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Jurg L. Jaggi

Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery

Associate Director

Department: Neurosurgery

Contact information

University of Pennsylvania
Department of Neurosurgery
330 S. Ninth Street, 4th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Office: 215-829-5375
Fax: 215-829-6645

Email:
jaggi@med.upenn.edu

Education
B.S. (Electrical Engineering)
Hochschule für Technik NTB, Buchs, Switzerland, 1973.
B.S. (Bioengineering )
Hochschule für Technik NTB, Buchs, Switzerland, 1974.
M.Sc. (Radiation Physics )
University of London, England, 1976.
Ph.D. (Bioengineering)
University of Pennsylvania, USA, 1985.

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Selected Publications

Simon LS, Douglas P, Baltuch GH, Jaggi JL: Error Analysis of MRI and Leskell Stereotactic Frame Target Localization in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 83: 1-5, February 2005.

Jurg L. Jaggi, Gordon H. Baltuch: Deep Brain Stimulation inactivity can produce unexpected high electrode impedances when reactivated, leading to a false conclusion of wire fracture. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 83(5-6): 187-189, December 2005.

Jaggi JL, Umemura A, Hurtig HI, Siderowf AD, Colcher A, Stern MB, Baltuch GH: Bilateral Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus in Parkinson’s Disease: Surgical efficacy and prediction of outcome. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 82: 104-114 April 2004.

Kerrigan JF, Litt B, Fisher RS, Cranstoun S, French JA, Blum DE, Dichter M, Shetter A, Baltuch G, Jaggi J, Krone S, Brodie M, Rise M, Graves N: Electrical stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus for the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia 45(4): 364-354, April 2004.

Umemura A, Jaggi JL, Dolinskas CA, Stern MB, Baltuch GH: Pallidal deep brain stimulation for longstanding severe generalized dystonia in Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome. Case report. J Neurosurg 100(4): 706-709, April 2004.

Umemura A, Samadani U, Jaggi JL, Hurtig HI, Baltuch GH: Thalamic deep brain stimulation for posttraumatic action tremor. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 106(4): 280-283, September 2004.

Chou KL, Siderowf AD, Jaggi JL, Liang GS, Baltuch GH: Unilateral Battery Depletion in Parkinson's Disease Patients Treated with Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation May Require Urgent Surgical Replacement. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 82(4): 153-155, December 2004.

Counelis GJ, Simuni T, Forman MS, Jaggi JL, Trojanowski JQ, Baltuch GH: Bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for advanced PD: correlation of intraoperative MER and postoperative MRI with neuropathological findings. Movement Disorders 18(9): 1062-1065, Sep 2003.

Umemura A, Jaggi JL, Hurtig HI, Siderowf AD, Colcher A, Stern MB, Baltuch GH: Deep brain stimulation for Movement Disorders: Morbitity and Mortality in 109 Patients. J Neurosurg 98(4): 779-84, Apr 2003.

Jaggi JL, Umemura A, Hurtig H, Siderowf A, Colcher A, Stern MB, Baltuch GH: Bilateral Stimulation of the subthalamic Nucleus in Parkinson's Disease: Prediction of Outcome. American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, San Diego, J Neurosurg 98: 671, 2003.