Assistant Professor of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine

Neurosurgery

Shivanand is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. He received awards:"CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Doctor Shivanand P. Lad, MD has written publications. He has 81 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Implantable Neurostimulation for Headache Disorders: Effect on Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures.' He accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• Implantable Neurostimulation for Headache Disorders: Effect on Healthcare Utilization and Expenditures.
• Comparative Analysis of Inpatient and Outpatient Interspinous Process Device Placement for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis.
• Impact of Increasing Age on Outcomes of Spinal Fusion in Adult Scoliosis.
• Comparison of Bilateral vs. Staged Unilateral Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson's Disease in Patients Under 70 Years of Age.
• Deep Brain stimulation for Parkinson disease in elderly individuals-reply.
• Effect of Insurance and Racial Disparities on Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Impact of advancing age on post-operative complications of deep Brain stimulation surgery for essential tremor.
• Differences in the outcomes of anterior versus posterior interbody fusion surgery of the lumbar Spine: A propensity score-controlled cohort analysis of 10,941 patients.
• Outcomes after Cervical laminectomy with instrumented fusion versus expansile laminoplasty: A propensity matched study of 3185 patients.
• Effect of Advancing Age on Outcomes of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson Disease.
• Worse outcomes for patients undergoing Brain tumor and cerebrovascular procedures following the ACGME resident duty-hour restrictions.
• A National Survey of Spinal Cord Stimulation Trial-to-Permanent Conversion Rates.
• Preoperative Serum Albumin Level as a Predictor of Postoperative Complication after Spine Fusion.
• Spinal Surgery: Variations in Healthcare Costs and Implications for Episode-Based Bundled Payments.
• Utilization of Spinal Cord Stimulation in Patients with Failed Back Surgery Syndrome.
• Surgery for Spinal Stenosis: Long-Term Reoperation Rates, Healthcare Cost, and Impact of Instrumentation.
• Radiologic Evidence of Spontaneous Spinal Arthrodesis in Patients With Lower Lumbar Spondylolisthesis.
• Effectiveness of radiotherapy for elderly patients with anaplastic Gliomas.
• Complications, reoperation rates, and health-care cost following surgical treatment of lumbar Spondylolisthesis.
• Interspinous device versus laminectomy for lumbar Spinal stenosis: a comparative effectiveness study.
• Experience With Intrawound Vancomycin Powder for Spinal Deformity Surgery.
• Cancer after spinal fusion: the role of bone morphogenetic protein.
• Racial disparities in outcomes of Spinal surgery for lumbar stenosis.
• Outcomes of Percutaneous and Paddle Lead Implantation for Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Comparative Analysis of Complications, Reoperation Rates, and Health-Care Costs.
• Insurance Disparities in the Outcomes of Spinal Cord Stimulation Surgery.
• Trend and Geographic Analysis for Traumatic Brain Injury Mortality and Cost Based on MarketScan Database.
• Long-term economic impact of coiling vs clipping for unruptured intracranial Aneurysms.
• Timing of tracheostomy after anterior Cervical spine fixation.
• Thickness of subcutaneous fat as a risk factor for infection in Cervical spine fusion surgery.
• Disparities in the Outcomes of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Surgery Based on Insurance Status.
• Urinary tract infections in meningioma patients: analysis of risk factors and outcomes.
• Racial disparities in Medicaid patients after Brain tumor surgery.
• Racial Disparities in Outcomes after Spinal Cord Injury.
• Proteomic biomarker discovery in cerebrospinal fluid for Cerebral vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• A Population Based Study of Inpatient Outcomes after Operative Management of Non-traumatic IntraCerebral Hemorrhage in the United States.
• Hospital costs, incidence, and inhospital mortality rates of Traumatic subdural hematoma in the United States.
• Incidental Aneurysms in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: report of three cases and a review of the literature.
• Trends in the use of bone morphogenetic protein as a substitute to autologous iliac crest bone grafting for Spinal fusion procedures in the United States.
• A Socioeconomic Survey of Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) Surgery.
• Socioeconomic Trends in Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Surgery.
• Trends in median, ulnar, radial, and brachioplexus Nerve injuries in the United States.
