Peter A. Pahapill, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC

Professor; Director, Functional Neurosurgery

Locations

Neurosurgery
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Biography

Dr. Pahapill is committed to providing comprehensive treatment for patients suffering from brain and spinal cord disease, as well as movement disorders, Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia, spasticity and chronic pain. He has years in Fellowship training in movement disorders and pain surgery, and has performed more than 5000 neuromodulation procedures over the last 25 years.

Dr. Pahapill has written numerous articles and textbook chapters, and has lectured extensively on the subjects of chronic pain, neuromodulation and deep brain and spinal cord stimulation surgery. He leads active research programs both clinical and at the basic sciences level in a number of areas of neuromodulation.

Clinical Programs

Movement Disorders

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Education

PhD, Neurosciences, University of Toronto-Ontario, Toronto, 1990
MD, University of Toronto-Ontario, Toronto, 1992
Residency, Neurosurgery, University of Western Ontario, Ontario, 1997
Fellowship, Functional/Stereotactic Neurosurgery, University of Toronto-Ontario, Toronto, 1999

Care Bundle Approach to Minimizing Infection Rates after Neurosurgical Implants for Neuromodulation: A Single Surgeon Experience.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Huang CC, Ward BD, Pahapill PA.) World Neurosurg. 2019 Apr 12.
Effects of deep brain stimulation on vocal fold immobility in Parkinson's disease.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Hammer MJ, Bock JM, Pahapill PA.) Surg Neurol Int. 2017;8:22.
Non-Infectious Peri-Electrode Edema and Contrast Enhancement Following Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery.

(Arocho-Quinones EV, Pahapill PA.) Neuromodulation. 2016 Dec;19(8):872-876.
A Novel Nonanchoring Technique for Implantation of Paddle Leads in the Cervical Spine Under Conscious Sedation.

(Pahapill PA.) Neuromodulation. 2015 Aug;18(6):472-6; discussion 476-7.
Incidence of Revision Surgery in a Large Cohort of Patients With Thoracic Surgical Three-Column Paddle Leads: A Retrospective Case Review.

(Pahapill PA.) Neuromodulation. 2015 Jul;18(5):367-75.
Subacute Subdural Hematoma in a Patient with Bilateral DBS Electrodes.

(Nguyen HS, Pahapill PA.) Case Rep Neurol Med. 2015;2015:390727.
Surgical paddle-lead placement for screening trials of spinal cord stimulation.

(Pahapill PA.) Neuromodulation. 2014 Jun;17(4):346-8; discussion 348.
Restoration of altered somatosensory cortical representation with spinal cord stimulation therapy in a patient with complex regional pain syndrome: a magnetoencephalography case study.

(Pahapill PA, Zhang W.) Neuromodulation. 2014 Jan;17(1):22-6; discussion 26-7.
Long-term follow-up study of chronic deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus for cervical dystonia.

(Pahapill PA, O'Connell B.) Neuromodulation. 2010 Jan;13(1):26-30.
Analysis of single K(ATP) channels in mammalian dentate gyrus granule cells.

(Pelletier MR, Pahapill PA, Pennefather PS, Carlen PL.) J Neurophysiol. 2000 Nov;84(5):2291-301.
The pedunculopontine nucleus and Parkinson's disease.

(Pahapill PA, Lozano AM.) Brain. 2000 Sep;123 ( Pt 9):1767-83.
Tremor arrest with thalamic microinjections of muscimol in patients with essential tremor.

(Pahapill PA, Levy R, Dostrovsky JO, Davis KD, Rezai AR, Tasker RR, Lozano AM.) Ann Neurol. 1999 Aug;46(2):249-52.

Peter A. Pahapill, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCSC