Emory University School of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery

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Department of Neurosurgery

Drew Albers, MD, PhD

About me

Albers headshot

Year 

  • PGY-6

Hometown

  • St. Louis, MO

Areas of Interest

  • Functional
  • Vascular

Future Plans

  • Academics

Awards/Honors

  • Teva Investigator-Initiated Research, 2013
  • St. Louis University President's Research Fund, 2013

Hobbies

  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Beer brewing



Education

  • BS, St. Louis University, 2009
  • MD, St. Louis Univeristy , 2019


Publications

  • Albers, JA, Rendell, S, Anch, AM. (2014) Slumber under scrutiny: What healthcare professionals should know about sleep. Annals of Psychotherapy and Integrative Health. January 2014. 
  • Pierson M, Wehrman D, Albers JA, El Tecle N, Costa D, Elbabaa SK. (2017) Programmable shunt valve interactions with osseointegrated hearing devices. Journal of Neurological Surgery: Pediatrics 10: 1-7. doi: 10.3171/2016.11.PEDS16501
  • Albers JA, Chand P, Anch AM. (2017) Multifactorial sleep disturbance in Parkinson’s disease. Sleep Medicine 35: 41-48. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2017.03.026
  • Abdulrauf SI, Urquiaga JF, Patel R, Albers JA, et al. (2017) Awake high-flow extracranial to intracranial (HF EC-IC) bypass for complex cerebral aneurysms: Institutional clinical trial results. World Neurosurgery S1878-8750(17)30511-9.
  • Elbabaa SE, Gildehaus A, Pierson M, Albers JA, Vlastos E. (2017) First 60 fetal in-utero myelomeningocele repairs at Saint Louis Fetal Care Institute in the post-MOMS trial era: Hydrocephalus treatment outcomes (Endoscopic third ventriculostomy versus ventriculo-peritoneal shunt). Child’s Nervous System 33(7): 1157-1168.
  • Abdulrauf SI, Urquiaga JF, Patel R, Albers JA, et al (2018) Awake microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia: Concept and initial results. World Neurosurgery. S1878-8750(18): 30289-30294.
  • Konakondla S, Albers JA, Li X, Barber SM, Nakhla J, Houghton CE, Fridley JS, Gokaslan ZL. (2019) Maximizing sacral chordoma resection by precise 3-D tumor modeling in the OR using intra-operative CT registration with pre-operative MRI fusion and intra-operative neuronavigation: A case series. World Neurosurgery. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 30790740.