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Pankaj A. Gore, M.D.

9155 SW Barnes Rd. Suite 440 Portland, OR 97225 Office: (503) 297-3766 Fax: (503) 297-8148

Professional

Aug 2008 - present	Microneurosurgical Consultants	Portland, OR
Physician and Surgeon
Aug 2008 - present	Providence Brain Institute	Portland, OR
Medical Co-Director, Cranial Services
July 2002 - Jun 2008	St. Joseph's Hospital	Phoenix, AZ
July 2002 - Jun 2008	Resident in Neurosurgery Barrow Neurological Institute
Jan 2007 - Jun 2007	In-folded Fellowship in Cerebrovascular and Skull-base Neurosurgery Barrow Neurological Institute
Jan 2006 - Feb 2006 Nov 2004 - Jan 2005	In-folded Complex Spine and Spinal Trauma Fellowships Barrow Neurological Institute
July 2006 - Dec 2006	Prince of Wales Hospitals	Sydney, Australia
July 2006 - Dec 2006	Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
July 2001 - Jun 2002	Good Samaritan Hospital	Phoenix, AZ
Internship - Phoenix Integrated Surgical Residency
Sep 1997 - May 2001	Washington University	Saint Louis, MO
M.D. - School of Medicine
Sep 1993 - May 1996	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, VA
B.A. with Distinction in Economics and Biology

Honors and Awards

• First Place Poster, General Interest Category,
  74th American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2006
  Normobaric Oxygen Therapy Strategies in the Treatment of Post-craniotomy Pneumocephalus.
• Distinguished Student Scholar, Washington University School of Medicine, 1997 - 2001
• Alpha Omega Alpha, Washington University School of Medicine, 2000
• Echols Scholar, University of Virginia, 1993 - 1996
• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Virginia, 1996
• National Institutes of Health Summer Research Fellowship Awards, 1994 - 1996
• National Merit Finalist Scholarship winner, 1993
• Eagle Scout, 1993

Licensure and Certification

• State of Oregon (MD28449)
• American Board of Neurological Surgery Board Eligible
  Written examination passed, 2005

Publications

• Gore PA, Theodore N, Brasiliense L, Kim LJ, Garrett M, Nakaji P, Gonzalez LF, McDougall CG, Albuquerque FC. "The Utility of Onyx for Preoperative Embolization of Cranial and Spinal Tumors." Neurosurgery. (Accepted)
• Gore PA, Maan H, Chang SW, Pitt A, Spetzler RF, Nakaji P. "Normobaric Oxygen Therapy Strategies in the Treatment of Post-craniotomy Pneumocephalus." Journal of Neurosurgery. 108(5):926-929, 2008.
• Gore PA, Gonzalez FL, Rekate HL, Nakaji P. "Endoscopic Supracerebellar Infratentorial Approach for Pineal Cyst Resection: Technical Case Report." Neurosurgery. 62(3 suppl 1):108-109, 2008.
• Ong BC*, Gore PA*, Donnellan MB, Kertesz T, Teo C. "Endoscopic Sublabial Transmaxillary Approach to the Rostral Middle Fossa." Neurosurgery. 62(3 suppl 1):30-36, 2008. (*shared first-author credit)
• Chang SW, Gore PA, Nakaji P, Rekate HL. "Juvenile Intradural Chordoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature." Neurosurgery. 62(2):E525-E526, 2008.
• Bambakidis NC, Gore P, Eschbacher J, Coons S, Albuquerque FC. "Intraosseous spinal glomus tumors: case report." Neurosurgery. 60(6):E1152-1153, 2007.
• Gore PA, Nakaji P, Deshmukh V, Rekate HL. "Synchronous Endoscopy and Microsurgery: A Novel Strategy to Approach Complex Ventricular Lesions." Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics. 105(6):485-489, 2006.
• Raychaudhuri R, Gore PA, Webb M, Dickman CA. "Management of Thoracic Vertebral Giant Cell Tumor with Complete Spondylectomy: Case Report." Barrow Quarterly. 22(2):4-7, 2006.
• Nakaji P, Gore P, Spetzler RF. "Management of Arteriovenous Malformations: A Surgical Perspective." Neurology India. 53(1):14-16, 2005
• Won EK, Zahner MC, Grant EA, Gore P, Chicoine MR. "Analysis of the antitumoral mechanisms of lipopolysaccharide against glioblastoma multiforme." Anti-Cancer Drugs. 14(6):457-66, 2003.
• De Luca F, Ray K, Mancilla EE, Fan GF, Winer KK, Gore P, Spiegel AM, Baron J. "Sporadic hypoparathyroidism caused by de novo gain-of-function mutations of the Ca2+-sensing receptor." Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 82(8):2710-5, 1997.
• Gore PA, Maughan P, Maan H, Karahalios DG, Potts E, Theodore N. "Multicenter experience with Synex Expandable Cage for Thoracolumbar Pathology." European Spine Journal. (Submitted)
• Teo C, Gore PA. "Endonasal Endoscopic Resection of Skull-base Meningiomas." Neurosurgery. (Submitted)

