Dr. Peter P. Sun M.D.
Neurosurgeon
744 52nd St 5th Floor Oakland CA, 94609Rating
5/5
About
With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Peter P. Sun, MD is a Pediatric Neurosurgeon currently serving his patients in Oakland, California at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. He is committed to providing the highest quality care to his patients. He grew up in Taiwan and Los Angeles, speaks English and Mandarin Chinese, and values his bicultural heritage. Dr. Sun believes that “having another cultural background always adds more perspective.” To begin his career, Dr. Sun obtained his medical degree in 1991 from Columbia University. From there, he attended UC Davis and completed his neurosurgery residency in 1992 followed by his second neurosurgery residency in 1995 from Yale University. Wanting to further his knowledge in the field, Dr. Sun went on to complete his pediatric neurosurgery fellowship in 1997 from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a testament to his success, Dr. Sun is board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. On a more personal note, as a child he was fascinated with the brain and nervous system and discovered that the nervous system was “the most elegant in the body,” and realized that the surgical approach to “fix things” was the best fit for his skills and personality. He decided to pursue neurosurgery, one of medicine’s most demanding subspecialties.
Education and Training
Tufts Univ Sch of Med, Boston Ma 2000
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 1991
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Planning within an institutional setting.
- Harris County Hospital District: a quasi-governmental approach to multi-hospital systems.
- The design of a citywide HMO: the Newark Comprehensive Health Services Plan.
- Cervical spinal stenosis and sports-related cervical cord neurapraxia in children.
- In utero surgery for hydrocephalus.
- Bone morphogenetic protein for salvage fusion in an infant with Down syndrome and craniovertebral instability. Case report.
- Transient hypothermia reduces focal ischemic brain injury in the rat.
- Cervical spinal stenosis and sports-related cervical cord neurapraxia.
- Identification and characterization of low temperature stress responsive genes in Poncirus trifoliata by suppression subtractive hybridization.
- Intractable episodic bradycardia resulting from progressive lead traction in an epileptic child with a vagus nerve stimulator: a delayed complication.
- Fast dynamic imaging technique to identify obstructive lesions in the CSF space: report of 2 cases.
- An experimental burn wound-healing study of non-thermal atmospheric pressure microplasma jet arrays.
- Cervical cord compression in mucopolysaccharidosis VI (MPS VI): Findings from the MPS VI Clinical Surveillance Program (CSP).
- Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis (EDAS) in young patients with cerebrovascular complications of sickle cell disease: Single-institution experience.
- [Development of Markov models for economics evaluation of strategies on hepatitis B vaccination and population-based antiviral treatment in China].
Treatments
- Brain Tumor
- Birth Defects
- Lumecca
Fellowships
- Children\'s Hospital of Philadelphia (Pediatric Neurosurgery) (1997)
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