Biographical summary
Dr. Maziyar Kalani completed his medical school and neurosurgical residency training at Stanford University School of Medicine as well as a combined orthopedic-neurosurgical fellowship in Complex and Reconstructive Spinal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. His clinical interests include:
- Degenerative disease of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine
- Spine and spinal cord tumors
- Cervical and thoracolumbar spinal deformity
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Cervical disk replacement
- Cervical diskectomy
- Cervical laminectomy
- Cervical pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Cervical scoliosis surgery
- Cervical spine fusion
- Cervical spine surgery
- Kyphoplasty
- Laminoplasty
- Lumbar diskectomy
- Lumbar fusion
- Lumbar laminectomy
- Lumbar pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Lumbar scoliosis surgery
- Lumbar spinal fusion (Deprecated)
- Lumbar spine fusion (Deprecated)
- Minimally invasive cancer surgery
- Minimally invasive cervical diskectomy
- Minimally invasive cervical foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive cervical spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive diskectomy
- Minimally invasive foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar decompression
- Minimally invasive lumbar diskectomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive neurosurgery
- Minimally invasive spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive spine surgery
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Minimally invasive thoracic diskectomy
- Minimally invasive thoracic foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive thoracic spinal fusion
- Sacrectomy
- Sacroplasty
- Spinal deformity correction surgery
- Spinal fusion
- Spinal stabilization surgery
- Spinal tumor ablation
- Thoracic diskectomy
- Thoracic fusion
- Thoracic laminectomy
- Thoracic pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Thoracic scoliosis surgery
- Tumor biopsy
- Tumor resection
- Vertebrectomy
- Vertebroplasty
Interests
- Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
- Surgical Spinal Oncology
- Minimally Invasive Techniques for Spinal Oncology
- Adult Acquired Deformity and Scoliosis Surgery
- Spinal Reconstruction
Mayo Clinic locations
Phoenix, Arizona
Education
- 2018
Fellowship - Combined Neurosurgery-Orthopedic Surgery Complex Spine and DeformityCleveland Clinic Foundation
- 2017
Residency - Neurological SurgeryStanford University Medical Center
- 2015
Fellowship - Advanced Clinical Year in Spine SurgeryStanford University Medical Center
- 2015
Fellowship - Healthcare Systems InnovationStanford Medicine Clinical Excellence Research Center
- 2010
MD - Molecular Basis of MedicineStanford University School of Medicine
- 2006
BS - BiochemistryUniversity of California Los Angeles
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2020
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological Surgery
Awards and honors
- 2014
Biodesign GrantStanford Medicine Spectrum NIH
- 2009
RecipientBlake Wilbur MD Scholarship
- 2008
RecipientMilton Lear Scholarship
- 2008
RecipientIrene L. Best Scholarship
- 2008
Foundation Seed Grant RecipientAmerican Medical Association
- 2008
Stanford Medical ScholarStanford University School of Medicine
- 2008
Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research FellowshipAlpha Omega Alpha
- 2008
Summer Internship in Cardiothoracic SurgeryAmerican Association of Thoracic Surgeons
- 2008
Educational GrantStanford Medicine Center for Immersive and Simulation Based Learning
- 2007
Keck Medical ScholarUniversity of Southern California
- 2007
RecipientAllen O. and Virginia Marsh Scholarship
- 2007
Medical Student Research Program FellowAmerican Heart Association
- 2007
Stanford Medical ScholarStanford University School of Medicine
- 2006
Keck Medical ScholarUniversity of Southern California
- 2004
Research FellowshipAlcott
- 2004
Summer Undergraduate Research FellowshipCalifornia Institute of Technology
- 2004
Summer Research EndowmentNaumburg Honors Programs
- 2004
Undergraduate Research ProgramHoward Hughes Foundation
- 2003
Summer Undergraduate Research FellowshipCalifornia Institute of Technology
- 2003
Research FellowshipLitton Foundation
- 2003
ScholarCenter for Academic and Research Excellence (CARE)
- 2002
College Honors ProgramUniversity of California Los Angeles
- 2002
Math-Science Scholars (MS2)University of California Los Angeles
Professional memberships
- 2013
MemberStanford Society of Physician Scholars, Stanford University School of Medicine
- 2010 - present
MemberAmerican College of Surgeons
- 2010 - present
MemberAmerican Medical Association
- 2010 - present
MemberCongress of Neurological Surgeons
- 2010 - present
MemberAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons
- 2009 - 2010
Head CPR InstructorFirst Year Medical Students, Stanford University School of Medicine
- 2005
MemberGolden Key International Honour Society, University of California Los Angeles
- 2002
MemberPhi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, University of California Los Angeles
- 2002
MemberAlpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society, University of California Los Angeles