Joachim Baehring, M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Yale University School of Medicine P.O. Box 208082 New Haven, CT 06520-8082 Joachim.Baehring@yale.edu

Contact Info

Alienne Morrione 203-785-7284
Betsy D'Andrea 203-737-1671
Fax: 203-737-2591

Biosketch

Joachim Baehring is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He is specialized in diagnosis and management of patients with primary tumors of the brain and peripheral nervous system, metastases and neurological complications of cancer. His area of particular expertise is in the use of chemotherapy for malignant gliomas (glioblastoma, astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma) and lymphoma of the brain.

Dr. Baehring is board certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a graduate of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz/Germany. He completed his first fellowship in Molecular Oncology at Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg Germany and a second fellowship in Neuro-Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Baehring is involved in clinical and translational research at Yale University School of Medicine. He is an investigator for the national tumor consortia RTOG (Radiation Therapy Oncology Group) and ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group). Other research interests include the molecular pathogenesis and development of molecular markers for primary CNS lymphoma.

Education

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications

Baehring JM, Betensky RA, Batchelor TT. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor - The Clinical Spectrum and Outcome of Treatment. Neurology, in press (2003)

Johnson RR, Baehring JM, Piepmeier J. Surgery for Third Ventricular Tumors. Neurosurgery Quarterly, in press (2003)

Baehring J, Longtine J, Hochberg FH. New approaches to the diagnosis and management of intravascular lymphoma. J Neuro-Oncology 61(3), 237-248 (2003)

Baehring JM, Damek D, Martin EC, Betensky RA, Hochberg FH. Neurolymphomatosis. Neuro-oncol. 5(2):104-15 (2003)

Del Valle L, Baehring J, Lorenzana C, Giordano A, Khalili K, Croul S. Expression of a Human Polyomavirus Oncoprotein and Tumor Suppressor Proteins in Medulloblastomas. Molecular Pathology 2001, Mol Pathol. 54(5):331-7 (2001)

Wuellenweber, HP, Sutter C, Autschbach F, Willeke F, Kienle P, Benner A, Baehring J, Kadmon M, Herfarth C, v. Knebel Doeberitz M, Gebert J. Evaluation of Bethesda Guidelines in Correlation to Microsatellite Instability. Dis Colon Rectum 44, 1281-89 (2001)

Baehring J, Croul S. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma presenting as an intraventricular mass five years after incidental detection of a mass lesion. J Neurooncol 52(2):157-60 (2001)