Dr. Timothy R Gershon MD
Pediatrician
Unc Chapel Hl Chapel Hill NC, 27599About
Dr. Timothy Gershon is a pediatrician practicing in Chapel Hill, NC. Dr. Gershon is a doctor who specializes in the health care of children. As a pedicatrician, Dr. Gershon diagnoses and treats infections, injuries, diseases and other disorders in children. Pediatricians typically work with infants, children, teenagers and young adults up to age 21. They practice medical care as well as preventative health care. Dr. Gershon can oversee and manage the physical, mental and emotional health of their patients.
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- 2005
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cellular expression of a leech netrin suggests roles in the formation of longitudinal nerve tracts and in regional innervation of peripheral targets.
- Medulloblastoma: therapy and biologic considerations.
- Enteric neural crest differentiation in ganglioneuromas implicates Hedgehog signaling in peripheral neuroblastic tumor pathogenesis.
- Bax deficiency prolongs cerebellar neurogenesis, accelerates medulloblastoma formation and paradoxically increases both malignancy and differentiation.
- Peripheral organs control central neurogenesis in the leech.
- Tonic activation of Bax primes neural progenitors for rapid apoptosis through a mechanism preserved in medulloblastoma.
- Cerebellar granule neuron progenitors are the source of Hk2 in the postnatal cerebellum.
- Hexokinase-2-mediated aerobic glycolysis is integral to cerebellar neurogenesis and pathogenesis of medulloblastoma.
- ASC deficiency suppresses proliferation and prevents medulloblastoma incidence.
- Adaptations of energy metabolism during cerebellar neurogenesis are co-opted in medulloblastoma.
- Bax deficiency prolongs cerebellar neurogenesis, accelerates medulloblastoma formation and paradoxically increases both malignancy and differentiation.
- Aspm sustains postnatal cerebellar neurogenesis and medulloblastoma growth in mice.
- Essential Function of Dicer in Resolving DNA Damage in the Rapidly Dividing Cells of the Developing and Malignant Cerebellum.
- Energy metabolism in neurodevelopment and medulloblastoma.
- Radiation Sensitivity in a Preclinical Mouse Model of Medulloblastoma Relies on the Function of the Intrinsic Apoptotic Pathway.
Awards
- Child Neurology Foundation 2007 Scientific Award
Professional Memberships
- Member American Association for Cancer Research
- Member American Society for Clinical Oncology
- Member Society for Neuro-Oncology
- Member Child Neurology Society
Fellowships
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Neuro-Oncology, NY, USA 2005
- NY Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, Child Neurology 2002
Dr. Timothy R Gershon MD's Practice location
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Unc Chapel Hl -Chapel Hill, NC 27599Get Direction
UNC Hospitals Neurology Clinic
194 Finley Golf Course Road -Chapel Hill, NC 27517Get Direction
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