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Paul Kongkham

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Associate ProfessorDepartment of SurgeryUniversity of Toronto

Paul Kongkham

Associate Professor

Department of Surgery

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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9 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.

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Latest papers

Risk prediction model for brain metastasis risk among patients diagnosed with primary gastrointestinal cancers.
British journal of cancer · 2026
Leaving the Operating Room: Voices of Residents and Program Directors on Canadian Neurosurgical Attrition.
Journal of surgical education · 2026
Survival outcomes and clinical characteristics of brain metastases from prostate cancer: A single-center analysis.
Neuro-oncology advances · 2025

All 23 publications

Latest funding

Stepped care to enhance quality of life in advanced cancer: An interprofessional approach to alleviating cancer-related cognitive impairment for adults with brain metastases
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
$325,124
Neurosurgical Transition e-Program (Neuro-STEP): Pilot evaluation of an e-Health program to improve the transition of neurosurgical patients from remote locations to specialist neurosurgical care, across life's trajectory from pediatric to adult, and through dynamic changes in acute or chronic health states.
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$960,000

All 2 grants and awards

23 publications.

Risk prediction model for brain metastasis risk among patients diagnosed with primary gastrointestinal cancers.

Barcelona MVN, Kataki KJ, Rahman FA, Moraes FY, Millar BA, Conrad T, Keilty D, Hope A, Sun A, Kongkham P, Elimova E, Deng Y, Shultz D, Yan M

British journal of cancer2026

DOI: 10.1038/s41416-026-03587-8 PMID: 42649380

Leaving the Operating Room: Voices of Residents and Program Directors on Canadian Neurosurgical Attrition.

Chainey J, Genus S, Kalocsai C, Hamstra SJ, Lipsman N, Kongkham P, Kumar A

Journal of surgical education2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2026.104184 PMID: 42800110

Survival outcomes and clinical characteristics of brain metastases from prostate cancer: A single-center analysis.

Jamora K, Nicanor AV, Erjan A, Barcelona MV, Keilty D, Yan M, Kalyvas A, Bernstein M, Kongkham P, Zadeh G, Atenafu E, Raman S, Berlin A, Catton C, Chung P, Millar BA, Laperriere N, Conrad T, Shultz D, Gutierrez-Valencia E

Neuro-oncology advances20252 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/noajnl/vdaf063 PMID: 40386122

Single-cell atlas of the human brain vasculature across development, adulthood and disease.

Wälchli T, Ghobrial M, Schwab M, Takada S, Zhong H, Suntharalingham S, Vetiska S, Gonzalez DR, Wu R, Rehrauer H, Dinesh A, Yu K, Chen ELY, Bisschop J, Farnhammer F, Mansur A, Kalucka J, Tirosh I, Regli L, Schaller K, Frei K, Ketela T, Bernstein M, Kongkham P, Carmeliet P, Valiante T, Dirks PB, Suva ML, Zadeh G, Tabar V, Schlapbach R, Jackson HW, De Bock K, Fish JE, Monnier PP, Bader GD, Radovanovic I

Nature2024173 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07493-y PMID: 38987604

Rate of pachymeningeal failure following adjuvant WBRT vs SRS in patients with brain metastases.

Gutierrez-Valencia E, Kalyvas A, Jamora K, Yang K, Lau R, Khan B, Millar BA, Laperriere N, Conrad T, Berlin A, Weiss J, Li X, Zadeh G, Bernstein M, Kongkham P, Shultz DB

Clinical and translational radiation oncology20244 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.ctro.2023.100723 PMID: 38282910

Surgical Resection Followed by Stereotactic Radiosurgery (S+SRS) Versus SRS Alone for Large Posterior Fossa Brain Metastases: A Comparative Analysis of Outcomes and Factors Guiding Treatment Modality Selection.

Lau R, Gutierrez-Valencia E, Santiago A, Lai C, Ahmed DB, Habibi P, Laperriere N, Conrad T, Millar BA, Bernstein M, Kongkham P, Zadeh G, Shultz DB, Kalyvas A

Brain sciences20243 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/brainsci14111059 PMID: 39595822

Anatomical and surgical characteristics correlate with pachymeningeal failure in patients with brain metastases after neurosurgical resection and adjuvant stereotactic radiosurgery.