Abstracts

• Gore PA, Bambakidis N, Lekovic GP. "Combined Endoscopic Endonasal and Sublabial Transmaxillary Approach to the Contralateral Petrous Apex." Abstract for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2008.
• Gore PA, Theodore N, Brasiliense L, Kim LJ, Garrett M, Nakaji P, Gonzalez LF, McDougall CG, Albuquerque FC. "The Utility of Onyx for Preoperative Embolization of Cranial and Spinal Tumors." Abstract for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2008.
• Gore PA, Ong BC, Donnellan MB, Kertesz T, Teo C. "Endoscopic Sublabial Transmaxillary Approach to the Rostral Middle Fossa." Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2007.
• Gore PA, Gonzalez FL, Rekate HL, Nakaji P. "Endoscopic Supracerebellar Infratentorial Approach for Pineal Cyst Resection." Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2007.
• Gore PA, Donnellan MB, Ong BC, Kertesz T, Teo C. "Endoscopic Sublabial Transmaxillary Approach to the Rostral Middle Fossa." Oral Abstract for the North American Skull Base Society Meeting, 2007.
• Gore PA, Spetzler RF, Nakaji P. "Normobaric Oxygen Therapy Strategies in the Treatment of Post-craniotomy Pneumocephalus." Abstract for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2006.
• Gore PA, Nakaji P, Deshmukh V, Rekate HL. "Synchronous Endoscopy and Microsurgery: A Novel Strategy to Approach Complex Ventricular Lesions." Abstract for the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2006.
• Gore PA, Nakaji P, Deshmukh V, Rekate HL. "Synchronous Endoscopy and Microsurgery: A Novel Strategy to Approach Complex Ventricular Lesions." Oral Abstract for the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery Meeting, 2005.
• Gore PA, Horn EM, Bristol RE, Harvey A, Theodore N. "Intraoperative Epiduralography: A Rapid and Simple Technique to Evaluate for Spinal Canal Compression." Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2005.
• Gore PA, Spetzler RF, Smith K, Porter R. "Surgical Outcomes with Midline Intraventricular GBM." Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2005.
• Bristol RE, Gore PA, Treiman D, Smith KA. "Resolution of Status Epilepticus following Subdural Grid Recording and Subpial Transections in an adult." Abstract for American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2005.
• Bristol RE, Gore PA, Thomas T, Smith KA. "Why are some Glioblastoma Patients plagued by Radiation Necrosis?" Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2005.
• Gore PA, Dickman C. "Compressed Interposed Strut Graft Fusion Technique in Occipitocervical Stabilization of Rheumatoid Arthritis." Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2004.
• Gore PA, Harrington T. "Superior Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis caused by a Gunshot Wound: A case of Acute Pseudotumor?" Abstract for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, 2004.
• Won EK, Gore P, Zahner M, Chicoine M. "Intratumoral lipopolysaccharide causes regression of subcutaneously implanted mouse DBT glioblastoma multiforme in nude and SCID mice." Abstract for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in Toronto, 2001.
• Gore P, Alheid GF, Shammah-Lagnado SJ, Beltramino CA, Yang M, Marksteiner J, Miselis RR, de Olmos JS, Heimer L. "Peri-pallidal portions of the extended amygdala in the rat: the supracapsular and marginal zones." Abstract for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington D.C., 1996.

Book Chapters

• Gore PA, Nakaji P, Teo C. "The Eyebrow Approach." Invited book chapter in G Steinberg et al. eds. Neurosurgery Tricks of the Trade. (In press)
• Gore PA, Spetzler RF. "Resection of Convexity Ateriovenous Malformations." Invited book chapter in G Steinberg et al. eds. Neurosurgery Tricks of the Trade. (In press)
• Gore PA, Chang SW, Theodore N. "The Pediatric Cervical Spine." Invited book chapter in AR Vaccaro and PA Anderson eds. Cervical Spine Trauma. (In press)
• Gore PA, Chang SW, Nakaji P. "Endoscopy of the Cerebellopontine Angle." Invited book chapter in N Bambakidis et al. eds. Surgery of the Cerebellopontine Angle. 2008.
• Gore PA, Teo C. "Endoscopy of the Subarachnoid Space." Invited book chapter in C Gagliardi ed. Técnicas actuales en Neurocirugía Endoscópica. (In press)

Courses

• Faculty, Endoscopic Techniques in Neurosurgery. Course Director: Peter Nakaji. Barrow Neurological Institute. Phoenix, Arizona. January 18-19, 2008.
• Faculty, Currents in Neuroendoscopy. Course Director: Peter Nakaji. Phoenix, Arizona. March 2008.
• Faculty, Endoscopic Techniques in Neurosurgery. Course Directors: Peter Nakaji and Ron Young. Seattle Science Foundation. Seattle, Washington. July 17-19, 2008.

Research

• Endoscopic sublabial transmaxillary approach to the rostral middle fossa: A cadaveric anatomical study.
  University of New South Wales School of Medical Sciences. (2006)
• A phase III multicenter study of intratumoral/interstitial therapy with TransMID compared to best standard of care in patients with progressive and/or recurrent non-resectable glioblastoma multiforme.
  Site Co-Investigator, Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia. (2006)
• Mechanisms of lipopolysaccharide in promoting glioma regression.
  Washington University Department of Neurological Surgery. (2000)
• Neuroanatomic connections of the marginal zone, a peri-pallidal region of the extended amygdala in the rat.
  Laboratory of Neuroanatomy, University of Virginia Department of Otolaryngology. (1996-97)
• Sporadic activating mutations of the parathyroid calcium-sensing receptor.
  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. NIH Summer Research Fellowship Award. (1995,1996)
• Characterization of a possible D2 dopamine receptor in ACTH secreting pituitary adenomas.
  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. NIH Summer Research Fellowship Award. (1994)

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