CURRICULUM VITAE
AYUB KHAN OMMAYA
M.D., Sc.D. (h.c.), M.A.(Oxon), B.S., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S.
APPOINTMENTS:
Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery
The George Washington University Medical Center Washington, D.C.
Attending Neurosurgeon, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, MD
Attending Neurosurgeon, Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Frederick Memorial Hospital, Frederick, MD
Director, Center for Brain Research (CBR), Bethesda, MD
Vice President and Director of Research, CYBORGAN, Bethesda, MD
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
Chief of Neurosurgery (1975 – 1980)
Attending Neurosurgeon and
Chief of Applied Neuroscience Research,
Surgical Neurology Branch (1961 – 1980)
National Institute of Neurological and
Communicative Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Chief Medical Adviser
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Department of Transportation
Washington, D.C.
(1980 – 1985)
EDUCATION:
1945-1947 – F.Sc. (Premedical Studies) Gordon College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
1947-1953 – M.B., B.S. King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan
1954-1956 – B.A. (Honors Physiology) Balliol College, Oxford University, England
1958-1960 – F.R.C.S., (Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England) Nuffield College
of Surgical Sciences, London, England
1958-1959 – D.P.M. (Diploma in Psychologic Medicine, Part I) University of London,
England
1960 – M.A., Balliol College, Oxford University, England
1959-1961 – Advanced Studies for D. Phil. (Clinical Biochemistry) Oxford University
Harper-Nelson Gold Medallist, King Edward College, 1953
Rhodes Scholar, 1954-1956 and 1959, Balliol College, Oxford, England
James Willis Kirkaldy University Prize, Oxford University, 1956
Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1964
Executive Affiliate, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1970
Commencement Speaker, School of Engineering Sciences, Tulane University, 1981
Star of Achievement (SITARA – I – IMTIAZ) Government of Pakistan, 1982
Inaugural Lewin Memorial Lecturer, University of Cambridge, England, 1983
Honorary Physician to the President of Pakistan, 1983 – 1988
Honorary Fellowship, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan, 1987.
George Snively Memorial Lecturer. American Association for the Advancement of
Automotive Medicine, 1988.
Keynote Lecturer, National Head Injury Foundation Annual Meeting, 1990.
Inventions and Patents Granted:
· The Cerebrospinal Fluid Reservoir (Prototype for all Ports and Pumps used in medical practice.
· U.S. Patent #3,765,412: Inflatable Cervical Collar for Prevention of Head and Neck Injury.
· U.S. Patents #5,222,982 and #5,385,582: Spinal Fluid Driven Artificial Organ.
CERTIFICATION IN SPECIALTIES:
1. Neurological Surgery – diplomat, American Board of Neurological Surgery,
November 14, 1968
For certification in General Surgery). Elected Fellow of American College of Surgeons, October 21, 1965.
CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT AND CLINICAL APPOINTMENTS:
1953-1954 - Intern, General Surgery, Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
1955-1956 - Junior Resident in Neurosurgery, Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, England.
1956-1957 - Resident, Trauma and Head Injury Service, Radcliff Infirmary, Oxford, England.
1958-1959 - Resident, Neurology, National Hospital, Queen Square, London, England.
1959-1961 - Senior Resident, Neurosurgical Department, Radcliff Infirmary, Oxford, and
Morriston Hospital, Swansea, England.
1961-1965 - Visiting Scientist, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological
Diseases, H.I.H., Bethesda, Maryland.
1965-1971 Associate Neurosurgeon, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of
Neurological Diseases and Project Officer, Head Injury Research Program National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, N.I.H.
1965-1976 - Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Georgetown University Medical
School, Washington, D.C.
1971-1975 - Deputy Chief, Surgical Neurology Branch, and Head, Section on Applied
Research, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and
Stroke, (NINCDS), N.I.H.
1975-1978 - Acting Chief, Surgical Neurology Branch, NINCDS, N.I.H.
1978-1980 - Chief of Applied Research in Neurosurgery, NINCDS, N.I.H.
1980-1985 - Chief Medical Advisor, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.
1974-2003 - Clinical Professor and Attending (Consultant) Neurosurgeon to The George
Washington University Medical Center, Suburban Hospital, and The Shady
Grove Adventist Hospital (Maryland).
1993-2008 - Vice President and Director of Research, CYBORGAN, Inc.
1994-2008 - Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR).
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
(American Medical Association)
LICENSURE TO PRACTICE MEDICINE:
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
United Kingdom
Pakistan
SERVICE ON COMMIITTEES, RESEARCH REVIEW BOARDS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS:
1. Chairman, Committee on Head Injury, Advisory Group for Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1969-1978
2. Member, Committee on Hearing, Bioacoustics and Biomechanics, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1969 to 2008
3. Member, Medical Advisory Committee, National Paraplegia foundation, 1972 to 2008
4. Member, Research Group in Neurological Rehabilitation, World Federation of Neurology, 1975 to 2008
5. Member, International Research Committee on Biokinetics of Impact, 1972 to present
6. Member, Committee on Neurotraumatology, World Federation of Neurological Surgeons, 1962-1978
7. Member, Accident Prevention Research Study Section, National Institutes of Health, DHEW, 1965-67
8. Member, Safety and Occupational Health Study Section, Bureau of Disease Prevention and Environmental Control, DHEW, 1967-69
9. Member, Veterans Administration, nervous and Sensory Diseases Research Evaluation Committee, 1969-1970
10. Member, Head and Spinal Cord Injury Task Force, Collaborative and Field Research NINCDS, N.I.H., 1971-72
11. Member, Peer Review Committee of Medical Board, Clinical Center, NIH, 1970-72
12. Neurosurgical Consultant, International Red Cross, Amman, Jordan, December 1-30, 1970
13. NINCDS Representative to Interagency coordinating Committee on Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, NCI, 1975-1980
14. Member, Editorial Board, “Neurological Research”, an International, Interdisciplinary, Quarterly Journal, 1977-1985
15. Member, Editorial Board, journal of Biomechanics, 1966-1986
16. Consultant Editor, (Neurosurgery), the Physician and Sports Medicine, 1972-1978
17. Member, Panel on Research Programs to Aid the Handicapped, Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. house of Representatives, 1977-1978
18. Member, International Brain Research Organization, 1977-2008
19. Chairman, Committee on Evaluation of Research on Human Surrogates in Motor Vehicle Crashes, Division of Medical Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences – National Academy of Engineering, 1978
20. President, American Association of Pakistani Physicians, 1979-1981
21. Chairman, Biomechanics Advisory Committee and Medical Director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for overall coordination of trauma research programs of this agency. 1980-85
22. Chairman, “Consensus Workshop on Head and Neck Injury Criteria” held in Washington, D.C. on March 26-27, 1981 under the sponsorship of NHTSA. This workshop developed the formal document establishing current national standards for head and neck injury tolerances and future research plans
23. Member, Scientific Advisory Council of the Paralysis Cure Research Foundation of Washington, D.C., 1980-82
24. Member, Scientific Advisory Council, American Paralysis Association, 1986-1989
25. Chairman, Committee on Evaluation of Research on Surrogates for Humans in Motor Vehicle Crashes, National Academy of Sciences, 1978
26. Appointed Representative of the Department of Transportation to the Ad Hoc Committee for Protection of Human Research Subjects of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (FCCSET), May 1982
27. Member, Research Review Committee, Clinical Center, NINCDS, N.I.H., 1974-1978
28. Member, Research Committee, The George Washington University Medical Center, 1978-1980
29. Technical Monitor and Consultant, Committee on Trauma Research, National academy of Sciences, 1984-1985 (responsible for 1985 report “Injury in America”)
30. Member, Advisory Board in Biomechanics Research, New York Institute of Technology, New York, 1985-present
31. Member, Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control Program, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, from February 1 – July 31, 1988
32. Member, Research Advisory committee of Center for Disease control, Atlanta, GA, 1989-2001
33. Member, Scientific Advisory Council for the Regional Injury Prevention Research Center, University of Minnesota, April 1990-2008
34. Consultant, Research Project on Motor Vehicle Impact Injury Mechanisms in children, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., April 1990-2008
35. Member, George Washington University Medical Center Radiology Internal Review committee. March 1995
36. Panel member, White House Fellowship Selection Committee, March 1996-2001
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
1. As Project Officer for the head Injury Research Program, NINCDS (Head Injury Model
Construction Committee) 1969-1971, I supervised, coordinated, and completed a multi-million dollar multi-center program on the first systematic investigation of basic investigations on material and structural properties of the Head and Neck constituents.
2. As Deputy Chief and then Acting Chief of the Branch of Surgical Neurology between
1971 and 1978, I supervised research programs in Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology at the National Institutes of health, Bethesda, Maryland. This was a 20 bed clinical unit integrated with laboratory space and 25 employees.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1. Organized numerous seminars, tutorial courses and lectures at the Clinical Center, N.I.H.,
and Georgetown University, where I have taught medical students and residents in an honorary capacity as Clinical Instructor (1963-1964); Assistant Professor (1964-1967); and Associate Professor (1967-1973) in the Department of Surgery (Neurosurgery). From October 15, 1974, I have been appointed Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at George Washington University School of Medicine and have continued neurosurgical teaching in that institution.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
LECTURES, ABSTRACTS AND REPORTS GIVEN AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS, 1978 TO PRESENT:
01/18 - 01/22/78 Invited Lecture on “Physiopathology of Cerebral Concussion”. In Symposium on Complication of Nervous System Trauma. Barrow Institute, Phoenix, Arizona.
