Parthasarathy D Thirumala
Co-Director, Department of Neurological Surgery and Neurology, Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Parthasarathy D. Thirumala, MD, joined the Center of Clinical Neurophysiology in June 2008 as a clinical assistant professor. Dr. Thirumala specializes in intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring to adult and pediatric neurosurgical, orthopedic, ENT, vascular and interventional neuroradiology procedures. Dr. Thirumala completed his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed his internship in internal medicine training at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to clinical training he completed his masters in biomedical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Thirumala completed his medical training in India at Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India. He also worked as registrar and a research associate at Christian Medical College in Vellore, India.
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring; functional cortical mapping during awake craniotomies; neurophysiological monitoring during minimally invasive endonasal approach to skull base surgeries.
