Peter Sun, MD
Professor
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Expert pediatric neurosurgeon with over 20 years experience.

Awards

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• John and Sherry Chen Endowed Chair, Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, 2018-pres
• Best Doctors, Boston, Ma, 2002-pres
• Top Doctors, US News World Report, 2002-pres

Education & Training

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• Pediatric Neurosurgery Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 1998
• Neurosurgery Yale University 1997
• MD MD Columbia University 1991

Interests

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• spinal disorders
• hydrocephalus
• pediatric brain tumor
• craniosynostosis
• fetal medicine
• spasticity

Publications (37)

Top publication keywords:
HydrocephalusRhizotomyBone SubstitutesSpinal CordLaminoplastyAtlanto-Axial JointReceptor, trkAOncogene Proteins, FusionCerebral VentriclesForeign-Body MigrationWounds, GunshotJoint InstabilityHead Injuries, PenetratingVentriculoperitoneal ShuntKyphosis

• Pediatric Cervical Spine Trauma: Injury Patterns, Diagnosis, and Treatment.
  Pediatric neurosurgery 2024 Oh T, Han KJ, Ambati VS, Yue JK, Burke JF, Lu AY, Sun PP
• Single-level laminoplasty approach to selective dorsal rhizotomy with conus localization by rapid spine MRI.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2024 Andrews JP, Ore CD, Falcone J, Hirschhorn M, Sagar C, Sigford K, Mitsuya Y, Chung T, Sun PP
• Rapid brain MRI for image-guided ventricular catheter placement in pediatric patients: protocol and preliminary clinical outcomes.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2024 Lai GY, Powers A, Chung T, Sun PP
• Pediatric neuroblastoma with intraspinal extension: the role of surgical management.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2023 Chang D, Oh T, Roland JL, Matthay KK, Vo KT, Edwards CS, Sun PP, Auguste KI, Gupta N
• 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

