John Andrews, MD
Resident
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

John Andrews, MD is a neurosurgery resident with an interest in epilepsy, brain tumors and brain mapping. His basic science background includes single neuron, in vivo, whole-cell patch clamping to describe mechanisms of impaired consciousness. He has also used experience with electrophysiology to study seizure-spread on intracranial-electroencephalography, and how it might guide surgical resection. Mentors at UCSF include Dr. Edward Chang and Dr. Mitchel Berger.

Awards

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• AANS Elekta Tumor Section award, UCSF, 2022
• NINDS R25 Grant Funding Recipient, UCSF, 2022
• Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy HHMI-CURE research fellow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2016-2017
• Farr Scholar, Yale School of Medicine, 2015
• First Team Academic All-Big XII Conference, 2009
• NCAA Division I Varsity Letterman: Wrestling, 2009
• NCAA Division I Varsity Letterman: Wrestling, 2007
• Big XII Commissioner's Honor Roll, 2005-2009
• Departmental Honors, English, University of Missouri, 2005-2009

Education & Training

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• MD Yale University School of Medicine 06/2018

Interests

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• neurosurgery
• epilepsy
• brain tumors
• brain mapping
• electrophysiology

Websites

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• UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery (neurosurgery.ucsf.edu)
• UCSF Neurosurgery Instagram (instagram.com)

Videos

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• Oncogenic NTRK fusion in congenital spinal cord glioblastoma: sequencing directs treatment (youtube.com)

Publications (21)

Top publication keywords:
Drug Resistant EpilepsyEpilepsy, Temporal LobeAstrocytomaParasympathetic Nervous SystemBrain Stem NeoplasmsPedunculopontine Tegmental NucleusAphasia, BrocaReceptor, trkABroca AreaSeizuresAdenomaOncogene Proteins, FusionPituitary NeoplasmsEpilepsies, PartialSpinal Cord

• Oncogenic NTRK fusion in congenital spinal cord glioblastoma: sequencing directs treatment.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Andrews JP, Coleman C, Hastings C, Sun PP
• Early seizure spread and epilepsy surgery: A systematic review.
  Epilepsia 2020 Andrews JP, Ammanuel S, Kleen J, Khambhati AN, Knowlton R, Chang EF
• Association of Seizure Spread With Surgical Failure in Epilepsy.
  JAMA neurology 2019 Andrews JP, Gummadavelli A, Farooque P, Bonito J, Arencibia C, Blumenfeld H, Spencer DD
• Mechanisms of decreased cholinergic arousal in focal seizures: In vivo whole-cell recordings from the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus.
  Experimental neurology 2018 Andrews JP, Yue Z, Ryu JH, Neske G, McCormick DA, Blumenfeld H
• Intraventricular meningioma resection and visual outcomes.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2023 Andrews JP, Cummins DD, Morshed RA, Kinde B, Aghi MK, McDermott MW, Berger MS, Theodosopoulos PV

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• Update on Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Rural and Underserved Regions: A Global Perspective.
  Journal of clinical medicine 2023 Yue JK, Krishnan N, Andrews JP, Semonche AM, Deng H, Aabedi AA, Wang AS, Caldwell DJ, Park C, Hirschhorn M, Ghoussaini KT, Oh T, Sun PP
• Improved psychotic symptoms following resection of amygdalar low-grade glioma: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2022 Andrews JP, Wozny TA, Yue JK, Wang DD
• Paraparesis caused by intradural thoracic spinal granuloma secondary to organizing hematoma: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2022 Yue JK, Lee YM, Quintana D, Aabedi AA, Krishnan N, Wozny TA, Andrews JP, Huang MC
• Dissociation of Broca's area from Broca's aphasia in patients undergoing neurosurgical resections.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2022 Andrews JP, Cahn N, Speidel BA, Chung JE, Levy DF, Wilson SM, Berger MS, Chang EF
• Xenotransplantation of porcine progenitor cells in an epileptic California sea lion (Zalophus californianus): illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2022 Simeone CA, Andrews JP, Johnson SP, Casalia M, Kochanski R, Chang EF, Cameron D, Dennison S, Inglis B, Scott G, Kruse-Elliott K, Okonski FF, Calvo E, Goulet K, Robles D, Griffin-Stence A, Kuiper E, …
• Prosopagnosia following nonlanguage dominant inferior temporal lobe low-grade glioma resection in which the inferior longitudinal fasciculus was disrupted preoperatively: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2021 Young JS, Morshed RA, Andrews JP, Cha S, Berger MS
• Paramedian transparietal approach to a dominant hemisphere intraventricular meningioma: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2021 Andrews JP, Arora T, Theodosopoulos P, Berger MS
• Plurihormonal PIT-1-Positive Pituitary Adenomas: A Systematic Review and Single-Center Series.
  World neurosurgery 2021 Andrews JP, Joshi RS, Pereira MP, Oh T, Haddad AF, Pereira KM, Osorio RC, Donohue KC, Peeran Z, Sudhir S, Jain S, Beniwal A, Chopra AS, Sandhu NS, Tihan T, Blevins L, Aghi MK
• Pure Apraxia of Speech After Resection Based in the Posterior Middle Frontal Gyrus.
  Neurosurgery 2020 Chang EF, Kurteff G, Andrews JP, Briggs RG, Conner AK, Battiste JD, Sughrue ME
• Thalamic Stimulation Improves Postictal Cortical Arousal and Behavior.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2020 Xu J, Galardi MM, Pok B, Patel KK, Zhao CW, Andrews JP, Singla S, McCafferty CP, Feng L, Musonza ET, Kundishora AJ, Gummadavelli A, Gerrard JL, Laubach M, Schiff ND, Blumenfeld H
• Up and Down States of Cortical Neurons in Focal Limbic Seizures.
  Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2020 Yue Z, Freedman IG, Vincent P, Andrews JP, Micek C, Aksen M, Martin R, Zuckerman D, Perrenoud Q, Neske GT, Sieu LA, Bo X, Cardin JA, Blumenfeld H
• Patient safety movement in neurological surgery: the current state and future directions.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2019 Sankaran S, Andrews JP, Chicas M, Wachter RM, Berger MS
• Peduncular psychosis.
  BMJ case reports 2016 Andrews JP, Taylor J, Saunders D, Qayyum Z
• Neurostimulation to improve level of consciousness in patients with epilepsy.
  Neurosurgical focus 2015 Gummadavelli A, Kundishora AJ, Willie JT, Andrews JP, Gerrard JL, Spencer DD, Blumenfeld H
• Decreased subcortical cholinergic arousal in focal seizures.
  Neuron 2015 Motelow JE, Li W, Zhan Q, Mishra AM, Sachdev RN, Liu G, Gummadavelli A, Zayyad Z, Lee HS, Chu V, Andrews JP, Englot DJ, Herman P, Sanganahalli BG, Hyder F, Blumenfeld H
• Superior effectiveness of ibuprofen compared with other NSAIDs for reducing the survival of human prostate cancer cells.
  Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology 2002 Andrews J, Djakiew D, Krygier S, Andrews P