Dr. Praveen Mummaneni is a neurosurgeon at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. He teaches at and vice-chairs the UCSF department of neurosurgery, as well as co-directs UCSF’s Spine Center.

As a neurosurgeon, Mummaneni specializes in complex cervical spine surgery and in minimally invasive spine surgery for a variety of conditions, including degenerative spinal disease, spinal deformity (scoliosis) and spinal tumors. He is also the editor of several textbooks on spinal surgery.

Expertise: Treatment and surgery for degenerative spine disease, scoliosis, spinal tumors, neurosurgery

Location: San Francisco, CA

Email: Praveen.mummaneni@ucsf.edu

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