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Nam Tran, MD, PhD

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Specialty: Neurosurgery
Program: Neuro-Oncology

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Cancer Focus: Brain Cancer, Glioblastoma, Meningioma, Spinal Tumor

Dr. Nam Tran is a neuro-oncology surgeon at Moffitt Cancer Center and assistant professor of oncology and neurosurgery at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.  Dr. Tran completed his fellowship training at Moffitt, following a residency in neurosurgery at Medical College of Virginia.  He was chief resident his final year.  Prior to that, he was affiliated for several years with the University of California-Irvine, where he received a Ph.D. in neuroscience and served as an assistant project scientist. Dr. Tran’s research interests include regulation of the blood brain barrier, tumor and trauma-associated cerebral edema, central nervous system malignancies and spine biomechanics.  He has received advanced training in minimally invasive spine techniques and artificial disc replacement surgery.  Dr. Tran has a strong commitment to community service.  During medical school at the University of Arizona, he coordinated the Bethany House Women’s & Children’s Center Health Clinic and Primavera Indigent Health Clinic.   More recently, he worked with the Guatemala Ministry of Health to establish medical missions to Guatemala City.  In 2008, he was asked to speak about spina bifida at the Second International Symposium on Neural Tube Defects at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Guatemala.  Dr. Tran is fluent in Vietnamese and English.    


Education & Training

Fellowship:

  • H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute - Neuro-Oncology

Residency:

  • Virginia Commonwealth University - Neurosurgery

Medical School:

  • University of Arizona College of Medicine - MD
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Publications

