UdayaKumarKakarlaMD

Neurosurgical Spine Surgery

Neurosurgeon at Barrow Brain and Spine

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Office
2910 N 3rd Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85013
Phone+1 602-406-3580

Fax+1 602-406-3493

Barrow Neurological Institute at St Joseph's Hospital and Medical CenterResidency, Neurological Surgery, 2004 - 2010
Indiana University School of MedicineClass of 2003

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centricity Practice Solution EMR, GE Healthcare, 2012-2013

PubMed

149 citations
Safety and accuracy of bedside external ventricular drain placement.
Udaya K. Kakarla, Louis J. Kim, Steven W. Chang, Nicholas Theodore, Robert F. Spetzler
Neurosurgery. 2008-07-01
12 citations
The Barrow Biomimetic Spine: Comparative Testing of a 3D-Printed L4-L5 Schwab Grade 2 Osteotomy Model to a Cadaveric Model.
Michael A. Bohl, Michael A Mooney, Garrett J Repp, Claudio Cavallo, Peter Nakaji
Cureus. 2018-04-17
5 citations
Posterior open-wedge anterior longitudinal ligament release: Cadaveric technique analysis.
Michael A. Bohl, Randall J. Hlubek, David S. Xu, Claudio Cavallo, Mark C. Preul
Clinical Anatomy. 2019-04-01

Journal Articles

Case Report Continuous Activity Tracking Using a Wrist-Mounted Device in Adult Spinal Deformity: A Proof of Concept Study
Juan S Uribe, Jay D Turner, Jack M Haglin, Udaya Kakarla, ScienceDirect

Overlapping Surgeries Are Not Associated with Worse Patient Outcomes: Retrospective Multivariate Analysis of 14,872 Neurosurgical Cases Performed at a Single InstitutionApril 25th, 2017