Brett Anthony Whittemore, MD
- Pediatric Neurosurgeon, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages spoken: English
- Locations (2)
Education and Training
- Medical School
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2009)
- Post-Graduate School
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005)
- Internship
- UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2010), General Surgery
- Residency
- UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (2016), Neurosurgery
- Fellowship
- UT Southwestern - Children's Medical Center (2017), Pediatric Neurological Surgery
- Board Certification
- American Board of Neurological Surgery
Conditions Treated
- Anaplastic astrocytoma
- Arachnoid cyst
- Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT)
- Brain abscess
- Cerebrovascular disease and stroke
- Chiari malformation
- Craniopharyngioma
- Encephalocele
- Ependymoma
- Glioblastoma
- Head trauma
- Hemorrhagic dtroke
- Hydrocephalus
- Lipomas (skinlesions)
- Medulloblastoma
- Pilocytic astrocytoma
- Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (PXA)
- Spina bifida
- Tethered spinal cord
- Ventriculomegaly
Treatments
Baclofen Pump
Craniectomy
Endoscopic third ventriculostomy
External Ventricular Drain
Laminectomy
Management of Chiari malformations
Management of hydrocephalus
Management of spasticity and movement disorders
Management of spinal dysraphism and repair of spinal cord anomalies
Myelomeningocele repair
Neuroendoscopy
Shunt Placement
Treatment of all tumors of the central nervous system
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