Department of Neurological Surgery

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery Areas of Interest:  Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery, Neuro-endoscopy

Education:

Medical Education:	M.B.B.S (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan
General Surgery Internship:	State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse
Neurosurgery Residency:	State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate Medical University at Syracuse 2002 - 2008

Membership In Professional Societies

2004 Congress of Neurosurgeons.

2002 American Association of Neurosurgeons.

1998 Society for Neuroscience.

 

Awards & Teaching

2009 Teaching Instructor for the Advanced Intracranial Endoscopy course.

Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Sydney, Australia.

2006 First prize for poster in the category of Pain.

Efficacy of Gamma Knife Radio-surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia associated with Multiple Sclerosis.

74^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons, San Francisco, CA.

2005 Teaching Assistant for Neuroanatomy course for medical students.

State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Syracuse.

2005 Professional Development Award for research.

State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Syracuse.

2003 Teaching and humanitarian award amongst 550 upstate residents.

Extra Curricular Achievements

2007 Member of the Library Advisory Committee, State University of New York (SUNY) Upstate

Medical University at Syracuse.

2006 Contributor to SANS competency module.

2005-2006 Resident delegate for Council State of Neurosurgical Society (CSNS).

2005 Participated in Boiler-Maker run 15K, Utica, NY.

Conference Abstract Presentation

2008 A. Darbar, W. Jacobsen and J.W. Holsapple.

Percutaneous Balloon Gangliolysis for the treatment of Idiopathic Trigeminal Neuralgia and Secondary Facial pain: Results of first time procedure.

76^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Chicago, IL.

(Electronic poster presentation)

 

2008 A. Darbar, A. H. Siddqui.

Delayed manifestation of a Giant traumatic Carotid Artery Aneurysm as a Carotid Cavernous fistula after gunshot injury to face.

76^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Chicago, IL.

(Electronic poster presentation)

2008 A. Darbar, R. R. Moquin

Delayed Psoas Abscess from Migrated Fractured Piece of Anterior Spinal reconstruction Implant.

76^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Chicago, IL.

(Electronic poster presentation)

2007 A. Darbar, C. Mihai and C.J. Hodge.

Gamma Knife Radio-surgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia associated with multiple Sclerosis.   59^thAnnual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology at Boston. MA.

(Poster presentation)

 

2007 Brian V. Nahed, Aneela Darbar, Edward Ahn and Edward R. Smith.

Acute Hydrocephalus secondary to obstruction of Foramen of Monro and Cerebral Aqueduct by a

Choroid Plexus cyst of the lateral ventricle.

75^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Washington, DC.

(Poster presentation)

2007 A. Darbar, A. A. Khalil and E. R. Smith.

Double split cord malformation: A novel type of congenital split cord.

75^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at Washington, DC.

(Poster presentation)

2006 A. Darbar, R.T. Stevens, B.R. Krauss, A.H. Siddiqui, C.J. Hodge.

Pharmacological modulation of Cortical Plasticity.

74^thAnnual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at San Francisco, CA.

(Poster presentation)

 

2006 A. Darbar, L. Mitchell, C.J. Hodge.

Efficacy of Gamma knife Radiosurgery for Trigeminal Neuralgia associated with Multiple Sclerosis.

74^thAnnual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at San Francisco, CA.

(First prize Poster presentation)

2006 A. Darbar, Krishnamurthy S., Bhatt A., Swarnkar A.

Aneurysm size and chances of rupture.

74^th Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at San Francisco, CA.

(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, R. T. Stevens, B. R. Krauss, A. H. Siddiqui and C. J. Hodge

Opposing effects of Dilantin and Amphetamine in post-lesion functional recovery of rat barrel cortex.

XVIII^th Annual meeting of Barrels at Baltimore, MD.

(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, R.T. Stevens, B.R. Krauss, A. H. Siddiqui and C. J. Hodge

Effects of Dilantin on functional recovery of rat somatosensory barrel cortex.

35^th Annual meeting of Society of Neuroscience at Washington, DC.

(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, S. Krishnamurthy.

Grotenhuis Endoscopic Perforator: Efficacy of the device in Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy.

55^th Annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Boston, MA.

(Poster presentation)

2005 A. Darbar, S. Krishnamurthy, Charles J. Hodge

Jr. Ventral thoracic spinal cord herniation: Frequently misdiagnosed entity.

73^rd Annual meeting of American Association of Neurological Surgeons at New Orleans, LA.

(Poster presentation)

 

1999 A. Darbar, N.M. Szeverenyi, A.V.Apkarian.

Somatotopy of thermal Pain: Dependence on Dominance and body part stimulated.

29^th Annual meeting of Society of Neuroscience, at Miami, FL.

(Poster presentation)

 

1999 B.R.Krauss, A. Darbar, P.S.Thomas, A.V.Apkarian.

Performance on a Decision-making task in sympathetically mediated Chronic Pain (RSD CRPS I) patients: Evidence for Cognitive impairment.

9^th World Congress of Pain, Vienna, Austria.

(Poster presentation)

 

1999 A.V.Apkarian, A.Darbar, B.R.Krauss, P.A.Gelnar, N.M.Szeverenyi.

In search of cortical areas related to conscious, subjective Pain Perception: temporal analysis of fMRI activations in a painful thermal task.

9^th World Congress on Pain, Vienna, Austria.

(Poster presentation)

 

1998 A. Darbar, Krauss B., Szeverenyi, N. & A. V Apkarian.

The Somatotopy of Cortical representation of thermal Pain.

4^th International Conference on Human Brain Imaging, Montreal, Canada.

(Poster presentation)

1998 A. Darbar, Krauss B., Szeverenyi N. & A.V Apkarian.

fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) study of Cortical Somatopy for Thermal Pain.     Society for Neuroscience, 28^th Annual meeting, Los Angeles, California.

(Poster presentation)