Professor, Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Neurosurgery

Richard S. Zimmerman works in the field of Neurosurgery. He researched medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University School of Medicine has a rank of 30 in research and a 52 in primary care He over the years received 2 awards: "Fellow (FAANS)" and "Super Doctor". Richard S. Zimmerman, MD is a published doctor as well. He has 29 publications published. The latest was: Matching Complexity and Educational Goals in Simulation-Based Education. Richard Zimmerman is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.

Publications

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• Matching Complexity and Educational Goals in Simulation-Based Education.
• Long-Term Outcome in Occipital Nerve Stimulation Patients With Medically Intractable Primary Headache Disorders.
• Revision of Occipital Nerve Stimulator Leads: Technical Note of Two Techniques.
• Iatrogenic seizures during intracranial EEG monitoring.
• Surgical decompression improves mortality and morbidity after large territory acute Cerebral infarction: a critically appraised topic.
• Anticonvulsant drug therapy after Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a critically appraised topic.
• Occipital Nerve stimulator placement under general anesthesia: initial experience with 5 cases and review of the literature.
• Occipital Nerve stimulator lead pathway length changes with volunteer movement: an in vitro study.
• Quality: the Mayo Clinic approach.
• Through the looking glass: what Epilepsy tells us about the future of medicine.
• Greater occipital Nerve stimulation via the Bion microstimulator: implantation technique and stimulation parameters. Clinical trial: NCT00205894.
• A laparoscopic technique for retrieval and prevention of migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunt tubing.
• Understanding and improving management of inpatient diabetes mellitus: the Mayo Clinic Arizona experience.
• Percutaneous occipital stimulator lead tip erosion: report of 2 cases.
• Occipital Nerve stimulation: technical and surgical aspects of implantation.
• Stimulation ranges, usage ranges, and paresthesia mapping during occipital Nerve stimulation.
• Diabetes care in hospitalized noncritically ill patients: More evidence for clinical inertia and negative therapeutic momentum.
• Diabetes care in the hospital: is there clinical inertia?
• Use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (insulin pump) therapy in the hospital setting: proposed guidelines and outcome measures.
• Seizure prophylaxis in patients with Brain tumors: a meta-analysis.
• Hospital capacity, productivity, and patient safety--it all flows together.
• Questions for the consultant: seizures and Epilepsy.
• Bowel perforation complicating ventriculoperitoneal shunt: creport and review.
• An overview of surgery for chronic seizures.
• Neurocysticercosis: nursing perspectives.
• Refractory headaches treated with bilateral occipital and temporal region stimulation.
• Frequency of seizures in patients with newly diagnosed Brain tumors: a retrospective review.
• Occipital Nerve stimulator placement via a retromastoid to infraclavicular approach: a technical report.

Schools

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• Boston University School Of Medicine

• Med College Va

• Barrow Neur Institute

Procedures Preformed

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• Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
• Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
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Conditions Treated

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• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Aneurysm
• Brain Cancer
• Cerebral Artery Thrombosis
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurosurgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Fellow (FAANS)
• Super Doctor

Education

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• Barrow Neurological Institute
• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System
• Boston University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Mayo Clinic - Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1780669937
Last Name Of The Provider	ZIMMERMAN
First Name Of The Provider	RICHARD
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