Email

gopakuma@bcm.edu

Positions

Neurosurgery Resident, PGY-5

Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

CNS Resident Committee

Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
Task Force Subcommittee

Education

BA from Rice University, summa cum laude

Cognitive Sciences - Houston, TX, USA

MD from Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, Texas, USA

Honors & Awards

AANS-EANS Resident Exchange Program - Tumor Resident Representative - Riga, Latvia

American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) (08/2026)

CNS Foundation Grant awardee

Congress of Neurological Surgeons (04/2026)

CNS Nexus Committee Representative

Congress of Neurological Surgeons (02/2026)

TANS Best Resident Research Presentation, 1st place

Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons (01/2026)

Resident Educator Excellence Award

Academy of Resident and Fellow Educators (05/2025)

Power of Professionalism award

Baylor College of Medicine (03/2022)

Ray Sawaya Neuro-Oncology Trainee Award

AANS/CNS Joint Section on Tumors (04/2020)

Henry J.N. Taub Young Investigator Award in Basic Science Research

First Place, Baylor College of Medicine (03/2020)

Caroline Ross Endowed Fellowship Award in Brain Cancer Research

University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center (08/2019)

Best Student Scientific Oral Presentation

Michael E. DeBakey Surgical Research Symposium (06/2019)

Henry J.N. Taub Young Investigator Award in Clinical Research

Second Place, Baylor College of Medicine (03/2019)

Dr. David M. Mumford Endowed Leadership Award

Rice University (05/2016)

Professional Interests

• Neuro-oncology
• Neurocritical Care

Selected Publications

• Muir M, Gopakumar S, Traylor J, Lee S, Rao G.. " Glioblastoma Multiforme: Novel Therapeutic Targets. " Expert Opin Ther Targets. 2020 Jul ; 24 (7) : 605-614.
• Gopakumar S, Srinivasan VM, Sharma H, Cherian J, Patel AJ.. " Fully Endoscopic Resection of an Epidermoid Cyst of the Cerebellopontine Angle: Bilateral Resection via a Unilateral Approach " Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2021 Jan 13; 20 (2) : 152-155.
  Pubmed PMID: 32970119.
• Gopakumar S, Srinivasan VM, Hadley CC, Anand A, Daou M, Karas PJ, Mandel J, Gopinath SP, Patel AJ.. " Intracranial Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Skull Base: 2 Cases and Systematic Review of the Literature " World Neurosurg. 2021 Feb 17; 21 (00207-2) : S1878-8750.
  Pubmed PMID: 33609763.
• Gadot R, Gopakumar S, Wagner K, Xu DS, Raper DMS, Burkhardt JK, Ropper AE.. " Foramen Magnum Dural Arteriovenous Fistula Presenting With Thoracic Myelopathy: Technical Case Report With 2-Dimensional Operative Video " Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2021 Jun 15; 21 (1) : 55-59.
  Pubmed PMID: 33825904.
• McDonald MF, Athukuri P, Anand A, Gopakumar S, Jalali A, Patel AJ, Rao G, Goodman JC, Lu HC, Mandel JJ. " Varied histomorphology and clinical outcomes of FGFR3-TACC3 fusion gliomas. " Neurosurg Focus. 2022 Dec ; 53 (6) : E16.
  Pubmed PMID: 36455273.
• 3-Dimensional Modeling in Virtual Reality for Resection of a Pineal Region Falcotentorial Meningioma. World Neurosurg.. " 3-Dimensional Modeling in Virtual Reality for Resection of a Pineal Region Falcotentorial Meningioma " World Neurosurg. 2022 May ; 161 (110)
  Pubmed PMID: 35202874.
• Khan AB, Dang HQ, Gopakumar S, Lazaro T, Gadgil N, Baxter P, Malbari F, Aldave G.. " Clinical outcomes of stereotactic biopsy on children with pontine diffuse midline glioma " J Neurooncol. 2023 Nov ; 165 (2) : 353-360.
  Pubmed PMID: 37945818.
• McDonald MF, Hossain A, Momin EN, Hasan I, Singh S, Adachi S, Gumin J, Ledbetter D, Yang J, Long L, Daou M, Gopakumar S, Phillips LM, Parker Kerrigan B, Lang FF. " Tumor-specific polycistronic miRNA delivered by engineered exosomes for the treatment of glioblastoma " Neuro Oncol. 2024 Feb 2; 26 (2) : 236-250.
  Pubmed PMID: 37847405.
• McDonald MF, Gopakumar S, Juratli TA, Eyupoglu IY, Rao G, Mandel JJ, Jalali A.. " Discontiguous recurrences of IDH-wildtype glioblastoma share a common origin with the initial tumor and are frequently hypermutated " Acta Neuropathol Commun. 2025 Jan 16; 13 (1) : 9.
  Pubmed PMID: 39815367.
• McDonald MF, Khan AB, Chang A, English C, Goethe EA, Patel IA, Gopakumar S, Trudeau T, Nitturi V, Lau S, Ledbetter E, Rojas D, Harmanci A, Harmanci AS, Klisch TJ, Patel AJ. " Integrated Clinical Genetic Analysis of Meningiomas Causing Bony Hyperostosis Shows More Severe Clinical Course and Overexpression of Secreted Pro-Osteogenic Factors " Neurosurgery. 2025 Aug 30; 97 (4) : 842-852.
  Pubmed PMID: 40304485.

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Memberships

American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)

Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)

Funding

Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA)

Carolyn L. Kuckein Research Fellowship (2019)

Neurosurgery Research and Education Fund (NREF)

Aaron Cohen-Gadol Research Fellowship (2019)

Albert L. Rhoton Research Fellowship (2018)

American Academy of Neurology

AAN Research Scholarship (2018)