John Howard Sampson is an American neurosurgeon and
University of Colorado School of Medicine Dean and
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs for
CU Anschutz who was formerly chief of the department of
neurosurgery at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
where he serves as a professor of
surgery
Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...
,
biomedical engineering,
immunology, and
pathology.
Education
* B.Sc.,
University of Manitoba 1986
* MD, University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, 1990
* PhD, Neuro-Oncology,
Duke University Medical Center, 1994-1996
* Residency: Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, 1991-1998
* Fellowship: Neurological Intensive Care, Duke University Medical Center, 1998
* MHSc, Duke University, 2007
* MBA,
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. Duke Executive Education also offers non-degree business education and ...
, 2011
Work and research
Sampson has written nearly 300 peer-reviewed papers,
including a paper in
Nature on his clinical trial on the treatment of
glioblastoma patients and another in how
tetanus toxoid and CCL3 improve dendritic cell vaccines in mice and glioblastoma patients. Sampson has also held the distinction of being the highest
National Institutes of Health funded investigator.
He is a member of the
National Academy of Medicine and the
Association of American Physicians.
Clinical interests
Newly diagnosed or recurrent primary or metastatic brain tumors, including enrollment in clinical trials of new therapeutic agents (especially oncolytic poliovirus therapy, immunotherapy, vaccines and convection-enhanced delivery); posterior fossa tumors, such as acoustic neuromas or meningiomas; microsurgery for tic douloureux or trigeminal neuralgia, including microvascular decompression; microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm, pituitary tumors, complex skull-base tumors;
radiosurgery
Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with a blade. Like other forms of radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy), it is usually u ...
; evaluation and surgery for patients with the full spectrum of other neurosurgery pathologies.
Academic leadership
Sampson was selected as the Dean and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs in May 2024.
Media
Sampson has appeared on ''
60 Minutes
''60 Minutes'' is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who chose to set it apart from other news programs by using a unique styl ...
'' and many other news networks for his work with
glioblastoma cancer treatments.
References
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Living people
American neurosurgeons
Duke University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the National Academy of Medicine