Anthony DiGiorgio
Assistant Clinical Professor
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Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA is an assistant professor in the department of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his DO degree from Touro University of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, CA and completed neurosurgery residency at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, LA. He completed a research fellowship in minimally invasive spine surgery and a clinical fellowship in neurotrauma and neurocritical care, both at UCSF. His clinical and research interests include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and minimally invasive spine surgery. He serves as Director of Spinal Neurotrauma at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
Dr. DiGiorgio also obtained a master’s in Health Administration from LSU and has served as a healthcare policy fellow in the US Senate for Bill Cassidy (R-LA). He is also a delegate to the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies representing California as well as a delegate to the California Medical Association representing San Francisco & Marin. He serves on the executive committees of both the California Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Council of State Neurological Societies. He is involved in socioeconomic and policy research, specifically Medicaid policy and access to care, serving as affiliated faculty in the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

Publications

Neuroworsening from a normal Glasgow Coma Scale Motor Score in the emergency department is an early predictor of neurosurgical intervention, hospital outcomes, and longitudinal disability in traumatic brain injury: A TRACK-TBI Study.

Injury

Yue JK, Fu AY, Elguindy MM, van Essen TA, Eagle SR, Caldwell DJ, Vassar MJ, Belton PJ, Gotthardt CJ, Bhattacharyay S, Chung JE, Satris GG, Vreeburg RJG, Schneider ALC, Lui A, Madhok DY, Halabi C, Ferguson AR, Huang MC, Tarapore PE, DiGiorgio AM, Markowitz AJ, Robertson CS, Mukherjee P, Yuh EL, McCrea MA, Duhaime AC, Hinson HE, Puccio AM, Valadka AB, Okonkwo DO, Sun X, Jain S, Manley GT, TRACK-TBI Investigators

Longitudinal pain intensity and interference symptomatology in mild traumatic brain injury: a TRACK-TBI study.

Pain

Gotthardt CJ, Barber JK, Eagle SR, van Essen TA, Nelson LD, Fu AY, Satris GG, Vreeburg RJG, Tracey JX, Etemad LL, Wong JC, Elguindy MM, Belton PJ, Madhok DY, Korley FK, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, Duhaime AC, Halabi C, Huang MC, Tarapore PE, DiGiorgio AM, Valadka AB, Robertson CS, Mukherjee P, Yuh EL, Puccio AM, Okonkwo DO, Giacino JT, McCrea MA, Temkin NR, Manley GT, Yue JK, TRACK-TBI Investigators

Impact of discharge to subacute rehabilitation or home with health services on prolonged length of stay and increased inpatient expense following elective surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy: a propensity score-matched Quality Outcomes Database st

Journal of neurosurgery. Spine

Howell HJ, Khan FA, Mummaneni PV, Shlobin NA, Chou D, DiGiorgio AM, Bydon M, Bisson EF, Shaffrey CI, Gottfried ON, Asher AL, Coric D, Potts EA, Foley KT, Wang MY, Fu KM, Virk MS, Knightly JJ, Meyer SA, Park P, Upadhyaya CD, Yen CP, Uribe JS, Tumialán LM, Turner JD, Haid RW, Chan AK

1122 Comparable Clinical Outcomes for Patients Insured by Medicaid Versus Private Insurance after Surgery for High Grade Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: An Analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database.

Neurosurgery

Ian McFatridge, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Sarah Johnson, Kai-Ming G. Fu, Anthony L. Asher, Domagoj Coric, Michael S. Virk, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Oren N. Gottfried, Mohamad Bydon, Andrew Chan, Jay D. Turner, Juan S. Uribe, Michael Y. Wang, Paul Park, Steven D. Glassman, Kevin T. Foley, Cheerag D. Upadhyaya, Mark Edwin Shaffrey, Erica Fay Bisson, Dean Chou, Praveen V. Mummaneni, Eric A. Potts

480 1-Year ODI Predicts Return-to-Work at 2 Years Among Employed Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spine Surgery for Grade II Spondylolisthesis–A Quality Outcomes Database Study.