02/01 - 02/03/78 Invited Lecture on “Recovery of Neural Functions After Trauma”. Annual Meeting of the Research Advisory Council of the National Association for Retarded Citizens, Miami.
02/05/78 Faculty Lecturer, Annual Neurosurgical Review Course, Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago. Two Lectures:
1. Physiopathology and Diagnosis of Head Injuries
2. Management of Head Injuries
03/09/78 Invited Lecturer, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology. Countway Library. Harvard Medical School. “Hypothesis for Cerebral Asymmetry Function in Cognition.
04/01- 04/14/78 Official Visit to Pakistan, Sponsored by NINCDS and Fogarty International Center, N.I.H. Report to the Government of Pakistan on the feasibility of developing a National Brain Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan.
04/15 - 04/20/78 Invited Speaker and Guest of Honor, International Conference on Neurotramatology, Cairo, Egypt. Presented report on “Mechanisms of Cerebral Concussion and Contusions”.
04/20 - 04/21/78 Chairman, Head/Neck Injury Workshop organized by Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (Biomechanics Division), Ann Arbor, Michigan. Report on Head Injury Research.
04/23 - 04/26/78 Annual Meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana. Invited Discussant of Report on “Diffuse White Matter Injury of the Brain”. (T. Gennarelli).
04/27 - 04/29/78 Invited Speaker, International Conference of Paraplegia Research, Bermuda. “Experimental Microsurgical peripheral nerve Grafting in Paraplegic Primates”.
05/18/78 Chairman, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Use of Surrogates in Human Impact Research. Report to the Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.
05/31 - 06/03/78 Research Society of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, New York City, N.Y. Report on “Role of Cerebral Asymmetry in Higher Cerebral Functions”.
06/08 - 06/10/78 Invited Speaker at MIT Seminar on Neurological Basis of Language
Boston. “A Unifying Hypothesis for the Role of Brain Asymmetries in
Language and Other Cognitive Functions”.
06/12 - 06/13/78 Invited speaker, V.A. Conference on Regeneration Research, Arlington, Virginia. “Critique of Spinal Cord Regeneration Research”.
06/23/78 Invited Speaker, Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. “Use of a Primate Model for Chronic studies of the C.S.F. in Neural Infections and Neoplasia”.
08/17 - 08/19/78 Invited Speaker, International Seminar on Immunotherapy of Malignant Brain Tumors. Bogota, Columbia. Presentations of two reports:
1. A model for combination immuno-chemotherapy of malignant
gliomas in man.
2. Hematologic indices of cellular status in patients with brain tumors.
09/11 - 09/16/78 Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, D.C. Exhibit on “Arteriovenous Malformations of the Spinal Cord – A Personal Series of 120 Cases: Diagnosis, Surgical Management and Outcome, A Ten Year Study”.
09/25 - 09/29/78 Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, D.C. Exhibit on “Arteriovenous Malformations of the spinal Cord—A Personal Series of 120 Cases: Diagnosis, Surgical Management and Outcome, A Ten year study”.
10/18/78 64th Clinical congress, American college of Surgeons. Surgical Forum. Report on Lymphocyte, T. Cell, Glycoprotein and Skin Test Responses to Therapy of Brain Tumors” (with Dr. Meeker and Dr. Baskies).
01/11/79 Meeting with President Jimmy Carter to discuss Civil Service organizations and to present concept of Brain Research Institute in Islamabad, Pakistan.
01/20 - 01/27/79 Winter Conference on Brain Research, Sun Valley, Idaho. Invited Panelist, “Regeneration of the Central Nervous System”.
02/03/79 Neurosurgical Review Course at Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Two Lectures:
1. Diagnosis of Head Injuries
2. Treatment of Head Injuries
03/09/79 Visiting Professor, Neurosurgical Grand Rounds, Howard University, Washington, D.C. Lecture on “Physiopathology of Head Injuries”.
04/21 - 04/27/79 American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Los Angeles, California Annual Meeting. Presented paper on “Local Chemotherapy of Malignant Gliomas with 8-Azaguanine: A Phase I Study.”
05/31 - 06/02/79 Research Society of Neurological Surgeons 1979 Annual Meeting, N.I.H., Bethesda, Md. Host-Chairman for Annual Meeting. My research team presented four reports:
1. A Phase I trial of Thymosin in patients with Malignant Gliomas with Dr. C.L. Walters.
2. Two Dimensional Electrophoresis for the examination of Cellular Protein Changes in Cell Differentiation and Proliferation with Dr. P. Kochie.
3. Brain activity underlying ear-asymmetry behavior in man with Dr. L. Mononen.
4. A Method for the Assessment of Recovery in Communicative Capabilities after closed head injury with Dr. J. Payne.
06/09/79 International Symposium on Treatment of Malignant Brain Tumors, Brescia, Italy. Poster on “A Phase I trial of Thymosin in the Management of Malignant Gliomas.”
06/29/79 Invited Speaker, Dept. of Biochemistry, George Washington University Medical School, Washington, D.C. Lecture on “First Results of Thymosin 1 in a Phase I Trial in patients with Gliomas”.
09/12/79 Invited Speaker, Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. on “Functional Neurosurgery and its role in understanding the Brain.”
09/14 - 09/15/79 American Association of Pakistani Physicians Annual Meeting, Detroit, Mich. Invited Speaker, “Integration of Medical Specialties in a Medical System for Developing Nations.” President-elect for 1980.
09/26 - 09/27/79 International Conference on Growth and Regeneration, Syracuse, N.Y. Invited Speaker, “The Regenerative Capacity of the Monkey Spinal Cord.”
12/20 - 12/27/79 Invited to review and advise Govt. of United Arab Emirates on organization of neurosurgical services in U.A.E. Lectures on Head Injury and Brain Tumor Diagnosis and Management to Medical Staff of Hospitals in Abu Dhabi.
12/27 - 01/06/80 Invited by Secretary of Health, Govt. of Pakistan to assist in further Planning for National Brain Institute and Islamabad Medical Complex, Pakistan.
01/20 - 01/26/80 Winter Conference on Brain Research, Keystone, Colorado Chairman, Workshop on “interactive Mechanisms for Cognitive Coding.” Paper on “A hypothesis for the role of cerebral asymmetry in the mechanism of consciousness”.
02/03/80 Neurosurgical Review Course: Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. Two lectures:
1. Diagnosis of Head Injuries
2. Treatment of Head Injuries
02/06/80 Invited Speaker, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. “Role of Cerebral Asymmetry in a Theory of Cognition.”
02/13/80 Invited Speaker: Bioengineering Seminar, Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley. “Physiology and Pathology of Head Injuries: The Boundary Conditions of Useful Models for Head/Neck Injuries.”
03/07 - 03/09/80 Invited Speaker, American Association on Mental Deficiency, Sea Island, Georgia. “Transplantation and Regeneration in the Central Nervous System.”
04/20 - 04/24/80 American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, 1980, New York City, New York.
1. To present a paper on “Rapid Measurement of Tumor Cell Sensitivity to Anti-Cancer Drugs.”
2. Exhibit on “A Phase I Trial of Thymosin in Patients with Gliomas of the Brain.”
05/02/80 Paper at Pediatric Research Society Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri: “Experimentally Induced Haemophilus Influenzae Meningitis in a Primate Model: Clinical Course and Treatment with Cefotaxime.”
05/29 - 05/31/80 Research Society of Neurological Surgeons, Gainesville, Florida. Paper presented entitled, “A Rapid Impedance Measuring Method for Predicting Cancer Cell Sensitivity to Chemotherapeutic Agents: Application to predicting specific individual chemotherapy in patients with malignant gliomas.”
06/25/80 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Symposium on Concussion: Physiopathology of Cerebral Concussion.”
06/27/80 Visiting Professor at M.D. Anderson Hospital, Texas. Invited speaker at Grand Rounds: “A rapid impedometric method for sensitivity testing of tumor cells to anticancer agents.”
09/13/80 George Washington University Panel on Intercranial Complications of Sinusitis. “Biocele of Frontal and Sphenoidal Sinuses.”
11/80 - 02/81 Organized a 60-hour course entitled “Biomedical Sciences for the Engineer and Physicist” at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, Washington, D.C.
12/06/80 Guest Lecturer at Howard University, Washington, DC “Current Issues in Brain Research.”
02/08/81 Neurosurgical Review Course: Cook county Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago. Two lectures:
1. Diagnosis of Head Injuries
2. Treatment of Head Injuries
05/09/81 Grand Rounds at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, DC “Cerebral Asymmetry, Cognitive Functions and Behavior.”
02/19/81 Grand Rounds at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Rockville, Maryland. “Recent Advances in Brain Tumor diagnosis and Therapy.”
