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Allan Belzberg, MD, FRCSC, FAANS

Professor of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Allan Belzberg is the George J Heuer Professor of Neurosurgery and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is Director of Peripheral Nerve Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hosital, All Children’s Hospital, and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. As a member of the multi-disciplinary comprehensive Neurofibromatosis Clinic at Johns Hopkins he treats patients suffering from a variety of benign and malignant tumors. His expertise in both spinal and peripheral nerve surgery allow him to remove the most challenging nerve tumors and reconstruct both the spine and peripheral nerves as required.
Dr. Belzberg is interested in neuropathic pain and is the co-director of the Neurosurgery Pain Research Institute at Johns Hopkins. He has a publication record concerning the pathophysiology of painful nerves including those related to NF and nerve injury. His laboratory described a novel animal model of neuropathic pain that allows the investigator to study both stimulus evoked mechanical hyperalgesia and pain phenotype change of axons exposed to degenerating axons (neuroma). Dr. Belzberg is involved in basic science research concerning gene regulation in Schwannomatosis. His research efforts also include work on neural regeneration.
Dr. Belzberg has previously served as the President of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve. He has served as a scientific advisor to a broad spectrum of health care entities including AstraZeneca, Neurofibromatosis Inc., Spinal Kinetics, Axogen and Medtronic.

Disclosure(s): AstaZenica: Speaker/Honoraria (Terminated, July 10, 2023)

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