Marcelo D. Vilela, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor

Dr. Vilela is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine and an Attending Neurosurgeon at Harborview Medical Center. He received his medical training in Brazil from the Federal University of Minas Gerais from 1989-1995, where he was in the top four students in his class.

After completing his residency in Neurosurgery at the Hospital Evangelico de Belo Horizonte June, 2000, he came to the University of Washington in Seattle from July 2000 through June of 2003, completing fellowships in General and Trauma Neurosurgery, Complex Spinal Surgery and Instrumentation, Skull Base Surgery, and Cerebrovascular Surgery.

The following two years he spent in Brazil as a staff neurosurgeon at the Mater Dei Hospital in Belo Horizonte (from July 2003 through December 2005), and now has returned to Seattle to join our Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington.

Patient Care
Dr. Vilela's clinical practice focuses primarily on complex spinal surgery, head trauma surgery and general neurosurgery.

Education and Training
1977-1988 Pre–Medical Education: Zilah Frota Institute, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

1989-1995 Medical Education: Federal University of Minas Gerais -

• CNPq Scholarship,1992-1993, at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Federal University of Minas Gerais.
  
• Basic Science Research at the Laboratory of Arterial Hypertension, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Federal University of Minas Gerais, from 1991 to 1993
  Joao XXIII Hospital Scholarship , 1993, Division of Traumatic and Surgical Emergencies.
  
• Externship in Neurological Surgery, 1993-1995, Joao XXIII Hospital
  
• Internships: Neurology, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Community Health Medicine, Obstetrics-Gynecology, General Surgery
  Medicine Doctor Degree obtained in July, 1995, Faculty of Medicine – Federal University of Minas Gerais. Top four in a class of 167 medical students.

Residency:
1996-2000 Neurological Surgery, Hospital Evangelico de Belo Horizonte and Benjamin Guimaraes Foundation, accredited by the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery and World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.

Fellowships:
July 2000-June 2003: Neurological Surgery, University of Washington.

• Jul 2000-Jun 2001: General and Trauma Neurosurgery
  
• Jul 2001-Dec 2001: Complex Spinal Surgery and Instrumentation
  
• Jan 2002-Jun 2002: Skull Base Surgery
  
• Jul 2002-Dec 2002: Cerebrovascular Surgery
  
• Jan 2003-Jun 2003: Skull Base Surgery

Selected Publications
Manuscripts:

1. Costa LB Jr, Vilela MD, Lemos S. Third ventricle meningioma in a child: case report]Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2000 Sep;58(3B):931-4. Portuguese. PubMed abstract
   
   
2. Britz GW, Vilela MD, Futran N, Rostomily R. Cosmetic concerns in posterior fossa skull base surgery. Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2002 Oct;13(4):475-89. PubMed abstract
   
   
3. Hevner R, Vilela M, Rostomily R, Cohrs R, Mahalingam R, Wellish M, Gilden DH. An unusual cause of trigeminal-distribution pain and tumour.
   Lancet Neurol. 2003 Sep;2(9):567-71. PubMed abstract
   
   
4. Costa Jr LB, Morais JV, Andrade A, Vilela MD, Pontes RP, Braga BP. Surgical treatment of intracranial aneurysms: six-year experience in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2004 Jun;62(2A):245-9. PubMed abstract
   
   
5. Newell DW, Vilela MD. Superficial temporal artery to middle cerebral artery bypass.Neurosurgery. 2004 Jun;54(6):1441-8; discussion 1448-9. PubMed abstract
   
   
6. Vilela MD, Rostomily RC. Temporomandibular joint-preserving preauricular subtemporal-infratemporal fossa approach: surgical technique and clinical application.Neurosurgery. 2004 Jul;55(1):143-53; discussion 153-4. PubMed abstract
   
   
7. Vilela MD, Goodkin R, Lundin DA, Newell DW. Rotational vertebrobasilar ischemia: hemodynamic assessment and surgical treatment. Neurosurgery. 2005 Jan;56(1):36-43; discussion 43-5 PubMed abstract


8. Braga BP, da Costa LB, Lemos S, Vilela MD: Brainstem cavernous malformations in infants: Report of two cases ad literature review. J Neurosurgery. 2006 Jun;104:429-33. PubMed abstract

1. Traumatic Intracranial Hematomas, in Principles of Neurosurgery, by Setti S Rengachary MD and Richard G Ellenbogen, MD, editors, 2nd edition
   
   
2. Cerebellopontine angle tumors, in Principles of Neurosurgery, by Setti S Rengachary MD and Richard G Ellenbogen, MD, editors, 2nd edition