Praveen V. Mummaneni, M.D.

Neurosurgeon

Dr. Praveen Mummaneni is co-director of the UCSF Spine Center and UCSF Spine Fellowship Program and director of the UCSF Minimally Invasive Spine Program, where he leads a minimally invasive spine initiative focusing on outpatient and short stay spinal surgery. He specializes in complex cervical spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, degenerative spine disease, spinal trauma and adult spinal deformity, including kyphosis and scoliosis.

Mummaneni earned a medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. He completed a residency in neurological surgery at UCSF and complex spine fellowship at Emory University. He was the honored guest of the Japanese Congress of Neurological Surgeons in 2006 and is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is an associate professor of neurosurgery at UCSF.

Neurosurgery Clinic
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-7500
Fax: (415) 353-2939

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Spine Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Third Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143-0332
Phone: (866) 81-SPINE or Neuro-spine Fax: (415) 353-2339
Ortho-spine Fax: (415) 353-4047

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

• Cyberknife
• Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF)

• Kyphosis
• Scoliosis

• Spine Trauma
• Spondylolisthesis