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DR RICHARD BITTAR



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Organization: Surgery - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospital
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Surgery University of Sydney 31-Dec-1994
Bachelor of Medicine University of Sydney 31-Dec-1994
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney 31-Dec-2001

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) 31-Dec-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Research Scholarship 01-Jan-1997
Other (Award) University of Sydney Thomas and Ethel Mary Ewing Travelling Fellowship 01-Jan-1998
Other (Award) Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Hugh Johnson Travelling Fellowship 01-Jan-2003
Other (Award) Oxford University, Green College Joan and Richard Doll Fellowship 01-Jan-2004
Other (Award) Congress of Neurological Surgeons 54th Annual Meeting Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Award 01-Jan-2004

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Deep brain stimulation: A new treatment for hypertension?


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 592-595
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Deep Brain Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuromodulation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 100-106
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  • STN vs. Pallidal Stimulation in Parkinson Disease: Improvement With Experience and Better Patient Selection


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuromodulation
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 21-27
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  • Stimulating the human midbrain to reveal the link between pain and blood pressure.


    Year: 2006
    Journal: Pain
    Volume: 124
    Page numbers: 349-359
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  • Metastatic prolactinoma presenting as a cervical spinal cord tumour in multiple endocrine neoplasia type one (MEN-1)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Clinical Endocrinology
    Volume: 66
    Page numbers: 148-153
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  • Neuromodulation for movement disorders.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 315-318
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Connectivity of the human periventricular-periaqueductal gray region.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neurosurgery
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 1030-1034
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  • Deep Brain Stimulation for generalized dystomina and spasmodic torticollis.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 12-16
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  • Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders and pain.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 457-463
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  • Deep brain stimulation for pain relief: A meta-analysis.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 515-519
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  • Deep brain stimulation for phantom limb pain.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 399-404
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  • Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgey Resident Award: Deep Brain Stimulation for generalized dystonia and spasmodic torticollis:Rate and Extent of postoperative Improvement.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Clinical Neurosurgery
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 379-383
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  • The Costs and Benefits of Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Patients with Dystonia: An Initial Exploration.


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neuromodulation
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 155-161
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  • Somatotopic organization of the human periventricular gray matter
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 240-241
    Page numbers: 12
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  • Thalamotomy versus thalamic stimulation for multiple sclerosis tremor.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 636-642
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Cerebral metastases in malignant mesothelioma: case report and literature review
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 917-918
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  • Driving guidelines and neurological illness
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 455
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  • Virtual lesions: examining cortical function with reversible deactivation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 219
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Resective surgery in infants and young children with intractable epilepsy.


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 142-146
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Central pain in a hemispherectomized patient


    Year: 2001
    Journal: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 209-217
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