Positions
- Professor
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Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US
- Member
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Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
- Faculty Senator
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Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
- Associate Professor
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Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
- Residency Program Director
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Neurosurgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Addresses
- Baylor St. Luke's McNair Campus (Office)
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7200 Cambridge
9th Floor
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-4696
- Baylor St. Luke's McNair Campus (Clinic)
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7200 Cambridge
9th Floor
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-4696
Education
- BA from Rice University
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Biochemistry
- MD from Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas, United States
- Residency at Baylor College of Medicine
- Houston, Texas, United States
Certifications
- Diplomate
- American Board of Neurological Surgeons
Professional Interests
- Open and endoscopic surgery for malignant and benign brain tumors
- Skull base tumors
- Meningiomas, acoustic neuromas, glioblastomas
- Brain tumor surgery in deep and eloquent brain regions
- Surgery and genetics of meningiomas and schwannomas
- Neurofibromatosis
Professional Statement
Dr. Patel is a neurosurgeon who specializes in the treatment of both malignant and benign tumors of the brain and skull base. His research focuses on determining the molecular underpinnings of inherited and sporadic forms of various brain tumors in an effort to develop targeted therapies to treat aggressive cases.
Selected Publications
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Bayley JC V, Hadley CC, Harmanci AO, Harmanci AS, Klisch TJ, Patel AJ. " Multiple approaches converge on three biological subtypes of meningioma and extract new insights from published studies " Sci Adv. 2022 Feb 4; 8 (5)
Pubmed PMID: 35108039. -
Jackson HN, Hadley CC, Khan AB, Gadot R, Bayley JC V, Shetty A, Mandel J, Jalali A, Gallagher KK, Sweeney AD, Harmanci AO, Harmanci AS, Klisch TJ, Gopinath SP, Rao G, Yoshor D, Patel AJ. " Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Patients With Meningioma: A Retrospective Cohort Study " Neurosurgery. 2022 Jan 1; 90 (1) : 114-123.
Pubmed PMID: 34982878. -
Lee S, Karas PJ, Hadley CC, Bayley V JC, Khan AB, Jalali A, Sweeney AD, Klisch TJ, Patel AJ. " The role of Merlin/NF2 loss in meningioma biology " Cancers (Basel). 2019 Oct 24; 11 (11)
Pubmed PMID: 31652973. -
Patel AJ, Wan YW, Al-Ouran R, Revelli JP, Cardenas MF, Oneissi M, Xi L, Jalali A, Magnotti JF, Muzny DM, Doddapaneni H, Sebastian S, Heck KA, Goodman JC, Gopinath SP, Liu Z, Rao G, Plon SE, Yoshor D, Wheeler DA, Zoghbi HY, Klisch TJ. " Molecular Profiling Predicts Meningioma Recurrence and Reveals Loss of DREAM Complex Repression in Aggressive Tumors " Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Oct 22; 116 (43) : 21715-21726.
Pubmed PMID: 31591222.
Memberships
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- Member (01/2007)
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- Fellow (01/2007)
- Texas Association of Neurological Surgeons
- Member (01/2008)
- North American Skull Base Society
- Member (01/2017)
Funding
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Establishing the Genomic Landscape of Human Atypical Meningiomas
#K08NS102474 - (07/01/2017 - 06/30/2022)
- Grant funding from NIH
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Understanding the Epigenetic Drivers of Gene Expression Subtypes of Human Meningiomas
#19RDM005 - (11/01/2019 - 12/01/2020)
- Grant funding from Roderick D. MacDonald Research Grant
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Establishing the Genomic Landscape of Human Atypical Meningiomas
#16RDM004 - (01/01/2017 - 12/31/2017)
- Grant funding from Roderick D. MacDonald Research Grant
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Decoding Cellular Heterogeneity of Malignant Glioma
#5-RP160192 - (07/01/2015 - 06/01/2018)
- Grant funding from Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas
Languages
Gujarati
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