Spiros L Blackburn , MD

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Spiros Blackburn, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained neurosurgeon specializing in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery. He has special expertise in both endoscopic and endovascular neurosurgery and is committed to providing superior care. He’s an associate professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Blackburn received his medical degree at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. After concluding residencies at Washington University in St. Louis, he completed a cerebrovascular fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and a neuro-endovascular fellowship at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University. Before joining UT Physicians Neurosciences, he held a faculty appointment as assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The recipient of numerous academic awards, Blackburn has lectured nationally on the management of cerebral aneurysms, surgical anatomy, arteriovenous malformations, and stroke. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including PNAS, Neurosurgery, World Neurosurgery, Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery, British Journal of Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery, Stroke, and Journal of Neuro-Oncology, among others. His clinical research interests include biomarkers for cerebral vasospasm and translational research for patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, as well as several clinical trials for the treatment of brain aneurysms.