Education:
University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL
Board Certification(s):
American Board of Neurological Surgery
American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery
Residency:
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
Internship
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
Fellowship:
Division of Neuro-Spine, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
Division of Neurosurgery, Hosptial for Sick Children/University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Children's Hospital/Brigham & Women's Hosptial/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Memberships:
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
- Scoliosis Research Society
- Society of Neurological Surgeons
- American Academy of Neurological Surgery
Clinical/Research Interests:
- Epilepsy
- Minimally-invasive surgery
- Brain Tumors
- Brachial plexus repair
- Peripheral nerve entrapment; peripheral nerve tumors
- Scoliosis
- Kyphosis
- Spondylolisthesis/-lysis
- Spinal column tumors
- Spine trauma
- Tethered cord syndrome
- Pediatric & adult spina bifida
- Spasticity
- Selective dorsal rhizotomy
- Baclofen pump surgeryAwards
Select Publications:
1: Gluski J, Zajciw P, Hariharan P, Morgan A, Morales DM, Jea A, Whitehead W,
Marupudi N, Ham S, Sood S, McAllister JP 2nd, Limbrick DD Jr, Harris CA.
Characterization of a multicenter pediatric-hydrocephalus shunt biobank. Fluids
Barriers CNS. 2020 Jul 18;17(1):45. doi: 10.1186/s12987-020-00211-6. PMID:
32682437; PMCID: PMC7368709.
2: Mendenhall S, Mobasser D, Relyea K, Jea A. Spinal instrumentation in infants,
children, and adolescents: a review. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2019 Jan 1;23(1):1-15.
doi: 10.3171/2018.10.PEDS18327. PMID: 30611158.
3: Bertot BE, Presti ML, Stormes K, Raskin JS, Jea A, Chelius D, Lam S.
Trigeminal schwannoma presenting with malocclusion: A case report and review of
the literature. Surg Neurol Int. 2020 Aug 8;11:230. doi: 10.25259/SNI_482_2019.
PMID: 32874733; PMCID: PMC7451153.
4: Thatikunta M, Raman NV, Zieles KN, Ducis K, Jea A. An incidental pure
arterial malformation in a child: case report and review of the literature.
Childs Nerv Syst. 2020 Nov;36(11):2877-2881. doi: 10.1007/s00381-020-04539-0.
Epub 2020 Feb 12. PMID: 32052157.
5: Jea A, Lam SK. Response. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015 May;15(5):546. Erratum in:
J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015 Dec;16(6):761. PMID: 26120645.
6: Parsons DW, Roy A, Yang Y, Wang T, Scollon S, Bergstrom K, Kerstein RA,
Gutierrez S, Petersen AK, Bavle A, Lin FY, López-Terrada DH, Monzon FA, Hicks
MJ, Eldin KW, Quintanilla NM, Adesina AM, Mohila CA, Whitehead W, Jea A,
Vasudevan SA, Nuchtern JG, Ramamurthy U, McGuire AL, Hilsenbeck SG, Reid JG,
Muzny DM, Wheeler DA, Berg SL, Chintagumpala MM, Eng CM, Gibbs RA, Plon SE.
Diagnostic Yield of Clinical Tumor and Germline Whole-Exome Sequencing for
Children With Solid Tumors. JAMA Oncol. 2016 May 1;2(5):616-624. doi:
10.1001/jamaoncol.2015.5699. PMID: 26822237; PMCID: PMC5471125.
7: Baaj AA, Brockmeyer D, Jea A, Samdani AF. Introduction. Pediatric spinal
deformity. Neurosurg Focus. 2017 Oct;43(4):E1. doi: 10.3171/2017.7.FOCUS17468.
PMID: 28965452.
8: Jea A, Dormans J. Single-Event Multilevel Surgery: Contender or Pretender.
Pediatrics. 2019 Apr;143(4):e20190102. doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-0102. PMID:
30918017.
9: Kestle JR, Holubkov R, Douglas Cochrane D, Kulkarni AV, Limbrick DD Jr,
Luerssen TG, Jerry Oakes W, Riva-Cambrin J, Rozzelle C, Simon TD, Walker ML,
Wellons JC 3rd, Browd SR, Drake JM, Shannon CN, Tamber MS, Whitehead WE;
Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network. A new Hydrocephalus Clinical Research
Network protocol to reduce cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection. J Neurosurg
Pediatr. 2016 Apr;17(4):391-6. doi: 10.3171/2015.8.PEDS15253. Epub 2015 Dec 18.
PMID: 26684763.
10: Vadivelu S, Effendi S, Starke JR, Luerssen TG, Jea A. A review of the
neurological and neurosurgical implications of tuberculosis in children. Clin
Pediatr (Phila). 2013 Dec;52(12):1135-43. doi: 10.1177/0009922813493833. Epub
2013 Jul 10. PMID: 23847176.
Complete List of Published Work in My Bibliography: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=jea+a