Email: hanjani@uic.edu

Experience

Fellowship:
Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery
Barrow Neurological Institute, Pheonix, AZ

Chief Residency:
Neurosurgical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Residency:
Neurosurgical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Internship:
Department of Surgery,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

Education

Medical School:
Harvard Medical School, Boston

Certification

Board Certified:
American Board of Neurological Surgery

Medical Licensure:
Illinois
Arizona

Appointments

Clinical:

• Assistant Professor, Section of Cerebrovascular Surgery
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Director, Residency Program
  Department of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago

Hospital:

• University of Illlinois at Chicago Medical Center
• St. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Chicago

Clinical Interests

• Cerebrovascular Surgery: including intracranial aneurysms, bypass surgery, moya-moya disease, carotid artery disease, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations
• Skull Base and Tumor Surgery: including acoustics, meningiomas and pituitary tumors

Research Interests

• Outcomes of extracranial - intracranial bypass surgery
• Management algorithm for assessing vertebrobasilar disease
• Carotid disease and cognitive outcomes
• Flow assisted techniques for aneurysm surgery
• Computer modeling for simulation of cerebrovascular disease
• Use of quantitative MR technology in cerebrovascular disease

Awards/Achievements

• Council of State Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeon Award, 2003
• Galbraith Award, AANS/CNS Section on Cerebrovascular Surgery, 1999
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society (faculty), The University of Illinois, 2005

Selected Publications

• Amin-Hanjani S, Ogilvy CS, Ojemann RG, Crowell RM: Risks of surgical management for cavernous malformations of the central nervous system. Neurosurgery 42:1220-1227, 1998.
• Charbel FT, Zhao M, Amin-Hanjani S, Hoffman W, Du X, Clark ME: A patient specific computer model to predict balloon occlusion test outcomes. J Neurosurg 101:977-988, 2004.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Mlinarevich N, Meglio G, Zhao M, Charbel FT: The cut flow index: an intraoperative predictor of the success of EC-IC bypass for occlusive cerebrovascular disease. Neurosurgery 56 (Suppl1):75-85, 2005. 
• Amin-Hanjani S, Du X, Zhao M, Walsk K, Malisch TW, Charbel FT: Use of quantitative magnetic resonance angiography to stratify stroke risk in symptomatic vertebrobasilar disease. Stroke 36:1140-1145, 2005.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Butler WE, Ogilvy CS, Carter BS, Barker FG II: Extracranial to intracranial bypass in the treatment of occlusive cerebrovascular disease and intracranial aneurysms in the United States, 1992-2001: a population based study. J Neurosurg, 2005

Selected Chapters:

• Amin-Hanjani S, Ogilvy CS: Indications and techniques for emergent carotid exploration, in Loftus CM, Kresowik TF (eds): Carotid Artery Surgery. Thieme, 2000, pp303-313. 
• Amin-Hanjani S, Harsh GR IV: Unusual malignancies of the cerebral hemispheres, in Kaye AH, Black PMcL (eds): Operative Neurosurgery. Churchill Livingstone, 2000, pp 481-491.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Harsh GR IV: Tumors: Cerebral metastases and lymphoma, in Moore AJ, Newell DW (eds): Springer Specialist Surgery Series - Neurosurgery, Principles and Practice, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Charbel FT: Carotid endarterectomy and novel surgical therapies for cerebral ischemia., In Gorelick PB, Sloan MA (eds): Atlas of Cerebrovascular Disease, Science Press Internet Services Ltd, 2004.
• Amin-Hanjani S, Ojemann RG, Ogilvy CS: Surgical management of cavernous malformations of the nervous system, in Schmidek H (ed): Schmidek and Sweet: Operative neurosurgical technique, 5th edition, Elsevier, 2005.