Joshua B. Bederson

In 1979, Bederson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University, where he was the Ivy League Gymnastics All-Around Champion for three years. He earned his M.D. at the University of California, San Francisco in 1984, taking a year off to study sculpture in the master's degree program at New York University and hold a solo art show in New York City. Bederson completed both his internship and residency at the University of California, San Francisco. During his residency, he also studied neuropathology at the University of Torino in Italy and microvascular and skull-base neurosurgery under Dr. M. Gazi Yasargil at the University Hospitals of Zurich, Switzerland and the University Medical Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He completed a fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona under Dr. Robert F. Spetzler. ==Professional career==

Bederson joined Mount Sinai in 1992 as the Director of the Clinical Program for Cerebrovascular Disorders and served as Vice-Chairman after 2001. From 2002 until 2008 he directed the Neurosurgery Residency Program. He is currently the System Chair of Neurosurgery at The Mount Sinai Health System. Bederson established the first basic science laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai, developing models of stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage. In 2002 he was the first neurosurgeon at Mount Sinai to receive an NIH R01 grant as principal investigator. With Bederson serving as its Chairman, the American Heart Association Guidelines Writing Group on Subarachnoid Hemorrhage published updated guidelines on stroke treatment. He is also a member of the Society of Neurological Surgery. Bederson's clinical interests include treatment of intracranial and spinal vascular and tumor pathology, including cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, trigeminal neuralgia, tumors of the skull base, carotid artery disease and problems of the cervical and lumbar spine. ==Personal life==

During his surgical internship, he met and married Isabelle Germano, M.D. who is also Professor of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai. They have two daughters. ==Honors==

• 1986 San Francisco Neurological Society Henry B. Newman Award • 1986 International Microsurgical Society Resident Award • 2004 Cornell University Top 25 Distinguished Classmates Award ==Books==

• Bederson JB (Editor) Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Pathophysiology and Treatment. 1996, American Association of Neurological Surgeons Press, Park Ridge, Illinois, 283 Pages. Library of Congress . • Bederson JB, Tuhrim S (Editors), Bederson JB, Tuhrin, S (Authors) ''Treatment of Carotid Disease: A Practitioner's Manual.'' 1998, American Association of Neurological Surgeons Press, Park Ridge, Illinois, 256 pages. Library of Congress . ==Book chapters==

Partial list: • Bederson JB, Wilson CB. "Surgical Treatment of Olfactory Groove Meningiomas." In: AANS Neurosurgical Operative Atlas, pages 77–85, 1991. • Bederson JB. "Pathophysiology and Animal Models of Dural Arteriovenous Malformations." In: Awad I and Barrow D, eds, Dural Arteriovenous Malformations. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Park Ridge, Illinois, pp 23–34, 1993. • Bederson JB. "Hemodynamics of Giant Intracranial Aneurysms." In: Awad I and Barrow D, eds, Giant Intracranial Aneurysms. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Park Ridge, Illinois, pp 13–22, 1995. • Bederson JB. "Trigeminal Neuralgia." In: Rakel RE (ed), Conn's Current Therapy. WB Saunders Co, Phila, PA, pp 900–902, 1996. • Bederson JB. "Mechanisms of Acute Brain Injury after Subarachnoid Hemorrhage." In: Bederson JB (ed), Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Pathophysiology and Treatment. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Press, Park Ridge, Illinois, pp 61–76, 1996. • Ullman J, Bederson JB. "Spinal Arteriovenous Malformations: Pathophysiology and Hemodynamics." In: Barrow D, Awad I (eds), Spinal Vascular Malformations. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Press, Park Ridge, Illinois, pp 37–43, 1998. • Bederson JB, Batjer HH, Stieg PE, Zabramski JM, Lee KC. "Management of Severe Subarachnoid Hemorrhage." In: Fisher WS (ed), Perspectives in Neurological Surgery. (9):111–128, 1998. • Tuhrim S, Bederson JB. "Patient Selection for Carotid Endarterectomy." In: Bederson JB, Tuhrim S, (eds), Treatment of Carotid Disease: A Practitioner's Manual. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Press, Park Ridge, Illinois, pp 129–142, 1998. • Bederson JB. "Carotid Endarterectomy: Description, Complications, and Adjuncts." In: Bederson JB, Tuhrim S (eds), Treatment of Carotid Disease: A Practitioner's Manual., American Association of Neurological Surgeons Press, Park Ridge, Illinois, pp 167–180, 1998. • Bederson JB. "Cerebrovascular Applications of Image Guidance." In: Germano IM (ed), Advances in Image-Guided Brain and Spine Surgery. Thieme, New York, NY, pp 121–131, 2002. ==Publications==

Partial list: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Gologorsky Y, Meyer SA, Post AF, Winn HR, Patel AB, Bederson JB. "Novel surgical treatment of a transverse-sigmoid sinus aneurysm presenting as pulsatile tinnitus: technical case report." Neurosurgery. 2009 Feb. PMID • • • • • • • • • ==References==