Neurosurgery

Michael Tawil, Kai-Ming G. Fu, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Timothy Joseph Yee, Alysha Jamieson, Vivian Le, Jay D. Turner, Juan S. Uribe, Anthony L. Asher, Domagoj Coric, Michael S. Virk, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Oren N. Gottfried, Eric A. Potts, Mohamad Bydon, Michael Y. Wang, Paul Park, Steven D. Glassman, Kevin T. Foley, Cheerag D. Upadhyaya, Mark Edwin Shaffrey, Erica Fay Bisson, Dean Chou, Praveen V. Mummaneni

Clinical profile of patients with acute traumatic brain injury undergoing cranial surgery in the United States: report from the 18-centre TRACK-TBI cohort study.

Lancet regional health. Americas

Yue JK, Kanter JH, Barber JK, Huang MC, van Essen TA, Elguindy MM, Foreman B, Korley FK, Belton PJ, Pisica D, Lee YM, Kitagawa RS, Vassar MJ, Sun X, Satris GG, Wong JC, Ferguson AR, Huie JR, Wang KKW, Deng H, Wang VY, Bodien YG, Taylor SR, Madhok DY, McCrea MA, Ngwenya LB, DiGiorgio AM, Tarapore PE, Stein MB, Puccio AM, Giacino JT, Diaz-Arrastia R, Lingsma HF, Mukherjee P, Yuh EL, Robertson CS, Menon DK, Maas AIR, Markowitz AJ, Jain S, Okonkwo DO, Temkin NR, Manley GT, TRACK-TBI Investigators

The correlation of neurosurgery motor examinations with ISNCSCI motor examinations in patients with spinal cord injury: a multicenter TRACK-SCI study.

Journal of neurosurgery. Spine

Lui A, Bonney PA, Burke J, Kanter JH, Yue JK, Takegami N, Tarapore PE, Huang M, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Hemmerle DD, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, Duong-Fernandez X, Lai N, Saigal R, Pan J, Singh V, Kyritsis N, Talbott JF, Pascual LU, Huie JR, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, O'Banion LA, Kuo YH, Viljoen S, Grandhi R, Shammassian BH, DiGiorgio AM

Prior traumatic brain injury is a risk factor for in-hospital mortality in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury: a TRACK-TBI cohort study.

Trauma surgery & acute care open

Yue JK, Etemad LL, Elguindy MM, van Essen TA, Belton PJ, Nelson LD, McCrea MA, Vreeburg RJG, Gotthardt CJ, Tracey JX, Coskun BC, Krishnan N, Halabi C, Eagle SR, Korley FK, Robertson CS, Duhaime AC, Satris GG, Tarapore PE, Huang MC, Madhok DY, Giacino JT, Mukherjee P, Yuh EL, Valadka AB, Puccio AM, Okonkwo DO, Sun X, Jain S, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM, TRACK-TBI Investigators, Badjatia N, Barber J, Bodien YG, Fabian B, Ferguson AR, Foreman B, Gardner RC, Gopinath S, Grandhi R, Russell Huie J, Dirk Keene C, Lingsma HF, MacDonald CL, Markowitz AJ, Merchant R, Ngwenya LB, Rodgers RB, Schneider ALC, Schnyer DM, Taylor SR, Temkin NR, Torres-Espin A, Vassar MJ, Wang KKW, Wong JC, Zafonte RD

Isolated Traumatic Subarachnoid Hemorrhage on Head Computed Tomography Scan May Not Be Isolated: A Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury Study (TRACK-TBI) Study.

Journal of neurotrauma

Yue JK, Yuh EL, Elguindy MM, Sun X, van Essen TA, Deng H, Belton PJ, Satris GG, Wong JC, Valadka AB, Korley FK, Robertson CS, McCrea MA, Stein MB, Diaz-Arrastia R, Wang KKW, Temkin NR, DiGiorgio AM, Tarapore PE, Huang MC, Markowitz AJ, Puccio AM, Mukherjee P, Okonkwo DO, Jain S, Manley GT

254 Initiation of Low Molecular Weight Heparin Within 24 Hours Is Safe and Effective for VTE Prophylaxis in Spinal Cord Injury Patients.

Neurosurgery

Austin Lui, Timothy Chryssikos, Arati Patel, Christine Park, Abel Torres, Nikolaos Kyritsis, Debra P. Hemmerle, Xuan Duong Fernandez, Rajiv Saigal, Jason Talbott, Jonathan S. Pan, Adam Ferguson, William Whetstone, Vineeta Singh, Philip R. Weinstein, Sanjay S. Dhall, Praveen V. Mummaneni, J. Russell Huie, Lisa U. Pascual, Geoffrey Manley, Jacqueline Bresnahan, Michael Beattie, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio

445 Performance of the IMPACT and CRASH Prognostic Models for Traumatic Brain Injury in a Contemporary Multicenter Cohort: A TRACK-TBI Study.

Neurosurgery

John K. Yue, Young Min Lee, Sonia Jain, Xiaoying Sun, Thomas van Essen, Mahmoud Elguindy, Dana Pisica, Patrick Belton, Hansen Deng, Gabriela Satris, Justin Wong, John Kanter, Vardhaan Sai Ambati, Ava Puccio, Pratik Mukherjee, Esther Yuh, Amy Markowitz, Alex B. Valadka, Phiroz E. Tarapore, Michael C. Huang, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, David O. Okonkwo, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Hester F. Lingsma, David K. Menon, Andrew Ian Ramsay Maas, Geoffrey T. Manley

ATF3 is a neuron-specific biomarker for spinal cord injury and ischaemic stroke.

Clinical and translational medicine

Pan JZ, Wang Z, Sun W, Pan P, Li W, Sun Y, Chen S, Lin A, Tan W, He L, Greene J, Yao V, An L, Liang R, Li Q, Yu J, Zhang L, Kyritsis N, Fernandez XD, Moncivais S, Mendoza E, Fung P, Wang G, Niu X, Du Q, Xiao Z, Chang Y, Lv P, Huie JR, Torres-Espin A, Ferguson AR, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Weinstein PR, Pascual LU, Singh V, DiGiorgio AM, Saigal R, Whetstone WD, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Bresnahan JC, Maze M, Jiang X, Singhal NS, Beattie MS, Su H, Guan Z

Performance of the IMPACT and CRASH prognostic models for traumatic brain injury in a contemporary multicenter cohort: a TRACK-TBI study.

Journal of neurosurgery

Yue JK, Lee YM, Sun X, van Essen TA, Elguindy MM, Belton PJ, Pisica D, Mikolic A, Deng H, Kanter JH, McCrea MA, Bodien YG, Satris GG, Wong JC, Ambati VS, Grandhi R, Puccio AM, Mukherjee P, Valadka AB, Tarapore PE, Huang MC, DiGiorgio AM, Markowitz AJ, Yuh EL, Okonkwo DO, Steyerberg EW, Lingsma HF, Menon DK, Maas AIR, Jain S, Manley GT, The TRACK-TBI Investigators

Impact of Educational Background on Preoperative Disease Severity and Postoperative Outcomes Among Patients With Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy.

Clinical spine surgery

Agarwal N, DiGiorgio A, Michalopoulos GD, Letchuman V, Chan AK, Shabani S, Lavadi RS, Lu DC, Wang MY, Haid RW, Knightly JJ, Sherrod BA, Gottfried ON, Shaffrey CI, Goldberg JL, Virk MS, Hussain I, Glassman SD, Shaffrey ME, Park P, Foley KT, Pennicooke B, Coric D, Upadhyaya C, Potts EA, Tumialán LM, Fu KG, Asher AL, Bisson EF, Chou D, Bydon M, Mummaneni PV

Safety and comparative efficacy of initiating low-molecular-weight heparin within 24 hours of injury or surgery for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients with spinal cord injury: a prospective TRACK-SCI registry study.

Neurosurgical focus

Lui A, Park C, Chryssikos T, Radabaugh H, Patel A, Aabedi AA, Ferguson AR, Torres Espin A, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Duong-Fernandez X, Saigal R, Chou A, Pan J, Singh V, Hemmerle DD, Kyritsis N, Talbott JF, Pascual LU, Huie JR, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM

Longitudinal Recovery Following Repetitive Traumatic Brain Injury.

JAMA network open

Etemad LL, Yue JK, Barber J, Nelson LD, Bodien YG, Satris GG, Belton PJ, Madhok DY, Huie JR, Hamidi S, Tracey JX, Coskun BC, Wong JC, Yuh EL, Mukherjee P, Markowitz AJ, Huang MC, Tarapore PE, Robertson CS, Diaz-Arrastia R, Stein MB, Ferguson AR, Puccio AM, Okonkwo DO, Giacino JT, McCrea MA, Manley GT, Temkin NR, DiGiorgio AM, TRACK-TBI Investigators

403 Inferior Clinical Outcomes for Patients with Medicaid Insurance Following Surgery for Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: A Prospective Registry Analysis of 608 Patients.

Neurosurgery

Andrew K. Chan, Vijay Letchuman, Praveen V. Mummaneni, John Frederick Burke, Nitin Agarwal, Erica Fay Randy Bisson, Mohamad Bydon, Kevin T. Foley, Christopher I. Shaffrey, Steven D. Glassman, Michael Y. Wang, Paul Park, Eric A. Potts, Mark Edwin Shaffrey, Domagoj Coric, John J. Knightly, Kai-Ming G. Fu, Jonathan Slotkin, Anthony L. Asher, Michael S. Virk, Panagiotis Kerezoudis, Mohammed Alvi, Jian Guan, Regis W. Haid, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio

Osteomyelitis.

Treatment of Spine Disease in the Elderly

Jacob S. Blitstein, Ashraf E. El Naga, Sanjay S. Dhall, Anthony M. DiGiorgio

39 Spinal Cord Injury.

Benzels Spine Surgery

Ashraf N. El Naga, Joseph R. Mendelis, Anthony M. DiGiorgio, Sigurd H. Berven

Diagnostic blood RNA profiles for human acute spinal cord injury.

The Journal of experimental medicine

Kyritsis N, Torres-Espín A, Schupp PG, Huie JR, Chou A, Duong-Fernandez X, Thomas LH, Tsolinas RE, Hemmerle DD, Pascual LU, Singh V, Pan JZ, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Ferguson AR, Oldham MC, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS

Atlas-based Volumetric Analysis of Blunt Spinal Cord Contusion Injury.

Neurosurgery

John F Burke, Nikhil Mummaneni, Adam Ferguson, J. Russell Huie, Leigh H Thomas, Lisa Pascual, Anthony M DiGiorgio, Debra P Hemmerle, Vineeta Singh, Abel Torres, Nikolaos Kyritsis, Philip R Weinstein, William Whetstone, Sanjay S Dhall, Xuan Duong Fernandez, Michael Beattie, Jacqueline Bresnahan, Jason Talbott

Injury volume extracted from MRI predicts neurologic outcome in acute spinal cord injury: A prospective TRACK-SCI pilot study.

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia

Mummaneni N, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris M, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Russell Huie J, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, Kyritsis N, Weinstein PR, Whetstone WD, Manley GT, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Cohen-Adad J, Dhall SS, Talbott JF

169 Similar Proportions Return to Work Following Fusion and Decompression Alone for Degenerative Grade 1 Lumbar Spondylolisthesis, Though the Trajectories Differ: An Analysis of the Quality Outcomes Database.

Neurosurgery

Andrew K.H Chan, Erica F Bisson, Mohamad Bydon, Steven D Glassman, Kevin T Foley, Eric A Potts, Christopher I Shaffrey, Mark E Shaffrey, Domagoj Coric, Michael Y Wang, John J Knightly, Paul Park, Kai-Ming G Fu, Jonathan Slotkin, Anthony L Asher, Michael S Virk, Panagiotis Kerezoudis, Jian Guan, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Catherine Miller, Regis W Haid, Praveen V Mummaneni

D-TRAX.

Clifford Crutcher, Anthony Digiorgio, Remi Nader, Gabriel Tender

Facetectomy.

Anthony Digiorgio, Malcolm Daniel Eggart, Adriana Constantinescu, Jason Wilson, Gabriel Tender

Microdiscectomy.

Niki Calina, Daniel Serban, Adriana Constantinescu, Anthony Digiorgio, Gabriel Tender

Parsectomy.

Rand Voorhies, Gabriel Tender, Clifford Crutcher, Anthony Digiorgio

101 Lumbar Fusion Versus Laminectomy for Spondylolisthesis: Lessons Learned from the AANS/CNS Spine Section Study Group's Analysis of the N2QOD Registry.

Neurosurgery

Erica Fay Bisson, Mohamad Bydon, Michael S Virk, Steven D Glassman, Kevin T Foley, Eric A Potts, Christopher I Shaffrey, Paul Park, Kai-Ming G Fu, Anthony L Asher, Jonathan Slotkin, Regis W Haid, Domagoj Coric, John J Knightly, Silky Chotai, Andrew Kai-Hong Chan, Panagiotis Kerezoudis, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Praveen V Mummaneni

Team Category