  • Kareem SS, Viswanathan N, Sahebjam S, Tran ND, Gatewood T, Tobon K, Baz R, Piña Y, Shain KH, Mokhtari S. Leukoencephalopathy During Daratumumab-Based Therapy: A Case Series of Two Patients with Multiple Myeloma. Onco Targets Ther. 2022 Sep.15:953-962. Pubmedid: 36097632. Pmcid: PMC9464026.
  • Law V, Chen Z, Vena F, Smalley I, Macaulay R, Evernden BR, Tran N, Pina Y, Puskas J, Caceres G, Bayle S, Johnson J, Liu JKC, Etame A, Vogelbaum M, Rodriguez P, Duckett D, Czerniecki B, Chen A, Smalley KSM, Forsyth PA. A preclinical model of patient-derived cerebrospinal fluid circulating tumor cells for experimental therapeutics in leptomeningeal disease from melanoma. Neurooncol. 2022 Oct.24(10):1673-1686. Pubmedid: 35213727. Pmcid: PMC9527526.
  • Liu JKC, Kang R, Bilenkin A, Prorok R, Whiting J, Patel KB, Beer-Furlan A, Naso C, Rogers A, Castro XB, Peguero E, Mokhtari S, Tran N, Etame A, Pina Y, Spiess PE, Forsyth P, Vogelbaum MA. Patient satisfaction and cost savings analysis of the telemedicine program within a neuro-oncology department. J Neurooncol. 2022 Nov.160(2):517-525. Pubmedid: 36367630. Pmcid: PMC9651094.
  • Rubino S, Oliver DE, Tran ND, Vogelbaum MA, Forsyth PA, Yu HM, Ahmed K, Etame AB. Improving Brain Metastases Outcomes Through Therapeutic Synergy Between Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Targeted Cancer Therapies. Front Oncol. 2022 Mar.12:854402. Pubmedid: 35311078. Pmcid: PMC8924127.
  • Kim JT, Di L, Etame AB, Olson S, Vogelbaum MA, Tran ND. Use of virtual magnetic resonance imaging to compensate for brain shift during image-guided surgery: illustrative case. J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2022 Jun.3(24):CASE21683. Pubmedid: 35733635. Pmcid: PMC9204912.
  • Kutuk T, Grass GD, Oliver D, Mokhtari S, Sahebjam S, Kim S, Penagaricano J, Yu HM, Tran N, Etame A, Peterson JL, Forsyth P, Robinson T. Revisiting the Concept of Recurrence of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphomas After Complete Response to Methotrexate-Based Therapy: Periventricular Reseeding as the Predominant Mechanism of Recurrence. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2022 Jul.7(4):100940. Pubmedid: 35814853. Pmcid: PMC9260129.
  • Krafft PR, Peto I, Flores-Milan G, Reeves C, Klein S, Alikhani P, Tran ND. Kyphoplasty of C2 Pathological Fractures Using an Anterior Midline Approach and Steerable Osteotome: Technical Note and Case Series. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2022 Dec.23(6):457-463. Pubmedid: 36103359.
  • Lowe SR, Wang CP, Brisco A, Whiting J, Arrington J, Ahmed K, Yu M, Robinson T, Oliver D, Etame A, Tran N, Beer Furlan A, Sahebjam S, Mokhtari S, Piña Y, Macaulay R, Forsyth P, Vogelbaum MA, Liu JKC. Surgical and anatomic factors predict development of leptomeningeal disease in patients with melanoma brain metastases. Neurooncol. 2022 Aug.24(8):1307-1317. Pubmedid: 35092434. Pmcid: PMC9340645.
  • Lynes J, Flores-Milan G, Rubino S, Arrington J, Macaulay R, Liu JKC, Beer-Furlan A, Tran ND, Vogelbaum MA, Etame AB. Molecular determinants of outcomes in meningiomas. Front Oncol. 2022 Aug.12:962702. Pubmedid: 36033542. Pmcid: PMC9413043.
  • Krafft PR, Agoris CP, Tran QD, Amer A, Alhazaimeh M, Dutta M, Weisman S, Alikhani P, Tran ND. Topical vancomycin reduces surgical site infections in patients subjected to craniotomy for primary brain tumor resection: A comprehensive cancer center experience. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2022 Apr.215:107206. Pubmedid: 35290789.
  • Ahmed KA, Kim Y, Arrington JA, Kim S, DeJesus M, Soyano AE, Armaghani AJ, Costa RLB, Khong HT, Loftus LS, Rosa M, Caudell JJ, Diaz R, Robinson TJ, Etame AB, Tran ND, Sahebjam S, Soliman HH, Czerniecki BJ, Forsyth PA, Yu HM, Han HS. Nivolumab and Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Patients With Breast Cancer Brain Metastases: A Nonrandomized, Open-Label Phase 1b Study. Adv Radiat Oncol. 2021 Sep.6(6):100798. Pubmedid: 34934864. Pmcid: PMC8655428.
  • Vogelbaum MA, Kroll D, Etame A, Tran N, Liu J, Ford A, Sparr E, Kim Y, Forsyth P, Sahebjam S, Mokhtari S, Peguero E, Macaulay R. A Prospective Validation Study of the First 3D Digital Exoscope for Visualization of 5-ALA-Induced Fluorescence in High-Grade Gliomas. World Neurosurg. 2021 May.149:e498-e503. Pubmedid: 33561551.
