Jason Blatt

Jason Blatt, MD, FAANS, FAAP

Clinical Associate Professor Of Neurosurgery & Pediatrics

Department: MD-NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY
Business Phone: (352) 273-9000

About Jason Blatt

Jason E. Blatt, MD, FAANS, FAAP is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he was a National Merit Scholar and graduated magna cum laude. While in Nashville his honors included election to Alpha Epsilon Delta, Mortar Board, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi, and an Alpha Phi Omega Distinguished Service Key. He then completed his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and received the Harold C. Pillsbury Student Research Award.

After receiving his MD, he remained at UNC to complete his internship and residency, both in Neurological Surgery. He received numerous awards during his training, including both the Hydrocephalus Association Award and the Resident Traveling Fellowship, both from the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery. He was elected to UNC’s Academy of Educators, an honor previously reserved for faculty members, and was named a Socioeconomic Fellow of the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies. Finally, he relocated to Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh where he completed a prestigious subspecialty fellowship in Pediatric Neurosurgery. He joined the University of Florida Department of Neurosurgery in 2017.

Dr. Blatt’s clinical interests include all aspects of pediatric neurosurgery, with special focus on brain tumors (including complex and re-do surgery), epilepsy, minimally-invasive and transnasal (through-the-nose) brain surgery, and congenital spinal disorders. He is double Board-Certified in both Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery by the ABNS and ABPNS, respectively, and has been named a Fellow of both the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American Academy of Pediatrics. His research interests include not only those aspects of pediatric neurosurgery listed above, but also medical and surgical education and surgical simulation. He has won multiple teaching awards from the Department of Neurosurgery, the College of Medicine, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and is the only neurosurgeon elected to the Society of Teaching Scholars. He collaborates with computer brain modeling researchers at Old Dominion University and UF, and with the large Brain Tumor Immunotherapy group at UF McKnight Brain Institute, where he is a faculty member of the Preston A. Wells Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy. He is a board member and past President of the Florida Neurosurgical Society, and has held numerous appointed positions in the Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery and other national neurosurgical organizations.

Dr. Blatt is passionate about the care and wellbeing of children, and prides himself on the ability to make complex neurosurgical decisions easy to understand for patients and their parents. Caring for an ill child is never easy, but Dr. Blatt and his team strive to alleviate worry and suffering, and provide world-class care for kids of all ages. The UF Pediatric Neurosurgery Team recognizes that children with brain and spine disorders aren’t just “small adults,” and need to be treated by expert subspecialists with extensive experience. Shands Children’s Hospital accepts all pediatric neurosurgery referrals for assessments or second opinions.

Accomplishments

Inducted into the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
2024 · ASPN
Inducted into the Society of Teaching Scholars
2023 · University of Florida
Visiting Professor
2023 · Department of Neurosurgery, University of Texas at Austin
Fellow
2022 · American Academy of Pediatrics
Educator of the Year
2021 · Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Fellow
2021 · American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Exemplary Teacher Award
2020 · University of Florida College of Medicine
Faculty Teacher of the Year
2020 · University of Florida Department of Neurosurgery
Elizabeth Bullitt Achievement Award
2015 · University of North Carolina Department of Neurosurgery
Pediatric Neurosurgery Traveling Fellowship
2015 · AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery
Socioeconomic Fellow
2015 · Council of State Neurosurgical Societies
Elizabeth Bullitt Achievement Award
2014 · University of North Carolina Department of Neurosurgery
Hydrocephalus Association Award
2014 · AANS/CNS Joint Section on Pediatric Neurosurgery
Inducted into the UNC Academy of Educators
2014 · University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Alpha Omega Alpha
2009 · AOA Honor Medical Society
Harold C. Pillsbury Research Award
2008 · University of North Carolina School of Medicine

Teaching Profile

Courses Taught
2018
MDC7600 Surgery Clerkship
2018
MDT7650 Elect Top/Neurol Surg
2018
MDT7090 Elective Topics

Board Certifications

  • Neurological Surgery
    The Americal Board of Neurological Surgery
  • Pediatric Neurological Surgery
    The American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery

Clinical Profile

Specialties
  • Neurosurgery
Subspecialties
  • Epilepsy Surgery
  • Pediatric Neurosurgery
  • Rhinology, Sinus and Skull Base Surgery
Areas of Interest
  • Arachnoid cyst
  • Brain tumor – children
  • Chiari malformations
  • Craniosynostosis
  • Endoscopic skull base surgery
  • Epilepsy
  • Epilepsy in children
  • Hydrocephalus
  • Meningioma
  • Metastatic Brain Tumor
  • Myelomeningocele
  • Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors
  • Pediatric pituitary and skull base services
  • Positional Plagiocephaly
  • Spasticity
  • Spina Bifida
  • Spinal Tumor
  • Syringomyelia
  • Transsphenoidal surgery

