Brian L. Hoh, MD,
the William Merz Professor in Neurological Surgery and Associate Program Director, is an Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery with a joint appointment in Radiology. He obtained his undergraduate degree with honors at Stanford University. He then attended Columbia University for his medical degree where he was elected admission to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honor society. He completed his internship in surgery, residency in neurological surgery, and fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology at Harvard University at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received the Boston Neurology Society's Stanley Cobb award and the New England Neurosurgical Society's William Scoville award for his research on aneurysms and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
Dr. Hoh has received numerous grants in support of his research efforts. He won the Anspach 2006 Research Award for his research on carotid stenosis, and the American Association of Neurological Surgeons 2007 Young Clinician Investigator Award for his research on aneurysms. He has published over 30 peer reviewed papers and four book chapters. He has made over 80 presentations at scientific meetings.
Dr. Hoh is the senior principal investigator of an international multicenter trial for patients with large and giant intracranial aneurysms (PAC for Large and Giant Aneurysms) that will begin enrolling patients worldwide in 2008.
Dr. Hoh is a member of the Joint AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section, a senior member of the Society for Neurointerventional Surgery (formerly the ASITN), a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, an active provisional member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, a member of the American Stroke Association, the Stroke Council, and the American Heart Association.
Dr. Hoh performs both direct surgical procedures (craniotomy, aneurysm clipping, carotid endarterectomy, EC-IC bypass, and surgical resection of AVMs, cavernous malformations, and brain tumors) and minimally invasive endovascular procedures for cerebrovascular disorders (aneurysm coiling, balloon angioplasty, carotid stenting, vertebral artery stenting, intracranial stenting, AVM embolization, tumor embolization).
Dr. Hoh's laboratory performs research investigating the role of hematopoietic stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells in cerebrovascular disease, specifically carotid atherosclerosis, aneurysm formation, aneurysm recanalization after coil embolization, and stroke. He works closely with Dr. Edward W. Scott, the Director of the University of Florida Program in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. They are studying the migration of hematopoietic stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells to sites of vascular injury and the signaling pathways involved in this process. They are interested in the role of hematopoietic stem cells and endothelial progenitor cells in vascular repair and how this fails and results in carotid atherosclerosis, aneurysm formation, aneurysm recanalization after coil embolization, and stroke. They are interested in the genetic modification of endothelial progenitor cells to enhance their ability for vascular repair as a potential biologic therapy for cerebrovascular disorders.
Special Interests:
Dr. Hoh's major areas of clinical interest are aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), cavernous malformations, carotid artery stenosis, stroke, moya moya disease, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracranial stenosis, and brain tumors.
Email:
brian.hoh@neurosurgery.ufl.edu
