Dr. Elizabeth B Claus MD PHD
Neurosurgeon
75 Francis St Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115Rating
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Dr. Elizabeth Claus practices Neurological Surgery in Boston, MA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Claus 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 School of Medicine 1994
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Risk models in genetic epidemiology.
- Breast carcinoma in situ: risk factors and screening patterns.
- Family history of breast and ovarian cancer and the risk of breast carcinoma in situ.
- Oral contraceptives and the risk of ductal breast carcinoma in situ.
- Risk models used to counsel women for breast and ovarian cancer: a guide for clinicians.
- The risk of a contralateral breast cancer among women diagnosed with ductal and lobular breast carcinoma in situ: data from the Connecticut Tumor Registry.
- A prospective study of perceived susceptibility to breast cancer and nonadherence to mammography screening guidelines in African American and White women ages 40 to 79 years.
- Prevalence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ.
- Applying recursive partitioning to a prospective study of factors associated with adherence to mammography screening guidelines.
- Quality of life for women diagnosed with breast carcinoma in situ.
- Genetic relationship between nevus count or nevus density and cutaneous malignant melanoma.
- Mammography screening of women in their 40s: impact of changes in screening guidelines.
- Prevalence, complications, and hospital charges associated with use of bone-morphogenetic proteins in spinal fusion procedures.
- Genetic analysis of breast cancer in the cancer and steroid hormone study.
- Survival among patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma, 1973-2004.
Awards
- Expert Genomics Advisory Panel, CT Department of Public Health
- Medical Advisory Board, Acoustic Neuroma Association
- Advisory Committee member, Cancer Post-GWAS Initiative, NIH
- Board of Advisors, Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium
- Komen Prevention and Risk Reduction Grant Review Panel
- Board of Advisors, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States
- Professor, Director of Medical Research-LEPH, Yale University
- Permanent Member, NIH Study Section-Epidemiology of Cancer
Fellowships
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Neuro-surgical Oncology
- Brigham & Women's Hospital, Fellow:Neurological Surgery 2002
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