Kavelin Rumalla, MD, MS (he/him/his)

Resident Physician
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, US

Kavelin Rumalla, MD, MS, is a neurosurgery resident at the University of New Mexico Hospital. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Kansas City 6 year BA/MD program in December 2020. During medical school, he pursued a neurosurgery-focused research year alongside a Master of Science in Clinical Bioinformatics. His primary research interests focus on pre-operative risk assessment (e.g., frailty screening), quality improvement, and applications of big data analytics to neurosurgical patient populations. To date, he's published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and given over 30 oral / poster presentations at national meetings. Currently, he's invested in teaching and mentoring of medical students as part of the Bowers' Frailty and Neurosurgical Outcomes Data Science Lab.

Presentation(s):

• (SS#V) Preoperative Frailty and 30-day Mortality After Surgery for Type II Odontoid Fractures: A Multi-center Analysis of 474 Patients

  Saturday, April 22, 2023
  5:01pm – 5:05pm PST

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

• (AS1) External Validation of the Risk Analysis Index as a Neurosurgical Frailty Tool Compatible with the Nationwide Readmissions Database

  Monday, April 24, 2023
  9:33am – 9:41am PST

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose