Dr. Seidner completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at Cornell University and received his medical degree from The University of Arizona College of Medicine.  Both his Pediatric Residency and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowships were completed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California.  He has been at UTHSCSA for 20 years and is currently the Chief of the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Associate Chairman for UHS Affairs, and Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital.

He has served as Chairman of the Institutional Research Grant Committee and as President of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research.  He is currently a member of the Faculty Development Committee for the Department of Pediatrics and Chairman of the Scholarship Oversight Committee for Pediatric subspecialty residents.

His research interests are in the areas of lung epithelial sodium channels, lung maturational agents, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, surfactant, and regulation of the ductus arteriosus.

Dr. Steven E. Wolf is the Bob and Betty Kelso Distinguished Chair in Burn and Trauma Surgery, Vice Chairman for Research and Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He serves as Chair for the Institutional Review Board UTHSCSA.  He is Burn Surgeon and Chief of Clinical Research at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston and Pediatric Burn Program Director at University Hospital.  Dr. Wolf received his medical degree from UTMB Galveston and completed his post graduate training at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and at Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston.  Dr. Wolf has previously held the position of Director of the US Army Institute of Surgical Research Burn Center at Brooke Army Medical Center and Assistant Chief of Staff at Shriners Hospital for Children.  He has authored over 150 peer reviewed publications and is nationally and internationally recognized for his work in burn and trauma care and regenerative medicine.  Dr. Wolf received the 2009 Health Care Heroes OutstandingPhysician Award. Dr. Wolf is Editor-in-Chief of Burns and on the editorial boards of Journal of Burn Care and Rehabilitation and Surgery News.

Dr. Viktor Bartanusz is presently an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University Texas Health Science Center of San Antonio.  He joined the UTHSCSA in February 2007.

He received his medical degree from Comenius University Medical School at Bratislava, Slovakia in 1989, and his PhD post-graduate program at the Institute of Experimental Endocrinology of the Slovak Academy of Science in 1996.  His principal project was to study the central regulation of the stress response at the level of the hypothalamus, in relation to the blood-brain barrier, circumventricular organs, and glutamatergic neurotransmission.  His next stage of his career was to the Department of Morphology and Neuroanatomy at Medical Faculty in Geneva.  He completed his Neurosurgery training at the University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2003 and to further his interest he completed his fellowship in Spine Surgery at Schulthess Klink, Zurich, Switzerland in 2006.

Dr. Bartanusz is the Director of the Spine Program at UTHSCSA with special interest in complex spine surgery. He also engaged in the teaching of neuroanatomy to first and second year medical students. 
He has begun a clinical research project of Salivory Cortisol Measurement in critically ill trauma patients to identify dysfunctions of the hypothalamic-adrenocortical axis in the early phase after injury. In the basic research a standardized model of spinal cord injury in the rat to study the effect of spinal cord injury on the neuroendocrine system.   

V. Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA is Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, TX. He was born in Hyderabad, India, grew up in NYC and Alabama.  He received a BA in Neuroscience, magna cum laude, from the Amherst College and an MD from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1995 with clinical honors. Dr. Reddy completed residency training in General Surgery at Vanderbilt University and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University and is board certified in those disciplines. He also earned an MBA with honors with a focus in healthcare policy from Vanderbilt.

Dr. Reddy completed a total of 10.5 years of residency training and was awarded numerous teaching awards.  In addition, he was chair of the Housestaff Council for two years while at Vanderbilt and served on the Medical Center Medical Board and the Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Boards.  He has published over 20 articles and abstracts, several book chapters and  has presented at national meetings.   Upon completing his residency, he chose a career in academic medicine and he is currently the Director of Thoracic Aortic Surgery and also the Associate Program Director of the residency program in Thoracic Surgery at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio.  Dr. Reddy serves on the Board of the American Heart Association – S.A. affiliate and is the Vice President of the San Antonio Cardiovascular Society.  He also serves on the Advisory Board of the San Antonio National Bank.

He is keenly interested in the training and education of future physicians.  Dr. Reddy is interested in outcomes research and in combining technology with classical elements of education to create unique learning experiences for tomorrow’s residents.

Gerardo Zavala, M.D.
Dept of Neurosurgery                                                                                                                210-567-5625
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
7703 Floyd Curl Drive- MC7843
San Antonio Tx 78229-3900                                                                                            gzavalamd@yahoo.com

POST-GRADUATE Medical Education

Neurological Surgery Residency and Infolded Fellowship in Simple and Complex Spine Surgery,
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, 2001-200

• Spinal Cord Research, 1 year
• Cook County Neurosurgery, 6 months
• Loyola Clinical Neurology Rotation, 3 months
• Spine Chief Rotation, 9 months
• Loyola Clinical Neurosurgery Rotation, 1 years 9 months
• Endovascular Clinical Rotation, 3 months
• Neurological Intensive Care Unit, 3 months
• Veteran’s Administration Hospital Chief Rotation, 9 months
• Loyola Chief Resident, 6 months

General Surgery Internship, University Health System, San Antonio, Texas, 2000-2001

EDUCATION                            

M.D.     University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio, 2000 San Antonio, Texas   (UTHSCSA)
B.A.      Rice University, Hispanic Literature, 1996
Houston, Texas
Undergraduate Studies, Tufts University, 1993
Boston, Massachusetts

RESEARCH/PRESENTATIONS
Podium Presenter: Transnasal, Transphenoidal Endoscopic Resection of
C1, Skull Base Society, May 2007 Chicago, Ill.
Poster presentation: Transnasal Endoscopic Resection of Odontoid, AANS,
San Francisco, CA, April 2006.
City Wide Spine Conference presenter: Long Term Follow Up of Occipital
Cervical Fusion, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Il,
May 2005.
Lendi Conference Presenter: Long Term Follow Up of Occipital Cervical
Fusion.  Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2005.
First Prize poster: Effect of Timing Implantation of Nerve Growth
Factor Secreting Stem Cells on Recovery of Motor Function and on
Spinal Pathways in Spinal Cord Injured Rats.  Veterans Administration Hospital, Maywood, Illinois, March, 2005.
Podium presentation and abstract acceptance:  Electrical Stimulation of
the Sciatic Nerve and Stem-like Cell Transplantation with Spinal Cord Injury. Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Colorado, October 2003.
Resident Research of the Year in Spinal Cord Injury awarded by Synthes: 
Early vs. Late Stem Cell Transplantation Post Spinal Cord Injury.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Philadelphia, September 2002.
Podium presentation and abstract acceptance:  Early vs. Late Stem Cell
Transplantation Post Spinal Cord Injury. Congress of Neurological
Surgeons, Section of Neurological Trauma, Philadelphia, September 2002.

RESEARCH/PRESENTATIONS

ACHIEVEMENTS                     MEDICAL SCHOOL

Senior, Junior, and Sophomore Vice President of the Class of 2000
Texas Association for Latin-American Medical Students Personal and
Professional Achievement Award, 2000
Medical Student Admission Committee Member, 1999-2000
Organizational Student Representative, 1997-2000- Appointed by Dean of
Student Affairs, Dr. Leonard Lawrence
Rice University Admissions Interviewer, 1996-2000
Medical Student Recipient for Outstanding Leadership and Role Model,
1998
President of the Texas Association for Latin-American Medical Students, 1997-
1998
Hispanic Center of Excellence Scholarship Award for Education in Medicine,
1997    

UNDERGRADUATE                                                                                     
Most Outstanding Student Award, Rice Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment, 1996
Rice Leadership Training Officer for the National Hispanic Institute, 1995-1996
Minority Recruitment Officer for Rice University Admissions, 1994-1996
Internal Vice President of the Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice University, 1994-1995
Cultural Awareness Committee Representative, 1993-1994. Appointed by
President of Rice University, Dr. Malcolm Gillis
Treasurer of Tufts University Hispanic-American Society, 1992-1993

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Affiliations

                   Texas Medical Association

Beax County Medical Society
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2001-2008
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2001-2008

LANGUAGES  
Fluent in Spanish and English