• Neurosurgery

Moise Danielpour, MD, is one of the few pediatric neurosurgeons in the world with experience with in utero surgical treatment for birth defects, such as myelomeningocele. He is a member of the international prenatal neurology and neurosurgery conference team as well as a member of the Cedars-Sinai International Skeletal Dysplasia Program. He is a world-renowned investigator and neurosurgical expert on Congenital Malformations of the Central Nervous System and acquired neurosurgical diseases such as Skeletal Dysplasia, Hydrocephalus, Chiari Malformations, brain tumors, Craniosynostosis and Vascular Malformations. Danielpour is also an expert in the use of minimally invasive surgical technology in the care of children with central nervous system disease. His expertise includes the use of minimally invasive techniques in the treatment of pediatric hydrocephalus (endoscopic third ventriculostomy, aquaductoplasty and endoscopic fenestration of intracranial cysts), specifically in neonates and children. In the laboratory, Danielpour seeks to discover the mechanisms regulating the pathological differentiation of neural stem cells into brain tumor progenitors. Using a next generation glioma models created by him and his colleague, Dr. Joshua Breunig, they introduce patient-specific mutations to create analogous tumors in animal models. From these cancer cells, they are uncovering the developmental origins of tumorigenesis and have begun researching new, more targeted treatments to halt the progression of these malignancies. Dr. Danielpour also investigates the molecular control of neural stem cell behavior in the brain, seeking to replace specific population of glia lost after intraventricular hemorrhage of prematurity.

• Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1992
• Fellowship: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1993
• Fellowship: Stanford Univ. Med. Center, 1999
• Residency: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 1999
• Fellowship: University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, 2000

• Cancer Institute (Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute)
• High-Risk Perinatal Program
• Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Department of Pediatrics
• Epilepsy
• Pediatric Neurosurgery Program
• Department of Surgery
• Pediatric Surgery
• Cancer
• Neurosurgery
• Maxine Dunitz Children's Health Center
• Regenerative Medicine Institute (Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute)

• Member, American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2010-present
• Member, Western Neurosurgical Society, 2008-present
• America's Top Surgeons Castle and Connolly
• America's Top Doctors Castle and Connolly
• Hollywood Reporter Top Doctors: Neurosurgery

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• Akhtar AA, Molina J, Dutra-Clarke M, Kim GB, Levy R, Schreiber-Stainthorp W, Danielpour M, Breunig JJ. Transposon-Mediated System for Flexible Control of Transgene Expression in Stem and Progenitor-Derived Lineages Stem Cell Reports. 2015 Mar;4(3):323-331.
• Danielpour M, von Koch CS, Ojemann SG, Peacock WJ: Disconnective hemispherectomy. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2001 Oct;35(4):169-172.
• Mukherjee D, Pressman BD, Krakow D, Rimoin DL, Danielpour M. Dynamic cervicomedullary cord compression and alterations in cerebrospinal fluid dynamics in children with achondroplasia: review of a 11-year surgical case series. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2014 Sep;14(3):238-244