Omar S. Akbik, MD
Assistant Professor
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School of Medicine
Neurological Surgery
CUMC - Creighton University Medical Center
Omar S. Akbik, MD
Assistant Professor
Omar Akbik, MD was born and raised in Memphis, TN. He completed his undergraduate and master’s degree at Northwestern University. He returned to Memphis to earn his medical degree at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Moving to Albuquerque after medical school, he completed seven years of neurosurgical residency at the University of New Mexico Hospital, which was and remains the only Level 1 trauma center for the state and tertiary referral center for the state. After residency, Akbik completed a 1-year fellowship in adult deformity and complex spine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Akbik joined as an assistant professor at Creighton University of School of Medicine in 2021. His interests include adult spinal surgery including deformity and minimally invasive techniques as well as traumatic spine injuries. He also has an interest in traumatic brain injuries and brain tumors including endoscopic approaches to pituitary tumors.
Department
Neurological Surgery
Position
Assistant Professor
Publications
- Spine deformity
Akbik Omar S, Aoun Salah G, Ban V S, MacAllister Matthew C, Bagley Carlos A, Genetic and serum markers in adult degenerative scoliosis: a literature review
10:3, p. 479 - 488 2022 - Global spine journal
Akbik Omar S., Al-Adli Nadeem, Pernik Mark N., Hicks William H., Hall Kristen, Bagley Carlos A., Aoun Salah G., A Comparative Analysis of Frailty, Disability, and Sarcopenia With Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery, p. 21925682221082053 - 21925682221082053 2022 - Surgical neurology international
Carlson Andrew P., Denezpi Taryn, Akbik Omar S., Mohammad Laila M., Laser speckle imaging to evaluate scalp flap blood flow during closure in neurosurgical procedures
12, p. 632 - 632 2021 - World neurosurgery
Akbik Omar S, Starling Robert V, Gahramanov Seymur, Zhu Yiliang, Lewis Jeremy, Mortality and Functional Outcome in Surgically Evacuated Acute Subdural Hematoma in Elderly Patients
126, p. e1235 - e1241 2019 - Journal of neurotrauma
Akbik Omar S, Yonas Howard, Krasberg Mark, Nemoto Edwin M, Effect of Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage on Brain Tissue Oxygenation in Traumatic Brain Injury
34:22, p. 3153 - 3157 2017 - Current neurology and neuroscience reports
Akbik Omar S., Carlson Andrew P., Krasberg Mark, Yonas Howard, The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow Assessment in TBI
16:8, p. 72 - 72 2016 - Case reports in surgery
Akbik Omar S., Floruta Crina, Chohan Muhammad O., SantaCruz Karen S., Carlson Andrew P., A Unique Case of an Aggressive Gangliocytic Paraganglioma of the Filum Terminale
2016, p. 1232594 - 6 2016 - Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
Chohan Muhammad Omar, Olin Kim, Taylor Christopher L., Yonas Howard, Ramirez Pedro M., Akbik Omar S., Murray-Krezan Cristina, Berlin Tracey, Ramos-Canseco Juan, A Novel Single Twist-Drill Access Device for Multimodal Intracranial Monitoring: A 5-Year Single-Institution Experience
10:3, p. 400 - 411 2014