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Neuroscience Research Institute

Faculty Biosketch

 Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State College of Medicine
P.O. Box 850, 
500 University Drive
Hershey, PA 17033-2390

Mark Dias, M.D.

Department of Neurosurgery

Office Information

Phone: 717-531-4384
Mail Code: H110
Education
B.S., Animal Physiology, University of California - Davis, 1978
M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1982
Residency, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences Center, 1982-1989
Post- Doc: University of Utah, Department of Anatomy, Lab of Gary Schoenwolf, PhD, 1990
Work toward Master's degree, University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurobiology, Anatomy, and Cell Science, 1987
Primary Area of Interest
Abusive head injury demographics, biomechanics, radiology, controversies, timing, and prevention.
Research Focus
Abusive head injury (Shaken Baby Syndrome, demographics, biomechanics, radiology, controversies, timing, and prevention.

Also interested in clinically relevant embryology of dysraphic spinal cord and brain malformations and early neural development.
References
  1. Dias MS, Schoenwolf GC. “Ectopic embryo formation in avian blastoderms: age-related capacities for host induction and graft self-differentiation following transplantation of Hensen's node”. Anatomical Record 229:437-448 (1990).
  2. Dias MS, Lance-Jones C. “The influence of presumptive limb connective tissue on motoneuron axon guidance”. Developmental Biology 143: 93-110 (1991).
  3. Dias MS, Albright AL. “The treatment of hydrocephalus complicating posterior fossa tumors in childhood”. Pediatric Neuroscience 15:283-290 (1991).
  4. Dias MS, Pang D. “Juvenile intervertebral disc calcification: recognition, management, and pathogenesis”. Neurosurgery 28:130-134 (1991).
  5. Harris CP, Dias MS, Brockmeyer DL, Townsend JJ, Willis BK, Apfelbaum RI. “Posterior fossa neurenteric cysts: recognition, management, and embryogenesis”. Neurosurgery 29:893-897 (1991).
  6. McLone DG, Dias MS: “Complications of myelomeningocele closure”. Pediatric Neurosurgery 17:225-233 (1991-92).
  7. Pang D, Dias MS, Ahab-Barmada M: “Split cord malformations, Part I: A unified theory of embryogenesis for double cord malformations”. Neurosurg 31:451-480 (1992).
  8. Dias MS, Walker ML. “The embryogenesis of complex dysraphic malformations: a disorder of gastrulation?”. Pediatric Neurosurgery 18 (5-6):229-253 (1992).
  9. Schoenwolf GC, Garcia-Martinez V, Dias MS: “Mesoderm movement and fate during avian gastrulation and neurulation”. Developmental Dynamics 193:235-248 (1992).
  10. Pang D, Dias MS: “Cervical myelomeningoceles”. Neurosurg 33:363-373 (1993).
  11. Dias MS, McLone DG: “Management of Hydrocephalus in the Child with Dysraphism”. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 4(4):715-726 (1993).
  12. Dias MS, Pang D: “Split Cord Malformations”. Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 6(2):339-358 (1995).
  13. McLone DG, Dias MS, Goosens W, Knepper PA: Pathological changes in exposed neural tissue of fetal delayed splotch (Spd) mice. Child’s Nerv Syst 13:1-7 (1997).
  14. Dias MS, Azizkhan RA: “A novel mechanism for the embryogenesis of Currarino’s triad: Incomplete dorso-ventral separation of the caudal eminence from hindgut endoderm”. Pediatr Neurosurg 28:223-229 (1998).
  15. Dias MS, Backstrom J, Falk M, Li V: “Serial Cranial Radiography in Children with the Infant Shaken Impact Syndrome”. Pediatr Neurosurg 29:77-85 (1998).
  16. Dias MS, Li V, Schwend R: “The embryogenesis of congenital vertebral dislocation: Early embryonic buckling?”. Pediatric Neurosurg 29:281-289 (1998).
  17. George TM, Speer MC, and the NTD Collaborative Group: Genetic and embryological approaches to studies of neural tube defects: A critical review. Neurol Res 22:117-122 (2000).
  18. Pollina J, Dias MS, Li V, Kachurek D, Arbesman M: Cranial birth injuries in term newborn infants. Pediatr Neurosurg 35:113-119 (2001).
  19. Speer MC, Melvin EC, Viles KD, Bauer KA, Rampersaud E, Drake C, George TM, Enterline DS, Mackey JF, Worley G, Gilbert JR, Nye JS, and the NTD Collaborative Group: T locus shows no evidence for linkage disequilibrium or mutation in American Caucasian neural tube defect families. Am J Med Gen 110:215-218 (2002).
  20. Bauer KA, George TM, Enterline DS, Stottmann RW, Melvin EC, Seigel D, Samal S, Hauser MA, Klingensmith J, Nye JS, Speer MC, and the NTD Collaborative Group: A novel mutation in the gene encoding noggin is not causative in human neural tube defects. J Neurogenetics 16:65-71 (2002)
  21. Dias MS: Inflicted Head Injuries in Children: Prevention and Future Directions. In Adelson D, Partington M: Neurosurgery Clinics of North America (2002).
  22. Dare AO, Dias MS, Li V: Magnetic resonance imaging correlation in pediatric spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality. J Neurosurgery: Spine 97:33-39 (2002)
  23. Nejat F, Dias MS, Eftekhar B, Roodsari NN, Hamidi S: Bilateral retro-auricular dermal sinus tracts with intradural extension: Case report. J Neurosurg 99:163-166 (2003).
  24. McLone DG, Dias MS: The Chiari II malformation: cause and impact. Childs Nerv Syst 19:540-550 (2003).
  25. Rampersaud E, Melvin EC, Seigel D, Mehltretter L, Enterline D, Nye JS, Speer MC, and the NTD Collaborative Group: Updated investigations of the role of mehylenetetrahydrofolate reductase in human neural tube defects. Clin Genet 63:210-214 (2003).
  26. Dias MS, Partington M: Embryology of Myelomeningocele and anencephaly. Neurosurgical Focus 16(2):1-16 (2004)
  27. Dias MS: Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. Pediatr Clin North Am 51: 271-303 (2004).
  28. Dias MS, Lillis K, Calvo C, Li V: The management of accidental minor head injuries in children: a prospective outcomes study. J Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 101:38-43 (2004).
  29. Neurosurgical management of myelomeningocele (spina bifida). Pediatr Rev 26:50-60 (2005).
  30. Dias MS, Smith K, deGuehery K, Mazur P, Li V, Shaffer ML: Preventing abusive head trauma in infants: A hospital-based parent education program. Pediatrics 115:3470-e477 (2005)
  31. Dias MS: Neurosurgical causes of scoliosis: An evidence based literature review. J Neurosurgery: Pediatrics (in press).
  32. Dias MS, Kesler H, Schaffer M, Thomas NJ: The demographics of abusive head injury in infants under three years in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: a state-wide perspective (in press).
 

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