Mark Dias, MD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Mark Dias, MD
Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Disease Teams:
Cancer Institute, Benign Hematology Cancer Team
Research Interests
- Child
- Craniocerebral Trauma
- Pediatrics
- Meningomyelocele
- Wounds and Injuries
- Neural Tube Defects
- Hydrocephalus
- Spinal Dysraphism
- Spinal Cord
- Neurosurgeons
- Incidence
- Intracranial Hemorrhages
Recent Publications
2023
Dias, MS, Wang, M, Liang, M, Rizk, EB, Bowman, R, Partington, MD, Blount, JP, Rocque, BG, Hopson, B, Lee, A & Walker, WO 2023, 'First-time tethered cord release among adults with myelomeningocele: an analysis of people in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry', Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 527-533. https://doi.org/10.3171/2023.5.SPINE2328
2022
the Society of Neurological Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons Young Neurosurgeons Committee 2022, 'Applying to residency: survey of neurosurgical residency applicants on virtual recruitment during COVID-19', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 137, no. 1, pp. 273-282. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.8.JNS211600
the Society of Neurological Surgeons 2022, 'Optimizing the residency application process: insights from neurological surgery during the pandemic virtual application cycle', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 137, no. 3, pp. 877-885. https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.11.JNS211851
Rocque, BG, Hopson, B, Shamblin, I, Liu, T, Ward, E, Bowman, R, Foy, AB, Dias, M, Heuer, GG, Smith, K & Blount, JP 2022, 'Time to shunt failure in children with myelomeningocele: an analysis of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry', Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 484-489. https://doi.org/10.3171/2022.7.PEDS22224
Pediatric Brain Injury Research Network (PediBIRN) Investigators 2022, 'Traumatic Head Injury and the Diagnosis of Abuse: A Cluster Analysis', Pediatrics, vol. 149, no. 1, e2021051742. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-051742
2021
Pediatric Brain Injury Research Network (PediBIRN) Investigators 2021, 'A Cluster Randomized Trial to Reduce Missed Abusive Head Trauma in Pediatric Intensive Care Settings', Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 236, pp. 260-268.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.03.055
Dias, MS & Thamburaj, K 2021, 'Neuroradiologic timing of intracranial hemorrhage in abusive head trauma', Pediatric Radiology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 911-917. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-020-04824-9
Strouse, PJ, Moreno, JA, Dias, MS & Narang, SK 2021, 'Preparing for court testimony', Pediatric Radiology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1084-1092. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-020-04926-4
Dias, MS, Cappos, KM, Rottmund, CM, Reed, ME, Smith, KM, deGuehery, KA & Wang, M 2021, 'Preventing abusive head trauma: can educating parents reduce the incidence?', Pediatric Radiology, vol. 51, no. 6, pp. 1093-1096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-020-04819-6
Dias, MS 2021, 'Subdural collections: Arachnoid cyst or benign expansion of the subarachnoid spaces?', Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, vol. 81, 102203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2021.102203
National Spina Bifida Patient Registry Group 2021, 'Tethered spinal cord among individuals with myelomeningocele: An analysis of the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry', Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 21-27. https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.12.PEDS20868
2020
Pediatric Brain Injury Research Network (PediBIRN) Investigators 2020, 'Estimating the Relevance of Historical Red Flags in the Diagnosis of Abusive Head Trauma', Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 218, pp. 178-183.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.11.010
SECTION ON NEUROLOGIC SURGERY, SECTION ON PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY 2020, 'Identifying the misshapen head: Craniosynostosis and related disorders', Pediatrics, vol. 146, no. 3, e2020015511. https://doi.org/10.1542/PEDS.2020-015511
Blount, JP, Bowman, R, Dias, MS, Hopson, B, Partington, MD & Rocque, BG 2020, 'Neurosurgery guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida', Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 467-477. https://doi.org/10.3233/PRM-200782
Dias, MS, Smith, K & deGuehery, K 2020, 'Prevention strategies for nonaccidental head trauma in infants', Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 564-565. https://doi.org/10.3171/2019.12.PEDS19713
Fadden, C, Thamburaj, K, Dias, M & Kothapalli, SR 2020, Thermoacoustic combined tomography of abusive head trauma. in BC Byram & NV Ruiter (eds), Medical Imaging 2020: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography., 1131903, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 11319, SPIE, Medical Imaging 2020: Ultrasonic Imaging and Tomography, Houston, United States, 2/16/20. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2549567