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Shekar N. Kurpad, MD, PhD

Professor; Senior Associate Dean, Neuroscience; Founding Director, Wisconsin Institute of NeuroScience (WINS)

Location

  • Tosa Health Center
  • 1155 North Mayfair Road
  • Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Specialties

  • Neurosurgery

SpineCare

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
  • Cervical Myelopathy
  • Spinal Cord and Spinal Column Tumors

Treatments and Services

  • Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • Spinal Fusion and Instrumentation
  • Spine Surgery
  • Virtual Visit

Patients Ages Seen

  • Adult
  • Senior

Languages

  • English

Hospital Affiliations

  • Froedtert Hospital – Milwaukee
  • Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital – Menomonee Falls
  • Zablocki VA Medical Center – Milwaukee

Board Certifications

  • Neurological Surgery

Clinic Locations

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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 皇家华人 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 - 皇家华人 - Milwaukee, WI (2001)

Publications

  • (Koch KM, Nencka AS, Kurpad S, Budde MD.) J Neurotrauma. 2024 Sep;41(17-18):2125-2132 PMID: 38251658 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85190264996 01/22/2024

  • (Davies BM, Yang X, Khan DZ, Mowforth OD, Touzet AY, Nouri A, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Tetreault L, Kwon BK, Boerger TF, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Furlan JC, Chen R, Zipser CM, Curt A, Milligan J, Kalsi-Rayn S, Sarewitz E, Sadler I, Blizzard T, Treanor C, Anderson D, Fallah N, Hazenbiller O, Salzman C, Zimmerman Z, Wandycz AM, Widdop S, Reeves M, Raine R, Ryan SK, Malone A, Gharooni A, Wilson JR, Martin AR, Fehlings MG, McNair AGK, Kotter MRN, AO SPINE RECODE-DCM Steering Committee and AO Spine RECODE DCM Community.) PLoS Med. 2024 Aug;21(8):e1004447 PMID: 39173109 PMCID: PMC11379399 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85201785269 08/22/2024

  • (Lee S, Schmit BD, Kurpad SN, Budde MD.) NMR Biomed. 2024 Jun;37(6):e5115 PMID: 38355219 PMCID: PMC11078600 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85185526294 02/15/2024

  • (Fehlings MG, Tetreault LA, Hachem L, Evaniew N, Ganau M, McKenna SL, Neal CJ, Nagoshi N, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Aarabi B, Hofstetter CP, Wengel VT, Nakashima H, Martin AR, Kirshblum S, Rodrigues Pinto R, Marco RAW, Wilson JR, Kahn DE, Newcombe VFJ, Zipser CM, Douglas S, Kurpad SN, Lu Y, Saigal R, Samadani U, Arnold PM, Hawryluk GWJ, Skelly AC, Kwon BK.) Global Spine J. 2024 Mar;14(3_suppl):174S-186S PMID: 38526922 PMCID: PMC10964895 03/25/2024

  • (Davies BM, Khan DZ, Barzangi K, Ali A, Mowforth OD, Nouri A, Harrop JS, Aarabi B, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Kurpad SN, Guest JD, Tetreault L, Kwon BK, Boerger TF, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Furlan JC, Chen R, Zipser CM, Curt A, Milligan J, Kalsi-Rayn S, Sarewitz E, Sadler I, Widdop S, Fehlings MG, Kotter MRN.) Global Spine Journal. March 2024;14(2):503-512 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85133336136 03/01/2024

  • (Hachem LD, Zhu M, Aarabi B, Davies B, DiGiorgio A, Evaniew N, Fehlings MG, Ganau M, Graves D, Guest J, Ha Y, Harrop J, Hofstetter C, Koljonen P, Kurpad S, Marco R, Martin AR, Nagoshi N, Nouri A, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Rodrigues-Pinto R, Wengel Vt, Tetreault L, Kwon B, Wilson JR.) Global Spine Journal. March 2024;14(2):535-545 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85138317004 03/01/2024

  • (Fehlings MG, Moghaddamjou A, Harrop JS, Stanford R, Ball J, Aarabi B, Freeman BJC, Arnold PM, Guest JD, Kurpad SN, Schuster JM, Nassr A, Schmitt KM, Wilson JR, Brodke DS, Ahmad FU, Yee A, Ray WZ, Brooks NP, Wilson J, Chow DS, Toups EG, Kopjar B.) J Neurotrauma. 2023 Sep;40(17-18):1878-1888 PMID: 37279301 PMCID: PMC10460693 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85166327228 06/06/2023

  • (Hussain O, Kaushal M, Agarwal N, Kurpad S, Shabani S.) Life (Basel). 2023 Aug 03;13(8) PMID: 37629537 PMCID: PMC10455833 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85168918079 08/26/2023

  • (Davies B, Brannigan J, Mowforth OD, Khan D, McNair AGK, Tetreault L, Sadler I, Sarewitz E, Aarabi B, Kwon B, Gronlund T, Rahimi-Movaghar V, Zipser CM, Hutchinson PJ, Kurpad S, Harrop JS, Wilson JR, Guest JD, Fehlings MG, Kotter MRN.) BMJ Open. 2023 Jul 18;13(7):e064296 PMID: 37463815 PMCID: PMC10357680 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85165517288 07/19/2023

  • (Fehlings M, Moghaddamjou A, Harrop J, Ball J, Arnold P, Guest J, Kurpad S, Schuster J, Nassr A, Wilson J, Brodke D, Ray W, Kopjar B.) Spine Journal. September 2023;23(9):S36 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85193486652 09/01/2023

  • (Aarabi B, Neal CJ, Hersh DS, Harrop JS, Fehlings MG, Toups EG, Guest JD, Ugiliweneza B, Akhtar-Danesh N, Kurpad SN, Grossman RG.) Neurotrauma Rep. 2023;4(1):375-383 PMID: 37350794 PMCID: PMC10282967 06/23/2023

  • (Koch KM, Nencka AS, Klein A, Wang M, Kurpad S, Vedantam A, Budde M.) Front Neurol. 2023;14:1172833 PMID: 37273696 PMCID: PMC10236479 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85161052826 06/05/2023

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