Shekar N Kurpad, MD, PhD | Medical College of Wisconsin

Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD

Chair, Professor

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Location

Tosa Health Center
1155 North Mayfair Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Specialties

Neurosurgery

SpineCare

(414) 955-7199

Overview

Diseases and Conditions

Back Pain
Cervical, Lumbar and Thoracic Spine
Disc Herniations
Neck Pain
Spinal Infection
Spinal Degenerative Disease
Spinal Disorders
Spinal Stenosis and Instability
Spinal Fractures
Spinal Cord and Spinal Column Tumors

Treatments and Services

Minimally Invasive Surgery
Spinal Fusion and Instrumentation
Spine Surgery
Virtual Visit

Patients Ages Seen

Adult
Senior

Languages

English

Hospital Affiliations

Froedtert Hospital – Milwaukee
Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital – Menomonee Falls
Zablocki VA Medical Center – Milwaukee

Board Certifications

Neurosurgery

Clinic Locations

Tosa Health Center

1155 North Mayfair Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
(414) 955-5990
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Biography

Dr. Shekar Kurpad specializes in the treatment of a wide variety of spinal and cranial disorders. His expertise lies in the surgery for malignant brain tumors, degenerative disease of the spine, tumors of the spine, spine trauma and skull base tumors, and minimally invasive methods for the treatment of spinal disorders. Dr. Shekar Kurpad has extensive research experience in both brain tumor biology and spinal cord injury and has authored several peer reviewed publications and book chapters in these areas. As the recipient of the prestigious Van Wagenen fellowship from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, he conducted cellular transplantation research for spinal cord injury at the internationally recognized Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He runs a laboratory at the Medical College of Wisconsin with international collaborators for the study of spinal cord injury.

Education and Training

Doctor of Medicine - Bangalore University - Bangalore (1991)
Doctor of Philosophy - Duke University School of Medicine - Durham, NC (1995)
Residency in Neurological Surgery - University Hospitals of Cleveland - Cleveland, OH (1995-2001)
Fellowship in Skull Base Surgery - University of Tennessee - Memphis, TN (1998)
Fellowship in Spinal Surgery - Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI (2001)

Acute MRI predictors of chronic motor function and tissue sparing in rat cervical spinal cord Injury.

(Lee SY, Schmit BD, Kurpad SN, Budde MD.) J Neurotrauma. 2022 Jun 16 PMID: 35708112 06/17/2022
Developing Peri-Operative Rehabilitation in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 6]: An Unexplored Opportunity?

(Boerger TF, Hyngstrom AS, Furlan JC, Kalsi-Ryan S, Curt A, Kwon BK, Kurpad SN, Fehlings MG, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Guest JD, Wilson JR, Davies BM, Kotter MRN, Koljonen PA.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):97S-108S PMID: 35174735 PMCID: PMC8859699 02/18/2022
Improving Awareness Could Transform Outcomes in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 1].

(Davies BM, Mowforth O, Wood H, Karimi Z, Sadler I, Tetreault L, Milligan J, Wilson JRF, Kalsi-Ryan S, Furlan JC, Kawaguchi Y, Ito M, Zipser CM, Boerger TF, Vaccaro AR, Murphy RKJ, Hutton M, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Koljonen PA, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Wilson JR, Kwon BK, Kotter MRN, Fehlings MG.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):28S-38S PMID: 35174734 PMCID: PMC8859708 02/18/2022
Optimizing the Application of Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 10].

(Rodrigues-Pinto R, Montenegro TS, Davies BM, Kato S, Kawaguchi Y, Ito M, Zileli M, Kwon BK, Fehlings MG, Koljonen PA, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Wilson JR, Kotter MRN, Harrop JS.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):147S-158S PMID: 35174733 PMCID: PMC8859702 02/18/2022
James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM]: An Overview of the Methodology Used to Process and Short-List Research Uncertainties.

