Ralph G. Dacey, Jr., MD

Specialty Areas
Neurological Surgery
Pituitary Tumors
Aneurysms
Arteriovenus Malformation
Cerebrovascular Disease
Brain Tumors

Areas of Clinical Interest
Intracranial aneurysms, subarachnoid hemorrhage, arteriovenous malformations, carotid stenosis, cavernous malformation, pituitary tumors, meningioma, brain tumors, peripheral nerve compression, cervical disc herniation, lumbar disc herniation, Pituitary Center

Honors and Awards
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002-2013 (Best Doctors, Inc.)

Listed in America's Top Doctors, 2002-2012 (Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.)

President of the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) May 22, 2012.

Inducted into the Institute of Medicine, 2011

Founder’s Laurel recipient by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)

American Academy of Neurological Surgery, Treasurer 2004-2007

Advisory Council of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Appointment, National Institutes of Health, 2006

American Board of Neurological Surgery, Chairman 2004-2005

Grass Award Recipient, Society of Neurological Surgeons, 2003

Society of Neurological Surgeons, Chairman of the Research Review Committee

Consultant Affiliations
Consultant Neurosurgeon
St. Louis Cardinals
St. Louis Rams
St. Louis Blues

Editorial Responsibilities

Editorial Boards
Contemporary Neurosurgery
Journal of Neurosurgery
Neurobiology of Disease
Neurosurgery
Perspectives in Neurological Surgery

Ad Hoc Reviewer
American Journal of Physiology
Annals of Surgery
Stroke
Surgery

Selected or Recent Journal Articles
Murata T, Dietrich HH, Xiang C, Dacey RG Jr. G protein-coupled estrogen receptor agonist improves cerebral microvascular function after hypoxia/reoxygenation injury in male and female rats. Stroke. 2013 Mar.

Washington CW, Zipfel GJ, Chicoine MR, Derdeyn CP, Rich KM, Moran CJ, Cross DT, Dacey RG Jr. Comparing indocyanine green videoangiography to the gold standard of intraoperative digital subtraction angiography used in aneurysm surgery. J Neurosurg. 2013 Feb.

Grubb RL Jr, Powers WJ, Clarke WR, Videen TO, Adams HP Jr, Derdeyn CP; Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study Investigators. Surgical results of the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study. J Neurosurg. 2013 Jan.

Vellimana AK, Kadkhodayan Y, Rich KM, Cross DT 3rd, Moran CJ, Zazulia AR, Lee JM, Chicoine MR, Dacey RG Jr, Derdeyn CP, Zipfel GJ. Symptomatic patients with intraluminal carotid artery thrombus: outcome with a strategy of initial anticoagulation. J Neurosurg. 2013 Jan.

Shah MN, Botros JA, Pilgram TK, Moran CJ, Cross DT 3rd, Chicoine MR, Rich KM, Dacey RG Jr, Derdeyn CP, Zipfel GJ. Borden-Shucart Type I dural arteriovenous fistulas: clinical course including risk of conversion to higher-grade fistulas. J Neurosurg. 2012 Sep.

Delgado Almandoz JE, Jagadeesan BD, Refai D, Moran CJ, Cross DT 3rd, Chicoine MR, Rich KM, Diringer MN, Dacey RG Jr, Derdeyn CP, Zipfel GJ.Diagnostic yield of computed tomography angiography and magnetic resonance angiography in patients with catheter angiography-negative subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Neurosurg. 2012 Jun 8.

Aoun SG, Bendok BR, Rahme RJ, Dacey RG Jr, Batjer HH.Standardizing the Evaluation of Scientific and Academic Performance in Neurosurgery-Critical Review of the "h" Index and its Variants.World Neurosurg. 2012 Jan 31.

Shah MN, Leonard JR, Inder G, Gao F, Geske M, Haydon DH, Omodon ME, Evans J, Morales D, Dacey RG, Smyth MD, Chicoine MR, Limbrick DD.Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging to reduce the rate of early reoperation for lesion resection in pediatric neurosurgery. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2012 Mar.

Delgado Almandoz JE, Jagadeesan BD, Refai D, Moran CJ, Cross DT 3rd, Chicoine MR, Rich KM, Diringer MN, Dacey RG Jr, Derdeyn CP, Zipfel GJ. Diagnostic yield of repeat catheter angiography in patients with catheter and computed tomography angiography negative subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery. 2012 May.

Kadkhodayan Y, Somogyi CT, Cross DT 3rd, Derdeyn CP, Zipfel GJ, Chicoine MR, Rich KM, Grubb RL Jr, Dacey RG Jr, Moran CJ. Technical, angiographic and clinical outcomes of Neuroform 1, 2, 2 Treo and 3 devices in stent-assisted coiling of intracranial aneurysms. J Neurointerv Surg. 2011 Sep 13.

Washington CW, Vellimana AK, Zipfel GJ, Dacey RG. The current surgical management of intracranial aneurysms. J Neurosurg Sci. 2011 Sep.

Crowley RW, Asthagiri AR, Starke RM, Zusman EE, Chiocca EA, Lonser RR; Research Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. In-training factors predictive of choosing and sustaining a productive academic career path in neurological surgery. Neurosurgery. 2012 Apr.

Hawasli AH, Ray WZ, Murphy RK, Dacey RG Jr, Leuthardt EC.Magnetic resonance imaging-guided focused laser interstitial thermal therapy for subinsular metastatic adenocarcinoma: technical case report. Neurosurgery. 2012 Jun.

Leuthardt EC, Lim CC, Shah MN, Evans JA, Rich KM, Dacey RG, Tempelhoff R, Chicoine MR. Use of movable high-field-strength intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging with awake craniotomies for resection of gliomas: preliminary experience. Neurosurgery. 2011 Jul.

Blackburn SL, Ashley WW Jr, Rich KM, Simpson JR, Drzymala RE, Ray WZ, Moran CJ, Cross DT 3rd, Chicoine MR, Dacey RG Jr, Derdeyn CP, Zipfel GJ. Combined endovascular embolization and stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of large arteriovenous malformations. J Neurosurg. 2011 Jun.

For more articles and abstracts, take this off-site link to the National Library of Medicine Pub Med page for Dr. Ralph G. Dacey Jr

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