  • Fradley MG, Alomar M, Kilpatrick MW, Shields B, Tran N, Best A, Bianco E, Armanious M, Vautier RA, Kip K, Beckie TM, Ismail-Khan R. Patient reported physical and mental health changes associated with a comprehensive cardiovascular risk reduction program for women with breast cancer receiving potentially cardiotoxic chemotherapy. Cardiooncology. 2021 May.7(1):22. Pubmedid: 34059163. Pmcid: PMC8166098.
  • Tan E, Tran ND, Peguero E, Robinson T, Gaballa S. Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma manifesting as a cervical spine mass with Parkinson-like symptoms treated with ibrutinib. Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports. 2021 Mar.3.
  • Smalley I, Chen Z, Phadke MS, Li J, Yu X, Wyatt C, Evernden B, Messina JL, Sarnaik A, Sondak VK, Zhang C, Law V, Tran N, Etame A, Macaulay RJB, Eroglu Z, Forsyth PA, Rodriguez PC, Chen YA, Smalley KSM. Single-Cell Characterization of the Immune Microenvironment of Melanoma Brain and Leptomeningeal Metastases. Clin Cancer Res. 2021 Jul.27(14):4109-4125. Pubmedid: 34035069. Pmcid: PMC8282775.
  • Law V, Baldwin M, Ramamoorthi G, Kodumudi K, Tran N, Smalley I, Duckett D, Kalinski P, Czerniecki B, Smalley KSM, Forsyth PA. A Murine Ommaya Xenograft Model to Study Direct-Targeted Therapy of Leptomeningeal Disease. J Vis Exp. 2021 Jan.(167). Pubmedid: 33586709. Pmcid: PMC9014476.
  • Di L, Wang CP, Tang J, Macaulay R, Tran N. Sarcoidosis-Lymphoma Syndrome Presenting As Bony Vertebral Metastasis: A Case Report and Literature Review. Cureus. 2021 Feb.13(2):e13227. Pubmedid: 33728177. Pmcid: PMC7946476.
  • Piña Y, Evernden BR, Khushalani N, Margolin K, Tawbi H, Tran ND, Macaulay R, Forsyth P, Peguero E. Acute motor axonal neuropathy after ipilimumab and nivolumab treatment in melanoma brain metastases: A case report and review of the literature. SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2021 Aug.9. Pubmedid: 34457306. Pmcid: PMC8392782.
  • Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Tran ND, Arrington JA, Macaulay R, Etame AB, Walko CM, Boyle T, Peguero EN, Jaglal M, Mokhtari S, Enderling H, Raghunand N, Gatewood T, Long W, Dzierzeski JL, Evernden B, Robinson T, Wicklund MC, Kim S, Thompson ZJ, Chen DT, Chinnaiyan P, Yu HM. Hypofractionated stereotactic re-irradiation with pembrolizumab and bevacizumab in patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas: results from a phase I study. Neurooncol. 2021 Apr.23(4):677-686. Pubmedid: 33173935. Pmcid: PMC8041351.
  • Di L, Huang K, Kesayan T, Kroll D, Baz RC, Macaulay RJ, Tran ND. Multiple myeloma presenting as an intramedullary spinal cord tumor: a case report and review of the literature. J Med Case Rep. 2020 Oct.14(1):189. Pubmedid: 33059729. Pmcid: PMC7566029.
  • Levy J, Hopkins T, Morris J, Tran ND, David E, Massari F, Farid H, Vogel A, O'Connell WG, Sunenshine P, Dixon R, Gangi A, von der Höh N, Bagla S. Radiofrequency Ablation for the Palliative Treatment of Bone Metastases: Outcomes from the Multicenter OsteoCool Tumor Ablation Post-Market Study (OPuS One Study) in 100 Patients. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 Nov.31(11):1745-1752. Pubmedid: 33129427.
  • Scherr CL, Nam K, Augusto B, Kasting ML, Caldwell M, Lee MC, Meade CD, Pal T, Quinn GP, Vadaparampil ST. A Framework for Pilot Testing Health Risk Video Narratives. Health Commun. 2020 Jun.35(7):832-841. Pubmedid: 30999777. Pmcid: PMC6800594.
  • Figura NB, Rizk VT, Mohammadi H, Evernden B, Mokhtari S, Yu HM, Robinson TJ, Etame AB, Tran ND, Liu J, Washington I, Diaz R, Czerniecki BJ, Soliman H, Han HS, Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Ahmed KA. Clinical outcomes of breast leptomeningeal disease treated with intrathecal trastuzumab, intrathecal chemotherapy, or whole brain radiation therapy. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2019 Jun.175(3):781-788. Pubmedid: 30859348.
  • Figura NB, Potluri TK, Mohammadi H, Oliver DE, Arrington JA, Robinson TJ, Etame AB, Tran ND, Liu JK, Soliman H, Forsyth PA, Sahebjam S, Yu HM, Han HS, Ahmed KA. CDK 4/6 inhibitors and stereotactic radiation in the management of hormone receptor positive breast cancer brain metastases. J Neurooncol. 2019 Aug.144(3):583-589. Pubmedid: 31399935.
