Personal Data
Office Address: Palm Beach Brain & Spine, LLC
1397 Medical Park Blvd, Suite 400
Wellington, FL 33414
Phone: (561) 844-0120
Fax: (561) 844-0750

Education
B.A. Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
Chemistry Major

M.D. Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Doctor of Medicine (1997)

Internship
1997-1998 General Surgery
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY

Residency
1998-2003 Neurological Surgery, University at Buffalo
State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Fellowship
2003-2004 Neurosurgical Oncology (Brain, Spine and Skull Base Tumors)
MD Anderson Cancer Institute, Houston, Texas

Honors and Awards
2005 AMA Physician Recognition Award
2000 Best Contributed Paper-Poster Presentation
At the 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society
March 17-20, 2000, in Scottsdale, Arizona
1996 Thesis Honors, Yale Department of Surgery
1993 Howard Hughes Medical Research Fellowship
1991 NIH Cancer Education Training Grant for Medical Students
1990 Phi Beta Kappa
1990 Leland Harris Achievement Prize in Chemistry
1989 Mortar Board Senior Honor Society
1989 Sigma Xi Scientific Research Fellowship
1989 Ford Foundation Teaching and Research Fellowship
1988 NIH Summer Research Fellowship
1987 Pilot Club International Scholarship

Certification/Licensing/Board Examinations
2008- American Board of Neurological Surgeons – Board Certified
2006- State of Florida Medical License
2005- Certificate of Completion, Novalis, Brain Lab Users Meeting
2004- Certificate of completion, Kyphon Inflatable Bone Tamp Technology
2004- State of Florida Medical License
2004- United States Medical Licensing Examination – Part III
2003- State of Texas Limited Medical License
2003- American Board of Neurological Surgeons – Board Eligible
2002- American Board of Neurological Surgeons – Part I
1997- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
1997- United States Medical Licensing Examination – Part II
1993- United States Medical Licensing Examination – Part I

Employment/Offices
2005- Medical Director of Neurosurgery, Wellington Regional Hospital
10101 Forest Hill Blvd, Wellington, FL 33414
2005- Medical Director, Palm Beach Brain & Spine, LLC, West Palm Beach, FL 33407
2004- President, Palm Beach Brain & Spine, P.A., West Palm Peach, FL 33407

Membership in Professional Societies and Organizations
2009- American College of Surgeons, Associate Fellow
2005- Florida Medical Association, Member
2004 - Palm Beach County Medical Society, Member
1999- American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Member
1993- American Medical Association, Member
1993- Yale Minority Medical Association, Member

Workshops and Courses
1- Advanced Skull Base Microanatomy & Hands-On Dissection Workshop, West Palm Beach, FL November 18 – 20, 2004
2- Minimal Access Spinal Technologies Hands-on Course. Memphis, TN, June 3 – 4, 2004
3- AO ASIF Spine Course for Residents and Fellows. Portland, Oregon, November 15 – 16, 2003
4- Spine + Science + Management. New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21 – 24, 2002
5- Spine Review-Hands-2002: A comprehensive approach for Neurosurgeons, Orthopaedic Surgeons, and Nurses. Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, May 4 – 10, 2002
6- Microsurgical Approaches to the Brain, Ventricles and Skull Base: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, February 5-9, 2001

Practice Interest
General Neurosurgery, Cerebrovascular , Neuro-oncology, Cranial Base, Complex Spine, Radiosurgery, Minimally Invasive and Endoscopic Neurosurgery

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Referenced Abstracts
1. Dare AO, Varnavas G, Lucy LL, Grand W: Medial anterior skull base: A clinicoanatomic study. Skull Base Surg Suppl 10 (Suppl 1): 6, 2000.

2. Dare AO, Datta RV, Loree TR, Hicks WL, Grand W: Non-Hodgkins lymphoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses involving the skull base. Skull Base Surg Suppl 9 (Suppl 1): 6, 1999.

3. Tschudi C, Dare AO, Ullu E: Regulatory Elements for Transcription of the U2 and U6 SnRNA genes in Trypanosomes. J Cell Biochem. Suppl 16A:141, 1992.