• Orbital recurrence of B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a child.
• Risk factors for postoperative Spinal wound infections after Spinal decompression and fusion surgeries.
• National trends in vertebral augmentation procedures for the treatment of vertebral compression Fractures.
• National trends in spinal fusion for Cervical spondylotic myelopathy.
• National trends in Spinal arteriovenous malformations.
• Inpatient complications, mortality, and Discharge disposition after surgical correction of idiopathic scoliosis: a national perspective.
• Cervical corpectomy: complications and outcomes.
• Visual loss after Spine surgery: a population-based study.
• Effects of age and comorbidities on complication rates and adverse outcomes after lumbar laminectomy in elderly patients.
• Laminectomy and fusion after spinal cord Injury: national inpatient complications and outcomes.
• Late recurrences of Cushing's Disease after initial successful transsphenoidal surgery.
• Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: complications and outcomes after spinal fusion.
• Trends in pathological vertebral Fractures in the United States: 1993 to 2004.
• National inpatient complications and outcomes after surgery for Spinal metastasis from 1993-2002.
• Cyberknife targeting the pterygopalatine ganglion for the treatment of chronic cluster headaches.
• Efficacy and safety of CyberKnife radiosurgery for acromegaly.
• The role of inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the diagnostic localization of Cushing's Disease.
• Brain atrophy and cognitive deficits in Cushing's disease.
• Hippocrates' influence on the origins of neurosurgery.
• Tethered cord Syndrome: nationwide inpatient complications and outcomes.
• National trends, complications, and outcomes following transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's Disease from 1993 to 2002.
• CyberKnife rhizotomy for facetogenic Back pain: a pilot study.
• Carotid and vertebral rete mirabile in man presenting with intraparenchymal Hemorrhage: a case report.
• Differential expression of synaptic proteins in the frontal and temporal cortex of elderly subjects with mild cognitive impairment.
• Cerebral perfusion imaging in vasospasm.
• Motor cortex stimulation and neuropathic facial Pain.
• Munchausen's Syndrome in neurosurgery: report of two cases and review of the literature.
• Activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway through p75NTR: a common mechanism for the neurotrophin family.
• Individual and combined effects of TrkA and p75NTR Nerve growth factor receptors. A role for the high affinity receptor site.
• Evaluation of intradural stimulation efficiency and selectivity in a computational model of Spinal cord stimulation.
• Trends in surgical use and associated patient outcomes in the treatment of acoustic neuroma.
• Orbital Fractures: national inpatient trends and complications.
• Aggressive CNS lupus vasculitis in the absence of Systemic disease activity.
• Complications and outcomes after Spinal cord tumor resection in the United States from 1993 to 2002.
• Distinction between differentiation, cell cycle, and apoptosis signals in PC12 cells by the Nerve growth factor mutant delta9/13, which is selective for the p75 neurot...
• Craniotomy for resection of meningioma in the elderly: a multicentre, prospective analysis from the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.
• Nerve growth factor: structure, function and therapeutic implications for Alzheimer''s Disease.
• Intracranial hypotension from intrathecal baclofen pump insertion. A case report and review of the literature.
• Socioeconomic trends in hospitalization for multiple sclerosis.

Schools

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• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Chicago Medical School

Procedures Preformed

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• Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurosurgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification

Education

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• Stanford University
• Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

Hospital

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• Duke Regional Hospital
• Duke University Hospital

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1346408507
NPPES Provider LastName		LAD
NPPES Provider FirstName		SHIVANAND
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		277100001
NPPES Provider State		NC
Specialty Description		Neurosurgery
Total Claim Count		16.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1346408507
Last Name Of The Provider	LAD
First Name Of The Provider	SHIVANAND
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