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Professor of Spinal Neurosurgery

Dr. Batzdorf's primary clinical and research focus is on the treatment of Chiari Malformation and syringomyelia and spinal cord tumors.

Hospital Positions:

• Courtesy Staff, Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center, 1999-present
• Attending Physician, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, 1979-present
• Associate Attending Physician, UCLA Medical Center, 1971-1979
• Assistant Attending Physician, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 1968-1971
• Attending Physician, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Hospital, Los Angeles, 1967-1993
• Consulting Physician, Saint John's Hospital and Health Center, Santa Monica, 1993-1999
• Medical Staff, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California, 1977-1993

Academic Appointments:

• Resident Ombudsman 2000-present
• Member, UCLA Comprehensive Spine Center, 1994-present
• Professor, Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine, 1979-present
• Co-Executive Director, UCLA Comprehensive Spine Center, UCLA Medical Center, 1994-1999
• Associate Professor, Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, 1971-1979
• Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine, 1968-1971
• Assistant Professor-In-Residence, Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine, 1966-1968
• Assistant Instructor in Biochemistry, New York Medical College, 1950-1953

Membership, Medical Organizations:

• American Association for Cancer Research
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• American College of Surgeons
• Association for Academic Surgery
• Bay Surgical Society
• Brain Research Institute, UCLA
• California Association of Neurological Surgeons
• California Medical Association
• Cervical Spine Research Society
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• Joint Section of Spinal Disorders, AANS and CNS
• Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care
• Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA
• Longmire Surgical Society
• Los Angeles Society of Neuroloical Sciences
• L'Union Internationale contre le Cancer
• Southern California Neurosurgical Society
• Tissue Culture Association
• Western Neurosurgical Society

• spinecenter.ucla.edu
• neurosurgery.ucla.edu