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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.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

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.

More about Praveen V. Mummaneni

Additional Languages

Spanish
Telugu

Education

Boston University School of Medicine 1995

Residencies

UC Irvine Medical Center, 1997
UCSF Medical Center, Neurosurgery 2001

Fellowships

Emory University Hospital, 2002

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Upadhyaya CD, Wu JC, Trost G, Haid RW, Traynelis VC, Tay B, Coric D, Mummaneni PV. Analysis of the three United States Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption cervical arthroplasty trials. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Mar; 16(3):216-28.
  2. Amin BY, Mummaneni PV. Cervical arthroplasty. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Mar; 16(3):229; discussion 230.
  3. Amin BY, Mummaneni PV. Editorial: neuromonitoring. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Feb; 16(2):105-6.
  4. Upadhyaya CD, Wu JC, Chin CT, Balamurali G, Mummaneni PV. Avoidance of wrong-level thoracic spine surgery: intraoperative localization with preoperative percutaneous fiducial screw placement. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Mar; 16(3):280-4.
  5. Gandhoke G, Wu JC, Rowland NC, Meyer SA, Gupta C, Mummaneni PV. Anterior corpectomy versus posterior laminoplasty: is the risk of postoperative C-5 palsy different? Neurosurg Focus. 2011 Oct; 31(4):E12.
  6. Wu JC, Mummaneni PV, El-Sayed IH. Diseases of the odontoid and craniovertebral junction with management by endoscopic approaches. Otolaryngol Clin North Am. 2011 Oct; 44(5):1029-42.
  7. El-Sayed IH, Wu JC, Dhillon N, Ames CP, Mummaneni P. The importance of platybasia and the palatine line in patient selection for endonasal surgery of the craniocervical junction: a radiographic study of 12 patients. World Neurosurg. 2011 Jul-Aug; 76(1-2):183-8; discussion 74-8.
  8. Meyer SA, Mummaneni PV. Axial interbody fusion. J Neurosurg Spine. 2011 Sep; 15(3):271; discussion 271-2.
  9. Meyer SA, Mummaneni PV. Cost-effectiveness of transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion. J Neurosurg Spine. 2011 Aug; 15(2):136-7; discussion 137.
  10. Highsmith JM, Dhall SS, Haid RW, Rodts GE, Mummaneni PV. Treatment of cervical stenotic myelopathy: a cost and outcome comparison of laminoplasty versus laminectomy and lateral mass fusion. J Neurosurg Spine. 2011 May; 14(5):619-25.
  11. Lu DC, Chou D, Mummaneni PV. A comparison of mini-open and open approaches for resection of thoracolumbar intradural spinal tumors. J Neurosurg Spine. 2011 Jun; 14(6):758-64.
  12. Meyer SA, Wu JC, Mummaneni PV. Laminoplasty outcomes: is there a difference between patients with degenerative stenosis and those with ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament? Neurosurg Focus. 2011 Mar; 30(3):E9.
  13. Mummaneni PV, Meyer SA, Wu JC. Biological approaches to spinal instrumentation and fusion in spinal deformity surgery. Clin Neurosurg. 2011; 58:110-6.
  14. Wu JC, Mummaneni PV. Lumbar disc herniation and surgical management. World Neurosurg. 2010 Dec; 74(6):572-3.
  15. Wang MY, Pineiro G, Mummaneni PV. Stimulus-evoked electromyography testing of percutaneous pedicle screws for the detection of pedicle breaches: a clinical study of 409 screws in 93 patients. J Neurosurg Spine. 2010 Nov; 13(5):600-5.
  16. Lu DC, Zador Z, Mummaneni PV, Lawton MT. Rotational vertebral artery occlusion-series of 9 cases. Neurosurgery. 2010 Oct; 67(4):1066-72; discussion 1072.
  17. Burkus JK, Haid RW, Traynelis VC, Mummaneni PV. Long-term clinical and radiographic outcomes of cervical disc replacement with the Prestige disc: results from a prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. J Neurosurg Spine. 2010 Sep; 13(3):308-18.
  18. Mummaneni PV, Mertol T, Tansu M, Al-Anazi A, Abdulrahman AA. Idiopathic subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery. 2010 Jul; 67(1):221.
  19. Potts MB, Wu JC, Gupta N, Mummaneni PV. Minimally invasive tethered cord release in adults: a comparison of open and mini-open approaches. Neurosurg Focus. 2010 Jul; 29(1):E7.
  20. Lu DC, Dhall SS, Mummaneni PV. The transspinous mini-open approach for resection of intradural spinal neoplasms: cadaveric feasibility study and report of 3 clinical cases. World Neurosurg. 2010 Jul; 74(1):195-9.

Publications are derived from MEDLINE/PubMed and provided by UCSF Profiles, a service of the Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at UCSF. Researchers can make corrections and additions by logging on to UCSF Profiles.