Publications

Academic Articles
2024
A rare case of pediatric distal middle cerebral artery aneurysm.
SAGE open medical case reports. 12 [DOI] 10.1177/2050313X241288427. [PMID] 39371392.
2024
After the storm: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation after hemicraniectomy in a child.
Perfusion. 39(3):624-626 [DOI] 10.1177/02676591221151037. [PMID] 36600179.
2024
Fiducial-marked laminectomy window for intrathecal medication administration after spinal fusion: illustrative case.
Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons. 8(24) [DOI] 10.3171/CASE24411. [PMID] 39652856.
2024
Neurological Monitoring and Management for Adult Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients: Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Consensus Guidelines.
ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs : 1992). 70(12):e169-e181 [DOI] 10.1097/MAT.0000000000002312. [PMID] 39620302.
2024
Olfactory Neuroblastoma With Divergent Differentiation: Contemporary Management of Unusual Pathology and Literature Review
Ear, Nose & Throat Journal. [DOI] 10.1177/01455613241299684.
2024
Significant Underreporting of Preoperative Hyposmia in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery: Discrepancies Between Subjective and Objective Measurements.
Journal of neurological surgery. Part B, Skull base. 85(6):622-627 [DOI] 10.1055/s-0043-1775851. [PMID] 39483166.
2023
Prognostic and Diagnostic Utility of Serum Biomarkers in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury.
Journal of neurotrauma. 41(1-2):106-122 [DOI] 10.1089/neu.2023.0039. [PMID] 37646421.
2022
The current landscape of immunotherapy for pediatric brain tumors.
Nature cancer. 3(1):11-24 [DOI] 10.1038/s43018-021-00319-0. [PMID] 35121998.
2021
Upfront Adjuvant Immunotherapy of Replication Repair–Deficient Pediatric Glioblastoma With Chemoradiation-Sparing Approach
JCO Precision Oncology. (5):1426-1431 [DOI] 10.1200/po.21.00153.
2020
In Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding “Tactile Skill-Based Neurosurgical Simulators Are Effective and Inexpensive”.
World neurosurgery. 143 [DOI] 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.106. [PMID] 33167127.
2020
Robotically Steered Needles: A Survey of Neurosurgical Applications and Technical Innovations.
Robotic surgery (Auckland). 7:1-23 [DOI] 10.2147/RSRR.S224446. [PMID] 32258180.
2020
Tactile Skill-Based Neurosurgical Simulators Are Effective and Inexpensive.
World neurosurgery. 137:319-326 [DOI] 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.02.017. [PMID] 32059973.
2019
Medial axis segmentation of cranial nerves using shape statistics-aware discrete deformable models.
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery. 14(11):1955-1967 [DOI] 10.1007/s11548-019-02014-z. [PMID] 31236805.
2019
Towards a “Surgical GPS”: Combining Surgical Ontologies with Physician-Designated Anatomical Landmarks
VipIMAGE 2019. 553-567 [DOI] 10.1007/978-3-030-32040-9_56.
2018
Isolated Traumatic Diastasis of the Clival Synchondroses without Clival Fracture.
Pediatric neurosurgery. 53(4):270-274 [DOI] 10.1159/000488058. [PMID] 29672322.
2018
Predictors of mortality in children with myelomeningocele and symptomatic Chiari type II malformation.
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics. 21(6):587-596 [DOI] 10.3171/2018.1.PEDS17496. [PMID] 29570035.
2017
MRI-Based Medial Axis Extraction and Boundary Segmentation of Cranial Nerves Through Discrete Deformable 3D Contour and Surface Models.
IEEE transactions on medical imaging. 36(8):1711-1721 [DOI] 10.1109/TMI.2017.2693182. [PMID] 28422682.
2016
Patient-Specific Cranial Nerve Identification Using a Discrete Deformable Contour Model for Skull Base Neurosurgery Planning and Simulation
Clinical Image-Based Procedures. Translational Research in Medical Imaging. 36-44 [DOI] 10.1007/978-3-319-31808-0_5.
2016
Single-Unit Elevation of the Scalp, Skull, and Dura: A Modification of the Classic Osteoplastic Flap
Journal of Neurological Disorders. 4(3) [DOI] 10.4172/2329-6895.1000268.

Education

Fellowship – Pediatric Neurosurgery
2016-2017 · Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Residency – Neurosurgery
2010-2016 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Medical Degree
2006-2010 · University of North Carolina

Contact Details

Phones:
Business:
(352) 273-9000
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO BOX 100265
DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY
GAINESVILLE FL 326100265
Business Street:
1329 SW 16TH ST STE 3150
GAINESVILLE FL 32608