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Peter Sun, MD: pediatric neurosurgeon
Division Chief, Neurosurgery

Kurtis Auguste, MD: pediatric neurosurgeon
Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program
Kurtis Auguste, MD Neurosurgeon   Neurosurgeon Kurtis Auguste Children's Hospital Oakland
Children's Hospital Oakland's Kurtis Auguste, MD, of Neurosurgery, was featured in this amazing story of coincidence and survival. (KGO-TV) Play Video>>   Kurtis Auguste, MD, Physician Profile Dr. Auguste is a pediatric neurosurgeon in the Department of Neurological Surgery and Director of the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Program at Children’s Hospital & Research Center. (CHRCO) Play Video>>
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CereTom Scanner Neurosurgery Children's Hospital Oakland

 

Peter Sun, MD of Neurosurgery and Bryant Toth, MD of Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery were featured in a front-page story about a minimally invasive procedure that corrects the prematurely fused skulls of children. The condition, known as craniosynostosis, affects one in 2,000 infants. Children's performs the most number of such operations in Northern California. Read Story >>   Story about state-of-the-art technology at Children's Neurology. The CereTom portable CT scanner is integrated with Children’s Hospital's Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS). PACS allows physicians at Children’s to view all diagnostic-imaging exams on any PACS-capable computer in the hospital, saving time, lives, and hospital costs. Read Story>>
Dr. Peter SunBest Doctor 2007- 2009 & America's Top Surgeons   MD News July 2008

Peter Sun, MD Division Chief of Neurosurgery has been named Oakland Magazine Best East Bay Doctors 2007-2009 (national survey)
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  Peter Sun, MD is featured in an article about the CereTom portable CT scanner and advances in CT scanner technology at Children's Hospital & Research Oakland.
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Kurtis Auguste, MD, Neurosurgery KRON-TV    
Kurtis Auguste, MD, of Neurosurgery and Bryant Toth, MD, of the Craniofacial Program, demonstrate brain surgery, fused growth plates, and treatments for congenital conditions like hydrocephalus. (YouTube Series 1-4) Play Video #1 >>    



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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