Qualifications

Education

Medical School: Southern Illinois Univ. School of Medicine, Springfield IL

Residency: Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN

Fellowship: Pediatric Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

Board Certification: American Board of Neurological Surgery

Areas of Interest: Pediatric Neurosurgery

Postgraduate Training

Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Toronto, Canada, January 1985-July 1985

Internship & Residency, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, Neurological Surgery, June 1979-July 1985

Additional Experience

Skull Base Surgery with Takanori Fukushima, M.D., D.MSc, Hitachi-Kagoshima-Nagasaki, Japan, November-December 1994

Cyberknife Training and Protocol Development

Board Certification

Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgeons

Academic Appointments

Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Illinois, Peoria, IL, 1986-1995

Faculty Member, Brain Attack Coalition of the American Heart Association November 1996

American Heart Association Stroke Council Fellowship, October 1998 Clinical Instructor, Dept of Surgery, University of Illinois School of Medicine, Champaign, IL, October 2001

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dept. of Surgery, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, July 2002

Society & Board Memberships

Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Co-Founder, Co-Director
American Medical Association
Illinois State Medical Society
McLean County Medical Society
Congress of Neurosurgery
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
McLean Area Medical Association
Midwest Affiliate Board of Directors, American Heart Association
American Board of Neurosurgery
Stroke Council Fellowship, American Heart Association
Brain Attack Coalition Faculty, American Association of Neurological Surgeons
North American Spine Society
Illinois Neurosurgical Society, President, 2004-2006
Illinois Neurosurgical Society, Vice President, 2001-2003
Illinois Neurosurgical Society, Secretary-Treasurer, 2000-2001
Joint Section Cerebral Vascular Surgery, AANS
OSF St. Joseph Executive Committee, President, 2000-2001
OSF St. Joseph Executive Committee, Past President, 2001-2002
OSF St. Joseph Medical Staff, Credentials Committee
BroMenn Regional Medical Ctr, Grad Medical Education Committee, 2002-2003
Cyberknife Society
Diplomat to the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies

Directorship

Director, Continuing Medical Education Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation Bloomington, Illinois

Posters

Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Co-Founder, Co-Director
Manness WK, Roth TC, Kattner KA, Stroink AR. Atypical Meningioma or Meningioma Mimic? 38th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Neuroradiology, April 2000, Atlanta, GA (Manness).
Kattner KA, Roth TC, McKenna T, Stroink AR, Fukushima T. Evaluation of Regional Cortical Blood Flow During Temporary Arterial Occlusion. Joint Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurologic Surgeons, The Congress of Neurologic Surgeons, and the American Society of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology, February 2000, Hawaii (Kattner).
Stroink AR, Kattner KA, Amaral MA, Dornan WA. Anterior Single Level Cervical Plating versus Conventional Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Retrospective Analysis on Return to Previous Level of Function. 1999 Congress of Neurological Surgeons, November 1999, Boston MA (Stroink)
Kattner KA, McKenna T, Stroink AR, Roth TC, Fukushima T. Evaluation of Regional Cortical Blood Flow During Temporary Arterial Occlusion Using Thermal Diffusion Monitoring. 58th Annual Japanese Neurosurgical Society, October 1999, Tokyo, Japan (Kattner).
Kattner KA, Fukushima T, Stroink AR, Gupta KL, Dornan WA. Evaluation of Optic Pathway Meningiomas. 52nd Annual Japanese Neurosurgical Society Meeting,October 1997, Osaka, Japan (Kattner).
Beringer W, Ali M, Kattner KA, Stroink AR, Utility of CT and MR Image Fusion in Cyberknife Radiosurgery Planning, 2005 Annual Cyberknife Users' Meeting, Half Moon Bay, California (Beringer)

Course Director

Update On Cranial Base and Complex Aneurysm Surgery. February 1996, Normal IL. CME provided by Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh PA
Endovascular Treatment of Neurological Disease. November 1996, Normal IL. CME provided by Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh PA
Management of Central Nervous System Malignancy. Nov. 1997, Normal IL. CME provided by Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Bloomington, IL
Brain Attack. March 1999, Bloomington, IL CME provided by Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Bloomington, IL
New Frontiers in Reconstructive Spine Surgery. May 2001, Bloomington, IL CME provided by Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Bloomington, IL
Diagnosis and Treatment of Cervical Root and Peripheral Nerve Lesions of the Upper Extremity: Carpal and Cubital Tunnel Syndromes. Perspectives in Neuroscience, October, 2001 CME provided by Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Bloomington, IL

Invited Speaker

AANS/CNS Spine Section 2001 Annual Meeting, Cervical Lordosis: Single Level Anterior Plating vs. Non-Plating Fusion Techniques. Phoenix, AZ.
Anterior Cervical Fixation: Past and Future Considerations. 2000 Annual Clinical Assembly of Osteopathic Specialists. September 2000, Boston, MA.
Clinical Evaluation of Low Back Pain and Differential Diagnosis. Contemporary Management of Low Back Pain. September 1998, Bloomington, IL.
Strategies to Improve Awareness. Greater Atlanta Stroke Coalition. May 1998, Atlanta, GA. Peri-Operative Management of Cervical Spine Fractures. June 1998, Central Illinois Neuroscience Foundation, Bloomington, IL.
Clinical Evaluation of Low Back Pain and Differential Diagnoses. Contemporary Management of Low Back Pain. September 1998, Bloomington, IL.
AANS/2004 Annual Meeting, Off-Campus Cyberknife Planning Using CT & MR Imaging. Orlando, FL
AANS/2005 Annual Meeting, Acoustic Schwannoma Management Rationale for Fractionated Cyberknife Radiosurgery, New Orleans, LA