MarkAndrewAttiahMDMS, MBE, MPH

Neurosurgery • Chapel Hill, NC

Neurosurgical Spine Surgery, Peripheral Nerve, Clinical Informatics

UNC - Chapel Hill, Director of Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Complex/Minimally invasive spine surgery

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Office
170 Manning Drive
Campus Box 7060
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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Education & Training

University of Miami/Jackson Health SystemFellowship, Neurosurgical Spine Surgery, 2022 - 2023
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2015 - 2022
Harvard UniversityMPH, Clinical Effectiveness, 2018 - 2019
University of PennsylvaniaMS, Translational Research, 2013 - 2015
University of PennsylvaniaMBE, Bioethics, 2010 - 2015
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2014
Columbia UniversityBA, Neuroscience, 2005 - 2009

Certifications & Licensure

NC State Medical License 2023 - 2024
FL State Medical License 2022 - 2024
CA State Medical License 2017 - 2022

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Brain and lung metastasis of uterine leiomyosarcoma: illustrative case.
Hunter Richards, Samir Alsalek, Azim Laiwalla, Mark Attiah, Maya Harary, Wi Jin Kim, Daniel Hirt, Shayan U Rahman> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. Case Lessons. 2023 May 8
Structural Changes in the Cervicomedullary Junction in Adult Chiari Patients.
Anshul Ratnaparkhi, Azim N Laiwalla, Bilwaj Gaonkar, David Zarrin, Kirstin Cook, Elliot Berdy, Ien Li, Mark Attiah, Langston Holly, Luke Macyszyn, Joel Beckett, Ulrich...> ;World Neurosurgery. 2022 Dec 1
2 citations
High-Dose Rate Interstitial Spine Brachytherapy Using an Intraoperative Mobile Computed Tomography-Guided Surgical Navigation System.
Luke Macyszyn, Andrew S Lim, Mark A. Attiah, Kayla Kafka-Peterson, Tania Kaprelian, John V. Hegde, Puja Venkat, Alan Lee, Sang-June Park, Albert J. Chang, Rogelio Medina> ;Operative Neurosurgery. 2021 Nov 15
1 citations
Perioperative dual antiplatelet therapy for patients undergoing spine surgery soon after drug eluting stent placement.
Sophie Peeters, Daniel T. Nagasawa, Bilwaj Gaonkar, Tianyi Niu, Alexander M. Tucker, Mark A. Attiah, Diana Babayan, Natalie C. Moreland, Isaac Yang, Marcela Calfon Pre...> ;Surgical Neurology International. 2021 Jun 28
8 citations
Predicting Spinal Surgery Candidacy From Imaging Data Using Machine Learning.
Bilwaj Gaonkar, Bryan Yoo, Banafsheh Salehi, Mark A. Attiah, Diane Villaroman, Christine J. Ahn, Matthew D. Edwards, Azim Laiwalla, Anshul Ratnaparkhi, Ien Li, Kirstin...> ;Neurosurgery. 2021 Jun 15
6 citations
Eigenrank by committee: Von-Neumann entropy based data subset selection and failure prediction for deep learning based medical image segmentation.
Bilwaj Gaonkar, Joel S. Beckett, Mark A. Attiah, Christine S. Ahn, Matthew D. Edwards, Bayard Wilson, Azim Laiwalla, Banafsheh Salehi, Bryan Yoo, Alex A. T. Bui, Luke ...> ;Medical Image Analysis. 2021 Jan 1
3 citations
Comparison of Clinical Outcomes Stratified by Target Delineation for Patients Undergoing Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Spinal Metastases
Mark A. Attiah, Kiri A. Sandler, Rogelio Medina, Bilwaj Gaonkar, David L. McArthur, George Farha, Michael T. Selch, Antonio A.F. De Salles, Stephen Tenn, Nzhde Agazary...> ;World Neurosurgery. 2020 Apr 1
14 citations
Natural history of the aging spine: a cross-sectional analysis of spinopelvic parameters in the asymptomatic population.
Mark A. Attiah, Bilwaj Gaonkar, Yasmine Alkhalid, Diane Villaroman, Rogelio Medina, Christine J. Ahn, Tianyi Niu, Joel S. Beckett, Christopher P. Ames, Luke Macyszyn> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 2020 Jan 1
Clinical and surgical management of holocervical spinal cord ependymomas.
Kevin Mckay, Mark A. Attiah, Tianyi Niu, Daniel T. Nagasawa, Kunal S. Patel, Bilwaj Gaonkar, Barbara Van de Wiele, Natalie C. Moreland, Alexander M. Tucker, Pedro Chur...> ;Surgical Neurology International. 2019 Nov 22
14 citations
Quantitative Analysis of Spinal Canal Areas in the Lumbar Spine: An Imaging Informatics and Machine Learning Study.
