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Office
250 H, 453 Quarry Rd
Mail Code 5327
Palo Alto, CA 94304Phone+1 650-723-6093Fax+1 650-723-7813
Summary
- Dr. Lawrence Shuer is a neurosurgeon in Palo Alto, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Stanford Health Care, and VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He received his medical degree from University of Michigan Medical School and has been in practice 39 years. He also speaks multiple languages, including Spanish. He is experienced in trigeminal neuralgia, primary brain tumors, neurosurgical spine surgery, stereotactic and functional surgery, and epilepsy surgery.
Education & Training
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Neurological Surgery, 1979 - 1984
- Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityInternship, Surgery, 1978 - 1979
- University of Michigan Medical SchoolClass of 1978
- University of Michigan Medical SchoolA.B., With High Distinction, 1972 - 1975
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 1979 - 2025
- American Board of Neurological Surgery Neurological Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2006-2014
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011-2013
- Newman Award Winner San Francisco Neurological Society Meeting, 2002
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 875 citationsA survey of human brain transcriptome diversity at the single cell levelSpyros Darmanis, Steven A. Sloan, Ye Zhang, Martin Enge, Christine Caneda
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2015-06-09 - 1422 citationsPurification and Characterization of Progenitor and Mature Human Astrocytes Reveals Transcriptional and Functional Differences with Mouse.Ye Zhang, Steven A. Sloan, Laura E. Clarke, Christine Caneda, Colton A. Plaza
Neuron. 2016-01-06 - 1 citationsCurrent source density analysis of synaptic generators of human interictal spikeGary Heit, Istvan Ulbert, Eric Halgren, George Karmos, Lawrence M. Shuer
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 1999-01-01
Journal Articles
- Real-Time Fluoroscopic and C-Arm Computed Tomography Evaluation of Ommaya Reservoir IntetreityMoraff AM, Hayden Gebhart M, Shuer LM, Heit JJ, Cureus, 1/15/2017
- Purification and Characterization of Progenitor and Mature Human Astrocytes Reveals Transcriptional and Functional Differences with MouseZhang Y, Sloan SA, Clarke LE, Caneda C, Plaza CA, Blumenthal PD, Vogel H, Steinberg GK, Edwards MS, Li G, Ducan JA, Cheshire SH, Shuer LM, Chang EF, Grant GA, Gephart ..., Neuron, 1/1/2016
- Building an Electronic Health Record Integrated Quality of Life Outcomes Registry for Spine SurgeryAzad TD, Kalani M, Wolf T, Kearney A, Lee Y, Flannery L, Chen D, Berroya R, Eisenberg M, Park J, Shuer L, Kerr A, Ratliff JK, Journal of Neurosurgery-Spine, 1/1/2016
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Novelty-associated mesial temporal lobe activation during memory encoding in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy.Golby AJ, Poldrack RA, Illes J; Brewer JB, Shuer LM; Chen DR, Desmond JE, and Gabriel JDE, Soc Neurosci Abs, 1/1/2000
- Laminar analysis of human interictal spikes.Ulbert I, Heit G, Halgren E, Shuer L; Karmos G, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 1/1/1999
- A model of coccidioidal meningitis (CM) in the rabbit (R).Williams PL; Sobel RA, Sorensen KN, Clemons KV, Shuer LM, Royaltey SS, Yao Y, Pappagianis D, Lutz JE, Reed C, River ME, Lee BC, Bhatti SO, Stevens DA, Abstracts of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 1/1/1998
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Lectures
- Epilepsy Surgery At Stanford UniversityPalo Alto, CA - 1/1/2014
- Cervical Laminoplasty as a Treatment of Cervical Stenosis and Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal LigamentPalo Alto, CA - 1/1/2014
- Spinal Tumors, A Whirlwind TourSan Francisco, CA - 1/1/2013
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Other
- Changes in our Work flow- and LivesShuer LM, Medical Staff Update
1/1/2008 - Breaking BottlenecksShuer LM, Medical Staff Update
1/1/2008 - Change in the WorksShuer LM, Medical Staff Update
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Press Mentions
- Frances Conley, Formidable Neurosurgeon Who Broke Gender Barriers, Dies at 83September 23rd, 2024
- The Bay Area's Top Doctors of 2019January 17th, 2019
- Drs. Lawrence Shuer, R. Scott McPherson & More: 6 Spine, Neurosurgeons in the Headlines This Week — May 6, 2016 FeaturedMay 6th, 2016
Professional Memberships
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Other Languages
- Spanish
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