Rolando Fausto Del Maestro, MD, PhD
William Feindel Professor Emeritus in Neuro-Oncology
Director of the Neurosurgical Simulation Research Centre
Dr. Del Maestro's research is focused on surgical simulation using the NeuroTouch platform working in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada and multiple national and international research groups.
Dr Del Maestro along with his wife, Pam and Steve Northey founded and continue their work with the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada. This organization is now a dynamic cross Canada organization fostering excellence in brain tumour patient care, patient support and research funding.
Dr. Del Maestro聽retired as the Director of the Brain Tumor Research Centre and from his clinical practice in brain tumour surgery in 2012 which has given him more time to devote to his interests in neurosurgical simulation, resident education, Leonardo Da Vinci and the History of Medicine. He is the Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at 苹果淫院. Dr Del Maestro has one of the largest private collections of materials related to Leonardo Da Vinci. Using this material he has curated a number of exhibitions related to Leonardo's art and anatomical interests as well as an exhibition on the History of Neuro-Oncology at the Osler Library at 苹果淫院 and Montreal鈥檚 Leonardo Da Vinci Centre.聽 His book entitled A Relationship Etched in Time: Leonardo Da Vinci, The Earl of Arundel and Wenceslaus Hollar will be published by the 苹果淫院-Queens Press.
Neurosurgical Simulation Research Centre
NeuroTouch: A Physics-Based Virtual Simulator for Cranial Microneurosurgery Training.聽Delorme S, Laroche D, DiRaddo R,聽Del Maestro RF. 聽Neurosurgery. 2012 Sep;71(1 Suppl Operative):32-42. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318249c744.
Fundamentals of Neurosurgery: Virtual Reality Tasks for Training and Evaluation of Technical Skills.聽Choudhury N, G茅linas-Phaneuf N, Delorme S,聽Del Maestro 聽R.聽World Neurosurg. 2013 聽Nov;80(5):e9-19. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.08.022. Epub 2012 Nov 23.
Surgical Expertise in neurosurgery: Integrating Theory into Practice.聽G茅linas-Phaneuf N,聽Del Maestro RF.聽 Neurosurgery. 2013 Oct;73 Suppl 1:30-8. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000115.
The Development of a Virtual Simulator for Training Neurosurgeons to Perform and Perfect Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Surgery.聽Rosseau G, Bailes J,聽del聽Maestro R,聽Cabral A, Choudhury N, Comas O, Debergue P, De Luca G, Hovdebo J, Jiang D,聽 Laroche D, Neubauer A, Pazos V, Thibault F, Diraddo R. Neurosurgery. 2013 Oct;73 Suppl 1:85-93. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000112.
Assessing performance in brain tumor resection using a novel virtual reality simulator.聽G茅linas-Phaneuf N, Choudhury N, Al-Habib AR, Cabral A, Nadeau E, Mora V, Pazos V, Debergue P, Diraddo R,聽Del Maestro RF. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg. 2014 Jan;9(1):1-9. doi: 10.1007/s11548-013-0905-8. Epub 2013 Jun 20.
Development of the 苹果淫院 Simulator for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (MSESS); A New High Fidelity Virtual Reality Simulator for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery聽Varshney R, Frenkiel S, Nguyen LHP, Young M,聽Del Maestro R, Zeitouni A, National Research Council Canada, Tewfik MA.聽Am J聽聽Rhinol Allergy,2014, 28(4) 330-334(5). doi.org/10.2500/ajra.2014.28.4046
Brain Tumor Research Centre
Surgical Resection and Glioblastoma: Molecular Profiling and Safety.聽Del Maestro聽R. Can J Neurol Sci. 2012 Sep;39(5):561-2.
Online Database of Clinical MR and Ultrasound Images of Brain Tumors.聽Mercier L,聽Del Maestro聽RF, Petrecca K, Araujo D, Haegelen C, Collins DL. Med Phys. 2012 Jun;39(6):3253-61. doi: 10.1118/1.4709600
Opposite roles of furin and PC%A in N- Cadherin Processing. Maret, D., Seyed Sadr, M., Seyed Sadr, E., Colman, D.R.,聽Del Maestro,聽 R.F.,聽Seidah, N.G. 2012聽Neoplasia, 14; 880-892 .
Allaire PD, Seyed Sadr M, Chaineau M, Seyed Sadr E, Konefal S, Fotouhi M, Maret D, Ritter B,聽Del Maestro聽RF, McPherson PS.J Cell Sci. 2013 Feb 1;126(Pt 3):722-31. doi: 10.1242/jcs.112375. Epub 2012 Dec 21.
Bevacizumab use for recurrent high-grade glioma at 苹果淫院 Hospital.聽Sahebjam S, Garoufalis E, Guiot MC, Muanza T,聽Del Maestro聽R, Petrecca K, Sharma R, Kavan P. Can J Neurol Sci. 2013 Mar;40(2):241-6
Registering Pre- and postresection 3-Dimensional Ultrasound for Improved Visualization of Residual Brain Tumor.聽Mercier L, Araujo D, Haegelen C,聽Del Maestro聽RF, Petrecca K, Collins DL. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2013 Jan;39(1):16-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2012.08.004.
Transcription Factor FOXG1 and Groucho/TLE promotes glioblastoma growth.聽聽聽聽 Verginelli F, Perin A, Dali R, Fung K, Lo R, Longatti P, Guiot M-C,聽Del Maestro聽聽RF,聽Rossi, S., di Porzio U., Stechishin, O., Weiss S., and Stifani, S., Nat Commun. 2013 Dec. 20; 4: 2956.聽doi: 10.1038/ncomms3956.