Bilwaj Gaonkar, Diane Villaroman, Joel S. Beckett, C. Ahn, Mark A. Attiah, Diana Babayan, J. P. Villablanca, Noriko Salamon, Alex A. T. Bui, Luke Macyszyn> ;AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2019 Sep 1
20 citations
Prediction of post-operative delayed hyponatremia after endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery
Kunal S. Patel, Jia-Shu Chen, Frank Yuan, Mark A. Attiah, Bayard Wilson, Marilene B. Wang, Marvin Bergsneider, Won Kim> ;Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2019 May 13
10 citations
Quantitative Analysis of Neural Foramina in the Lumbar Spine: An Imaging Informatics and Machine Learning Study.
Bilwaj Gaonkar, Joel Beckett, Diane Villaroman, Christine J. Ahn, Matthew D. Edwards, Steven Moran, Mark A. Attiah, Diana Babayan, Christopher P. Ames, J. Pablo Villab...> ;Radiology. Artificial Intelligence. 2019 Mar 6
4 citations
Epithelioid Osteoblastoma of the Temporal Bone: A Case Report.
Mark A. Attiah, Alexander M. Tucker, Mari Perez-Rosendahl, Tianyi Niu, Daniel T. Nagasawa, Evelina Kodrat, Neil A. Martin, Scott D. Nelson> ;World Neurosurgery. 2019 Mar 1
24 citations
Efficiency of spinal anesthesia versus general anesthesia for lumbar spinal surgery: a retrospective analysis of 544 patients.
John T. Pierce, Guy Kositratna, Mark A. Attiah, Michael J. Kallan, Rebecca Koenigsberg, Peter Syre, David Wyler, Paul J. Marcotte, W. Andrew Kofke, William C. Welch> ;Local and Regional Anesthesia. 2017 Oct 10
14 citations
Multi-Parameter Ensemble Learning for Automated Vertebral Body Segmentation in Heterogeneously Acquired Clinical MR Images
Bilwaj Gaonkar, Yihao Xia, Diane Villaroman, Allison Ko, Mark A. Attiah, Joel S. Beckett, Luke Macyszyn> ;IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine. 2017 Jun 22
54 citations
Direct versus indirect revascularization procedures for moyamoya disease: a comparative effectiveness study.
Luke Macyszyn, Mark A. Attiah, Tracy Ma, Zarina S. Ali, Ryan W. Faught, Alisha T Hossain, Karen Man, Hiren Patel, Rosanna Sobota, Eric L. Zager, Sherman C. Stein> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. 2017 May 1
11 citations
A Rodent Model of Dynamic Facial Reanimation Using Functional Electrical Stimulation.
Mark A. Attiah, Julius de Vries, Andrew G. Richardson, Timothy H. Lucas> ;Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2017 Apr 5
8 citations
Giant cystic sacral schwannoma mimicking tarlov cyst: a case report
Mark A. Attiah, Peter Syre, John T. Pierce, Elizaveta A. Belyaeva, William C. Welch> ;European Spine Journal. 2016 May 1
13 citations
Long-term quality of life after posterior cervical foraminotomy for radiculopathy
Ryan W. Faught, Ephraim W. Church, Casey H. Halpern, Usha Balmuri, Mark A. Attiah, Sherman C. Stein, Stephen J. Dante, William C. Welch, Frederick A. Simeone> ;Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2016 Mar 1
184 citations
Imaging patterns predict patient survival and molecular subtype in glioblastoma via machine learning techniques.
Luke Macyszyn, Hamed Akbari, Jared M. Pisapia, Xiao Da, Mark A. Attiah, Vadim Pigrish, Yingtao Bi, Sharmistha Pal, Ramana V. Davuluri, Laura Roccograndi, Nadia Dahmane...> ;Neuro-Oncology. 2016 Mar 1
To the Editor.
Malhotra, N. R.,Lewis, D.,Attiah, M.,Burnett, M.,Stein, S.> ;Spine. 2016 Feb 13
15 citations
The effects of acute cortical somatosensory deafferentation on grip force control.
Andrew G. Richardson, Mark A. Attiah, Jeffrey I. Berman, H. Isaac Chen, Xilin Liu, Milin Zhang, Jan Van der Spiegel, Timothy H. Lucas> ;Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior. 2016 Jan 1
1 citations
Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement for POEMS syndrome.
Christopher Alvarez-Breckenridge, Mark A. Attiah, Marcus A. Zachariah, Abhijeet Gummadavelli, Jimmy C. Yang, Patrick J. Codd> ;Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 2015 Oct 1
22 citations
Anterior temporal lobectomy compared with laser thermal hippocampectomy for mesial temporal epilepsy: A threshold analysis study
Mark A. Attiah, Danika L. Paulo, Shabbar F. Danish, Sherman C. Stein, Ram Mani> ;Epilepsy Research. 2015 Sep 1
3 citations
Clinical Prediction and Decision Rules in Neurosurgery: A Critical Review.
Sherman C. Stein, Mark A. Attiah> ;Neurosurgery. 2015 Aug 1
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