Neurosurgery Department, UF College of Medicine
J Mocco, MD, MS
Special Interests:
Stroke,
Brain Aneurysms,
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage,
Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs),
Cavernous Malformations,
Carotid Artery Disease,
Intracranial Disease,
Brain Tumors
J Mocco, MD, MS, obtained his Bachelor of Science degree with honors at the University of Miami. He then attended Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he completed his medical degree. After finishing his internship in general surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital, he spent one year performing a post-doctoral research fellowship evaluating the pathophysiologic mechanisms of stroke under Drs. David Pinsky and E. Sander Connolly at Columbia University. Following this year he entered and completed a residency in neurological surgery at the New York Neurological Institute, part of the Columbia University Medical Center. Simultaneous to completing his neurosurgical training, Dr. Mocco completed a Masters of Science degree in Biostatistics at Columbia University, with a concentration on clinical research methodology and analysis. Following the conclusion of his residency, Dr. Mocco completed an endovascular neurosurgery fellowship under the tutelage of Dr. L.N. Hopkins at the world renowned Gates Stroke Center, while concurrently studying the inter-relationship between cerebrovascular biology and intravascular hemodynamics at the Toshiba Stroke Research Laboratory. During the aforementioned years of training Dr. Mocco received numerous awards, including the Congress of Neurological Surgeons James Garber Galbraith Award, the New York Society of Neurosurgery outstanding research award, Columbia University's Department of Neurosurgery George L. Becker Award, and an NIH/AMSA/AAMC Biomedical Research Forum Award.
Dr. Mocco has received numerous local, regional, and national grants in support of his research efforts. He was awarded one of only two national Brain Aneurysm Foundation Research Grants to support his investigations into the contribution of hemodynamic stress on cerebral aneurysm initiation. The Congress of Neurological Surgeons awarded Dr. Mocco the Wilder Penfield Research Fellowship to support his clinical research evaluating new applications of a class of medications thought to aid recovery after subarachnoid hemorrhage. He also received an NIH-NINDS FY2004: Clinical Research LRP for his investigations into outcomes following ruptured brain aneurysms. The American Heart Association awarded Dr. Mocco a research fellowship to study the contribution of the immune system to progressive injury following stroke. Additionally, Dr. Mocco received research support from the New York Academy of Medicine for his investigations into the development of novel stroke models.
Dr. Mocco has over 100 accepted peer reviewed publications, 17 solicited editorials, and nine book chapters. He is also co-editor of a text book on neurosurgical operative technique.
Dr. Mocco is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Joint AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section, the American Heart Association, the American Stroke Association, the Society for Neurointerventional Surgery (formerly the ASITN), and the Neurocritical Care Society. He currently serves on the Joint Guidelines Committee of the AANS/CNS, the CNS Fellowship Committee, the International Stroke Meeting Abstract Selection Committee, and the CNS Abstract Selection Committee. Dr. Mocco also reviews submitted articles for the following peer review journals: Stroke, Neurology, Neurosurgery, European Journal of Neurology, Brain Research, Neuroscience Letters, and Biologics: Targets and Therapy.
Dr. Mocco's major areas of clinical interest are stroke, brain aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), cavernous malformations, carotid artery stenosis, intracranial stenosis, and brain tumors. Dr. Mocco performs both open surgical procedures (craniotomy, aneurysm clipping, carotid endarterectomy, EC-IC bypass, and surgical resection of AVMs, cavernous malformations, and brain tumors) as well as minimally invasive endovascular procedures for cerebrovascular disorders (acute stroke intervention, aneurysm coiling, balloon angioplasty, carotid stenting, vertebral artery stenting, intracranial stenting, AVM embolization, tumor embolization).
Dr. Mocco's scientific interests are focused on translational efforts to treat ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. This involves laboratory investigations into the pathophysiology of stroke and the brain's efforts at healing itself through the utilization of brain stem cells. It also requires evaluating, through computational fluid dynamic modeling, the interaction between the hemodynamic stresses applied to brain blood vessels and the biologic responses of those vessels, thereby helping to elucidate the critical contributions of hemodynamics to the development of brain pathology. Using the information and experience gained in the experimental efforts listed above, Dr. Mocco is working to develop new technologies, techniques, and therapeutics to directly improve the care administered to stroke patients. These new devices, medications, and procedures will then be critically tested in high quality clinical research trials, with the eventual goal of making substantial advancements in ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke care.
Dr. Mocco is happily married to Wendy Mocco. The Mocco's have one son, Finn Thomas Mocco.
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