StevenMFalowskiMD

Neurosurgery • Lancaster, PA

Epilepsy Surgery, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery

Functional Neurosurgeon

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Office
160 N Pointe Blvd
Suite 200
Lancaster, PA 17601
Phone+1 717-358-0800

Fax+1 717-358-0802
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Summary

Dr. Steven Falowski is a neurosurgeon in Lancaster, PA. He received his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and has been in practice 13 years. He specializes in epilepsy surgery and stereotactic & functional neurosurgery and is experienced in neurosurgical spine surgery, stereotactic and functional surgery, spine surgery, and epilepsy surgery.

Education & Training

Rush University Medical CenterFellowship, Functional Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery, 2010 - 2011
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUHResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2005 - 2010
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson UniversityInternship, Transitional Year, 2004 - 2005
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical SchoolClass of 2004

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 2004 - 2024
NJ State Medical License 2016 - 2019
IL State Medical License 2010 - 2011
American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Scientific Program Chair, North American Neuromodulation Society Board of Directors, North American Neuromodulation Society Board, AANS/CNS Executive Pain Committee
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Allscripts Enterprise EHR, Allscripts, 2013

Clinical Trials

Implantable Systems Performance Registry Start of enrollment: 2003 Aug 01
Completed
RECHARGE Sub-Study to the Implantable Systems Performance Registry (ISPR) Start of enrollment: 2009 Jul 01
Completed
Phase 4
SUNBURST (Success Using Neuromodulation With BURST) Study Start of enrollment: 2013 Dec 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Safety and Effectiveness of Spinal Cord Stimulation With Automatic Control to Treat Chronic Pain in an Extended Trial Start of enrollment: 2014 Jul 01
Completed
Not Applicable
NAPS: Non-awake Versus Awake Placement of Spinal Cord Stimulators Start of enrollment: 2014 Nov 01
Completed
OPTIONS Spinal Cord Stimulation Programming Parameters Start of enrollment: 2015 Jul 01
Completed
Not Applicable
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Pacific Spine and Pain Society (PSPS) Evidence Review of Surgical Treatments for Lumbar Degenerative Spinal Disease: A Narrative Review.
Brown, N., Patrick Buchanan, Chau Vu, Samir Sheth, Phil M Shumsky, Ryan Mattie, Jason E Pope, Michael J Dorsi, Harjot S Bhandal, David W Lee, Alexander Himstead, Steve...> ;Pain and Therapy. 2024 Mar 23
Prospective Six-Month Analysis of Multiarea Burst Spinal Cord Stimulation: Correlating Intraoperative Neuromonitoring With Postoperative Programming and Clinical Outco...
Ameya C Nanivadekar, Steven M Falowski> ;Neuromodulation. 2024 Mar 22
Neurophysiological outcomes that sustained clinically significant improvements over 3 years of physiologic ECAP-controlled closed-loop spinal cord stimulation for the ...
Nagy A Mekhail, Robert M Levy, Timothy R Deer, Leonardo Kapural, Sean Li, Kasra Amirdelfan, Corey W Hunter, Steven M Rosen, Shrif J Costandi, Steven M Falowski, Abram ...> ;Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2024 Mar 15
Drug-Free Noninvasive Thermal Nerve Block: Validation of Sham Devices.
Fishman, M., Scherer, A., Schetzner, B., Popielarski, S., Meloni, S., Kim, P., Silberstein, S., Chitneni, A., Abd-Elsayed, A., Grodofsky, S., Klusek, M., Falowski, S.,...> ;Brain Sciences. 2023 Dec 15
Treatment of Refractory Low Back Pain Using Passive Recharge Burst in Patients Without Options for Corrective Surgery: Findings and Results From the DISTINCT Study, a ...
