Dr. Terence Ling Chen MD
Neurosurgeon
1455 Montego Street Suite 200 Walnut Creek CA, 94598About
Dr. Terence Chen practices Neurological Surgery in Walnut Creek, CA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Chen prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1984
Yale School of Medicine 1984
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Predictors of mortality in Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia.
- Clinical characteristics and risk factors for attributable mortality in Enterobacter cloacae bacteremia.
- Non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteremia in adults.
- Clinical characteristics and predictors of mortality in patients with Enterobacter aerogenes bacteremia.
- Two strategies to intensify evidence-based medicine education of undergraduate students: a randomised controlled trial.
Awards
- 2012 San Francisco Super Doctors
Treatments
- Spine Tumors, Brain Tumor, Cervical (neck) Spine Problems And More
- Stroke
- Brain Tumor
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Herniated Disc
- Aneurysm
- Spinal Stenosis
- Brain Aneurysm
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