Shenandoah Robinson, MD

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Neurological Surgery

Background

Videos

• Dr. Shenandoah "Dody" Robinson

• Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy: Frequently Asked Questions

• Spastic Cerebral Palsy Surgical and Rehabilitation Treatment | Journee‚Äôs Story

• Children and Epilepsy: Everything a Family Needs to Know Webinar

• Women Leaders in Neurosurgery

Recent News Articles and Media Coverage

• Research Story Tip: Young Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Patient Makes Big Strides Living with Cerebral Palsy | Johns Hopkins Medicine (3/17/2021)

  Innovations in Care for Patients with Pediatric Epilepsy, NeuroLogic (Winter 2021)

  Gemma Moorhead’s Sykesville neighborhood strings lights for the holidays, raising awareness for hydrocephalus, Baltimore Sun (12/18/20)

  Maximizing the Benefit of Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy, Johns Hopkins News and Publications (September 2016)

Additional Academic Titles

Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Neurology

Research Interests

Clarifying how early insults to the developing brain lead to deficits, such as cerebral palsy and epilepsy, and how to mitigate these deficits with neurorestorative agents

Lab Website

Pediatric Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy Lab - Lab Website

• The team headed by Shenandoah "Dody" Robinson, M.D., professor of neurosurgery, neurology and pediatrics, studies perinatal brain injury and repair. Employing developmentally age-appropriate models, the lab investigates neurological consequences of extremely preterm birth, including cerebral palsy, chronic pain, cognitive and behavioral impairment, epilepsy and posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity.

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Shenandoah+Robinson

Selected Publications

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  R Mannix, J Berglass, J Berkner, P Moleus, J Qiu, N Andrews, G Gunner, J Berglass, L Jantzie, S Robinson and WP Meehan (2014) Chronic gliosis and behavioral deficits in mice following repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. J Neurosurgery 121(6):1342-50. PMID 25267088

• JR Maxwell, JL Denson, NE Joste, S Robinson, LL Jantzie (2015) Combined in utero hypoxia-ischemia and lipopolysaccharide administration in rats induces chorioamnionitis and a fetal inflammatory response. Placenta. In Press.

• LL Jantzie and S Robinson (2015) Preclinical Models of Encephalopathy of Prematurity. Dev Neurosci. 37(4-5):277-88.  PMID: 25722056.  PMCID: PMC4514537.

• LL Jantzie, CJ Corbett, DJ Firl and S Robinson (2014) Postnatal erythropoietin mitigates impaired cerebral cortical development following subplate loss from prenatal hypoxia-ischemia. Cerebral Cortex (In press).  PMID 24722771.  PMCID: PMC4537428.

• LL Jantzie, CJ Corbett, J Berglass, DJ Firl, Flores J, R Mannix and S Robinson (2014) Complex pattern of interaction between in utero hypoxia-ischemia and intra-amniotic inflammation disrupts brain development and motor function. J Neuroinflammation 11(1):131. PMID: 2508242. PMCID: PMC4128546

• LL Jantzie, JL Winer, C Corbett and S Robinson (2015) Erythropoietin modulates cerebral and serum degradation products from excess calpain activation following prenatal hypoxia-ischemia. Dev Neurosci. In Press.

• LL Jantzie, JL Winer, JR Maxwell, LAS Chan and S Robinson (2015) Modeling encephalopathy of prematurity using prenatal hypoxia-ischemia with intra-amniotic lipopolysaccharide in rats. J Visualized Experiments. In Press.

• LL Jantzie, P Getsy, J Denson, D Firl, JR Maxwell, DA Rogers, CG Wilson and S Robinson (2015) Prenatal hypoxia-ischemia induces abnormalities in CA3 microstructure, potassium chloride cotransporter 2 expression and inhibitory tone. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. 9:347. PMC4558523

• LL Jantzie, PM Getsy, DJ Firl, CG Wilson, RH Miller and S Robinson (2014) Erythropoietin attenuates loss of potassium chloride co-transporters following prenatal brain injury. Molecular Cellular Neuroscience 61:152-162. PMID: 24983250. PMCID: PMC4134983.

• R Mannix, J Berglass, J Berkner, P Moleus, J Qiu, LL Jantzie, WP Meehan III, RM Stanley, and S Robinson (2014) Sex differences in the effect of progesterone after controlled cortical impact in adolescent mice:  A preliminary study. J Neurosurgery 121(6):1337-41. PMID 25280093.

• S Robinson, JL Winer, J. Berkner, LAS Chan, JL Denson, JR Maxwell, Y Yang, LO Sillerud, RC Tasker, WP Meehan III, R Mannix, and LL Jantzie (2015) Imaging and serum biomarkers reflect functional efficacy of extended erythropoietin treatment in rats following infantile traumatic brain injury. J Neurosurgery: Pediatrics In Press.

Honors

• Elected to American Academy of Neurological Surgeons
• Elected to Society of Neurological Surgeons
• BCH Postdoctoral Association Award for Exceptional Mentorship
• University of New Mexico Clinical and Translational Science Center Visiting Professor
• Best Pediatric Poster, Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
• Excellence in Mentoring Award, Postdoctoral Association, Boston Children's Hospital
• Best Pediatric Abstract, American Academy of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
• Alpha Omega Alpha Visiting Professorship, Case Western Reserve University
• David S. Weiner Award for Outstanding Leadership and Innovation in Child Health
• President, American Academy of Neurological Surgery, 10/6/23
• Peer-reviewed Medical Research Program Investigator-Initiated Research Award, U.S. Department of Defense, 11/1/18

Memberships

• American Academy of Neurological Surgery (by invitation)
• American Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• American Epilepsy Society
• AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery
• American College of Surgeons, Fellow
• American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons (by invitation)
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• Society for Neuroscience
• Society for Pediatric Research (by invitation)
• Society of Neurological Surgeons (by invitation)
• Women in Neurological Surgery
• American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery