Frank Acosta, Jr. - UCSF Department of Neurosurgery

Education

1997: AB, Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude
2002: MD, Harvard Medical School

Selected Honors and Awards

1993: Bank of America Achievement Award in Humanities
1993-1997: Harvard College Dean's List
1993-1997: Harvard College Scholarship Award
1997-2002: Harvard Medical School National Scholarship
1999: Harvard Medical School Research Fellowship
2001-2002: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship
2002: Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship in Academic Medicine
2006: National Medical Association Travel Award, NIH/NMA
2006: Ruth L. Kirschstein Individual National Research Service Award (NIH-NIAMS)

Contact

Frank L. Acosta, Jr. MD
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Neurological Surgery
505 Parnassus Ave. Rm. M779
San Francisco, CA 94143-0112
E-mail: Frank.Acosta@ucsf.edu

Affiliations

American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
AOSpine North America
CNS/AANS Joint Section on Tumors

Selected Recent Publications

Acosta FL Jr, Sanai N, Chi JH, Dowd CF, Chin C, Tihan T, Chou D, Weinstein PR, Ames CP. Comprehensive management of symptomatic and aggressive vertebral hemangiomas. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2008;19(1):17-29.

Aryan HE, Acosta FL, Ames CP. Two-level total en bloc lumbar spondylectomy with dural resection for metastatic renal cell carcinoma. J Clin Neurosci 2008;15(1):70-2.

Chi JH, Acosta FL Jr, Aryan HE, Chou D, Ames CP. Partial spondylectomy: Modification for lateralized malignant spinal column tumors of the cervical or lumbosacral spine. J Clin Neurosci 2008;15(1):43-8.

Aryan HE, Lu DC, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. Stand-alone anterior lumbar discectomy and fusion with plate: initial experience. Surg Neurol 2007;68(1):7-13.

Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP, Chou D. Operative Management of Adult High-Grade Lumbosacral Spondylolisthesis. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2007;18(2):249-254.

Acosta FL Jr, Aryan HE, Chi J, Parsa AT, Ames CP. Modified paramedian transpedicular approach and spinal reconstruction for intradural tumors of the cervical and cervicothoracic spine: clinical experience. Spine 2007;32(6):E203-10.

Aryan HE, Lu DC, Acosta FL Jr, Hartl R, McCormick PW, Ames CP. Bioabsorbable anterior cervical plating: initial multicenter clinical and radiographic experience. Spine 2007;32(10):1084-8.

Aryan HE, Lu DC, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. Corpectomy followed by the placement of instrumentation with titanium cages and recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 for vertebral osteomyelitis. J Neurosurg Spine 2007;6(1):23-30.

Acosta FL, Galvez LF, Ames C. Recent advances: infections of the spine. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2006;8(5):390-3.

Acosta FL Jr, Aryan HE, Ames CP. Successful outcome of six-level cervicothoracic corpectomy and circumferential reconstruction: case report and review of literature on multilevel cervicothoracic corpectomy. Eur Spine J 2006;15 Suppl 17:670-4.

Aryan HE, Ames CP, Szandera B, Nguyen AD, Acosta FL Jr, Taylor WR. Coblation of spinal endplates in preparation for interbody spinal fusion. J Clin Neurosci 2006;13(3):349-52.

Acosta FL Jr, Dowd CF, Chin C, Tihan T, Ames CP, Weinstein PR. Current treatment strategies and outcomes in the management of symptomatic vertebral hemangiomas. Neurosurgery 2006;58(2):287-95; discussion 287-95.

Auguste KI, Chin C, Acosta FL, Ames CP. Expandable cylindrical cages in the cervical spine: a review of 22 cases. J Neurosurg Spine 2006;4(4):285-91.

Parsa AT, Chi JH, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP, McCormick PC. Intramedullary spinal cord tumors: molecular insights and surgical innovation. Clin Neurosurg 2005;52:76-84.

Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. Cervical disc arthroplasty: general introduction [Review]. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2005;16(4):603-7, vi.

Acosta FL Jr, Aryan HE, Ames CP. Emerging directions in motion preservation spinal surgery [Review]. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2005;16(4):665-9, vii.

Aryan HE, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. The Charite Artificial Disc: insertion technique. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2005;16(4):637-50, vii.

Aryan HE, Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. The ProDisc artificial disc: insertion technique. Neurosurg Clin N Am 2005;16(4):651-6, vii.

Ames CP, Acosta FL Jr, Chamberlain RH, Larios AE, Crawford NR. Biomechanical analysis of a newly designed bioabsorbable anterior cervical plate. Invited submission from the joint section meeting on disorders of the spine and peripheral nerves, March 2005. J Neurosurg Spine 2005;3(6):465-70.

Acosta FL Jr, Lotz J, Ames CP. The potential role of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for intervertebral disc degeneration: a critical overview [Review]. Neurosurg Focus. 2005 Sep 15;19(3):[6 p.]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/Sep05/19-3-4.pdf.

Acosta FL Jr, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Gadkary CA, Schmidt MH, Chin CT, Ames CP, Rosenberg WS, Weinstein P. Frameless stereotactic image-guided C1-C2 transarticular screw fixation for atlantoaxial instability: review of 20 patients. J Spinal Disord Tech. 2005 Oct;18(5):385-91.

Ames CP, Acosta FL Jr, Chi J, Iyengar J, Muiru W, Acaroglu E, Puttlitz CM. Biomechanical comparison of posterior lumbar interbody fusion and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion performed at 1 and 2 levels. Spine. 2005;30(19):E562-6.

Acosta FL Jr, Ames CP. Artificial pedicle screw reconstruction of the cervical spine after lateral paramedian transpedicular approach for lesions of the ventral cervical spinal canal. Neurosurgery 2005;57(4 Suppl):281-5; discussion 281-5.

Acosta FL Jr, Thompson TL, Campbell S, Weinstein PR, Ames CP. Use of intraoperative isocentric C-arm 3D fluoroscopy for sextant percutaneous pedicle screw placement: case report and review of the literature. Spine J 2005;5(3):339-43.

Ames CP, Bozkus MH, Chamberlain RH, Acosta FL Jr, Papadopoulos SM, Sonntag VK, Crawford NR. Biomechanics of stabilization after cervicothoracic compression-flexion injury. Spine 2005;30(13):1505-12.

Acosta FL, Binder DK, Barkovich AJ, Frieden IJ, Gupta N. Neurocutaneous melanosis presenting with hydrocephalus: case report and review of the literature. J Neurosurg (Pediatrics 1) 2005;102:96-100.

Ames CP, Acosta F, Nottmeier E. Novel treatment of basilar invagination resulting from an untreated C-1 fracture associated with transverse ligament avulsion. Case report and description of surgical technique. J Neurosurg Spine 2005;2(1):83-7.

Acosta FL Jr, Aryan HE, Taylor WR, Ames CP. Kyphoplasty-augmented short-segment pedicle screw fixation of traumatic lumbar burst fractures: initial clinical experience and literature review. Neurosurg Focus [serial on the Internet]. 2005 [cited 2005 Apr 1];18(3):[6p.]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/mar05/18-3-9.pdf

Acosta FL Jr, Chin CT, Quiñones-Hinojosa A, Ames CP, Weinstein PR, Chou D. Diagnosis and management of adult pyogenic osteomyelitis of the cervical spine. Neurosurg Focus [serial on the Internet]. 2004 [cited 2005 Apr 1];17(6):[9p.]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/dec04/17-6-2.pdf

Acosta FL, Quinones-Hinojosa A, Schmidt, MH, Weinstein PR. Diagnosis and management of sacral Tarlov cysts. Case report and review of the literature. Neurosurg Focus [serial on the Internet] 2003 [cited 2004 Sept 15];15(2):[7 p]. Available from: http://www.aans.org/education/journal/neurosurgical/aug03/15-2-15.pdf.

Ehtesham M, Samoto K, Kabos P, Acosta FL, Gutierrez MA, Black KL, Yu JS. Treatment of intracranial glioma with in situ interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor-alpha gene transfer. Cancer Gene Ther 2002;9(11):925-34.

Hess DR, Acosta FL, Ritz RH, Kacmarek RM, Camargo CA Jr. The effect of heliox on nebulizer function using a beta-agonist bronchodilator. Chest 1999;115(1):184-9.