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Gavin Britz, MD, MBBCH, MPH, MBA, FAANS

  • Houston Methodist neurosurgeon
  • Director of the Houston Methodist Neurological Institute
  • Chairman, Houston Methodist Hospital department of neurosurgery
  • Professor of neurological surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Gavin Britz, MD, MBBCH, MPH, MBA, FAANS

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Media Contact: Patti Muck , 832.667.5740

Areas of Expertise

  • Acoustic neuroma
  • Brain and spine dural fistulas
  • Brain aneurysms
  • Brain arteriovenous malformations
  • Brain tumors
  • Carotid endarterectomy
  • Meningioma
  • Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm
  • Moya moya disease
  • Neuro-vascular surgery
  • Skull base surgery

Credentials

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Neurological Surgery
MEDICAL SCHOOL
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa | 1987
RESIDENCY
University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 2002
INTERNSHIP
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa | 1988
FELLOWSHIP
Surgical Intern and General Surgery Fellow, John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD | 1993
Cerebrovascular Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 2002
Interventional Neuroradiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA | 2003

Publications

Hemin-Induced Transient Senescence Via DNA Damage Response: A Neuroprotective Mechanism Against Ferroptosis in Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Maloji Rao, VH, Vasquez, V, Kodavati, M, Mitra, J, Provasek, V, Voh, A, Liopo, A, Derry, PJ, Mikheve, A, Rostomily, RC, Horner, PJ, Tour, JM, Britz, GW, Kent, TA & Hegde, M 2024, , Research square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4686841/v1

Deficiency of m 6 A RNA methylation promotes ZBP1-mediated cell death.
Li, S, Deng, X, Pathak, D, Basavaraj, R, Sun, L, Cheng, Y, Li, J-R, Burke, M, Britz, GW, Cheng, C, Gao, Y & Weng, Y-L 2024, , bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.29.601251

Minimally Invasive Approaches in Reoperations after Conventional Craniotomies: Case Series
Staribacher, D, Feigl, GC, Britz, G & Kuzmin, D 2024, , Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society. https://doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2024.0085

RNA/DNA Binding Protein TDP43 Regulates DNA Mismatch Repair Genes with Implications for Genome Stability
Provasek, VE, Bacolla, A, Rangaswamy, S, Mitra, J, Kodavati, M, Yusuf, IO, Malojirao, VH, Vasquez, V, Britz, GW, Li, G-M, Xu, Z, Mitra, S, Garruto, RM, Tainer, JA & Hegde, ML 2024, , bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.16.594552

Minimally Invasive Approaches in the Surgical Treatment of Intracranial Meningiomas: An Analysis of 54 Cases
Feigl, GC, Staribacher, D, Britz, G & Kuzmin, D 2024, , Brain tumor research and treatment, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 93-99. https://doi.org/10.14791/btrt.2024.0005

Poor haemorrhagic stroke outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic are driven by socioeconomic disparities: Analysis of nationally representative data
Bako, AT, Potter, T, Pan, AP, Borei, KA, Prince, T, Britz, GW & Vahidy, FS 2024, , BMJ Neurology Open, vol. 6, no. 1, e000511, pp. e000511. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjno-2023-000511


Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma: primary intracranial lesion with thoracic spine metastasis and a malignant course. Illustrative case
Demand, A, Barber, S, Powell, S & Britz, G 2024, , Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons, vol. 7, no. 1, CASE23535. https://doi.org/10.3171/CASE23535

Multiple Intracranial Schwannomas of the Vestibular and Trigeminal Nerves: A Technical Note
Feigl, GC, Staribacher, D, Britz, GW & Kuzmin, D 2024, , World neurosurgery, vol. 189, pp. 317-322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2024.04.101

Acute Bitemporal Hemianopsia Following Transsphenoidal Pituitary Adenoma Resection With Fat Graft
Livingston, CA, Raviskanthan, S, Mortensen, PW, Britz, GW & Lee, AG 2023, , Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. E214-E216. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNO.0000000000001499


United States regulatory approval of medical devices used for endovascular neurosurgery: A two-decade review of FDA regulatory files
Bhenderu, LS, Hardigan, T, Roa, J, Philbrick, BD, Hoang, A, Faraji, AH, Britz, GW & Yaeger, KA 2023, , Journal of neurointerventional surgery. https://doi.org/10.1136/jnis-2023-020703

Fully endoscopic posterior fossa decompression for Chiari malformation type I: illustrative case
Staribacher, D, Feigl, GC, Britz, G & Kuzmin, D 2023, , Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons, vol. 6, no. 17, CASE23216. https://doi.org/10.3171/CASE23216

Minimally Invasive Surgery With Thrombolysis for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacuation: Bayesian Reanalysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
Potter, T, Bako, AT, Pan, AP, Tannous, J, Britz, G, Ziai, WC, Awad, I, Hanley, D & Vahidy, FS 2023, , Neurology, vol. 101, no. 16, pp. E1614-E1622. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000207735

lncRNA Sequencing Reveals Neurodegeneration-Associated FUS Mutations Alter Transcriptional Landscape of iPS Cells That Persists in Motor Neurons
Provasek, VE, Kodavati, M, Guo, W, Wang, H, Boldogh, I, Van Den Bosch, L, Britz, G & Hegde, ML 2023, , Cells, vol. 12, no. 20, 2461. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells12202461

Minimally Invasive Dorsal Approach for the Treatment of Giant Presacral Schwannomas
Feigl, GC, Britz, G, Staribacher, D & Kuzmin, D 2023, , Operative Neurosurgery, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. E66-E70. https://doi.org/10.1227/ons.0000000000000708

A Neuro-Informatics Pipeline for Cerebrovascular Disease: Research Registry Development
Potter, TBH, Pratap, S, Nicolas, JC, Khan, OS, Pan, AP, Bako, AT, Hsu, E, Johnson, C, Jefferson, IN, Adegbindin, SK, Baig, E, Kelly, HR, Jones, SL, Britz, GW, Tannous, J & Vahidy, FS 2023, , JMIR Formative Research, vol. 7, e40639, pp. e40639. https://doi.org/10.2196/40639

Papilledema as the Presenting Sign of Pineal Ganglioglioma
Younes, SW, Charoenkijkajorn, C, Pakravan, M, Mortensen, PW, Rivera, AL, Britz, GW, Wong, MS & Lee, AG 2023, , Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNO.0000000000001931


Geographic Disparities in Case Fatality and Discharge Disposition Among Patients With Primary Intracerebral Hemorrhage
Bako, AT, Potter, T, Pan, A, Tannous, J, Rahman, O, Langefeld, C, Woo, D, Britz, G & Vahidy, FS 2023, , Journal of the American Heart Association, vol. 12, no. 10, e027403. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.122.027403

Languages

  • English