Robert Plunkett, MD

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Associate Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo

Profile

Areas of Expertise: 
Brain Tumors
Cancer Pain
Gamma Knife Radiosurgery

Research

Research Interests: 
Biology of brain tumors
Novel treatments for brain tumors

Background Information

Education and Training: 
MD - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
Residency: 
Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, TN
Board Certification: 
Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery
Fellowships: 
Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Publications

Publications: 
  • Fabiano AJ, Plunkett RJ, Gibbons KJ. Diagnosis of facial nerve schwannoma by magnetic resonance imaging enhancement of the geniculate ganglion. Archives of neurology 2010; 67(1):112-113
  • Fabiano AJ, Plunkett RJ. Approach for tunneling the lead in deep brain stimulation. Journal of neurosurgery 2010; 112(6):1277-1278
  • Gottlieb PA, Barone T, Sachs F, Plunkett R. Neurite outgrowth from PC12 cells is enhanced by an inhibitor of mechanical channels. Neuroscience letters 2010; 481(2):115-119
  • Barone TA, Gorski JW, Greenberg SJ, Plunkett RJ. Estrogen increases survival in an orthotopic model of glioblastoma. Journal of neuro-oncology 2009; 95(1):37-48
  • Strojnik T, Kavalar R, Barone TA, Plunkett RJ. Experimental model and immunohistochemical comparison of U87 human glioblastoma cell xenografts on the chicken chorioallantoic membrane and in rat brains. Anticancer research 2010; 30(12):4851-4860
  • Karampelas I, Podgorsak MB, Plunkett RJ, Fenstermaker RA. Subthalamic nucleus metastasis causing hemichorea-hemiballism treated by gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery. Acta neurochirurgica 2008; 150(4):395-396; discussion 397
  • Selkirk SM, Morrow J, Barone TA, Hoffer A, Lock J, DeChant A, Mangla S, Plunkett RJ, Miller RH. Elevation of osteopontin levels in brain tumor cells reduces burden and promotes survival through the inhibition of cell dispersal. Journal of neuro-oncology 2008; 86(3):285-296
  • Karampelas I, Alberico RA, Plunkett RJ, Fenstermaker RA. Intratumoral hemorrhage after remote subtotal microsurgical resection and gamma knife radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma. Acta neurochirurgica 2007; 149(3):313-316; discussion 316-7
  • Barone TA, Gottlieb PA, Murphy YK, Sachs F, Plunkett RJ. A peptide from tarantula venom enhances NGF-induced neurite production in dopaminergic PC12 cells. Cell transplantation 2008; 17(4):461
  • Fabiano AJ, Doyle C, Plunkett RJ. Intrathecal medications in post-herpetic neuralgia. Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2012; 13(8):1088-1090
  • Fabiano AJ, Hoppenot R, Plunkett RJ. Heroin-inhalation-induced cerebellar leukoencephalopathy. Chirurgia (Turin, Italy) 2012; 25(2):133-134