Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery
Training Program Director, Center for Skull Base Surgery
Associate Director, Exovascular Neurosurgery
Director, Anatomy Laboratory
Phone: (412) 647-3685
e-mail: prevedellod@upmc.edu

Also see Media Appearances below

Specialized Areas of Interest

Minimally invasive neurosurgery; pituitary surgery; neuroendocrinology; brain tumors; skull base surgery and neuroanatomy, aneurysms, and avms.

Biography

Daniel Monte-Serrat Prevedello, MD, received his medical degree from the Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Brazil. At his graduation he had already done a clerkship in the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Bari in Italy and an internship rotation in general surgery at the Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He completed his neurological surgery residency at the Hospital Nossa Senhora das Gracas in Curitiba in Brazil in 2004 under the direction of Joao Candido Araujo, MD, PhD, who is a U.S. board-certified neurosurgeon.

Dr. Prevedello joined the University of Pittsburgh Department of Neurological Surgery in August of 2006 after completing a clinical fellowship at The University of Virginia in neuroendocrine and pituitary surgery with Edward R. Laws Jr., MD.

During his first two years at UPMC, he completed a fellowship in minimally invasive skull base surgery with Amin Kassam, MD. Dr. Prevedello was named training program director of the Center for Skull Base Surgery and associate director of exovascular surgery in April of 2008.

Dr. Prevedello's publications can be reviewed through the National Library of Medicine's publication database.

Board Certifications

Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery

Hospital Privileges

UPMC Presbyterian
Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Professional Organization Membership

American Association of Neurological Surgeons
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
Latin American Federation of Societies of Neurological Surgery
Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery
Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery
Parana State Medical Society (Brazil)

Editorial Service

• Ad Hoc Reviewer:

Neurology India
Arquivos de Neuropsiquiatria
Acta Neurochuriurgica

Media Appearances

Rare surgery to restore Jain Acharya's eyesight
March 6, 2009
IndiaPost.com

A million well-wishers, 15 doctors point guru to Pittsburgh
February 12, 2009
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review