Bypass.
J Neurosurg, 58: 607-610, 1983.

Senter, HJ; Bittar, S; Long, ET: Revascularization of the Extracranial Vertebral Artery at Any Level Without Cross Clamping. J Neurosurg, 62: 334-339, 1985.

Senter, HJ; Kortyna, R; Kemp, WR: Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Hydroxylapatite Fusion. Neurosurgery, 25: 3943, 1989.

Harbaugh, RE; Reeder, TM; Senter, HJ, et al: Intraventricular Bethanechol in Alzheimer's disease. J Neurosurg, 71: 481-486, 1989.

Dekosky, St; Harbaugh, RE; Schmitt, FA; Bakay, RAE; Chui, HC; Knopman, DS; Reeder, TM; Shetter, AG; Senter, HJ; Markesbery, WR:
Intraventricular Bethanechol Study Group: Cortical Biopsy in Alzheimer's disease: Diagnostic Accuracy and Neurochemical, Neuropathological and Cognitive Correlations. Ann Neurol, 32: 625-632, 1992.

Senter, HJ and Budway, R: Cervical Disc Rupture Causing Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency. Neurosurgery, 33: 745-747, 1993.

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Business Address:
448 Mellon Pavilion
4815 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Business Phone: (412) 682-6800

Birthplace: New York, N.Y.
Birth Date: 16 June 1948
Citizenship Status: USA