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Robert Michael Lober

Robert Michael Lober, MD

Neurosurgery

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Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Infant 0-2
  • Child 2-12
  • Adolescent 12-21

Languages

  • English

Gender

Male

About Robert Michael Lober

Professional Statement

awards and honors:
Joint Service Achievement Medals in the United States Army
Merck Manual Award for Perfect Grade Point Average in Medical School
Membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Award for Compassionate Care from the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Oncology Palliative Care Committee
Research Awards from the American Society for Cell Biology, the Biophysical Society, and the San Francisco Neurological Society
Research Funding from the American Heart Association and the National Institutes of Health
Dayton Magazine - Dayton Best Docs 2023

publications and presentations:
Quon JL, Han M, Kim LH, Koran ME, Chen LC, Lee EH, Wright J, Ramaswamy V, Lober RM, Taylor MD, Grant GA, Cheshier SH, Kestle JRW, Edwards MSB, Yeom KW. Artificial intelligence for automatic cerebral ventricle segmentation and volume calculation: a clinical tool for the evaluation of pediatric hydrocephalus. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Dec 1:1-8. doi: 10.3171/2020.6.PEDS20251. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33260138.
Petralia F, Tignor N, Reva B, Koptyra M, Chowdhury S, Rykunov D, Krek A, Ma W, Zhu Y, Ji J, Calinawan A, Whiteaker JR, Colaprico A, Stathias V, Omelchenko T, Song X, Raman P, Guo Y, Brown MA, Ivey RG, Szpyt J, Guha Thakurta S, Gritsenko MA, Weitz KK, Lopez G, Kalayci S, Gümüş ZH, Yoo S, da Veiga Leprevost F, Chang HY, Krug K, Katsnelson L, Wang Y, Kennedy JJ, Voytovich UJ, Zhao L, Gaonkar KS, Ennis BM, Zhang B, Baubet V, Tauhid L, Lilly JV, Mason JL, Farrow B, Young N, Leary S, Moon J, Petyuk VA, Nazarian J, Adappa ND, Palmer JN, Lober RM, Rivero-Hinojosa S, Wang LB, Wang JM, Broberg M, Chu RK, Moore RJ, Monroe ME, Zhao R, Smith RD, Zhu J, Robles AI, Mesri M, Boja E, Hiltke T, Rodriguez H, Zhang B, Schadt EE, Mani DR, Ding L, Iavarone A, Wiznerowicz M, Schürer S, Chen XS, Heath AP, Rokita JL, Nesvizhskii AI, Fenyö D, Rodland KD, Liu T, Gygi SP, Paulovich AG, Resnick AC, Storm PB, Rood BR, Wang P; Children’s Brain Tumor Network; Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium. Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization across Major Histological Types of Pediatric Brain Cancer. Cell. 2020 Nov 25:S0092-8674(20)31451-3. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.044. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33242424.
Quon JL, Bala W, Chen LC, Wright J, Kim LH, Han M, Shpanskaya K, Lee EH, Tong E, Iv M, Seekins J, Lungren MP, Braun KRM, Poussaint TY, Laughlin S, Taylor MD, Lober RM, Vogel H, Fisher PG, Grant GA, Ramaswamy V, Vitanza NA, Ho CY, Edwards MSB, Cheshier SH, Yeom KW. Deep Learning for Pediatric Posterior Fossa Tumor Detection and Classification: A Multi-Institutional Study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2020 Sep;41(9):1718-1725. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6704. Epub 2020 Aug 13. PMID: 32816765; PMCID: PMC7583118.
Fangusaro J, Witt O, Hernáiz Driever P, Bag AK, de Blank P, Kadom N, Kilburn L, Lober RM, Robison NJ, Fisher MJ, Packer RJ, Young Poussaint T, Papusha L, Avula S, Brandes AA, Bouffet E, Bowers D, Artemov A, Chintagumpala M, Zurakowski D, van den Bent M, Bison B, Yeom KW, Taal W, Warren KE. Response assessment in pediatric low-grade glioma: recommendations from the Response Assessment in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology (RAPNO) working group. Lancet Oncol. 2020 Jun;21(6):e305-e316. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30064-4. Erratum in: Lancet Oncol. 2020 Dec;21(12):e553. PMID: 32502457.
Shpanskaya K, Quon JL, Lober RM, Nair S, Johnson E, Cheshier SH, Edwards MSB, Grant GA, Yeom KW. Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of the optic nerves in pediatric hydrocephalus. Neurosurg Focus. 2019 Dec 1;47(6):E16. doi: 10.3171/2019.9.FOCUS19619. PMID: 31786546.
Waker CA, Lober RM. Brain Tumors of Glial Origin. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2019;1190:281-297. doi: 10.1007/978-981-32-9636-7_18. PMID: 31760651.
Quon JL, Kim LH, Lober RM, Maleki M, Steinberg GK, Yeom KW. Arterial spin- labeling cerebral perfusion changes after revascularization surgery in pediatric moyamoya disease and syndrome. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2019 Feb 8;23(4):486-492. doi: 10.3171/2018.11.PEDS18498. PMID: 30738390.
Chen R, Keoni C, Waker CA, Lober RM, Chen YH, Gutmann DH. KIAA1549-BRAF Expression Establishes a Permissive Tumor Microenvironment Through NFκB-Mediated CCL2 Production. Neoplasia. 2019 Jan;21(1):52-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neo.2018.11.007. Epub 2018 Nov 30. Erratum in: Neoplasia. 2020 Mar;22(3):e1. PMID: 30504064; PMCID: PMC6277251

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Education

  • Fellowship: Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Pediatric Neurosurgery, 2015
  • Residency: Stanford University School of Medicine, Neurological Surgery, 2014
  • Medical School: Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Health Sciences University, Doctor of Medicine (MD), 2008

Board Certifications

  • Neurological Surgery: American Board of Neurological Surgery, 2019

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