Deer, T., Gilligan, C., Falowski, S., Desai, M., Pilitsis, J., Jameson, J., Moeschler, S., Heros, R., Tavel, E., Christopher, A., Patterson, D., Wahezi, S., Weisbein, ...> ;Neuromodulation. 2023 Oct 1
2 citations
ECAP-controlled closed-loop versus open-loop SCS for the treatment of chronic pain: 36-month results of the EVOKE blinded randomized clinical trial.
Nagy A Mekhail, Robert M Levy, Timothy R Deer, Leonardo Kapural, Sean Li, Kasra Amirdelfan, Jason E Pope, Corey W Hunter, Steven M Rosen, Shrif J Costandi, Steven M Fa...> ;Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2023 Aug 27
Core patient-reported outcome measures for chronic pain patients treated with spinal cord stimulation or dorsal root ganglia stimulation.
Frank Huygen, Jonathan M Hagedorn, Steven Falowski, David Schultz, Jan Vesper, Robert D Heros, Denis G Patterson, Soroush Dehghan, Erika Ross, Anahita Kyani, Misagh B ...> ;Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 2023 Jul 20
2 citations
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Systematic Review and Evidence-Based Guidelines for Occipital Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Patients With Medically Refracto...
Michael D Staudt, Salim M Hayek, Joshua M Rosenow, Samer Narouze, Jeffrey E Arle, Julie G Pilitsis, Jason M Schwalb, Steven M Falowski, Jennifer A Sweet> ;Neurosurgery. 2023 Sep 1
3 citations
Cost-utility Analysis of Evoke Closed-loop Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Back and Leg Pain.
Rui V Duarte, Anthony Bentley, Nicole Soliday, Angela Leitner, Ashish Gulve, Peter S Staats, Dawood Sayed, Steven M Falowski, Corey W Hunter, Rod S Taylor> ;The Clinical Journal of Pain. 2023 Oct 1
Interventional Pain Physician Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey from the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience.
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Adam Rupp, Ryan S D'Souza, Nasir Hussain, Adam J Milam, Natalie Strand, Omar Viswanath, Steven Falowski, Dawood Sayed, Timothy Deer> ;Current Pain and Headache Reports. 2023 Aug 1
Objective wearable measures and subjective questionnaires for predicting response to neurostimulation in people with chronic pain.
Robert Heros, Denis Patterson, Frank Huygen, Ioannis Skaribas, David Schultz, Derron Wilson, Michael Fishman, Steven Falowski, Gregory Moore, Jan Willem Kallewaard, So...> ;Bioelectronic Medicine. 2023 Jun 21
1 citations
Anticipating and preventing complications in spinal cord stimulator implantation.
Steven M Falowski, Hao Tan, Joseph Parks, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Ahmed Raslan, Jason Pope> ;Expert Review of Medical Devices. 2023 May 1
1 citations
Regional Coverage Differences With Single- and Multi-Area Burst Spinal Cord Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Pain.
Steven M Falowski, Alexander M Benison, Ameya C Nanivadekar> ;Neuromodulation. 2023 Oct 1
Early Functional Outcomes in Low Back Pain Subjects with a Novel Interspinous Fusion Device: REFINE Study 6-Month Results.
Falowski, S., Raso, L., Mangal, V., Nairizi, A., Patterson, D., Danko, M., Justiz, R., Vogel, R., Koga, S., Josephson, Y., Pope, J., Raji, O.> ;Journal of Pain Research. 2023 Jan 1
1 citations
Serious Issues in Authorship, Design, and Conclusions ofReal-World Evidence Study on Spinal Cord Stimulation Outcomes and Costs as Compared to Conventional Medical The...
Timothy Deer, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Krishnan Chakravarthy, Joshua M Rosenow, Steven Falowski, Erika Petersen, Julie Pilitsis, Corey Hunter, Dawood Sayed, Michael E Schatman> ;Journal of Pain Research. 2023 Jan 1
1 citations
A Prospective, Observational, Open-Label, Non-Randomized, Multicenter Study Measuring Functional Outcomes in a Novel Interspinous Fusion Device in Subjects with Low Ba...
