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

Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD

Sanford J. Larson Professor and Chairman

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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

Patients Ages Seen

Adult
Senior

Languages

English

Hospital Affiliations

Froedtert Hospital – Milwaukee
Community Memorial 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)

Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Review of Animal and Human Studies.

(Kaushal M, Shabani S, Budde M, Kurpad S.) J Neurotrauma. 2019 Aug 01;36(15):2279-2286.
AOSpine Global Survey: International Trends in Utilization of Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Computed Tomography for Spinal Trauma and Spinal Cord Injury across AO Regions.

(Shabani S, Kaushal M, Soliman HM, Nguyen HS, Aarabi B, Fehlings MG, Kotter M, Kwon BK, Harrop J, Kurpad SN.) J Neurotrauma. 2019 Jun 21.
Comparison between quantitative measurements of diffusion tensor imaging and T2 signal intensity in a large series of cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients for assessment of disease severity and prognostication of recovery.

(Shabani S, Kaushal M, Budde M, Schmit B, Wang MC, Kurpad S.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2019 Jun 07:1-7.
The challenge of recruitment for neurotherapeutic clinical trials in spinal cord injury.

(Blight AR, Hsieh J, Curt A, Fawcett JW, Guest JD, Kleitman N, Kurpad SN, Kwon BK, Lammertse DP, Weidner N, Steeves JD.) Spinal Cord. 2019 May;57(5):348-359.
Great Hospitals in North America: The Medical College of Wisconsin Neurological Surgery.

(Montoure A, Janich K, Cusick JF, Kurpad SN, Wang MC.) World Neurosurg. 2019 05;125:55-66.
Longitudinal 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. 2019 May 01;36(9):1389-1398.
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.
Correlation of magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging parameters with American Spinal Injury Association score for prognostication and long-term outcomes.

(Shabani S, Kaushal M, Budde M, Kurpad SN.) Neurosurg Focus. 2019 Mar 01;46(3):E2.
Introduction. Acute spinal cord injury.

(Dhall SS, Kurpad SN, Hurlbert RJ, Mummaneni PV.) Neurosurg Focus. 2019 Mar 01;46(3):E1.
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 07;84(1):37-50.
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.