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

Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD

Sanford J. Larson Professor and Chair

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Location

SpineCare - 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 Degenerative Disease
Spinal Disorders
Spinal Stenosis and Instability
Spinal Tumors, Fractures, and Infections

Treatments and Services

Minimally Invasive Surgery
Spinal Fusion and Instrumentation
Spine Surgery

Patients Ages Seen

Adult
Senior

Languages

English

Hospital Affiliations

Froedtert Hospital – Milwaukee
St. Joseph's Hospital - West Bend – West Bend
Community Memorial Hospital – Menomonee Falls
Zablocki VA Medical Center – Milwaukee

Board Certifications

Neurosurgery

Clinic Locations

SpineCare - Tosa Health Center

1155 North Mayfair Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226
(414) 955-7199
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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)
Fellowship in Spinal Surgery - Medical College of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI (2001)
Residency in Neurological Surgery - University Hospitals of Cleveland - Cleveland, OH (1995-2001)
Fellowship in Skull Base Surgery - University of Tennessee - Memphis, TN (1998)

Clinical Outcomes from a Multi-Center Study of Human Neural Stem Cell Transplantation in Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury.

(Levi AD, Anderson KD, Okonkwo DO, Park P, Bryce TN, Kurpad SN, Aarabi B, Hsieh J, Gant K.) J Neurotrauma. 2019 Mar 19;36(6):891-902.
Great Hospitals in North America: The Medical College of Wisconsin Neurological Surgery.

(Montoure A, Janich K, Cusick J, Kurpad SN, Wang MC.) World Neurosurg. 2019 Jan 17.
Longitudinal In Vivo Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging Remote from the Lesion Site in Rat Spinal Cord Injury.

(Motovylyak A, Skinner NP, Schmit BD, Wilkins N, Kurpad SN, Budde MD.) J Neurotrauma. 2018 Nov 19.
Diffusion Tensor Imaging in a Large Longitudinal Series of Patients With Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Correlated With Long-Term Functional Outcome.

(Rao A, Soliman H, Kaushal M, Motovylyak O, Vedantam A, Budde MD, Schmit B, Wang M, Kurpad SN.) Neurosurgery. 2018 10 01;83(4):753-760.
Filter-probe diffusion imaging improves spinal cord injury outcome prediction.

(Skinner NP, Lee SY, Kurpad SN, Schmit BD, Muftuler LT, Budde MD.) Ann Neurol. 2018 Jul;84(1):37-50.
Emerging Safety of Intramedullary Transplantation of Human Neural Stem Cells in Chronic Cervical and Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury.

(Levi AD, Okonkwo DO, Park P, Jenkins AL 3rd, Kurpad SN, Parr AM, Ganju A, Aarabi B, Kim D, Casha S, Fehlings MG, Harrop JS, Anderson KD, Gage A, Hsieh J, Huhn S, Curt A, Guzman R.) Neurosurgery. 2018 Apr 01;82(4):562-575.
Imaging Evaluation of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Current State of the Art and Future Directions.

(Martin AR, Tadokoro N, Tetreault L, Arocho-Quinones EV, Budde MD, Kurpad SN, Fehlings MG.) Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2018 Jan;29(1):33-45.
Evaluation of Whole-Brain Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Spinal Cord Injury: A Large-Scale Network Analysis Using Network-Based Statistic.

(Kaushal M, Oni-Orisan A, Chen G, Li W, Leschke J, Ward BD, Kalinosky B, Budde MD, Schmit BD, Li SJ, Muqeet V, Kurpad SN.) J Neurotrauma. 2017 03 15;34(6):1278-1282.
Spinal Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Evaluation of Preoperative and Postoperative Severity of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Systematic Review of Literature.

(Rindler RS, Chokshi FH, Malcolm JG, Eshraghi SR, Mossa-Basha M, Chu JK, Kurpad SN, Ahmad FU.) World Neurosurg. 2017 Mar;99:150-158.
Optimizing Filter-Probe Diffusion Weighting in the Rat Spinal Cord for Human Translation.

(Budde MD, Skinner NP, Muftuler LT, Schmit BD, Kurpad SN.) Front Neurosci. 2017;11:706.
Acute death of astrocytes in blast-exposed rat organotypic hippocampal slice cultures.

(Miller AP, Shah AS, Aperi BV, Kurpad SN, Stemper BD, Glavaski-Joksimovic A.) PLoS One. 2017;12(3):e0173167.
177 Largest Series of Mild-Moderate Motor Vehicle Accident-Associated Thoracolumbar Compression Fractures: Prognosis and Outcome.

(Soliman HM, Nguyen H, Pintar FA, Yoganandan N, Kurpad SN, Maiman DJ.) Neurosurgery. 2016 Aug 01;63(CN_suppl_1):170-171.