Jonathan Alan Borden (born October 31, 1962) is an American neurosurgeon who developed the Borden Classification of

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s. He has been involved in internet based telemedicine applications and is an editor of the

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specification for XML Namespaces.

Education

Borden was born on October 31, 1962, in

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, However, he was raised in

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. Borden graduated from

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, with a

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Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions, and its disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, ...

and

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School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in

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Research

His scientific work has involved the application of computer science to neurobiology. Borden's earliest work used artificial intelligence techniques to model neurochemical networks in the brain. He used computer graphics techniques to analyze the results of molecular biological experiments. Working in the laboratory of Elias Manuelidis and Laura Manuelidis at

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, he authored papers on the organization of interphase chromosomes in human brain tissue. At Tufts-New England Medical Center he developed the Borden Classification of

s. This classification has come into common usage after its clinical applicability has been verified by the University of Toronto Brain AVM Group Dr. Borden was an Assistant Professor of

in Boston from 1995 to 2002. He was the director of the

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Gamma Knife Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue (biology), tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with a blade. Like other forms of radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy), ...

Center. He and

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are co-editors of the

specification. He authored the XMTP specification, an early method to represent SMTP/RFC 811 email in XML. He is an advisor for the Science Directorate of

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, has been an invited expert for the

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Web Ontology Working Group and has been actively involved in the development and standardization of

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based electronic medical records. More recently Dr. Borden has been involved in research studies aimed at repairing degenerated intervertebral discs using growth factors, stem cells and minimally invasive surgical techniques.

References

External links

Jonathan Borden's CV
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