Credit: CHLA
Peter Chiarelli, MD, DPhil, a pediatric neurosurgeon in the Neurological Institute, led the groundbreaking study, which was published in the Journal of Neurosurgery- Opens in a new window and involved multiple collaborators, including Chief Emeritus of Neurosurgery J. Gordon McComb, MD, as well as investigators Stefan Bluml, PhD, and Matthew Borzage, PhD. Recently, he also presented results at the 2023 American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section on Pediatric Neurological Surgery conference—which earned him the Hydrocephalus Association Award.