  • B Figura N, Long W, Yu M, Robinson TJ, Mokhtari S, Etame AB, Tran ND, Diaz R, Soliman H, S Han H, Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Ahmed KA. Intrathecal trastuzumab in the management of HER2+ breast leptomeningeal disease: a single institution experience. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2018 Jun.169(2):391-396. Pubmedid: 29392582.
  • Sahebjam S, Forsyth PA, Smalley KS, Tran ND. Experimental Treatments for Leptomeningeal Metastases From Solid Malignancies. Cancer Control. 2017 Jan.24(1):42-46. Pubmedid: 28178711.
  • Sahebjam S, Stallworth DG, Mokhtari S, Tran ND, Arrington JA. Assessing Response of High-Grade Gliomas to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors. Cancer Control. 2017 Apr.24(2):180-186. Pubmedid: 28441372.
  • Grabau M, Gajanan G, Nanjappa S, Bohra C, Tran N, Vrionis F, Greene J. Neurological Symptoms in a Cancer Patient With Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome: Brain Abscess or Metastasis?. Infect Dis Clin Prac. 2016 May.24(3):138-142.
  • Kothari N, Mellon E, Hoffe SE, Frakes J, Shridhar R, Pimiento J, Meredith K, Tran ND, Saeed N, Almhanna K. Outcomes in patients with brain metastasis from esophageal carcinoma. J Gastrointest Oncol. 2016 Aug.7(4):562-569. Pubmedid: 27563446. Pmcid: PMC4963374.
  • Seydafkan S, Shibata D, Sanchez J, Tran ND, Leon M, Coppola D. Pathology Report: Presacral Noncommunicating Enteric Duplication Cyst. Cancer Control. 2016 Apr.23(2):170-174. Pubmedid: 27218796.
  • Nabors LB, Portnow J, Ammirati M, Baehring J, Brem H, Brown P, Butowski N, Chamberlain MC, Fenstermaker RA, Friedman A, Gilbert MR, Hattangadi-Gluth J, Holdhoff M, Junck L, Kaley T, Lawson R, Loeffler JS, Lovely MP, Moots PL, Mrugala MM, Newton HB, Parney I, Raizer JJ, Recht L, Shonka N, Shrieve DC, Sills AK, Swinnen LJ, Tran D, Tran N, Vrionis FD, Weiss S, Wen PY, McMillian N, Engh AM. Central Nervous System Cancers, Version 1.2015. J Natl Compr Canc Ne. 2015 Oct.13(10):1191-1202. Pubmedid: 26483059.
  • Wallace AN, Robinson CG, Meyer J, Tran ND, Gangi A, Callstrom MR, Chao ST, Van Tine BA, Morris JM, Bruel BM, Long J, Timmerman RD, Buchowski JM, Jennings JW. The Metastatic Spine Disease Multidisciplinary Working Group Algorithms. Oncologist. 2015 Oct.20(10):1205-1215. Pubmedid: 26354526. Pmcid: PMC4591956.
  • Lawn S, Krishna N, Pisklakova A, Qu X, Fenstermacher DA, Fournier M, Vrionis FD, Tran N, Chan JA, Kenchappa RS, Forsyth PA. Neurotrophin signaling via TrkB and TrkC receptors promotes the growth of brain tumor-initiating cells. J Biol Chem. 2015 Feb.290(6):3814-3824. Pubmedid: 25538243. Pmcid: PMC4319045.
  • Stupp R, Taillibert S, Kanner AA, Kesari S, Steinberg DM, Toms SA, Taylor LP, Lieberman F, Silvani A, Fink KL, Barnett GH, Zhu JJ, Henson JW, Engelhard HH, Chen TC, Tran DD, Sroubek J, Tran ND, Hottinger AF, Landolfi J, Desai R, Caroli M, Kew Y, Honnorat J, Idbaih A, Kirson ED, Weinberg U, Palti Y, Hegi ME, Ram Z. Maintenance Therapy With Tumor-Treating Fields Plus Temozolomide vs Temozolomide Alone for Glioblastoma: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Jama. 2015 Dec.314(23):2535-2543. Pubmedid: 26670971.
  • Toloza E, Cheng A, Coppola D, Shan Y, Moodie C, Garrett J, Krblich D, Tran N, Altiok S, Smith P. Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Masquerading as Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer: A Case Report. Chest. 2014 Mar.145(3 Suppl):317A. Pubmedid: 24638364.
  • Anchala PR, Irving WD, Hillen TJ, Friedman MV, Georgy BA, Coldwell DM, Tran ND, Vrionis FD, Brook A, Jennings JW. Treatment of metastatic spinal lesions with a navigational bipolar radiofrequency ablation device: a multicenter retrospective study. Pain Physician. 2014 Jul.17(4):317-327. Pubmedid: 25054391.
  • Nabors LB, Ammirati M, Bierman PJ, Brem H, Butowski N, Chamberlain MC, Deangelis LM, Fenstermaker RA, Friedman A, Gilbert MR, Hesser D, Holdhoff M, Junck L, Lawson R, Loeffler JS, Maor MH, Moots PL, Morrison T, Mrugala MM, Newton HB, Portnow J, Raizer JJ, Recht L, Shrieve DC, Sills AK, Tran D, Tran N, Vrionis FD, Wen PY, McMillian N, Ho M. Central nervous system cancers. J Natl Compr Canc Ne. 2013 Sep.11(9):1114-1151. Pubmedid: 24029126. Pmcid: PMC4124889.