Steven M Falowski, Louis J Raso, Vip Mangal, Ali Narizi, Denis G Patterson, Michael D Danko, Rafael Justiz, Rainer S Vogel, Sebastian Koga, Yousseff Josephson, Jason E...> ;Pain and Therapy. 2023 Feb 1
4 citations
A Prospective Multicenter Case Series Utilizing Intraoperative Neuromonitoring With Evoked Compound Action Potentials to Confirm Spinal Cord Stimulation Lead Placement.
Steven M Falowski, Chong H Kim, Milan Obradovic, John L Parker> ;Neuromodulation. 2022 Jul 1
5 citations
Clinical Longevity of 106,462 Rechargeable and Primary Cell Spinal Cord Stimulators: Real World Study in the Medicare Population.
Timothy R Deer, Jason E Pope, Steven M Falowski, Julie G Pilitsis, Corey W Hunter, Allen W Burton, Allison T Connolly, Paul Verrills> ;Neuromodulation. 2023 Jan 1
A broad and variable lumbosacral myotome map uncovered by foraminal nerve root stimulation.
Dennis London, Ben Birkenfeld, Joel Thomas, Marat Avshalumov, Alon Y Mogilner, Steven Falowski, Antonios Mammis> ;Journal of Neurosurgery. Spine. 2022 May 13
Transfixation of the Sacroiliac Joint: Biomechanical Stability of a Dual-Implant Minimally Invasive Procedure.
Steven M Falowski, Antonio Valdevit> ;Pain Physician. 2022 May 1
31 citations
Durability of Clinical and Quality-of-Life Outcomes of Closed-Loop Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Back and Leg Pain: A Secondary Analysis of the Evoke Randomized ...
Nagy Mekhail, Robert M Levy, Timothy R Deer, Leonardo Kapural, Sean Li, Kasra Amirdelfan, Corey W Hunter, Steven M Rosen, Shrif J Costandi, Steven M Falowski, Abram H ...> ;JAMA Neurology. 2022 Mar 1
Revision of Failed Sacroiliac Joint Posterior Interpositional Structural Allograft Stabilization with Lateral Porous Titanium Implants: A Multicenter Case Series [Lett...
Timothy R Deer, Douglas P Beall, Steven M Falowski> ;Medical Devices. 2022 Jan 1
9 citations
The American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN) Evidence-Based Clinical Guideline of Interventional Treatments for Low Back Pain.
Carayannopoulos, A. G., Francio, V., Dawood Sayed, Jay Grider, Natalie Strand, Jonathan M Hagedorn, Steven Falowski, Christopher M Lam, Vinicius Tieppo Francio, Dougla...> ;Journal of Pain Research. 2022 Jan 1
7 citations
Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Painful Scar: A Narrative Review.
Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Jason Pope, Derick A Mundey, Konstantin V Slavin, Steven Falowski, Ahish Chitneni, Stephen R Popielarski, Jarod John, Samuel Grodofsky, Tony Vanetess...> ;Journal of Pain Research. 2022 Jan 1
6 citations
Best Practices for Minimally Invasive Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Treatment 2.0 (MIST): Consensus Guidance from the American Society of Pain and Neuroscience (ASPN).
Timothy R Deer, Jay S Grider, Jason E Pope, Tim J Lamer, Sayed E Wahezi, Jonathan M Hagedorn, Steven Falowski, Reda Tolba, Jay M Shah, Natalie Strand, Alex Escobar, Ma...> ;Journal of Pain Research. 2022 Jan 1
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Journal Articles

Spinal Cord Stimulation Infection Rate and Risk Factors: Results from a United States Payer Database
Steven Falowski, MD, Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface

Press Mentions

50 Spine Surgeons to Know in 2023December 30th, 2022
FDA Approves Abbott’s Next-Gen Spinal Cord Stimulation TherapyAugust 23rd, 2022
Saluda Medical the First to Present 24-Month Holistic Response to Spinal Cord StimulationJuly 19th, 2022
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Committees

Member, Guideline Task Force, Congress of Neurological Surgeons 2015 - Present
Board of Directors, AANS/CNS Pain Committee
Board of Directors, Scientific Program Chair, North American Neuromodulation Society