03/26 - 03/27/81 Organized a “Consensus Workshop on Head and Neck Injury Criteria” held in Washington, DC under the sponsorship of NHTSA, Dept. of Transportation.
04/05 - 04/09/81 American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass.
1. To present paper on “Surgery of Spinal Cord A-V
Malformations. Twelve Years Experience in 104 cases”
2. Poster session: “Thymosin for Malignant Gliomas:
Augmentation of Immune Reactivity and Clinical Results two
years after a Phase I Trial.”
05/21 - 05/22/81 Visiting Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. “Recent Advances in Physiopathology of Head and Neck Injuries.”
05/16/81 Commencement Speaker at 1981 Graduation Tulane University School of Engineering. “The Engineer’s Role in the Unification of the Two Cultures”.
09/08 - 09/10/81 Seminar at I.C.R.O.B.I. meeting in Salon de Province, France. “Neural Trauma Mechanisms.”
09/26 - 09/29/81 S.T.A.P.P. Conference, San Francisco, California. Paper on “Comparative Studies of Neck Injuries of Car Occupants in Frontal Collisions in the United States and in the Federal Republic of Germany.”
02/07/82 Neurosurgical Review Course: Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Two Lectures:
1. Diagnosis of Head Injuries.
2. Treatment of Head Injuries.
02/24/82 Visiting Professor, Stanford University School of Engineering, Lecture on “Head and Neck Injury Mechanisms.”
04/26/82 Seminar, American Academy of Neurology, Washington, DC “Intracranial Pressure.”
06/30/82 Lecture to the Epilepsy Foundation. “Recent Advances in Neurosurgery.”
07/19 - 07/22/82 Lecture to The World Future Society. “Higher Cerebral Functions.”
07/22/82 Society for International Development, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland. “The Significance of Fundamental Research on Brain and Behavior.”
11/15 - 11/20/82 Organized seminar on “Psychopathologic Basis of Prognostic Indices of Head Injury Outcome”. Cromwell Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
12/01 - 12/04/82 Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge, England. Inaugural Lecturer, Walpole Lewin Memorial Fund. “Mechanisms of Cerebral Concussion”.
01/22 - 01/29/83 Organized seminar on “Fundamental and Applied Aspect of Neural Trauma” at the Winter Conference on Brain Research, Keystone, Colorado.
05/29 - 06/11/83 Invited faculty member of “International Institute for Transportation Injuries – Biomechanics course”, Amalfi, Italy.
10/16 - 10/22/83 Invited speaker at the University of California, San Diego. “International Symposium on Biomechanics of Trauma”, San Diego, California.
12/20 - 12/28/83 Visiting Professor, University of Punjab, Lahore (King Edward Medical College) at Multan (Nishtar Medical College), Pakistan.
02/03/84 Visiting Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Stanford University, California.
04/02 - 04/12/84 American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.
06/04 - 06/06/84 American Association of Automotive Medicine, Invited speaker “Biomechanics of Impact Trauma”, Copper Mountain, Colorado.
07/12 - 07/13/84 Visiting Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
08/14 - 08/15/84 Invited speaker, Second Annual Closed Head Injury Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
09/18 - 09/25/84 Invited speaker, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
12/10/84 Invited speaker, U.S. Army Workshop “Physiologic Effects of Weapon Recoil”.
01/26 - 02/02/85 Winter Conference on Brain Research, Denver, Colorado.
02/07 - 02/09/85 U.S.-Canada Head Injury Standards Workshop, Ottawa, Canada.
02/28 - 03/08/85 Visiting Professor, King Saud University and Invited speaker, International Neurosciences Conference, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
07/08 - 07/12/85 International Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Toronto, Canada. Presentation of poster on “Three dimensional Reconstruction of Head and Neck Injury Mechanisms in Automotive Accidents”.
09/02 - 09/7/85 Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Oxford, England.
09/08 - 09/09/85 Invited speaker, Satellite Symposium on Neurological Rehabilitation and Restorative Neurology of Brain Injury. 13th World Congress of Neurology, Ljublijana, Yugoslavia.
10/22/85 Review of Research Projects. Meeting of Advisory Board, Biomechanics Research. New York Institute of Technology, N.Y.
12/04/85 Report on Head Injury Outcome (Methodology). Society of Automotive Engineers, Detroit, Michigan.
02/02/86 Lectures on head Injury Diagnosis and Management. Cook County Graduate School Neurosurgery Review Course.
03/03 - 03/05/86 Research Society of Neurosurgeons. Report on “3-D Reconstruction of Head Injury from Motor Vehicle Accidents”.
04/86 Organizer, Moderator and Lecturer in an 8 Session Course for the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program, entitled “Brains, minds and Machines.”
06/23 - 06/26/86 Associazione Reibilitazione Comatosi (Italy).
1. Presented invited paper on “Physiology and Psychopathology of the Limbic System: Implications for the Reintegration of Consciousness after coma”.
2. Panel on Mechanisms of Consciousness (with Sir John Eccles), Milan, Italy.
04/03 - 04/08/87 American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Dallas. Presentation of Poster in “Models for Head and Neck Injuries in The Human.”
04/20 - 04/23/87 International conference on Sports Injuries, Toronto, Canada.
“Biomechanics of Head and Neck Injuries in Sports”.
10/31/87 Invited Speaker, National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, D.C. on “New Advances in the Mechanisms and Management of Head Injuries”, and “Acute Management of Head Trauma: What is the State of the Art?”
05/19/88 International conference on Biomechanics Research. American Society Mechanical Engineers. Invited panelist “Advances in Biomechanics of Injuries to the Nervous System”.
05/29/88 Visiting Professor and Grand Rounds Presentation, Department of Neurosurgery, Georgetown University. “Mechanics and Management of Head Injuries”.
Alternate Organizer & Moderator of 6 Session Lecture Course for the
Wednesdays Smithsonian Resident Associate program entitled, Art Science &
06/87 Religion.”
11/09 - 11/10/88 Invited Speaker, Silver Jubilee, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan, Award of Honorary Fellowship of the College (F.C.P.S.). Karachi, Pakistan.
02/09 - 02/11/88 National Research Council Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control (Atlanta), Washington, D.C.
Alternate Organizer & Moderator for 8 Lectures on “Memory, Molecules and the
Wednesdays Organization of Mind” for the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program,
04/06/88 Washington, D.C.
07/07/88 - 10/08/88 Regeneration Research Workshop of the Paralysis Project of America, Asilomar, CA.
07/06/88 Annual Meeting of the Islamic Medical Association of North America. The Avicenna Lecture on the “Rise and Decline of Islamic Science: The internal and external causes”. Anaheim, CA.
09/12/88 The George Snively memorial Lecture on the “Mechanism and Preventive Management of Injury to the Nervous System”, American Association of Automotive Medicine, Seattle, WA.
09/21/88 Invited Speaker, Washington Evolutionary Systems Society, Washington, DC: “The Evolution of Mind and Consciousness”.
01/09/89 Invited speaker, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC: “Emotion, Brain and Evolution”.
04/03/89 Invited Speaker, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC: “Emotion, Brain and Evolution”.
04/04 - 04/05/89 Invited Speaker, Moderator, & Discussant: Panel on Neural Models of the Mind, Speakers: Michael Arbib and Murray Bowen, at the Bicentennial Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
09/06 - 09/07/89 National Research Advisory Council Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control program of the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
09/18/89 Conducted American Association of Neurological Surgeons Video Archive Interviews of Dr. Louis Sokoloff, M.D., Dr. Seymour Kety, M.D. and Dr. Paul McLean, M.D. at N.I.H., Bethesda, MD and at Laboratory for Brain, Evolution and Behavior, NIMH, Poolesville, MD.
10/04/89 Presented paper at the American Association of Automotive Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. “A New Approach for Head Injury Criteria.”
11/29/89 National Research Advisory Council Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
02/09/90 Invited Speaker, Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, Captiva Island, Florida. “Complications of Surgery for Spinal Cord Arteriovenous Malformations.”
03/05 - 03/06/90 National Research Advisory Council Committee to Review the Status and progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control (Atlanta), Washington, D.C.
04/17/90 Invited Speaker, Montgomery County Medical Society, Bethesda, MD: “The Preventive Management f Automobile Accidents”.
05/18/90 Invited Speaker, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania 250th Anniversary: “Biomechanics of Injuries”.
05/31/90 Invited Speaker, St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center Neuroscience Symposium, Youngstown, Ohio: “Mechanisms and Preventive Management of Head Injuries”.
03/20/91 Invited Speaker, George Washington University Neurosurgical Grand Rounds: “The Erectile Brain’
03/26/91 Invited Speaker, University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada: “Mechanisms and Management of Head Injuries”.
04/12/91 Invited Speaker, Biomechanics of Injuries in Motor Vehicle Crashes, Wayne State University: “Rollover Injuries: Biomechanics of Injuries to the Head and Neck.
04/24/91 Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, LA: “Surgical Techniques in Tumors and Vascular Malformations of the Spinal Canal.”
