Lawrence Shuer

Clinical Focus

• Neurological Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Neurosurgery, Pediatric

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Chair, Stanford University School of Medicine - Neurosurgery , (2004– present )
• Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Stanford School of Medicine , (1996– present )
• Chief of Staff, Stanford Hospital and Clinics , (1996– 2008 )

Professional Education

• Board Certification: Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery (1986)
• Stanford University School of Medicine (1984) CA
• Stanford University School of Medicine (1979) CA
• University of Michigan School of Medicine (1978) MI
• B.A., Univeristy of Michigan Biomedical Sciences (1975)
• M.D., University of Michigan Medicine (1978)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Neurosurgery

Research Interests

I have clinical research interests in the surgical treatment of epilepsy. I am also interested in new developments in the treatment of craniosynostosis a congenital abnormality of infant's skulls

Publications

• Two-year-old girl with cervicomedullary junction stenosis and an unknown type of skeletal dysplasia. Cheshier SH,  Kalani MY, Pendakaur A, Higgins D, Kahn D, Shendel S, Shuer L.  J Neurosurg Pediatr.  2008; 2 (3): 200-2
• Intracerebral hemorrhage caused by cerebral amyloid angiopathy in a 53-year-old man. Campbell DM,  Bruins S, Vogel H, Shuer LM, Wijman CA.  J Neurol.  2008; 255 (4): 597-8
• Primary paraspinal leiomyosarcoma invading the cervical spinal canal successfully treated with surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Case report. Lehman NL,  Jacobs CD, Holsten PA, Jaikumar S, Lehman TD, Gibbs IC, Shuer LM.  J Neurosurg Spine.  2007; 6 (5): 441-6
• Comparison of endovascular and surface cooling during unruptured cerebral aneurysm repair. Steinberg GK,  Ogilvy CS, Shuer LM, Connolly ES, Solomon RA, Lam A, Kassell NF, Baker CJ, Giannotta SL, Cockroft KM, Bell-Stephens TE, Allgren RL.  Neurosurgery.  2004; 55 (2): 307-14; discussion 314-5
• Idiopathic giant-cell granulomatous hypophysitis. Report of a case with autopsy follow-up. Wilson JD,  Jacobs M, Shuer L, Atlas S, Horoupian DS.  Clin Neuropathol.  2000 Nov-Dec; 19 (6): 300-4
• Current source density analysis of synaptic generators of human interictal spike Heit G,  Ulbert I, Halgren E, Karmos G, Shuer L.  Stereotact Funct Neurosurg.  1999; 73 (1-4): 116
• Intracranial ictal recordings in Mesial frontal lobe epilepsy. Toczek MT,  Morrell MJ, Risinger MW, Shuer L.  J Clin Neurophysiol.  1997; 14 (6): 499-506
• Central neurocytoma: one associated with a fourth ventricular PNET/medulloblastoma and the second mixed with adipose tissue. Horoupian DS,  Shuster DL, Kaarsoo-Herrick M, Shuer LM.  Hum Pathol.  1997; 28 (9): 1111-4
• Multiple-suture synostosis subsequent to ventricular shunting. Schendel SA,  Shuer LM.  Plast Reconstr Surg.  1994; 93 (5): 1073-7
• Pleomorphic granular cell astrocytoma of the pineal gland. Snipes GJ,  Horoupian DS, Shuer LM, Silverberg GD.  Cancer.  1992; 70 (8): 2159-65
• Stereotactic helium ion Bragg peak radiosurgery for intracranial arteriovenous malformations. Detailed clinical and neuroradiologic outcome. Steinberg GK,  Fabrikant JI, Marks MP, Levy RP, Frankel KA, Phillips MH, Shuer LM, Silverberg GD.  Stereotact Funct Neurosurg.  1991; 57 (1-2): 36-49
• Maternally administered esmolol decreases fetal as well as maternal heart rate. Larson CP,  Shuer LM, Cohen SE.  J Clin Anesth.  1990 Nov-Dec; 2 (6): 427-9
• Stereotactic heavy-charged-particle Bragg-peak radiation for intracranial arteriovenous malformations. Steinberg GK,  Fabrikant JI, Marks MP, Levy RP, Frankel KA, Phillips MH, Shuer LM, Silverberg GD.  N Engl J Med.  1990; 323 (2): 96-101
• Occult vascular malformations of the optic chiasm: magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis and surgical laser resection. Steinberg GK,  Marks MP, Shuer LM, Sogg RL, Enzmann DR, Silverberg GD.  Neurosurgery.  1990; 27 (3): 466-70
• Effect of hyperglycemia on neuronal changes in a rabbit model of focal cerebral ischemia. Kraft SA,  Larson CP, Shuer LM, Steinberg GK, Benson GV, Pearl RG.  Stroke.  1990; 21 (3): 447-50
• Hyperglycemia decreases acute neuronal ischemic changes after middle cerebral artery occlusion in cats. Zasslow MA,  Pearl RG, Shuer LM, Steinberg GK, Lieberson RE, Larson CP.  Stroke.  1989; 20 (4): 519-23
• Reduction cranioplasty and severe hypotension. Parsons D,  Samuels SI, Steinberg G, Shuer L.  Anesthesiology.  1988; 68 (1): 145-6
• Coronary vasospasm during percutaneous trigeminal rhizotomy. Swerdlow B,  Shuer L, Zelcer J.  Anaesthesia.  1988; 43 (10): 861-3
• PEEP does not affect left atrial-right atrial pressure difference in neurosurgical patients. Zasslow MA,  Pearl RG, Larson CP, Silverberg G, Shuer LF.  Anesthesiology.  1988; 68 (5): 760-3