Rod J. Oskouian, MD
Seattle, WA 98122
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About Rod J. Oskouian
Dr. Oskouian is a neurosurgeon who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of complex spinal disorders. As the Chief of the Complex Spine Department, his clinical practice located on the Swedish/Cherry Hill campus in Seattle focuses on scoliosis, spinal deformities, spine trauma, spine fractures, spinal surgery revisions, osteoporosis, spinal cord injury, degenerative disc disease, spine tumors, stereotactic spinal radiosurgery, spine infections, and minimally invasive spinal surgery.
Dr. Oskouian received his medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Virginia under the late Dr. John Jane, Sr. Dr. Oskouian completed his neurosurgery fellowship at the New Zealand National Hospital in Auckland.
Dr. Oskouian has published in numerous medical journals and textbooks, including Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Clinics of North America, the Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Focus and Spine.
His philosophy of care is to provide comprehensive, individualized medical care for his patients based on the most recent scientific advances. Dr. Oskouian also believes prevention, communication and education are a vital component of a patient’s long-term health and well-being.
Dr. Oskouian offers the Digital Surgical Experience to guide his practice and maintain consistent communication with his patients throughout their care. This includes offering virtual visits to patients, timely access to information, and interactive messages, check-ins, and reminders, allowing patients to become custodians of their own care. Dr. Oskouian was selected by Seattle Magazine and Seattle Met Magazine as a Top Doctor.
University of Virginia School of Medicine
2002
University of Virginia Hospitals
2002
University of Virginia Medical Center
2008
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
2001
University of Virginia Hospitals
2008
Auckland City Hospital
2007
Member: Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Neurofibromatosis Foundation, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, American Medical Association, North American Spine Association, Seattle Science Foundation Advisory Board, AOSpine; Board Member: One Spine, Puget Sound Spine Interest Group; Chairman: One Spine Annual Fellows Meeting, Seattle Magazine Top Doctor – 2022
- American Board of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery
- Introduction: minimally invasive spine surgery: the greatest advance in medicine?
- Baastrup's Disease: A Comprehensive Review of the Extant Literature.
- The Decussating Fibers of the Lumbar Thoracolumbar Fascia: A Landmark for Identifying the L5 Spinous Process?
- Lumbar Facet Tropism: A Comprehensive Review.
- The filum terminale internum and externum: A comprehensive review.
- Detethering of the C2 Nerve Root and Avoidance of Transection and Injury During C1 Screw Placement: A Cadaveric Feasibility Study.
- The vertebral nerve: A comprehensive review of its form and function.
- Advancement of Surgical Visualization Methods: Comparison Study Between Traditional Microscopic Surgery and a Novel Robotic Optoelectronic Visualization Tool for Spinal Surgery.
- Technical Note - Lateral Approach to the Lumbar Spine for the Removal of Interbody Cages.
- The future of spinal arthroplasty: a biomaterial perspective.
- Thoracoscopic microdiscectomy.
- Pulmonary Complications following Thoracic Spinal Surgery: A Systematic Review.
- The transsphenoidal approach. A historical perspective
- Vascular complications in anterior thoracolumbar spinal reconstruction
- Esthesioneuroblastoma: clinical presentation, radiological, and pathological features, treatment, review of the literature, and the University of Virginia experience.
- Surgical management of unruptured basilar artery bifurcation aneurysms. Technical note.
- Will improved understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in acute spinal cord injury improve the potential for therapeutic intervention?
- Image-guided spine surgery: state of the art and future directions
- Single-center experience with pediatric Cushing's disease.
- Genetics of pituitary adenomas: current theories and future implications.
- The craniopharyngioma.
- Degenerative lumbar scoliosis.
- Osteogenic differentiation of noncultured immunoisolated bone marrow-derived CD105+ cells.
- Anterior stabilization of three-column thoracolumbar spinal trauma.
- Peroneal neuropathy following successful bariatric surgery. Case report and review of the literature.
- Congenital abnormalities of the thoracic and lumbar spine.
- Molecular Biology of Unreresectable Meningiomas: Implications for New Treatments and Review of the Literature
- Use of trans sodium crocetinate for sensitizing glioblastoma multiforme to radiation: laboratory investigation.
- Outcomes of bone morphogenetic protein-2 in mature adults: posterolateral non-instrument-assisted lumbar decompression and fusion.
- Cell cycle times of short-term cultures of brain cancers as predictors of survival.
- Surgical management of global sagittal deformity in ankylosing spondylitis.
- Radiographic restoration of lumbar alignment after transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion.
- Gamma Knife radiosurgery to the surgical cavity following resection of brain metastases.
- Chyloretroperitoneum following anterior spinal surgery.
- Minimally invasive lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas interbody fusion for L4-5 spondylolisthesis: clinical outcomes.
- Commentary on: “Lumbar Intervertebral Discal Cyst: A Rare Cause of Low Back Pain and Radiculopathy. Case Report and Review of the Current Evidences on Diagnosis and Management”
- Complications of transoral and transnasal odontoidectomy: a comprehensive review.
- The odontoid process: a comprehensive review of its anatomy, embryology, and variations.
- Comprehensive anatomical and immunohistochemical review of the innervation of the human spine and joints with application to an improved understanding of back pain.
- Lumbar ribs: a comprehensive review.
- Seattle Magazine Top Doctor – 2022 (Dr. Rod Oskouian)
- Vascular injury and transsphenoidal surgery.
- Incidence of symptomatic hemorrhage after stereotactic electrode placement.
- Stereotactic radiosurgery for pituitary adenomas: a review of the literature.
- The Lumbosacral Dural Venous Sinus: A New Discovery with Potential Clinical Applications.
- Multimodal quantitation of the effects of endovascular therapy for vasospasm on cerebral blood flow, transcranial doppler ultrasonographic velocities, and cerebral artery diameters.
- A Previously Unreported Arterial Variant of the Suboccipital Region Based on Cadaveric Dissection.
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