05/04/91 Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Research Society of Neurological Surgeons, duke University: “Severe Head Injury with Prodromal Lucidity”
02/02/92 - 04/92 National Research Advisory Council Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
05/18 - 05/19/92 National Research Advisory Council Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control, Washington, DC.
06/05/92 Invited Speaker, World Bank, Washington, DC “Islam: Universal Religions and World Civilizations.”
10/02/92 Invited Speaker, Washington Philosophical Society, Cosmos Club, Washington, DC: “Neurobiology of Emotion and Evolution of Mind.”
02/25/93 Invited Speaker, DC Science Writers Association, Washington, DC: “Neurobiology of Emotion and the Evolution of Mind.”
04/27/93 Presented Paper at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. “A Neurosurgical Approach to the Maintenance of Islet Cells Without Immunosupression: Preliminary Observations on the Invention and First Use of a Spinal Fluid Driven Artificial Organ for Insulin Dependent Diabetes.”
05/18/93 Invited Speaker, Head and Neck Injuries in Sports Conference, Atlanta, GA: “Head Injured Patients Who Talk Before Deterioration Or Death: The TADD Syndrome.”
06/09/93 Presented paper at Annual Meeting of the Research Society of Neurological Surgeons Meeting, Dublin, Ireland. “Traumatic Unconsciousness of the Second Kind.”
07/15/93 Invited Speaker, Congressional Luncheon to discuss the situation in Bosnia/Hercegovina
07/19/93 National Research Advisory Council Committee Work-in-Progress Review meeting, for the Injury Control Program of the Centers for Disease Control, Seattle, WA.
07/26/93 Invited Speaker, “A Novel Approach to Diabetes: Islets in CSF Shunts” Research Rounds. Department of Aging, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
08/08 -08/10/93 National Research Advisory Council Committee to Review the Status and Progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA.
11/93 Invited Speaker, “Novel Transplantation Approach: Islet Xenografts in CSF Shunts in dogs”, First International Islet Cell Research Group, Alicante, Spain.
04/17/94 Invited Speaker, “A Spectrum of Mild Brain Injuries in Sports”, National Athletic Trainers’ Ass. Research and Education Foundation Summit Meeting.
05/01 - 05/04/94 Invited Speaker, “Novel Transplantation Approach: Islet Xenografts in CSF Shunts in Dogs”, Cell Transplant Society Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
08/02/94 Invited Speaker, “Religion and Conflict: Islam in the Middle East”, The American University’s Educating for Global Citizenship Summer Institute”.
10/12/94 Keynote Speaker, “Head Injury Mechanisms and the Concept of Preventive Management.” Head Injury ’94 International Symposium on Head Injury Research.
11/94 Invited speaker, “Arterio-venous Malformations of the Spinal Cord: Natural History and Surgical Management.” George Washington University Medical Center Neuroscience Symposium.
03/28/95 Invite speaker, “Requirements for Renaissance of Science in Islamic Polity. A Muslim Neuroscientist’s Perspective.” The International Conference of Science in Islamic Polity in the Twenty-first Century, Islamabad, Pakistan.
06/19/95 Invited Speaker, “Llama Glama: Unique model for evaluation of xenogenic islet transplants in a CSF driven artificial organ.” IPITA conference, Miami, Florida.
04/08/96 Invited speaker, “Evolution of consciousness as Emotion” at Tucson II Conference on Consciousness., Tucson, Arizona.
J1. Ommaya, A.K.: Water loss from the body. Lancet, 272: 998-999, May, 1957.
J2. Ommaya, A.K. and Baldwin, M: Direct extravascular brain cooling in the normothermic animal. Neurology, 12: 882-895, December, 1962
J3. Ommaya, AK.: Head injuries: Aspects and problems. Med. Ann. D.C., 32: 18-23, January, 1963.
J4. Ommaya, A.K. and Baldwin, M.: Extravascular local cooling of the brain in man. J. Neurosurg., 20: 679-686, August, 1963.
J5. Sheldon, P. and Ommaya, A.K.: Ventricular dilation masking the presence of cerebral tumors. Acta Radiologica (Scand.), 1: Fasc. 3, May, 1963.
J6. Baldwin, M., Farrier, R., MacDonald, F. and Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebral deposition of drugs at low temperatures. J. Neurosurg., 20: 637-646, August, 1963.
J7. Baldwin, M., Ommaya, A.K., Farrier, R., and MacDonald, F.: Mesial Cerebral Incision. J. Neurosurg., 20: 679-686, August, 1963.
J8. Krueger, R., Rockoff, S.D., Thomas, L.J., and Ommaya, A.K.: The effect of changes of end-expiratory carbon dioxide tension of the normal cerebral angiogram. Amer. J. Roentgenol., 90: 506-511, September, 1963.
J9. Ommaya, A.K.: Subcutaneous reservoir and pump for sterile access to ventricular cerebrospinal fluid. Lancet, 2: 983-984, November, 1963.
J10. Ommaya, A.K., Rockoff, S.D., and Baldwin, M.: Experimental concussion: A first report. J. Neurosurg., 21: 249-267, April, 1964.
J11. Drachman, D. and Ommaya, A.K.: Memory and the hippocampal complex. Arch. Neurol., 10: 411-425, April, 1964.
J12. Rockoff, S.D. and Ommaya, A.K.: Experimental head trauma. Cerebral angiographic changes in the early post-traumatic period. Amer. J. Roentgenol., 91: 1026-1035, May, 1964.
J13. Rockoff, S.D. and Ommaya, A.K.: A Fluoroscopically controlled adjustable midline localizer for stereotaxic surgery. Amer. J. Roentgenol., 91: 1138-1143, May, 1964.
J14. Drachman, D. and Ommaya, A.K.: Memory and the hippocampal complex. Arach. Neurol., 10: 411-425, April, 1964.
J15. Coe, J.E. and Ommaya, A.K.: Evaluation of focal lesions of the central nervous system produced by extreme cold. J. Neurosurg., 21: 433-444, June, 1964.
J16. Ommaya, A.K. and Sadowsky, D.: A system of coding medical data for punched-card machine retrieval. Part I. As applied to epilepsy. Epilepsia, 5: 192-200, June, 1964.
J17. Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea. Neurology, 14: 106-113, February, 1964.
J18. Ommaya, A.K. and Coe, J.E.: An experimental appraisal of cryogenic brain lesions in the cat. Confinia Neurologica, 26: 183-189, January, 1965.
J19. Coe, J.E., Rockoff, S.D. and Ommaya, A.K.: The effects of extreme cold on major extracranial arteries and veins. Acta Neurochirugica, 12: 778-790, February, 1965.
J20. Kastin, A.J., Lipsett, M., Ommaya, A.K. and Moser, J.: Asymptomatic hypernatremia. Physiological and clinical study. Amer. J. Med., 38: 306-315, February, 1965.
J21. Chase, R., Cullen, J., and Ommaya, A.K.: Modifications of intention tremor in man. Nature, 206: 485-487, May, 1965.
J22. Krueger, T., McFarland, J., and Ommaya, A.K.: Pyocele of the sphenoid sinus. J. Neurosurg., 22: 616-621, June, 1965.
J23. Coe, J.E., Ommaya, A.K., and Baldwin, M.: Stereotaxic radioisotope scanning—an experimental technique for the conversion of discrete focal positive scans into coordinates for neurosurgical access. J. Neurosurg., 23: 549-553, August, 1965.
J24. Coe, J.E., Ommaya, A.K.: An instrument for brain biopsy utilizing a new extraction principle. J. Neurosurg., 23: 217-218, August, 1965.
J26. Witorsch, P. Williams, T.W., Ommaya, A.K., and Utz, J.P.: Intraventricular administration of Amphotericin B. J.A.M.A., 194: 899-902, November, 1965.
J27. Rockoff, S.D., Doppman, J., Krueger, T.P., Thomas, L.J., and Ommaya, A.K.: Altered opacification of the external carotid circulation by changes of end-expiratory carbon dioxide tension. Invest. Radiol., 1: 123-128, March-April, 1966.
J28. Doppman, J.L. and Ommaya, A.K.: Unilateral cranial bruits: Two unusual causes with a note on radiographic technique. Radiology, 86: 696-700, April, 1966.
J29. Ommaya, A.K., Hirsch, A.E., Flamm, E.S., and Mahone, R.M.: Cerebral concussion in the monkey: An experimental model. Science, 153: 211-212, July, 1966.
J30. Rubin, R.C., Ommaya, A.K., Henderson, E.S., Bering, E.A., and Rall, D.P.: Cerebrospinal fluid perfusion for central nervous system neoplasms. Neurology, 16: 680-692, July, 1966.
J31. Ommaya, A.K. and Sadowsky, D.: A system of coding medical data for punched-card retrieval. Part II. As applied to head injuries. J. Trauma, 6: 605-617, September, 1966.
J32. Flamm, E.S., Ommaya, A.K., Fass, F., Coe, J.E., and Krueger, T.: Cardiovascular effects of experimental head injury in the monkey. Surg. Forum, 27: 414-416, October, 1966.
