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Professor, The Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery

Residency Program Director

Education & Training

• Undergraduate Degree:
  Louisiana Technical University, Ruston, Louisiana
• Medical Degree:
  Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Surgical Internship:
  Carraway Methodist Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama
• Neurological Surgery Residency:
  University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
• Neuropathology Fellowship, Brain Tumor Immunology:
  University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Specialties

• Intracranial aneurysms and other vascular lesions
• Vascular malformations, arteriovenous (AVM's) and cavernous malformations
• Brain tumors
• Meningiomas, especially those of the skull base affecting vision
• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Trigeminal neuralgia / hemifacial spasm
• Intra-spinal tumors

Board Certifications

• American Board of Neurological Surgery

Selected Bibliography

• Day AL, Fine AL, Beauregard C: Infratentorial-Arteriovenous Malformations of the Cerebellar Vermis and Hemispheres, in Stieg, Batjer & Samson (ed.): Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations. St. Louis. Quality Medical Publishing, 2006. 285-296.
• Dunn, IF, Proctor MR, Day AL: Lumbar spine injuries in athletes. Neurosurg Focus 2006 Oct 15;21 (4):E4. Review.
• Liu R; Yang SH, Cutright J, Yi KD, He YJ, Day AL, Simpkins JW: Dose dependence and therapeutic window for the neuroprotective effects of 17β-estradiol when administered after cerebral ischemia. NeurosciLett, 2007 Mar 30;415(3):237-41.
• Slotkin JR, Mislow JMK, Day AL, Proctor, MR: Pediatric Disk Disease, in Neurosurgery Clinics of North America 18, 2007. 659-667.
• Day, AL, Du R, Maher, C: Ophthalmic Segment Aneurysms. Vascular Neurosurgery, 2nd Edition, Thieme Medical Publishers, 2008.
• Wang X, Figueroa BE, Stavrovskaya I, Zhang Y, Sirianni A, Zhu S, Day AL, Kristal BS, Friedlander RM: Methazolamide and melatonin inhibit mitochondrial cytochrome c release and are neuroprotective in experimental models of ischemic injury. Stroke 2009 May 40: (5)1877-85.
• Cahill K, Chi J, Day AL, Claus E: Prevalence, Complications, and Hospital Charges Associated With Use of Bone-Morphogenetic Proteins in Spinal Fusion Procedures. JAMA 2009 July 1 302(1): 58-66.
• Gross BA, Du R, Popp AJ, Day AL: Intramedullary Spinal Cord Cavernous Malformations. Neurosurg Focus 2010 Sep; 29(3): E14.
• Cahill K, Chi J, Day AL, Claus E: Trends in survival after surgery for breast cancer metastatic to the brain and spinal column in medicare patients: a population-based analysis. Journal of Neurosurgery: Accepted: August 2010.
• Du, Rose, Day AL: Microsurgery of Paraclinoid Aneurysms, in Winn (ed.): Youmans Neurological Surgery, Sixth Edition. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company, 2010.