Book Chapters:
1. Dare AO and Sawaya R: Surgical treatment of brain metastases. Clinical Neurosurgery 51: 255 – 63, 2004

2. Gibbons KJ and Dare AO: The integration of neurosurgical techniques in current head and neck skull base surgery. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 13: 231-39, 2004

Manuscripts & Publications
1. Dare AO, Hanel R, Hopkins LN, Grand W: Differential bone removal in the surgical exposure of the anterior communicating artery complex: An anatomic study. J. Neurosurg (In revision)

2. Gruber T, Dare AO, Balos LL, Lele S, Ferstermaker RA: Multiple meningioma during long-term therapy with progesterone agonist megestrol acetate (Megase): A case report. J Neurosurg 100: 328 – 31, 2004

3. Dare AO, Balos LL, Grand W: The Neural-dural transition at the medial anterior cranial base: An anatomic and histologic study with clinical application. J. Neurosurg 99: 362-5, 2003

4. Dare AO, Gibbons KJ, Gillihan MD, Guterman LR, Loree TR, Hicks Jr. WL: Hypotensive endovascular test occlusion of the carotid artery in head and neck cancer. Neurosurgical Focus 14: 1-4, 2003

5. Dare AO, Gibbons KJ, Proulx GM, Fenstermaker RA: Surgical resection followed by Gamma-Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for late-stage juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. Neurosurgery 52:1207 11, 2003

6. Dare AO, Dias MS, Li V: Magnetic resonnance imaging correlation in pediatric spinal cord injury without radiographic abnormality. J. Neurosurg (Spine 1) 97:27-33, 2002

7. Dare AO, Landi MK, Lopes DK, Grand W: Eyebrow incision for combined orbital osteotomy and supraorbital minicraniotomy: application to aneurysms of the anterior circulation. J Neurosurg 95: 714 –8, 2001

8. Grand W, Landi MK, Dare AO Transorbital keyhole approach to anterior communicating artery aneurysms. Neurosurgery 49:483-4, 2001

9. Dare AO, Balos LL, Grand W: Olfaction preservation in anterior skull base approaches: An anatomic study. Neurosurgery 48:1142 – 6, 2001

10. Dare AO, Lopes DK, Grand W: Sphenoid-wing sarcoidosis. Case Illustration: J Neurosurg 94:849, 2001

11. Dare AO, Datta RV, Loree TR, Hicks WL, Grand W: Sinonasal Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with skull base involvement. Skull Base Surg 11:129 – 35, 2001

12. Dare AO, Putman CM, Chaloupka JC, Mayer PL, Fayad PB, Schneck MJ, Awad IA: Failure of balloon test occlusion with hypotensive challenge to predict delayed hemodynamic ischemia after carotid occlusion. Surg Neurol 50:147-56, 1998

13. Gunzl A. Ullu E. Dorner M. Fragoso SP. Hoffmann KF. Milner JD. Morita Y. Nguu EK. Vanacova S. Wunsch S. Dare AO. Kwon H. Tschudi C. Transcription of the Trypanosoma brucei spliced leader RNA gene is dependent only on the presence of upstream regulatory elements. Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology 85:67-76, 1997

14. Brines ML, Dare AO, de Lanerolle NC: The cardiac glycoside ouabain potentiates excitotoxic injury of adult neurons in rat hippocampus. Neurosc Letters 191:145 - 148,1995

15. Nakaar V, Dare AO, Hong D, Ullu E, & Tschudi C: Upstream tRNA genes are essential for expression of small nuclear & cytoplasmic RNA genes in trypanosomes. Mol Cell Bio 14:6731-42,1994

17. Fantoni A, Dare AO, & Tschudi C: RNA Polymerase III-mediated transcription of the trypanosome U2 small nuclear RNA gene is controlled by both intragenic and extragenic regulatory elements. Mol Cell Bio 14:2021 - 8,1994

18. Miller RR Jr, Dare AO, Moore NL, Kooser RG, Geer BW: Long-chain fatty-acids & ethanol affect the properties of membrane in Drosophila Melanogaster larvae. Biochem Genetics 31:113-31,1993

Presentations
1. Dare AO: Minimally Invasive Surgical Management of Degenerative Lumbar Disease: Presented at the Neurosurgical Forum, Jacksonville, FL , March , 2005

2. Dare AO: Differential bone removal in the surgical exposure of the anterior communicating artery complex: An anatomic study. Presented at the Neurosurgical Forum, Jacksonville, FL , March , 2005

3. Dare AO: Surgical Management of Metastatic Tumors of the Spine: Presented at the Neurosurgical Forum, Jacksonville, FL , March 17 – 20, 2004

4. Dare AO: Surgery versus Radiosurgery in the Management of Metastatic Brain tumors. Presented at the Neurosurgical Forum, Jacksonville, FL , March 17 – 20, 2004

5. Dare AO, Gruber T, Alberico R, Grand W: Surgical Exposure of the Basilar Artery Bifurcation: A Comparative Anatomic Study: Presented the 15th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12 - 17, 2004

6. Dare AO, DeMonte F: Surgical Experience with Extraconal Orbital Tumors: Presented the 15th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 12 - 17, 2004

7. Dare AO, Hanel RA, Hopkins LN, Grand W: Evaluation of Fronto-orbito-temporal bone removal in the exposure of the anterior communicating artery complex: Presented at the joint annual meeting of the AANS/CNS section on cerebrovascular surgery and the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, Phoenix, February 16 – 19, 2003

8. Dare AO, Varnavas G, Lucy LL, Grand W: Microscopic and microsurgical anatomy of the medial anterior cranial base: a clinicoanatomic study: Presented at the 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia, September 18, 2001

9. Dare AO, Lucy LL, Grand W: Microscopic anatomy of the dural-neural transition at the cribriform plate: Relevance to cerebrospinal fluid fistula formation and surgical repair: Presented at the 12th World Congress of Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia, September 18, 2001

10. Dare AO, Landi MK, Lopes DK, Grand W: Eyebrow incision mini-supraorbital craniotomy in the management of intracranial aneurysms. AANS Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, April 21 – 26, 2000

11. Dare AO, Dias MS, Li V: MRI Clinical correlation in spinal cord injury without radiographic Abnormality in children. AANS/CNS Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, December 8, 2000

12. Dare AO, Varnavas G, Lucy LL, Grand W. Medial anterior skull base: A clinico-anatomic study. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Scottsdale, Arizona, March 17 - 20, 2000

13. Dare AO, Gillihan M, Gibbons KJ, Loree T, Hicks Jr. WL: The clinical safety of balloon test occlusion with hypotensive challenge as a preoperative assessment of tolerance for internal carotid artery occlusion in advanced head and neck cancer. Presented at the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meeting, Palm Desert, CA, April 24 – 30, 1999

14. Dare AO, Datta RV, Loree TR, Hicks WL, and Grand W: Non-Hodgkins lymphoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses involving the skull base. Presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the North American Skull Base Society, Chicago, Illinois, May 28 - 31, 1999

15. Dare AO, Putman CM, Chaloupka JC, Mayer PL, Fayad PB, Schneck MJ, Awad IA: Failure of balloon test occlusion with hypotensive challenge to predict delayed hemodynamic ischemia after carotid occlusion. Presented at the 4th IWCVS International Workshop on Cerebrovascular Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, June 11,1995

16. Brines ML, Dare AO, de Lanerolle NC: A new model of temporal lobe epilepsy: Amplification of kainate neurotoxicity by direct reduction of brain sodium pump capacity. Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, December 2, 1994

17. Dare AO, de Lanerolle NC, Kapadia S, Brines ML: Kainate neurotoxicity in vivo is greatly amplified by impaired sodium pump capacity. Presented at 24th Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience, Miami Beach, Florida, November 24, 1994

18. Dare AO, de Lanerolle NC, Kapadia S, Brines ML: Kainate neurotoxicity in vivo is greatly amplified by impaired sodium pump capacity. Presented at The 1994 Meeting of Howard Hughes Medical Student Fellows, Chevy Chase, Maryland, May 10, 1994

19. Tschudi C, Dare AO, Ullu E: Regulatory elements for transcription of the U2 and U6 snRNA genes in trypanosomes. Presented at Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology, Park City, Utah, January 17, 1992.

RESEARCH AWARDS & GRANTS

Title: Role of sodium-potassium pump in neuronal survival of seizure activity in rats (1993 – 94)

Principal Investigator: Amos O. Dare, MD
Preceptor: Mike Brines, MD, PhD, Department of Medicine,
Yale University School of Medicine
Source: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant for Research Training Fellowship
for Medical Students
Amount: $23,200 (Yale Account Number: 57070 691M-41)

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