About Amer Khalil, MD
Dr. Amer Khalil is Director of Spine Surgery, Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California Irvine. Dr. Khalil is a board certified and fellowship-trained neurosurgeon in practice at DISC Sports & Spine located in Newport Beach, CA specializing in complex and minimally invasive spine surgery.
Dr. Khalil's clinical interests include cervical and lumbar spine surgery, complex deformity surgery and scoliosis, lateral access and minimally invasive surgical procedures, spine fractures, spinal cord injury, spinal tumors, spondylosis, and spondylolisthesis. Dr. Khalil has special interest in innovative therapies and technologies to improve the health of patients.
Dr. Khalil completed an internship in general surgery and residency in neurological surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, OH. Thereafter, Dr. Khalil underwent combined neurosurgery-orthopaedic spine surgery fellowship at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, MA, and a research fellowship in Spinal Cord Injury at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston conducting preclinical trials of neuroscaffolds implantation in injured spinal cord of rats that led to the first-in-human clinical trial.
Dr. Khalil also held fellowship positions in neurosurgery at Harvard affiliated hospitals, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, MA. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree at University of Jordan Medical School in Amman, Jordan.
Throughout his academic career, Dr. Khalil has received many honors, including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Top Gun Award.
Dr. Khalil is an active member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), AANS/CNS Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves, North American Spine Society (NASS), AO Spine foundation, Spinal Cord Injury Foundation, and several other societies.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Khalil A, Spiotta AM, Barnett GH. Difficulties with the neurological assessment of humans following a chimpanzee attack. J Neurosurg. 2011 Jul;115(1):140-4.
Klimo P Jr., Khalil A, Slotkin JR, Smith ER, Scott RM, Goumnerova LC. Wound complications associated with the use of bovine serum albumin-glutaraldehyde surgical adhesive in pediatric patients. Neurosurgery. 2007 Apr;60(4 Suppl 2):305-9.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Reynolds FM, Woodard EJ, Slotkin JR, Dai H, Luque B, Ye J, Layer RT, Pritchard CD, Khalil A, Lawrence MS, O’Shea TM,Roy RR, Zhong H, Vollenweider I, Edgerton VR, Courtine G, Langer RS. Porous biodegradable polymeric scaffolds promote tissue remodeling and functional improvement in non-human primates with spinal cord injury.
Presentations and Posters
Kwon B, Khalil A. Accuracy of fluoroscopically-assisted percutaneous pedicle Screws placed in patients in the lateral decubitus position. SMISS Global Forum, 2015.
Dai H, Layer R, O’Shea T, Hou J, Khalil A, Podell P, Hess B, Aimetti A, Huang, G, Reynolds F. Effect of porous PLGA-PLL scaffolds on recovery following spinal contusion injury in rats. Neurotrauma Society, 2013.
Khalil A. Endoscopic lamina terminalis fenestration for treatment of obstructive hydrocephalus following failed ETV. AANS, 2010.
Khalil A, Deogaonkar M. Peripheral nerve/field stimulation for post-intervention trigeminal neuropathic pain. CNS, 2010.
Khalil A, Barnett G. Difficulties with the neurological assessment of humans after chimpanzee attack. CNS, 2009.
Khalil A, Tierney T, Smith E. Case Report: Double split cord malformation, a novel type of congenital split cord. AANS, 2007.
Kim A, Khalil A, Black P, Golby A. Simultaneous multiple craniotomies for multiple metastatic lesions. CNS, 2006.
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