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Yi Lu, MD, PhD, FAANS

Director, Neurosurgical Trauma; Co-Director, Adult Deformity and Scoliosis Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Yi Lu, MD PhD FACS FAANS
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Education:
08/2001 PhD Pathology Albert Einstein College of Medicine
07/2005 MD Medicine Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

Postdoctoral Training:
07/05-06/12 Resident Neurosurgery Brigham & Women’s Hospital
07/08-06/10 Postdoctoral Fellow Neurobiology Boston Children’s Hospital
07/12-06/13 Clinical Fellow Complex Spine Surgery University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Faculty Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor Neurosurgery Harvard Medical School

Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions:
07/13- Associate Surgeon Neurosurgery Brigham & Women’s Hospital
03/15- Adjunct Staff Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Major Administrative Leadership Positions:
Local
2017- Director, Neurosurgical Trauma Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
2019- Co-director, Spinal Deformity and Scoliosis Surgery Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
National
2016-18 Vice President, American Chinese Medical Association
2020- Co-chair, Section on Spinal Cord Injury, North American Spine Society
2022- Chair, Payor Response Committee, AANS/CNS Spine Section

Peer-Reviewed Scholarship:
1. Liu K*, Lu Y*, Lee JK, Samara R, Willenberg R, Sears-Kraxberger I, Tedeschi A, Park KK, Jin D, Cai B, Xu B, Connolly L, Steward O, Zheng B, He Z. PTEN deletion enhances the regenerative ability of adult corticospinal neurons. Nat Neurosci. 2010 Sep;13(9):1075-81.
2. Lu Y, Belin S, He Z. Signaling regulations of neuronal regenerative ability. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2014 Aug;27:135-42.
4. Donnelly DJ, Abd-El-Barr MM, Lu Y. Minimally Invasive Muscle Sparing Posterior-Only Approach for Lumbar Circumferential Decompression and Stabilization to Treat Spine Metastasis--Technical Report. World Neurosurg. 2015 Nov;84(5):1484-90.
5. Vasudeva VS, Abd-El-Barr M, Pompeu YA, Karhade A, Groff MW, Lu Y. Use of Intraoperative Ultrasound During Spinal Surgery. Global Spine J. 2017 Oct;7(7):648-656.
6. Lu T, Lu Y. Comparison of Biomechanical Performance Among Posterolateral Fusion and Transforaminal, Extreme, and Oblique Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Finite Element Analysis. World Neurosurg. 2019 Sep;129:e890-e899.
7. Lu T, Lu Y. Interlaminar stabilization offers greater biomechanical advantage compared to interspinous stabilization after lumbar decompression: a finite element analysis. J Orthop Surg Res. 2020 Jul 29;15(1):291.
8. Huang KT, Lu Y. Traumatic Spinal Cord Disorders: Current Topics and Future Directions. Semin Neurol. 2021 Jun;41(3):247-255.
9. Lak, A., Siddi, F., Ida, F., Zaidi, H., Smith, T., & Lu, Y. (2021). Failure to achieve pelvic balance following hip replacement surgery may be a risk factor for development of degenerative scoliosis. Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, 25, 101242.
10. Hoffman SE, Gupta S, Huang K, Klinger N, Lu Y. Three-dimensional Navigation-guided, Prone, Single-position, Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion Technique. J Vis Exp. 2021 Jul 15;(173).
11. Cerecedo-Lopez CD, Bernstock JD, Dmytriw AA, Chen JA, Chalif JI, Gupta S, Driver J, Huang K, Stanley SE, Li JZ, Chi J, Lu Y. Spontaneous intramedullary abscesses caused by Streptococcus anginosus: two case reports and review of the literature. BMC Infect Dis. 2022 Feb 10;22(1):141.
12. Chua MMJ, Vasudeva VS, Lu Y. Intraoperative Ultrasound in Spinal Surgery. J Vis Exp. 2022 Aug 17;(186).

Books
MY Wang, Y Lu, G Anderson, & P Mummaneni (Eds). Minimally Invasive Spinal Deformity Surgery: An Evolution of Modern Techniques. Springer-Verlag Publishing, Vienna, Austria, 2014; ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-7091-1406-3.

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