Scott Shepard, MD

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Clinical Locations

Fox Chase Cancer Center
333 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111
Phone: 888-369-2427
Fox Chase Cancer Center at Temple University Hospital
3401 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Phone: 800-836-7536

Professor, Clinical Neurosurgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University

Director, Neurosurgical Oncology, Temple University Hospital

Specialties

Neurosurgery ;
Neuro-Oncology

Areas of Expertise

Brain & Spinal Tumors, Metastatic, Brain & Spinal Tumors

Educational Background

Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Surgical Neuro-Oncology 1998, New York, NY
Resident, Neurosurgery University of California at San Francisco 1997, San Francisco, CA
Intern, General Surgery The New York Hospital 1992, New York, NY
MD, Weill Cornell Medical College September 1991, New York, NY

Certifications

American Board of Neurological Surgery

Memberships

American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Society of Neuro Oncology

Honors & Awards

Faculty Teaching Award University of Texas-Houston Department of Neurosurgery 2016
Clarence Coryell Prize Cornell University Medical College 1991
John Metcalf Polk Prize Cornell University Medical College 1991
Alpha Omega Alpha Cornell University Medical College 1991
David Drusin Memorial Prize Cornell University Medical College 1991
Distinction in the Major Department of Biochemistry University of Pennsylvania 1986
Phi Beta Kappa University of Pennsylvania 1986
Summa Cum Laude University of Pennsylvania 1986

Dan Sullivan

Lung Cancer

Sometimes I think that my timing was just incredible. If I had been diagnosed with cancer a few years earlier, my prognosis would have looked much different than it does today—especially if I had not gone to Fox Chase!

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Selected Publications

Bilsky MH, Shannon FJ, Shepard SR, Prabhu V, Boland PJ; Diagnosis and Management of a Metastatic Tumor in the Atlantoaxial Spine. Spine 2002 May 15; 27(10):1062-9. PubMed

Zicherman J, Roychowdhury S, Demarco J, Shepard SR, Schonfeld S, Keller I, Schlesinger S; Endovascular Treatment of a Ruptured Giant Serpentine Aneurysm of the Superior Cerebellar Artery in a Patient with a Chiari II Malformation. ANJR Am J Neuroradiol 25:1077-1079, June/July 2004. PubMed

Winters BS, Shepard SR, Foty RA; Biophysical Measurement of Brain Tumor Cohesion, Int J Cancer. 2005 April 10; 114(3): 371-9. PubMed