  • Kenchappa RS, Tran N, Rao NG, Smalley KS, Gibney GT, Sondak VK, Forsyth PA. Novel treatments for melanoma brain metastases. Cancer Control. 2013 Oct.20(4):298-306. Pubmedid: 24077406.
  • Kochany JZ, Tran ND, Sarria JE. Increasing back and radicular pain 2 years following intrathecal pump implantation with review of arachnoiditis. Pain Med. 2013 Nov.14(11):1658-1663. Pubmedid: 23889758.
  • Setzer M, Eleraky M, Johnson WM, Aghayev K, Tran ND, Vrionis FD. Biomechanical comparison of anterior cervical spine instrumentation techniques with and without supplemental posterior fusion after different corpectomy and discectomy combinations: Laboratory investigation. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Jun.16(6):579-584. Pubmedid: 22423633.
  • Eleraky M, Papanastassiou I, Setzer M, Baaj AA, Tran ND, Vrionis FD. Balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of metastatic tumors of the upper thoracic spine. J Neurosurg Spine. 2011 Mar.14(3):372-376. Pubmedid: 21250808.
  • Eleraky M, Papanastassiou I, Tran ND, Dakwar E, Vrionis FD. Comparison of polymethylmethacrylate versus expandable cage in anterior vertebral column reconstruction after posterior extracavitary corpectomy in lumbar and thoraco-lumbar metastatic spine tumors. Eur Spine J. 2011 Aug.20(8):1363-1370. Pubmedid: 21390557. Pmcid: PMC3175854.
  • Kim JA, Tran ND, Li Z, Yang F, Zhou W, Fisher MJ. Brain endothelial hemostasis regulation by pericytes. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2006 Feb.26(2):209-217. Pubmedid: 16015279.
  • Kim JA, Tran ND, Zhou W, Fisher M. Dipyridamole enhances tissue plasminogen activator release by brain capillary endothelial cells. Thromb Res. 2005.115(5):435-438. Pubmedid: 15733978.
  • Kim JA, Tran ND, Berliner JA, Fisher MJ. Minimally oxidized low-density lipoprotein regulates hemostasis factors of brain capillary endothelial cells. J Neurol Sci. 2004 Feb.217(2):135-141. Pubmedid: 14706215.
  • Kim JA, Tran ND, Wang SJ, Fisher MJ. Astrocyte regulation of human brain capillary endothelial fibrinolysis. Thromb Res. 2003.112(3):159-165. Pubmedid: 14967413.
  • Zhang J, Tan Z, Tran ND. Chemical hypoxia-ischemia induces apoptosis in cerebromicrovascular endothelial cells. Brain Res. 2000 Sep.877(2):134-140. Pubmedid: 10986325.
  • Tran ND, Correale J, Schreiber SS, Fisher M. Transforming growth factor-beta mediates astrocyte-specific regulation of brain endothelial anticoagulant factors. Stroke. 1999 Aug.30(8):1671-1678. Pubmedid: 10436120.
  • Tran ND, Schreiber SS, Fisher M. Astrocyte regulation of endothelial tissue plasminogen activator in a blood-brain barrier model. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 1998 Dec.18(12):1316-1324. Pubmedid: 9850144.
  • Wang L, Tran ND, Schreiber SS, Fisher M, Zlokovic BV. Rat brain capillary thrombomodulin: structure and function. Thromb Res. 1998 Dec.92(5):213-219. Pubmedid: 9851812.
  • Tran ND, Wang L, Schreiber SS, Zlokovic B, Fisher M. Measurement of thrombomodulin mRNA expression in brain capillaries by polymerase chain reaction. Thromb Res. 1998 Aug.91(4):191-197. Pubmedid: 9736422.
  • Wang L, Tran ND, Kittaka M, Fisher MJ, Schreiber SS, Zlokovic BV. Thrombomodulin expression in bovine brain capillaries. Anticoagulant function of the blood-brain barrier, regional differences, and regulatory mechanisms. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 1997 Nov.17(11):3139-3146. Pubmedid: 9409303.
  • Sakhi S, Gilmore W, Tran ND, Schreiber SS. p53-deficient mice are protected against adrenalectomy-induced apoptosis. Neuroreport. 1996 Dec.8(1):233-235. Pubmedid: 9051787.
  • Tran ND, Wong VL, Schreiber SS, Bready JV, Fisher M. Regulation of brain capillary endothelial thrombomodulin mRNA expression. Stroke. 1996 Dec.27(12):2304-2310. Pubmedid: 8969798.
  • Silverman RB, Tran N, Sinha RK, Neuhaus FC. The oxazolidinone antibacterial agent DuP 105 does not act on cell wall biosynthesis or on a beta-lactamase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1993 Sep.195(2):1077-1080. Pubmedid: 8373386.

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