After my fellowship training, I spent 9 years in private practice. The practice was approximately 75% spine and 25% cranial neurosurgery.
I am interested in engaging patients in tracking their own short term and long term outcomes to the various degenerative spinal procedures, both surgical and non-surgical. We have great interest in collaborating with medical companies to participate in clinical trials. The focus of these trials is on introducing innovative techniques that may lead to better patient outcomes.
Medical Education
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Residency
University of Washington
Fellowships
University of Pittsburgh – Pediatric Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University – Spine
- Karandikar M, Mirza S, Yang T, Song K, and Avellino T. Complex Pediatric Cervical Spine Surgery Using Smaller Non-traditional Screws and Plates and the Intraoperative CT Scanner. J Neurosurg Ped 2012 June 9(6):594-601.
- Karandikar M, Mirza S, Yang T, Song K, and Avellino T. Complex Pediatric Cervical Spine Surgery Using Smaller Non-traditional Screws and Plates and the Intraoperative CT Scanner. Oral presentation at Cervical Spine Society Annual Meeting and Annual CNS Meeting 2010.
- Karandikar M and Chesnut RM. The Traction Test For Assessing Cranio-Cervical Instability. Neurosurgery 2010 Submitted.
- Karandikar M, Yang T, Shurtleff H, Ojemann, J. Functional MRI in Pediatric Patients. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2010 May 5(5):500-6.
- Browd SR, Zauberman J, Karandikar M, Ojemann JG, Avellino AM, Ellenbogen RG. A new fiber-mediated carbon dioxide laser facilitates pediatric spinal cord detethering. J Neurosurg Pediatr 2009 Sep;4(3):280-4.
- Karandikar M, Yang T, Natarajan S, Sekhar LN, Britz, G. Higher Initial Aneurysmal Occlusion Rates Using the 360 Platinum Coil: The Seattle Experience. Oral presentation at the 2007 European Congress Meeting in Glasgow
- Karandikar M, McMahon J, White J, Kopitnik, T, Samson D. The Surgical Management and Outcomes for Parenchymal AVMs: the UT Southwestern Experience. Oral Presentation at the 2002 Neurosurgery in the Rockies Meeting in New Mexico
- Pearson G, Robinson F, Beers-Gibson T, Xu BE, Karandikar M, Berman K, Cobb MH. Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways: regulation and physiological functions. Endocrine Reviews 2001 April 22(2):153-183.
- Karandikar M, Xu S, Cobb MH. MEKK1 binds raf-1 and the ERK-2 cascade components. Journal of Biological Chemistry 2000 December 22; 275(51):40120-7.
- Karandikar M and Cobb MH. Scaffolding and protein interactions in MAP kinase modules. Cell Calcium 1999 November 26(5):219-226.
- English J, Pearson G, Wilsbacher J, Swantek J, Karandikar M, Xu S, Cobb, MH. New Insights into the control of MAP kinase pathways. Experimental Cell Research 1999 November 25; 253(1):255-270.
- Krenger W, Cooke KR, Crawford JM, Sonis ST, Simmons R, Pan L, Delmonte J Jr, Karandikar M, Ferrara JL. Transplantation of polarized type 2 donor T cells reduces mortality caused by experimental graft versus host disease. Transplantation 1996 November 15; 62(9):1278-1285.
- Pan L, Bressler S, Cooke KR, Krenger W, Karandikar M, Ferrara JL. Long-term engraftment, graft versus host disease, and immunologic reconstitution after experimental transplantation of allogeneic peripheral blood cells from G-CSF-treated donors. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 1996 October 2(3):126-133.
- Falzarano G, Krenger W, Snyder KM, Delmonte J Jr, Karandikar M, Ferrara JL. Suppression of B-cell proliferation to lipopolysaccharide is mediated through induction of the nitrous oxide pathway by tumor necrosis factor-alpha in mice with acute graft versus host disease. Blood April 1; 87(7):2853-2860.
Book Chapters:
“Tethered Cord Syndrome”. Mahesh Karandikar and Anthony Avellino. Title to be determined by George Jallo, Karl Kothbauer, Gustavo Padilla. June 8, 2010.