Robert K. Jackler, MD

Clinical Focus

• Acoustic Neuroma, Cerebellopontine Angle
• Meningioma
• Neurofibromatosis 2
• Glomus Jugulare Tumor
• Ear Neoplasms

Administrative Appointments

• Sewall Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery (2003 - present)
• Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education, School of Medicine (2007 - present)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Biomechanical Engineering
• Neurosciences
• Neurosurgery

Web Site Links

• Personal Web site

Current Research Interests

Development of innovative surgical methods, via the cranial base, to expose inaccessible intracranial disease. Surgical simulation and robotics. Evidence based outcomes analysis in acoustic neuroma and other tumors of the cerebellopontine angle. History of tobacco advertising with false reassurance of healthfulness (see tobacco.stanford.edu). Medical history - especially the history of otology, neurosurgery, deafness, and quackery.

Publications

• "Not one single case of throat irritation": misuse of the image of the otolaryngologist in cigarette advertising. Samji HA, Jackler RK. Laryngoscope. 2008; 118 (3): 415-27
• Selection of surgical approach to acoustic neuroma. 1992. Jackler RK, Pitts LH. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2008; 19 (2): 217-38, vi
• Aggressiveness in cholesterol granuloma of the temporal bone may be determined by the vigor of its blood source. Pfister MH, Jackler RK, Kunda L. Otol Neurotol. 2007; 28 (2): 232-5
• The aborted early history of the translabyrinthine approach: a victim of suppression or technical prematurity? Nguyen-Huynh AT, Jackler RK, Pfister M, Tseng J. Otol Neurotol. 2007; 28 (2): 269-79
• Cranial base approaches to inaccessible intracranial tumors. Monfared A, Agrawal S, Jackler RK. Curr Opin Neurol. 2007; 20 (6): 726-31