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Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Research | Volume 3
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November 26-27, 2018 | Dubai, UAE
Spine and Spine Disorders
Addiction Research and Therapy
3rd International Conference on
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Introduction: Traditionally, Traumatic Burst Fractures of the
thoracic spine and lumbar spine are stabilized via an open Spine
surgical approach. However, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
is an adjunct and option to sick patients with multiple injuries.
Methods: Retrospective cases over from 2016-2018-year
period are presented.
Summary/conclusion: Trauma patients with multiple injuries
and fractures including the Spine are critically ill patients.
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery can be a good approach
to reduce blood loss and tissue disruption in these critically
ill patients in unstable spinal fractures. In this talk, I will be
presenting application and my experience of Minimally Invasive
Spine surgery to traumas.
Speaker Biography
Malini Narayanan is a Harvard-trained board-certified neurosurgeon who practices in the
Washington D.C./ Maryland area. She is the recipient of the following awards: 2018 Top
Doctor, 2017 America’s top Surgeon, 2015 Washingtonian top Doc for Spinal Surgery, 2013
Vitals Patient Recognition, and 2007 America’s Top Surgeon. As a practicing neurosurgeon
since 2007, her interests are cervical & lumbar spine disease, trauma, and brain tumours of
adults. In the USA, she is one of approximately 450 board-certified female neurosurgeons
in the country of approximately 6000 board-certified neurosurgeons. She founded and
directs her practice, National Neurosurgery Solutions. Over the last twenty years, she
has published numerous papers, posters and presentations at National Neurosurgery
Conferences. She is an active member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American
Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine
Surgery. Her mission statement is “Patient first through dedication to the practice and
advancement of neurosurgery”. After receiving her undergraduate degree from University
of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass), she further continued her education through the
master’s degree program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Ma) in
Electrical Engineering working on a retinal prosthesis for patients with Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Her experience in Bioengineering spurred her interest in medicine, completing her medical
degree at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine (Chicago, Ill.) in 1998. Her
relentless pursuit of excellence and love for neurosurgery led her to train in neurosurgery at
the HarvardMedical School affiliated Brigham&Women’s and Boston Children’s Hospitals.
There, she earned numerous accolades including the Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Resident Research Award, 2003, where only two women have ever been awarded the
accolade in the history of the award in the last 50 years. Returning to the University of
Chicago, Dr. Narayanan augmented her surgical skills through a fellowship in paediatric
neurosurgery at Comer’s Children’s Hospital (Chicago, Ill.), where she also completed her
neurosurgical residency as chief resident.
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Malini Narayanan
National Neurosurgery Solutions, USA
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery Applied to Traumatic Spine Injury: My experience at
University of Maryland Prince George Hospital, Second busiest trauma center