DavidBarbaMD
Neurosurgery • La Jolla, CAStereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery
Professor, Surgery, UCSD School of Medicine
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Office
9300 Campus Point Dr
La Jolla, CA 92037Phone+1 619-543-5540Fax+1 858-657-6538- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. David Barba is an attending neurosurgeon at the UC San Diego Health Care system based in La Jolla at the Jacobs Medical Center. He is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UC San Diego Medical Center – Hillcrest, and VA San Diego Healthcare System. He received his medical degree from Keck School of Medicine of USC and has been in practice 38 years. He specializes in stereotactic & functional neurosurgery and is experienced in MRI guided asleep stereotactic DBS surgery for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. He is he also has a special interest in epilepsy surgery.
Education & Training
University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1980 - 1985
University of Southern California/LACUSC Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1979 - 1980
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaClass of 1979
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1980 - 2025- American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
- Top MD Consumers Checkbook
- Fellow (FAANS) American Association of Neurological Surgeons
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 2 citationsTraumatic ischemic injury in a top of the basilar distribution: a case reportMihir Gupta, Anudeep Yekula, David Barba, J. Scott Pannell, Jeffrey M. Tomlin> ;BMC Neurology. 2021 Apr 27
- 49 citationsPostmortem Analysis in a Clinical Trial of AAV2-NGF Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease Identifies a Need for Improved Vector Delivery.Michael J. Castle, Fernando C. Baltanás, Imre Kovacs, Alan H. Nagahara, David Barba, Mark H. Tuszynski> ;Human Gene Therapy. 2020 Apr 16
- 24 citationsCorrelation Structure in Micro-ECoG Recordings is Described by Spatially Coherent Components.Nicholas Rogers, John Hermiz, Mehran Ganji, Erik Kaestner, Kıvılcım Kılıç, Lorraine Hossain, Martin Thunemann, Daniel R. Cleary, Bob S. Carter, David Barba, Anna Devor...> ;Plos Computational Biology. 2019 Feb 11
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Journal Articles
- Postmortem Analysis in a Clinical Trial of AAV2-NGF Gene Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease Identifies a Need for Improved Vector DeliveryMichael J. Castle, Fernando C. Baltanás, Imre Kovacs, Alan H. Nagahara, David Barba, and Mark H. Tuszynski, Human Gene Therapy, 4/16/2020
Press Mentions
First Real-Time Mri-Guided Brain Surgery for Parkinson's in Southern CaliforniaDecember 16th, 2014
Professional Memberships
- Member
- Fellow
Hospital Affiliations
UC San Diego Medical Center - HillcrestSan Diego, California
Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical CenterSan Diego, California
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