Ali Kemal Ozturk, MD

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Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Pennsylvania Hospital
Physician Lead, Pennsylvania Hospital Unit Based Clinical Leadership
Co-director Spine Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Residency Site Director, PAH, Pennsylvania Hospital
Chief, Adult Scoliosis and Deformity Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurosurgery

Contact information
Pennsylvania Hospital
Department of Neurosurgery
801 Spruce Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Office: 215-829-5729
Education:
B.A. (Biology)
Johns Hopkins University, 2001.
M.D.
Yale School of Medicine, 2006.
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Selected Publications

Dagli MM, Wathen C, Santangelo G, Macaluso D, Ghenbot Y, Ali Z, Arlet V, Yoon J, Welch W, Ozturk A. : Perioperative factors associated with good outcomes after multi-level posterior spinal fusion in adult deformity. AANS/CNS Spine Section, Miami, FL March 2023 Notes: Poster Presentation.

Gabrielle Santangelo, Connor Wathan, Dominick Macaluso, Mert Marcel Dagli, Zarina S. Ali, Neil R. Malhotra, David Casper, Michael Spadola, Johannes Ghenbot, William C. Welch, and Ali K. Ozturk: Comparison of single-level posterior cervical foraminotomy to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion for radiculopathy. International Journal of Spine Surgery Mar 2023 Notes: Accepted; [Online Ahead of Print] doi: 10.14444/8447.

Borja AJ, Ahmad HS, Tomlinson SB, Na J, McClintock SD, Welch WC, Marcotte PJ, Ozturk AK, Malhotra NR.: "July Effect" in Spinal Fusions: A Coarsened Exact-Matched Analysis. Neurosurgery 92(3): 623-631, March 2023.

Miranda SP, Sullivan PZ, Albayar A, Ramayya AG, Blue R, Ali ZS, Malhotra N, Marcotte P, Yoon J, Saifi C, Welch WC, Schuster J, Ozturk AK.: Preoperative Predictors of Survival in Patients With Spinal Metastatic Disease. Int J Spine Surg Page: 1-7, Mar 2023 Notes: DOI: https://doi.org/10.14444/8444.

Santangelo G, Dagli MM, Wathen C, Macaluso D, Ghenbot Y, Ali Z, Arlet V, Yoon J, Welch W, Ozturk A: Comparison of Staging Circumferential Spinal Fusions for Adult Spinal Deformity. AANS/CNS Spine Section, Miami, FL March 2023 Notes: Oral presentation given by Gabrielle Santangelo.

Dagli MM, Wathen C, Santangelo G, Macaluso D, Ghenbot Y, Ali Z, Arlet V, Yoon J, Welch W, Ozturk A. : Tranexamic Acid Administration in Long Segment Thoracolumbar Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity. AANS/CNS Spine Section, Miami, FL March 2023 Notes: Oral Presentation given by MM Dagli.

Sarthak Mohanty 1, Stephen Barchick 2, Manasa Kadiyala 1, Meeki Lad 3, Armaun D Rouhi 1, Chetan Vadali 2, Ahmed Albayar 4, Ali K Ozturk 4, Amrit Khalsa 2, Comron Saifi 5, David S Casper 6: Should patients with lumbar stenosis and grade I spondylolisthesis be treated differently based on spinopelvic alignment? A retrospective, two-year, propensity matched, comparison of patient-reported outcome measures and clinical outcomes from multiple sites within a single health system. The Spine Journal 23(1): 92-104, Jan 2023.

Albayar A, Spadola M, Blue R, Saylany A, Dagli MM, Santangelo G, Wathen C, Ghenbot Y, Macaluso D, Ali ZS, Ozturk AK, Welch WC.: Incidental Durotomy Repair in Lumbar Spine Surgery: Institutional Experience and Review of Literature. Global Spine J. 25(21), Nov 2022.

Dagli MM, Narang S, Malhotra K, Santangelo G, Wathen C, Ghenbot Y, Macaluso D, Albayar A, Ozturk AK, Welch WC.: The Differences Between Same-Day and Staged (Circumferential) Fusion Surgery in Adult Spinal Deformity: Protocol for a Systematic Review. JMIR Res Protoc. 28(11), Nov 2022.

Farooqi AS, Borja AJ, Ajmera S, Glauser G, Strouz K, Ozturk AK, Petrov D, Chen HI, McClintock SD, Malhotra NR.: Matched Analysis of the Risk Assessment and Prediction Tool (RAPT) for Discharge Planning Following Single-Level Posterior Lumbar Fusion. World Neurosurg 163: e113-e123, Jul 2022.

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