J33. Rubin, R.C., Henderson, E.S., Ommaya, A.K., Walker, M.D., and Rall, D.P.: The production of cerebrospinal fluid in man and its modification by acetazolamide. J. Neurosurg., 25: 430-436, October, 1966.
J34. Ommaya, A.K., Hirsch, A.E., and Martinez., J.: The role of “whiplash” in cerebral concussion. Proceedings of the 10th Stapp Car Crash Conference, New York: Society of Automotive Engineers, 197-203, November, 1966.
J35. Ommaya, A.K.: Trauma to the nervous system. A clinical and experimental study. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (Hunterian Lecture) 39: 317-347, December, 1966.
J36. DiChiro, G. Doppman, J.L. and Ommaya, A.K.: Selective arteriography of arteriovenous aneurysms of the spinal cord. Radiology, 88: 1065-1077, June 1967.
J37. Yarnell, P., Merrill, C.R., Charlton, G., Chiardi, F. and Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebral fluid cavity oxygen tension. Preliminary report of observations in man. Neurology, 17: 659-669, June, 1967.
J38. Merrill, C.R., Charlton, G., Yarnell, P., and Ommaya, A.K.: Effect of arterial oxygen on mammalian brain oxygen tension. Nature, 216: 295-297, October, 1967.
J39. Ommaya, A.K., Hirsch, A.E., Harris, E., and Yarnell, P.: Scaling of experimental data in cerebral concussion in sub-human primates to concussive threshold for man. Proceedings of the 11th Stapp Car Crash Conference, New York: Society of Automotive Engineers, 47-52, October, 1967.
J40. Yarnell, P., Charlton, G., Merrill, C.R., Chiardi, F., and Ommaya, A.K.: Dynamics of oxygen tension in the cisternal cerebrospinal fluid of the rhesus monkey. J. Neurosurg., 27: 515-524, December, 1967.
J41. Ommaya, A.K.: The mechanical properties of tissues of the nervous system. J. Biomechanics, 2: 1-12, January, 1968.
J42. Fass, F., and Ommaya, A.K.: Brain tissue electrolytes and water content in experimental cerebral concussion in the monkey. J. Neurosurg., 28: 137-144, February, 1968.
J43. Marshall, W.L., Ommaya, A.K., Richter, J., Thompson, H.K., and Woody, C.D.: Relation of brain injury to slow potential changes accompanying H-ion concentration changes in the blood. Electroenceph. Clin. Neurophysiol., 190, February, 1968.
J44. Bossom, J. and Ommaya, A.K.: Visuo-motor adaptation (to prismatic transformation of the retinal image) in monkeys with bilateral dorsal rhizotomy. Brain, 91: 161-172, March, 1968.
J45. Doppman, J.L., DiChiro, G., and Ommaya, A.K.: Obliteration of spinal cord arteriovenous malformation by percutaneous embolization. Lancet, 1: 477, March, 1968.
J46. DiChiro, G., Ommaya, A.K., Briner, W., and Ashburn, W.: Isotope cisternography in the diagnosis and follow-up of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea. J. Neurosurg., 6: 522-529, April, 1968.
J47. Ommaya, A.K., Fass, F., and Yarnell, P.: Whiplash injury and brain damage: An experimental study. J.A.M.A., 204: 285-289, April, 1968.
J48. VanBuren, J., Ommaya, A.K. and Ketcham, A.S.: Ten years’ experience with radical combined cranio-facial resection of malignant tumors of the paranasal sinuses. Neurosurg., 28: 341-350, April, 1968.
J49. Ommaya, A.K., DiChiro, G., Baldwin, M. and Pennybacker, J.: Non-traumatic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat., 31: 214-255, June, 1968.
J50. Ratcheson, R.A. and Ommaya, A.K.: Experience with the subcutaneous cerebrospinal fluid reservoir. Preliminary report of 60 cases. New Eng. J. Med., 279: 1025-1031, November, 1968.
J51. Ommaya, A.K., Boretos, J.W., and Beile, E.E.: The lexan calvarium: An improved method for direct observation of the brain. J. Neurosurg., 30: 25-29, January, 1969.
J52. Yarnell, P. and Ommaya, A.K.: Experimental cerebral concussion in the rhesus monkey. Bull. N.Y. Acad. Med., 45: 39-45, January, 1969.
J53. Ommaya, A.K., DiChiro, G., and Doppman, J.L.: Ligation of arterial supply in the treatment of spinal cord arteriovenous malformations. J. Neurosurg., 30: 679-692, June, 1969.
J54. Bering, E.A., Jr., Rall, D.P., Walker, M., Leventhal, C., and Ommaya, A.K.: Intrathecal chemotherapy of gliomas; Rationale and current status. Proceedings of the Conference on Research in the Experimental and Clinical Aspects of Brain Tumors (February 26-27, 1968), Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 159: 599-602, July, 1969.
J55. Ommaya, A.K. and Yarnell, P.: Subdural hematoma after whiplash injury. Lancet, 2: 237-239, August, 1969.
J56. Naumann, R., Grubb, R., and Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebrospinal fluid oxygen tension in hypoxia. Surg. Forum, 20: 442-443, October, 1969.
J57. Doppman, J.L., Wirth, F.P., DiChiro, G., and Ommaya, A.K.: Value of cutaneous angiomas in the arteriographic localization of spinal cord arteriovenous malformation. New Eng. J. Med., 281: 1440-1444, 1969.
J58. Grubb, R.L., Jr., Naumann, R.A., and Ommaya, A.K.: Respiration and the cerebrospinal fluid in experimental cerebral concussion. J. Neurosurg., 32: 320-329, March, 1970.
J59. McCullough, D.C., Harbert, J.C., DiChiro, G., and Ommaya, A.K.: Prognostic criteria for cerebrospinal shunting from isotope cisternography in communicating hydrocephalus. Neurology, 20: 595-598, June, 1970.
J60. Metz, H., McElhaney, J. and Ommaya, A.K.: A comparison of the elasticity of live, dead and fixed brain tissue. J. Biomechanics, 3: 453-458, July, 1970.
J61. Kaufman, H.H., Ommaya, A.K., DiChiro, G., and Doppman, J.L.: Compression versus “steal” The pathogenesis of symptoms in arteriovenous malformations of the spinal cord. Arch. Neurol., 23: 173-178, August, 1970.
J62. Fedio, Paul and Ommaya, A.K.: Bilateral cingulum lesions and stimulation in man with lateralized impairment in short term verbal memory. Exp. Neurol., 29: 84-91, October, 1970.
J63. Hirsch, A.E., and Ommaya, A.K.: Protection from brain injury: The relative significance of translational and rotational motions of the head after impact. Proceedings of the 14th Stapp Car Crash Conference, Society of Automotive Engineers New York: 144-155, November, 1970.
J64. Ommaya, A.K.: Nervous system injury and the whole body. J. Trauma, 10: 981-990, November, 1970.
J65. Ommaya, A.K., Walker, A.E., and Gurdjian, E.S. (Chairman and Co-chairmen); Brackett, C.E. and Langfitt, T.W. (Rapporteurs): trauma Workshop Report: Neural Trauma, J. Trauma, 10: 1069-1071, 1970.
J66. Wirth, F.P., Post, K.D. DiChiro, G., Doppman, J.L., and Ommaya, A.K.: Foix-Alajouanine disease: Spontaneous thrombosis of a spinal cord arteriovenous malformation. A case report. Neurology, 20: 1114-1118, November, 1970.
J67. Crowell, R., M., Olsson, Y., Klatzo, I., and Ommaya, A.K.: Temporary occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in the monkey: Clinical and pathological observations. Stroke, 1: 439-448, November-December, 1970.
J68. Crowell, R.M., Olsson, Y., Klatzo, I., and Ommaya, A.K.: Temporary focal ischemia in the monkey. Trans. Amer. Neurol. Assoc., 95: 229-231, 1970.
J69. Doppman, J.L., DiChiro, G., and Ommaya, A.K.: Percutaneous embolization of spinal cord arteriovenous malformations: A report of 5 cases. J Neurosurg., 34: 485-495, January, 1971.
J70. Ommaya, A.K., and Hirsch, A.E.: Tolerance of cerebral concussion from head impact and whiplash in primates. J. Biomechanics, 4: 13-22, January, 1971.
J71. Post, K.D., Levitsky, S., Doppman, J.L., DiChiro, G., Wirth, F.P., and Ommaya, A.K.: Transthoracic ligation of intercostals arteries for arteriovenous malformations of the spinal cord. Ann. Surg., 173: 152-156, January, 1971.
J72. McCullough, D.C., Nelson, K.M., and Ommaya, A.K.: The acute effects of experimental head injury on the vertebrobasilar circulation: Angiographic observations. J. Trauma, 11: 422-428, May, 1971.
J73. Ommaya, A.K., Geller, A., And Parsons, L.C.: The effect of experimental head injury on one-trial learning in rat. Intern. J. Neurosciences, 1: 371-378, June, 1971.
J74. Boretos, J.W., Bourke, R.S., Nelson, K.M., Naumann, R.A., and Ommaya, A.K.: Technique for unilateral isolation of the subdural space in the intact primate. J. Neurosurg., 35: 101-107, July, 1971.
