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.
Curriculum Vitae:
Personal:
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
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