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• A comparison of incidental and symptomatic unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations in children.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2023 Lu AY, Winkler EA, Garcia JH, Raygor KP, Fullerton HJ, Fox CK, Kim H, Auguste KI, Sun PP, Hetts SW, Lawton MT, Abla AA, Gupta N
• The Hybrid Operative Suite with Intraoperative Biplane Rotational Angiography in Pediatric Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery: Utility and Lessons Learned.
  Pediatric neurosurgery 2022 Yue JK, Chang D, Caton MT, Haddad AF, Dalle Ore CL, Wozny TA, Oh T, Wang AS, Tonetti DA, Auguste KI, Sun PP, Cooke DL, Hetts SW, Abla AA, Gupta N, Roland JL
• C2 translaminar screw fixation in pediatric occipitocervical fusion.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2022 Lee YM, Lu AY, Oh T, Hwang JY, Lu DC, Sun PP
• Superior Long-term Appearance of Strip Craniectomy Compared with Cranial Vault Reconstruction in Metopic Craniosynostosis.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2022 Badiee RK, Popowitz E, Mark IT, Alcon A, Hwang J, Rorison E, Auguste KI, Hoffman WY, Sun PP, Pomerantz JH
• Foreign Body Reaction Following Use of a Novel Bone Graft Substitute in Pediatric Cranioplasty.
  The Journal of craniofacial surgery 2022 Badiee RK, Rowland JM, Sun PP
• Management of migrating intracranial bullet fragments in a 13-year-old female after firearm brain injury: technical and surgical nuances.
  Brain injury 2022 Yue JK, Chang D, Han KJ, Wang AS, Oh T, Sun PP
• Oncogenic NTRK fusion in congenital spinal cord glioblastoma: sequencing directs treatment.
  Lancet (London, England) 2021 Andrews JP, Coleman C, Hastings C, Sun PP
• A Case of Torticollis in an 8-Month-Old Infant Caused by Posterior Fossa Arachnoid Cyst: An Important Entity for Differential Diagnosis.
  Pediatric reports 2021 Yue JK, Oh T, Han KJ, Chang D, Sun PP
• Comprehensive analysis of diverse low-grade neuroepithelial tumors with FGFR1 alterations reveals a distinct molecular signature of rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor.
  Acta neuropathologica communications 2020 Lucas CG, Gupta R, Doo P, Lee JC, Cadwell CR, Ramani B, Hofmann JW, Sloan EA, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Lee HS, Wood MD, Grafe M, Born D, Vogel H, Salamat S, Puccetti D, Scharnhorst D, Samuel D, …
• Ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection rates using a standard surgical technique, including topical and intraventricular vancomycin: the Children's Hospital Oakland experience.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2020 Raygor KP, Oh T, Hwang JY, Phelps RRL, Ghoussaini K, Wong P, Silvers R, Ostling LR, Sun PP
• Gliomas arising in the setting of Li-Fraumeni syndrome stratify into two molecular subgroups with divergent clinicopathologic features.
  Acta neuropathologica 2020 Sloan EA, Hilz S, Gupta R, Cadwell C, Ramani B, Hofmann J, Kline CN, Banerjee A, Reddy A, Oberheim Bush NA, Chang S, Braunstein S, Chang EF, Raffel C, Gupta N, Sun PP, Kim JYH, Moes G, Alva E, Li R, …
• Myxoid glioneuronal tumor, PDGFRA p.K385-mutant: clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic features.
  Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) 2019 Lucas CG, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Whipple N, Oberheim Bush NA, Cooney T, Chang S, McDermott M, Berger M, Cham E, Sun PP, Putnam A, Zhou H, Bollo R, Cheshier S, Poppe MM, Fung KM, Sung S, Glenn C, Fan X, …
• Recurrent non-canonical histone H3 mutations in spinal cord diffuse gliomas.
  Acta neuropathologica 2019 Sloan EA, Cooney T, Oberheim Bush NA, Buerki R, Taylor J, Clarke JL, Torkildson J, Kline C, Reddy A, Mueller S, Banerjee A, Butowski N, Chang S, Mummaneni PV, Chou D, Tan L, Theodosopoulos P, …
• Surgical management of congenital thoracic kyphosis and multilevel bilateral thoracic pedicle aplasia: case report.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2018 Lau D, Dalle Ore CL, Martin KW, Policy JF, Sun PP
• Myxoid glioneuronal tumor of the septum pellucidum and lateral ventricle is defined by a recurrent PDGFRA p.K385 mutation and DNT-like methylation profile.
  Acta neuropathologica 2018 Solomon DA, Korshunov A, Sill M, Jones DTW, Kool M, Pfister SM, Fan X, Bannykh S, Hu J, Danielpour M, Li R, Johnston J, Cham E, Cooney T, Sun PP, Oberheim Bush NA, McDermott M, Van Ziffle J, Onodera C…
• Spinal drop metastasis from a benign fourth ventricular choroid plexus papilloma in a pediatric patient: case report.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2017 Morshed RA, Lau D, Sun PP, Ostling LR
• Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis (EDAS) in young patients with cerebrovascular complications of sickle cell disease: Single-institution experience.
  Pediatric hematology and oncology 2017 Winstead M, Sun PP, Martin K, Earl J, Neumayr L, Hoppe C, Vichinsky E
• Cervical cord compression in mucopolysaccharidosis VI (MPS VI): Findings from the MPS VI Clinical Surveillance Program (CSP).
  Molecular genetics and metabolism 2016 Solanki GA, Sun PP, Martin KW, Hendriksz CJ, Lampe C, Guffon N, Hung A, Sisic Z, Shediac R, Harmatz PR, CSP Study Group
• Fast dynamic imaging technique to identify obstructive lesions in the CSF space: report of 2 cases.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2015 Wang DD, Martin KW, Auguste KI, Sun PP
• Direct medical costs for patients with tuberous sclerosis complex and surgical resection of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma: a US national cohort study.
  Journal of medical economics 2015 Sun P, Liu Z, Krueger D, Kohrman M
• Seizure outcomes after resective surgery for extra-temporal lobe epilepsy in pediatric patients.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2013 Englot DJ, Breshears JD, Sun PP, Chang EF, Auguste KI
• Seizure outcomes after temporal lobectomy in pediatric patients.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2013 Englot DJ, Rolston JD, Wang DD, Sun PP, Chang EF, Auguste KI
• Effects of temporal lobectomy on consciousness-impairing and consciousness-sparing seizures in children.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2013 Englot DJ, Rutkowski MJ, Ivan ME, Sun PP, Kuperman RA, Chang EF, Gupta N, Sullivan JE, Auguste KI
• A systematic review of treatment outcomes in pediatric patients with intracranial ependymomas.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2013 Cage TA, Clark AJ, Aranda D, Gupta N, Sun PP, Parsa AT, Auguste KI
• A systematic review of the results of surgery and radiotherapy on tumor control for pediatric craniopharyngioma.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2012 Clark AJ, Cage TA, Aranda D, Parsa AT, Sun PP, Auguste KI, Gupta N
• Intractable episodic bradycardia resulting from progressive lead traction in an epileptic child with a vagus nerve stimulator: a delayed complication.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2012 Clark AJ, Kuperman RA, Auguste KI, Sun PP
• Cervical spinal stenosis and sports-related cervical cord neurapraxia.
  Neurosurgical focus 2011 Clark AJ, Auguste KI, Sun PP
• A toddler with shivering spells, leukocytosis, and thrombocytopenia.
  The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2008 Cielo M, Avasarala K, Culbertson C, Hayes E, Sun P, Lee BP
• Bone morphogenetic protein for salvage fusion in an infant with Down syndrome and craniovertebral instability. Case report.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2007 Lu DC, Sun PP
• Pediatric intracranial aneurysms: durability of treatment following microsurgical and endovascular management.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2006 Sanai N, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Gupta NM, Perry V, Sun PP, Wilson CB, Lawton MT
• In utero surgery for hydrocephalus.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2003 von Koch CS, Gupta N, Sutton LN, Sun PP
• Progressive spinal lordosis after laminoplasty in a child with thoracic neuroblastoma.
  Journal of spinal disorders & techniques 2002 Hosalkar HS, Pill SG, Sun PP, Drummond DS