J75. Crowell, R.M., Olsson, Y. and Ommaya, A.K.: Angiographic and microangiographic observations in experimental cerebral concussion. Neurology, 21: 710-719, 1971.
J76. DiChiro, G., Doppman, J.L. and Ommaya, A.K.: Radiology of spinal cord arteriovenous malformations. In Progress of Neurological Surgery, 4: 329-354, 1971.
J77. Kaufman, H.H., Ommaya, A.K., Doppman, J.L. and Roth, J.A.: Hypertrophy of the ligamentum flavum. Secondary cord syndrome in an acromegalic. Arch. Neurol., 25: 256-259, September, 1971.
J78. Ommaya, A.K., Grubb, R.L., Jr., and Naumann, R.A.: Coup and contre-coup: Observations in the mechanics of visible brain injuries in the rhesus monkey. J. Neurosurg., 35: 503-517, November, 1971.
J79. Sass, D.J., Corrao, P., and Ommaya, A.K.: Brain motion during vibration of water immersed rhesus monkeys. J. Biomechanics, 4: 331-334, October, 1971.
J80. Stein, S.C., Ommaya, A.K., Doppman, J.L. and DiChiro, G.L.: Arteriovenous malformation of the cauda equina with arterial supply from branches of the internal iliac arteries. Case Report. J. Neurosurg., 36: 649-651, No. 5, May, 1972.
J81. Herdt, J.R., Shimkin, P.M., Ommaya, A.K., and DiChiro, G.: Angiography of vascular intraspinal tumors. Amer. J. Roentgen., 115: 165-170, No. 1, May, 1972.
J82. Ommaya, A.K., and Fedio, P.: The contribution of cingulum and hippocampal structures of memory mechanisms in man. Confin. Neurol., 34: 398-411, No. 4, 1972.
J83. Gerner, P., Ommaya, A.K. and Fedio, P.: A study of visual memory: verbal and nonverbal mechanisms in patients with unilateral temporal lobectomy. Intern J. Neurosciences, 4: 231-238, 1972.
J84. DiChiro, G., Jones, A.E., Johnston, G.S., Ommaya, A.K. and Koslow, M.: Radioisotope angiography of the spinal cord. J. Nucl. Med., 13: 567-569, No. 7, July, 1972.
J85. Harrington, T., Major, M., Ommaya, A.K., and DiChiro, G.: Oxygen availability in ischemic brain following hypocarbia and hypercarbia. Polarographical depth electrode recordings in evolving and completed experimental stroke in the monkey. Stroke, 3: 692-701, November-December, 1972.
J86. Jones, A.E., Koslow, M., Johnston, G.S., and Ommaya, A.K.: 67 Ga-citrate scintigraphy of brain tumors. Radiology, 105: 693-697, No. 3, December, 1972.
J87. Hirsch, A.E., and Ommaya, A.K.: Head injury caused by underwater explosion of a firecracker. J. Neurosurg., 37: 95-99, No. 1, 1972.
J88. Ommaya, A.K.: Mechanisms of injury to the nervous system. Boletin Assoc. Argent. Neurocir., 14: 93-101, 1972.
J89. Ommaya, A.K., Carrao, P.G., and Letcher, F.: Head injury in the chimpanzee. Part I. Biodynamics of traumatic unconsciousness. J. Neurosurg., 39: 152-166, 1973.
J90. Letcher, F., Carrao, P.G., and Ommaya, A.K.: Head injury in the chimpanzee. Part II. Spontaneous and evoked epidural potentials as indices of injury severity. J. Neurosurg., 39: 167-177, 1973.
J91. Larson, S.M., Johnston, G.S., Ommaya, A.K., Jones, A.E., and DiChiro, G.: Radionuclide ventriculogram. J.A.M.A., 224: 853-857, 1973.
J92. Ommaya, A.K.: Computerized axial tomography of the head: The EMI-Scanner, a new device for direct examination of the brain “in-Vivo.” Surg. Neurol. 1: 217-222, 1973.
J93. Healy, M.H., Symmes, D., and Ommaya, A.K.: Visual discordance cues induce prism adaptation in normal monkeys. Percept. Motor Skills, 37: 683-693, 1973.
J94. Ommaya, A.K. and Gennarelli, R.A.: Cerebral concussion and traumatic unconsciousness. Brain., 97: 633-654, 1974.
J95. Albright, L., Toczek, S., Brenner, V.J., and Ommaya, A.K.: Osteomyelitis and epidural abscess caused by Arachnia propionica. Case Report. J. Neurosurg., 40: 115-119, January, 1974.
J96. Cohen, M.H., Chretien, P.B., Felix, E.L., Loyd, B.C., Ketcham, A.S., Albright, L.A., and Ommaya, A.K.: Augmentation of lymphocyte reactivity in guinea pigs, mice, monkeys and humans sensitized to BCG, dinitrobenzene or nitrogen mustard. Nature, 249: 656-658, 1974.
J97. Horwitz, D., Clineschmidt, B.V., VanBuren, J.M., and Ommaya, A.K.: Temporal arteries from hypertensive and normotensive man. Circ. Res., 34-35: Suppl. 1, 109-115, 1974.
J98. Peters, N.D. and Ommaya, A.K.: Adjustable microvascular clamp for cerebrovascular surgery. J. Neurosurg., 41: 644-645, 1974.
J99. Post, R.M., Allen, F.H., and Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebrospinal fluid flow and iodide 131 transport in the spinal subarachnoid space. Life Sci., 14: 1885-1894, 1974.
J100. Ommaya, A.K., Murray, G., Ambrose, J., Richardson, A., and Hounsfield, G.: computerized axial tomography: estimation of spatial and density resolution capability. Br. J. Radiol., 49: 604-611, 1976.
J101. Spiegel, A.M., DiChiro, G., Gorden, P., Ommaya, A.K., Kolins, J., and Pomeroy, T.C.: diagnosis of radio-sensitive hypothalamic tumors without craniotomy. Endocrine and neuroradiologic studies of intracranial atypical teratomas. Ann. Intern. Med., 85: 290-294, 1976.
J102. Ommaya, A.K.: Surgical management of head injuries in athletes. The Physician and Sports Medicine, 4: 56-63, April, 1976.
J103. Wood, J.G., Parver, M., Doppman, J.L., and Ommaya, A.K.: Experimental intraoperative localization of retained intracerebral bone fragments using transdural ultrasound. J. Neurosurg., 46: 65-71, 1977.
J104. Wood, J.H., Poplack, D.G., Bleyer, W.A., and Ommaya, A.K.: Primate model for long-term study of intraventricularly or intrathecally administered drugs and intracranial pressure. Science, 195: 499-501, 1977.
J105. Albright, L., Seab, J.A., and Ommaya, A.K.: Intracerebral delayed-hypersensitivity reactions in glioblastoma multiforme patients. Cancer, 39 (3): 1331-1336, 1977.
J106. Rajjoub, R.K., Wood, J.H., and Ommaya, A.K.: Granulomatous angiitis of the brain: A successfully treated case. Neurology, 27: 588-591, 1977.
J107. Poplack, D.G., Bleyer, W.A., Wood, J.H., Kostolich, M., Savitch, J.L., and Ommaya, A.K.: A primate model for study of methotrexate pharmacokinetics in the central nervous system. Cancer Res., 37: 1982-1985, July, 1977.
J108. Wood, J.H., Poplack, D.G., Flor, W.J., Gunby, E.N., and Ommaya, A.K.: Chronic ventricular cerebrospinal fluid sampling, drug injections, and pressure monitoring using subcutaneous reservoirs in monkeys. Neurosurg., 1: 132-135, 1977.
J109. Broughton, W.L., Gee, W., Doppman, J.L., and Ommaya, A.K.: Nonpulstile exophthalmos in carotid-cavernous sinus fistula. J. Pediatr. Ophthal., 14: 221-224, 1977.
J110. Wood, J.H., Doppman, J.I., Lightfoote, II, W.E., Girton, M., and Ommaya, A.K.: Role of vascular proliferation on angiographic appearance and encapsulation of experimental traumatic and metastatic brain abscesses. J. Neurosurg., 48: 264-273, 1978.
J111. Bleyer, W.A., Poplack, D.G., Simon, R.M., Henderson, E.S., Leventhal, B.G., Zeigler, J.L., Levine, A.S., and Ommaya, A.K.: “Concentration x Time” methotrexate via a subcutaneous reservo8ir: a less toxic regimen for intraventricular chemotherapy of central nervous system neoplasms. Blood, 51: 835-842, 1978.
J112. Ommaya, A.K.: Thymosin: a new modulator of the immune system. Neurologia en Columbia. 1-2: 244-247, 1978.
J113. Meeker, W.R., Baskies, A., Chretien, P., Weiss, J., and Ommaya, A.K.: Lymphocyte T-Cell, glycoprotein, and skin test responses to therapy of brain tumors. Surgical Forum, 1978.
J114. Wood, J.J., Lightfoote, W.E., and Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebral Abscesses produced by bacterial implantation and septic embolization in primates. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. And Psychiatry, 42: 63-69, 1979.