Kalyvas A, Gutierrez-Valencia E, Lau R, Ye XY, O'Halloran PJ, Mohan N, Wong C, Millar BA, Laperriere N, Conrad T, Berlin A, Bernstein M, Zadeh G, Shultz DB, Kongkham P

Journal of neuro-oncology20237 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1007/s11060-023-04325-3 PMID: 37165117

Alpha-Synuclein RT-QuIC in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.

Fasano A, Martinez-Valbuena I, Azevedo P, da Silva CC, Algarni M, Vasilevskaya A, Anastassiadis C, Taghdiri F, Kongkham P, Radovanovic I, Zadeh G, Lang AE, Tang-Wai DF, Kovacs GG, Tartaglia MC

Annals of neurology202219 citations

DOI: 10.1002/ana.26505 PMID: 36094107

Factors correlating with survival following adjuvant or definitive radiosurgery for large brain metastases.

Gutiérrez-Valencia E, Kalyvas A, Villafuerte CJ, Millar BA, Laperriere N, Conrad T, Berlin A, Weiss J, Zadeh G, Bernstein M, Kongkham P, Shultz DB

Neuro-oncology202210 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noac106 PMID: 35474015

Impact of EGFR mutation on outcomes following SRS for brain metastases in non-small cell lung cancer.

Moraes FY, Mansouri A, Dasgupta A, Ramotar M, Kosyak N, Weiss J, Laperriere N, Millar BA, Berlin A, Conrad T, van Prooijen M, Heaton R, Coolens C, Winter J, Bernstein M, Zadeh G, Kongkham P, Doherty M, Shultz DB

Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)202113 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2021.02.036 PMID: 33721614

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Paul Kongkham

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Risk prediction model for brain metastasis risk among patients diagnosed with primary gastrointestinal cancers.

Leaving the Operating Room: Voices of Residents and Program Directors on Canadian Neurosurgical Attrition.

Survival outcomes and clinical characteristics of brain metastases from prostate cancer: A single-center analysis.

Single-cell atlas of the human brain vasculature across development, adulthood and disease.

Rate of pachymeningeal failure following adjuvant WBRT vs SRS in patients with brain metastases.

Surgical Resection Followed by Stereotactic Radiosurgery (S+SRS) Versus SRS Alone for Large Posterior Fossa Brain Metastases: A Comparative Analysis of Outcomes and Factors Guiding Treatment Modality Selection.

Anatomical and surgical characteristics correlate with pachymeningeal failure in patients with brain metastases after neurosurgical resection and adjuvant stereotactic radiosurgery.

Alpha-Synuclein RT-QuIC in Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.

Factors correlating with survival following adjuvant or definitive radiosurgery for large brain metastases.

Impact of EGFR mutation on outcomes following SRS for brain metastases in non-small cell lung cancer.

Stepped care to enhance quality of life in advanced cancer: An interprofessional approach to alleviating cancer-related cognitive impairment for adults with brain metastases

Frequent collaborators

Gelareh Zadeh

Barbara-Ann Millar

Mark Bernstein

Tatiana Conrad

Alejandro Berlin

Aristotelis Kalyvas

Catherine Coolens

Robert Heaton

Warren Mason

Dana Keilty

David Shultz

Michael Yan

Corinne Maurice

Gabor Kovacs

Caroline Chung

Alfonso Fasano

Ivan Radovanovic

James Rutka

Natasha Leighl

Ashish Kumar

Suganth Suppiah

Penelope Bradbury

Christine Wong

Foad Taghdiri

Charles Catton

Peter Chung

Andrei Damyanovich

Alexander Sun

Winnie Li

Elena Elimova

Julio Furlan

Francois Mathieu

Derek Tsang

Geoffrey Liu

Joyce So

David Jaffray

Jason Fish

Philippe Monnier