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Frederick A. Boop

Professor and J.T. Robertson Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Semmes-Murphy Clinic

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Affiliations

Department of Surgery

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Education

BA - University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (1978) MD - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock (1983)

Internship 1983-84 - The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX

Residency 1984-89 - The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, Neurosurgery Resident Oct-Dec 1986 - Neurology Rotation, The National Hospital, Queen's Square, London Aug-Sep 1987 - Pediatric Neurosurgery Rotation, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Fellowships July-Dec 1989 - Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota Dec-June 1990 - Pediatric Neurosurgery, Arkansas Children's Hospital

Board Certifications

 

  • 1993 - American Board of Neurological Surgery
  • 1996 - American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery
  • 2000 - Gamma Knife Certification

Membership in Professional Societies


American Medical Association, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, American Epilepsy Society, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, National Association of Epilepsy Centers, North American Skull Base Society, American College of Surgeons, New York Academy of Sciences, American Board of Neurological Surgery, Joint Council of State Neurosurgical Societies, Southern Neurosurgical Society, American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Society of America, Society of Neurological Surgeons, Fellow-American Academy of Pediatrics, Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society

Research Interests

I am currently a consultant on an NIH program project in investigation cytokines involved in the reparative cascade of events within the central nervous system following injury. I am also involved as a principle investigator in a multi-center clinical trial of new programmable shunt valves and involved in the clinical investigation of outcomes following surgery for intractable epilepsy and spasticity.