(Tetreault L, Mowforth O, Khan DZ, Gronlund T, Garwood P, Hazenbiller O, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Wilson JR, Kwon BK, Fehlings MG, Davies BM, Kotter MRN, AO Spine RECODE-DCM Steering Committee and AO Spine RECODE-DCM Consortium.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):19S-27S PMID: 35174731 PMCID: PMC8859709 02/18/2022
Establishing the Socio-Economic Impact of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy Is Fundamental to Improving Outcomes [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 8].

(Davies BM, Phillips R, Clarke D, Furlan JC, Demetriades AK, Milligan J, Witiw CD, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Wilson JR, Kwon BK, Vaccaro AR, Fehlings MG, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kotter MRN.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):122S-129S PMID: 35174730 PMCID: PMC8859704 02/18/2022
A New Framework for Investigating the Biological Basis of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 5]: Mechanical Stress, Vulnerability and Time.

(Davies BM, Mowforth O, Gharooni AA, Tetreault L, Nouri A, Dhillon RS, Bednarik J, Martin AR, Young A, Takahashi H, Boerger TF, Newcombe VF, Zipser CM, Freund P, Koljonen PA, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Wilson JR, Kurpad SN, Fehlings MG, Kwon BK, Harrop JS, Guest JD, Curt A, Kotter MRN.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):78S-96S PMID: 35174728 PMCID: PMC8859710 02/18/2022
Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Development and Natural History [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 2].

(Nouri A, Tessitore E, Molliqaj G, Meling T, Schaller K, Nakashima H, Yukawa Y, Bednarik J, Martin AR, Vajkoczy P, Cheng JS, Kwon BK, Kurpad SN, Fehlings MG, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Guest JD, Davies BM, Kotter MRN, Wilson JR.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):39S-54S PMID: 35174726 PMCID: PMC8859703 02/18/2022
Developing Novel Therapies for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy [AO Spine RECODE-DCM Research Priority Number 7]: Opportunities From Restorative Neurobiology.

(Gharooni AA, Kwon BK, Fehlings MG, Boerger TF, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Koljonen PA, Kurpad SN, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Wilson JR, Davies BM, Kotter MRN, Guest JD.) Global Spine J. 2022 Feb;12(1_suppl):109S-121S PMID: 35174725 PMCID: PMC8859698 02/18/2022
Gathering Global Perspectives to Establish the Research Priorities and Minimum Data Sets for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Sampling Strategy of the First Round Consensus Surveys of AO Spine RECODE-DCM

(Mowforth OD, Khan DZ, Wong MY, Pickering GAE, Dean L, Magee J, Mullarkey L, Hirayama Y, Rihova M, Butler M, Stewart M, Goulson B, Ahmed S, Fricke K, Popa-Nimigean V, Millar Z, Venkatesh A, Willison A, Senthil K, Hazenbiller O, Sarewitz E, Sadler I, Gronlund T, Tetreault L, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Wilson JR, Kwon BK, Fehlings MG, McNair AGK, Davies BM, Kotter MRN.) Global Spine Journal. February 2022;12(1_suppl):8S-18S SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85121360907 02/01/2022
Advanced imaging for spinal cord injury

(Akbar MA, Martin AR, Pfyffer D, Cadotte DW, Kurpad S, Freund P, Fehlings MG.) Neural Repair and Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury and Spine Trauma. 1 January 2022:105-124 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85130661160 01/01/2022
We Choose to Call it a??Degenerative Cervical Myelopathya??: Findings of AO Spine RECODE-DCM, an International and Multi-Stakeholder Partnership to Agree a Standard Unifying Term and Definition for a Disease

(Davies BM, Khan DZ, Barzangi K, Ali A, Mowforth OD, Nouri A, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Tetreault L, Kwon BK, Boerger TF, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Furlan JC, Chen R, Zipser CM, Curt A, Milligan J, Kalsi-Rayn S, Sarewitz E, Sadler I, Widdop S, Fehlings MG, Kotter MRN.) Global Spine Journal. 2022 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85133336136 01/01/2022