Our Experience
Drs Paolo Bolognese and Roger Kula
LEADERSHIP
- Founders of Chiari Center, Chiari Institute, Chiari Neurosurgical Center, and Chiari EDS Center
- Members of the Medical Advisory Boards of ASAP and CSF
- Member of the Board of Directors of ASAP
- Organizers of the 2017 ASAP National Conference
- Educational Videos for the CMI community since 2003
- Speakers at ASAP Conferences since 2001
- Speakers at CSF Symposia since its inception
- Invited speakers in Scientific Meetings worldwide
Roger W. Kula, M.D., FAAN
Former Medical Director
RECENTLY RETIRED
We are most grateful for all of the hard work and expertise that Dr Kula has provided to our team, as well as the thousands of patients he has treated.
TECHNICAL INNOVATION
- 2020 – IRB approved Prospective study about Craniocervical Fusions
- 2019 – IRB approved Retrospective study about Posterior Fossa Decompressions, Craniocervical Fusions, and Section Filum Terminale
- 2016 – IRB approved STING Protocol
- 2016 – Introduced the technique of Focal Restrictive Duroplasty for the treatment of Intracranial Hypotension
- 2011 – Started using Condylar screws for Craniocervical Fusions (largest case series in the world to date with this technique)
- 2010 – Developed the MIST technique for CMI surgery, along with the Department of Syringomyelia in Beijing
- 2006 – Identified Occult Tethered Cord as a comorbidity in CMI
- 2005 – Detected the association of Styloid Hypertrophy and CMI
- 2005 – Started the Systematic use of Morphometrics in CMI care
- 2003 – Identified Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome as a comorbidity in CMI
- 2002 – Developed the concept of Tailored Surgical Technique in Chiari Surgery
- 1999 – Co-authored the seminal article “Chiari I Malformation Redefined”
- 1998 – Introduced the Intraoperative Color Doppler Ultrasound, to measure CSF flow
- 1998 – Introduced Cranioplasty in Chiari surgery
- 1997 – Development of Extradural Posterior Fossa Decompression technique
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