J115. Ommaya, A.K. and Khan, W.: Electrical Impedance Method for Rapid Measurement of Cancer Cell Sensitivity to Anti-cancer Drugs: application to Predictive Individualized Chemotherapy for Malignant Gliomas. Proc. Am. Assoc. Neurol. Surg., 73: 192-193, 1980.
J116. Ommaya, A.K., Langwieder, K., Backaitis, S.H., and Fan, W.: Comparative Studies of Neck Injuries in Belted and Unbelted Car Occupants in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany: Mechanisms and Implications for Prevention. Proc. Stapp Car Crash Conf., S.A.E., San Francisco, 1981.
J117. Khan, W.N., Ommaya, A.K., and Ross, S.: An electrical Impedance Method for Rapid Measurement of Tumor Cell Sensitivity to Anti-cancer Drugs. Drugs Under Experimental and Clinical Research, 7,(5): 641-647, October, 1981.
J118. Ommaya, A.K.: Implantable Devices for Chronic Access and Drug Delivery to the Central Nervous System. In Cancer Drug Delivery, 1: No. 2, 1984.
J119. MacLennon, C. and Ommaya, A.K.: Head Injury and Outcome: A Critical Review of Methodology. In Crash Injury Impairment and Disability: Long Term Effects. Monograph No. SP-661 (S.A.E.) Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, 1986.
J120. Ommaya, A.K.: Perspectives in Injury and Prevention and Control: What is the Problem: A neurosurgeon’s Perspective. Public Health Reports. 587-588, 1987.
J121. Ommaya, A.K. Emotion and the Evolution of Neural Complexity. Part 1 of 2. WESScom 2, (1): 23-28, 1992.
J122. Ommaya, A.K. Emotion and the Evolution of Neural Complexity. Part 2 of 2. WESScom 3, (1): 8-17, 1993.
J123. Ommaya, A.K., Thibault, L.E., Boock, R.J., Meaney, D.F. Head Injured Patients who Talk Before Deterioration or Death: The TADD Syndrome. In Proc. ASTM, International Symposium on Head and Neck Injuries in Sports. May, 1993, and Head and Neck Injuries in Sports, ASTM STP 1229, Earl F. Hoerner, Ed., American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, 1994.
J124. Ommaya, A.K., Thibault, L.T., Bandak. F.A. Mechanisms of Impact Head Injury. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 15 (4): 535-560, 1994.
J125. Ommaya, A.K., Atwater, I., Coonrod, B.A., et. Al. Novel Transplantation Approach: Islet Xenografts in C.S.F. Shunts in Dogs. Transplantation Proceedings, December, 1994.
J126. Ommaya, A.K. Head Injury Mechanisms and the Concept of Preventive Management: A Review and Critical Synthesis J. Neurotrauma, 12, (4): 527-546, 1995.
J127. Ommaya, A.K., Atwater, I.J., Yanez, A., et. Al. Llama Glama: Unique model for evaluation of xenogenic islet transplants in a CSF driven artificial organ. Transplantation Proceedings, 1995.
J128. Ommaya, A.K. Requirements for a Renaissance of science in Islamic Polity: A Muslim Neuroscientist’s Perspective. Islamic Thought and Scientific Creativity, 6, (4): 7-46, 1995.
J129 Ommaya, A.K. Ommaya, A.K., Dannenberg, A.L., Salazar, A.M. Causation, Incidence and Costs of Head Injury in the U.S. Military Medical System. J. Trauma; 40(2):211-7. 1996
J130 Ommaya AK, Salazar AM, Dannenberg AL, Ommaya AK, Chervinsky AB, Schwab K, Outcome after traumatic brain injury in the U.S. military medical system. J Trauma.; 41(6):972-5. 1996
J131. Ommaya, A.K. Why Neurobehavioral Sequelae Do Not Correlate with Head Injury Severity: A Biomechanical Explanation for the Traumatic disturbances of Consciousness. Seminars in Clinical Neuropsychiatry, Vol 2, No 3 (July), 1997: pp 163-176.
J132 Atwater I, Yanez A, Cea R, Navia A, Jeffs S, Arraya V, Szpak-Glasman M, Leighton X, Goping G, Bevilacqua JA, Moreno R, Brito J, Arriaza C, Ommaya A. Cerebral spinal fluid shunt is an immunologically privileged site for transplantation of xenogeneic islets. Transplant Proc. Jun;29(4):2111-5. 1997.
J133 Brooks JK, Leonard CO, Zawadzki JK, Ommaya AK, Levy BA, Orenstein JM. Pituitary macroadenoma and cranial osteoma in a manifesting heterozygote with the Opitz G/BBB syndrome. Am J Med Genet. 1998 Nov 16;80(3):291-3.
J134. Ommaya A.K., Goldsmith, W. and Thibault L.:Biomechanics and Neuropathology of Adult and Paediatric head injury.
British Journal of Neurosurgery, 2002. 16 (3): 220-242.
J135 Uscinski RH, Thibault LE, and Ommaya AK. Rotational injury. J Neurosurg. 2004 Mar;100(3):574-5.
BOOKS, CHAPTERS, REVIEW ARTICLES.
1. Ommaya, A.K.: The concept of reflex action. The Jane Willis Kirkaldy Prize Essay, 1956. Oxford University Museum for the History of Science, Oxford, March, 1956.
2. Ommaya, A.K.: Experimental head injury in the monkey. In Head Injury Conference Proceedings, W.F. Caveness and A.E. Walker, (Eds.) Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, February, 1966, pp. 260-275.
3. Raff, H. and Ommaya, A.K.: A Mathematical Model for Whiplash and Head Impact Injury. Digest of the 7th International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, Session 38. August, 1967 Stockholm, Sweden.
4. Yarnell, P., Charlton, G., Merrill, C.R., and Ommaya, A.K.: Oxygen tension dynamics in the cerebrospinal fluid. Trans. Amer. Neurol. Assn., 92: 295-296, June, 1967.
5. Hirsch, A.E., Ommaya, A.K. and Mahone, R.M.: Tolerance of sub-human primates brain to cerebral concussion. In, Gurdjian, E.S., et. Al. (Eds) Impact Injury and Crash Protection. Springfield, IL Charles C. Thomas, 1969.
6. Ommaya, A.K.: Whiplash injury: A review of clinical and experimental observations. The Pakistan Med. Rev., 4: 13-23, October, 1969.
7. Doppman, J.L., DiChiro, G. and Ommaya, A.K.: Selective Arteriography of the Spinal Cord. St. Louis, Missouri: Warren Green Publisher, 1969.
8. Hirsch, A.E., Ommaya, A.K., and Mahone, R.M.: The tolerance of sub-human primate brain to cerebral concussion. In Impact injury and Crash Protection. E.S. Gurdjian, W.A. Lange, L.M. Patrick, and L.M. Thomas (Eds.). Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1970, pp. 352-371.
9. Ommaya, A.K. and Corrao, P.: Pathologic biomechanics of central nervous system injury in head impact and whiplash trauma. In Accident pathology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Accident Pathology. K.M. Brinkhous (Ed.). Washington, DC: Government Printing Press, 160-181, 1970.
10. Ommaya, A.K.: Head injury in the Adult. In Conn, H.F., (Ed.): Current Therapy 1972. New York: W.B. Saunders Co., 692-697, 1972.
11. Ommaya, A.K., Metz, H., and Post, K.D.: Observations on the biomechanics on the biomechanics of hydrocephalus. In Harbert, J. (Ed.): Cisternography and Hydrocephalus. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 57-74, 1972.
12. Nakatani, S. and Ommaya, A.K.: A critical rate of cerebral compression. In Brock, M. and Dietz, H. (Eds.): Intracranial Pressure. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1972, pp. 144-148, 1972.
13. Ommaya, A.K.: Arteriovenous malformations of the spinal cord. In Youmans, J. (Ed.): Neurological Surgery. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders: Vol. II, pp. 852-862, 1973.
14. Ommaya, A.K., and Gennarelli, T.A.: Neural Trauma: Correlations between the biomechanic and pathophysiology of head injury. In Sano, K., Ishii, s., and LeVay, D. (Eds.): Recent Progress in Neurological Surgery. Proceedings of the Symposia of the Fifth International Congress of Neurological Surgery. Tokyo, Oct. 7-13, 1973. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, 1974.
15. Ketcham, A.S., Chretien, P.B., Schour, L, Herdt, J.R., Ommaya, A.K., and VanBuren, J.M.: Surgical Treatment of Patients with Advanced Cancer of the Paranasal Sinuses. In Neoplasia of Head and Neck (Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc.) pp. 187-202., 1974.
16. Ommaya, A.K. and Gennarelli, T.A.: Experimental head injury. In Vinken, P.J. and Bruyn, G.W., (Eds.): Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Injuries of the Brain and Skull. New York: American Elsevier Publishing Co., Inc., vol. 23, Chapt. 4, pp. 67-90., 1975.
