Dr. Danielpour is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he holds the Vera and Paul Guerin Family Chair in Pediatric Neurosurgery. Dr. Danielpour completed his medical training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he distinguished himself as an American Heart Association Research Fellow studying immunology of brain tumors. He subsequently completed his residency at Northwestern Memorial followed by fellowship training at the combined UCSF-Stanford program in pediatric neurological surgery, where he co-authored the NIH grant for Fetal Repair of Myelomeningocele with Dr. Dianna Farmer, leading to the MOMS trial.
He is an investigator and neurosurgical expert on congenital malformations of the central nervous System, skeletal dysplasia, and pediatric brain tumors. He has contributed extensively to the study of surgical management of foramen magnum, spinal stenosis, and hydrocephalus in children with achondroplasia. His surgical expertise includes the use of minimally invasive surgical techniques in pediatric hydrocephalus. In the laboratory, Dr. Danielpour seeks to discover the mechanisms regulating the transformation of neural stem cells into brain tumor progenitors. Using a next generation modeling system, he and colleagues have developed patient-specific auto tonic animal models which they are using to create targeted molecular and immunological treatments. Dr. Danielpour was also the co-discoverer of the presence of neuronal stem cells and progenitors in the spinal fluid of premature infants following intraventricular hemorrhage and is currently working on methods to characterize and replace this population of cells.
He is a member of medical advisory board of the Little People of America, American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery, International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He also serves on the editorial board of Frontiers in Neurooncology and is the current editor-in-chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery.