Donlin Long

Dept of Neurosurgery, John Hopkins Hospital, United States of America

Donlin Long

Academic positions:
- Distinguished Service Professor of Neurological Surgery
- Active Staff, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Principal Staff, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Long and colleagues are actively involved in outcomes research to examine the value of therapy in all kinds of neurosurgical diseases. His personal research is focused upon low back pain and outcome of treatment for skull based tumors. Current research protocols include:
- value of discography in diagnosing spinal disease
- origins of upper cervical pain and headache
- preservation of cranial nerve function in skull base surgery
- natural history of skull base tumors
- outcomes of spinal surgery

Any other information:
Editorial responsibilities include
Editorship - Neurosurgery Quarterly
Contributor - AMA Panels for Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. Editions III, V.
Editorial Board member - Applied Neurophysiology, ACTA Neurologica Scandinavica, Contemporary Neurology, Critical Reviews in Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurologic Rehabilitation, Raven Press - Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins - Neuroscience Panel, Skull Base Surgery Journal, Spine (Member of founding Editorial Board) and Malaysian Journal of Medicine.
Field reviewer - Acta Neurochirurgica, Neurosurgery, Surgical Neurology, Annals of Neurology, New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Neurological Disorders > Neurorehabilitation & CNS Trauma (since 16 November 2005)

Donlin Long is a Section Head for Neurorehabilitation & CNS Trauma, part of the NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.hopkinsneuro.org/team_member.cfm?person_id=68