17. Nakatani, S. and Ommaya, A.K.: Volume pressure curves and pial vascular pressure gradients in the rhesus monkey. In Lundberg, N., Ponten, U. and Brock, M. (Eds.): Intracranial Pressure II. International Symposium on Intracranial Pressure, 2nd, Lund, 1974. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 89-96, 1975.
18. Ommaya, A.K.: Immunotherapy of gliomas: A review. In Thompson, R.A. and Green, J.R. (Eds.): Advances in Neurology. Neoplasia in the Central Nervous System. New York, Raven Press, vol. 15, pp. 337-359, 1976.
19. Ommaya, A.K. and Gennarelli, T.A.: A physiopathologic basis for non-invasive diagnosis and prognosis of head injury severity. In McLaurin, R.L. (Ed.): Head Injuries: Second Chicago Symposium on Neural Trauma. New York: Grune & Stratton, pp. 49-75, 1976.
20. Advani, S.H., Ommaya, A.K., and Yang, Wen-Jei: Head Injury mechanisms: Characterizations and Clinical Evaluation. In Ghista, D. (Ed.), Oxford University Press, 1982.
21. Wyatt, R.J., Cantor, F., Gillin, J.C., Gordon, E., Karoum, F., McCullough, D., Neff, N., Ommaya, A.K., Rauscher, F.P., Seaborg, J.B. and Slaby, A.: Ventricular fluid metabolites of phenolic amines and catecholamines. In Usdin, E. and Sandler, M. (Eds.): Trace Amines and the Brain. New York, N.Y.: Marcel Bekker, Inc., pp. 209-231, 1976.
22. Ommaya, A.K.: Spinal fluid fistulae. In Keener, E.B. (Ed.): Clinical Neurosurgery. Proceedings of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975. Baltimore, M.D., Williams & Wilkins Co., chapt. 27, pp. 363-392, 1976.
23. Poplack, D.G., Gleyer, W.A., Wood, J.H., and Ommaya, A.K.: A primate model for the study of CNS pharmacokinetics of anti-neoplastic agents. In Kay, H. and Whitehouse, M. (Eds.): CNS complications of Malignant Disease. MacMillan Press Ltd., 1978.
24. Ommaya A.K.: Frontiers of Functional Neurosurgery in Biomedical Research. In Rasmussen, T. and Marion, R. (Eds.): Functional Neurosurgery, New York: Raven press, pp. 45-58, 1979.
25. Ommaya, A.K.: Indices of neural trauma. An overview. In Popp, A.J. (Ed.): Neural Trauma, Vol. IV, New York: Raven Press, 1979.
26. Ommaya, A.K.: Reintegration and regeneration of the central nervous system after trauma. In Popp, A.J. (Ed.): Neural Trauma, Vol. IV, New York: Raven Press, 1979.
27. Weiss, J.F., Morantz, R.A., Meeker, Jr., W.R., Bradley, W.P., Baskies, A.M., Ommaya A.K., and Chretien, P.B.: Serum Glycoproteins in patients with Brain Tumors: Relation to tumor presence and immune status. In Paoletti, P., et al (Eds.): Multidisciplinary Aspects of Brain Tumor Therapy. Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979.
28. Ommaya, A.K., Reed, J.E., Walters, C.L., Meeker, M.R., and Weiss, J.F.: Thymosin for Brain Tumor Therapy: A Phase I Trail in Patients with Malignant Gliomas. In Paoletti, P., et al. (Eds.): Multidisciplinary Aspects of Brain Tumor Therapy. Elsevier/North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979.
29. Ommaya, A.K.: Mechanisms of Injuries to the Head. Current Status and Future Directions of Research. Bioengineering Seminars Report 80-2. 13-16. University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
30. Walters, C.L., Ommaya, A.K., Rigamonti, D., Mononen, L. Braford, M., Kao, C.: Regenerative Capacity of the Monkey Spinal Cord: A study of delayed peripheral nerve grafting in the transected spinal cord of the Macaca Mullata. In Becker, R. (Ed.): Mechanisms of Growth Control. Charles C. Thomas, 1981.
31. Ommaya, A.K.: Mechanisms of Cerebral Concussion, Contusions and the Physiopathology of Head Injury. In Youmans, J. (Ed.): Neurological Surgery. W. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1981.
32. Baskies, A.M., Ommaya, A.K., Chretien, P.B.: Thymosin Alpha-1: First Clinical Trial and Comparison with Thymosin Fraction 5 In Current Concepts in Human Immunology. Sorrow, B. (Ed.) Elsevier Biomedical Press, 1982.
33. Ommaya, A.K.: Current Uses of Peripheral and Central Nervous System Transplants and their Future Potential for Reversing Mental Retardation. In Curative Aspects of Mental Retardation. Menolascino, F.J. (Ed.)
34. Ommaya, A.K.: The Neck: Classification, Physiopathology and Clinical Outcome of Injuries to the Neck in Motor Vehicle Accidents. In Biomechanics of Transportation Accidents. North Holland Press, 1984.
35. Goldsmith, W. and Ommaya, A.K.: Head and Neck Injury Criteria and Tolerance Levels. In Biomechanics of Impact Trauma. Elsevier Press, New York, 1984.
36. Ommaya, A.K.: Kinematics and Mechanisms of Head Injuries. In Biomechanics of Impact Trauma. Elsevier Press, New York, 1984.
37. Ommaya, A.K.: Biomechanics of Head Injuries. In Biomechanics of Trauma. Nahum, A. (Ed.). Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1984.
38. Ommaya, A.K.: Surgery for Arteriovenous Malformations of the Spinal Cord (Spinal Angiomas). In Modern Techniques in Surgery. Ransohoff, J. (Ed.), Future Publishing Co., 1984.
39. Ommaya, A.K.: Spinal Cord Arteriovenous Malformations. In Cerebrovascular Surgery. Fein, J.M. and Flamm, E.S. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, 1984.
40. Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea. In Neurological Surgery. Wilkins, R. and Rengacharry, V. (Eds.), Williams and Wilkins, 1984.
41. Ommaya, A.K.: Traffic Related Disabilities and Their Economic consequences. Discussion Paper on Report No. 860505. In Crash Injury Impairment and Disability. Long Term Effects. Monograph No. SP-661 (A.A.E.) Society of Automotive Engineers, Warrendale, PA, 1986.
42. Ommaya, A.K.: Physiology and Physiopathology of the Limbic System: Implications for the Mechanisms of Consciousness in the Reintegration of Neural Functions after Traumatic Coma. Aeta Associazione Riabilitazione Comatosi. Milan, Italy, June 1986.
43. Ommaya, A.K.: (ed.) Head and Neck Injury Criteria: A Consensus Workshop. Publication No. D.O.T. HS 806434 Government – Printing office Washington, D.C., July, 1983.
44. Ommaya, A.K., Digges, K.: A Study of head and Neck Injury mechanisms by Reconstruction of Automobile Accidents. IRCOBI, Goteberg (Ed.), 1985.
45. Ommaya, A.K. The Role of Angular Motion in the Mechanisms of head Injuries. In head Injury Prevention: Past & Present Research. Wayne State university, Detroit, 1987.
46. Ommaya, A.K.: Mechanism and Preventive Management of Head and Neck Injuries. The 1988 George Snively Memorial Lecture. Proceedings of the American Association of Automotive Medicine, 1988.
47. Ommaya, A.K. et al: Injury Control: A review of the State and Progress of the Injury Control Program of the Center for Disease Control, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1988.
48. Ommaya, A.K.: Biomechanical Aspects of Head Injuries in Sports. Sports Neurology. Jordan, B.D., Tsairis, P. and Warren, R.F. (Eds.), Aspen Publishers, Maryland, 1989.
49. Ommaya, A.K.: Injury Control. Past, Present and Future. Proceedings of the First International Traffic Safety Congress, New Delhi, India, 1991.
50. Ommaya, A.K.: Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations. Surgery for the spine. Findlay and Owen (Eds.), Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 1991.
51. Digges, K.H., Malliaris, A.C., Ommaya, A.K., et. Al.: Characterization of Rollover Casualties. Proceedings of the I.R.C.O.B.I. meeting, 1991.
52. Ommaya, A.K., Thibault, L.E., Boock, R.J. and Meaney, D.F.: head injured patients who Talk Before Deterioration or Death: The TADD Syndrome. Head and Neck Injuries in Sports. Hoerner, E (Ed.) ASTM, 1994.
53. Ommaya, A.K., O’Tuama, L.A.: CSF Dynamics. Principles of Nuclear Medicine. 2nd Edition. Wagner, E (Ed.) W.B. Saunders, 1995.
54. Ommaya, A.K.: Cerebrospinal Fluid Fistula and Pneumocephalus. Neurosurgery. 2nd Edition. Wilkins, R.H. and Rengachary, S.S. (Eds.) McGraw-Hill, 1995.
55. Bandak, F.A., Eppinger, R.H., Ommaya, A.K.: Traumatic Brain Injury. M.A. Liebert, Inc. 1996.
56. Ommaya, A.K, O’Tuama L.A., Lorenzo.A.V. : Principles of Nuclear Medicine.(Eds) Wagner ,Szabo, Buchanan .10th Edition. Chapter 5.