Meet Our Team

Frank Holladay, MD

Neurosurgery

Holladay

Education

University of California- B.A. Zoology
1975 

Creighton University School of Medicine- M.D.
1980 

General Surgery Internship Creighton University Affiliated Hospitals
1980-1981 

Research Fellow, Neurological Surgery University of Kentucky Medical Center
1981-1982

Resident in Neurological Surgery University of Kentucky Medical Center
1982-1987

Honorary Assistant House Physician
1985

Neurology Chief Resident, Neurological Surgery
1986-1987 

Publications

  • Holladay, F.P. and Fruin, A.H. “Cerebellar Oligodendroglioma in a Child.” Neurosurgery 6 (1980): 552-554
  • Holladay, F.P., Bean, J.R., Young, 8., Todd, E.P. and Roy, M.W. “Cerebral Vascular Response to Moderate Blood Loss: Modification by Hypertension.”
  • Stroke 14 (1983): 765-768
  • Roy, M.W., Gutherie, G.P., Jr., Holladay, F.P. and Kotchen, T.A. “Effects of Verapamil of Renin and Aldosterone in the Dog and Rat.”
  • American Journal of Physiology 245 (1983): E410-E416
  • Wells, J., Durr, M., Grashner, 8. Holladay, F.P., Campbell, M.,Hammeke, J., Egan, D., “Inhibition of Protein and Amino Acid Loss by Single Amino Acids.”
  • Clinical Physiology Biochemistry 3 (1985): 8-15
  • Malone, D.G., O’Boynick, P.L., Ziegler, D.K., Hubble, J.P. and Holladay, F.P. “Osteomyelitis of the Skull Base.”
  • Neurosurgery 30 (1992): 426-431
  • Holladay, F.P., Lopez, G., De, M., Moraznt, R.A., and Wood, G.W., “Generation of Cytotoxic Immune Responses Against a Rat Glioma by In Vivo Primin and Secondary In Vitro Stimulation with Tumor Cells.”
  • Neurosurgery 30 (1992} 499-502
  • Gilbert, J., Wiser, H., and Holladay, F.P. “A Cerebrospinal Fluid Glucose CSF Biosensor for Diabetes Mellitus.”
  • American Society for Artificial Internal Organs 38 (1992): 82-87
  • Holladay, F.P., Heitz,T., Chen, Y.L., and Wood, G.W. “Successful Treatment of a Malignant Rat Glioma with Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte.”
  • Neurosurgery31 (1992): 528-533
  • Holladay, F.P. and Wood, G.W. “Generation of Cellular Immune Responses Against a Glioma Associated Antigen(s}.”
  • Journal of Neuroimmunology 44 (1993): 27-32
  • Wood, G.W., Holladay, F.P., Owewity, T., and Watanabe, I. “Treatment of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme by Specific Cellular immunotherapy: A Case Report.”
  • Kansas Medicine 94 (1993): 200-202
  • Holladay, F.P., Griffitt, W.E., and Wood, G.W. “Immunology and immunotherapy of Brain Malignancy.”‘
  • Brain Tumors: A Comprehensive Text Ed. Morantz, R.A. and Walsh, J. New York: Marcel Dekker, (1993): 779-798
  • Holladay, F.P., Choudhuri, R., Heitz, T., and Wood, G.W. “Generation of Cytotoxic Immune Responses during the Progression of Rat Glioma.”
  • Journal of Neurosurgery 80 (1994): 90-96
  • Holladay, F.P., Heitz-Turner, T., Bayer, W.L., and Wood, G.W. “Autologous Tumor Cell Vaccination Combined and Adoptive Cellular immunotherapy in Patients with Grade Ill/IV Astrocytoma.”
  • Journal of Neuro-Oncology 27 (1996): 179-189
  • Wood, G.W., Turner, T.H., Holladay, F.P. “Immune Rejection of a Processing Glioma Using Effector Cells Generated from intracerebral Tumor Bearing Rats.”
  • Journal of immunotherapy 22 (1999):497-500
  • Wood, G.W., Holladay, F.P., Turner, T.H., Wang, Y.Y., Chiga, M. “A Pilot Study of Autologous Cancer Cell Vaccinations and Adoptive Cellular immunotherapy Using Anti-CD3 Stimulated Lymphocytes in Patients with Recurrent Grade Ill/IV Astrocytoma.”
  • Journal of Neuro-Oncology 48 (2000): 113-120
  • Wood, G.W., Holladay, F.P. “Autologous Vaccine and Adoptive Cellular immunotherapy as Treatment for Brain Tumors.”
  • In Brain Tumor immunotherapy Ed. Liau, L., Becker, D.P., Cloughesy, T.F., Binger, D. Human Press: Totowa, NJ (2001): 171-192

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