Omar S. Akbik
Assistant Professor
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School of Medicine
Neurological Surgery
CUMC - Creighton University Medical Center
Omar S. Akbik
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
Books
- Akbik Omar, etal Endoscopic spine surgery 2022
Publications
- Neurosurgical review
Shukla Ishav Y, etal Pain outcomes following long-segment thoracolumbar fusion: a three-year mixed-effects analysis
48:1, p. 723 2025 - Journal of neurosurgery. Spine
Guirguis Fady F, etal The effect of patient body mass on renal function in multilevel spinal fusion for adult spinal deformity to prevent acute kidney injury, p. 1 2025 - North American Spine Society journal (NASSJ)
Shukla Ishav Y., etal Frailty as an Independent Predictor of Perioperative Risk and Recovery in Long-Segment Thoracolumbar Fusion Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study, p. 100749 - 100749 2025 - World Neurosurgery
Azam Faraaz, etal Identifying Correlation Among Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: A Study of PROMIS-29, ODI, and VAS in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients
181 2024 - Global Spine Journal
Pernik Mark N., etal Response to the Letter to the Editor on “Psoas Muscle Index as a Predictor of Perioperative Outcomes in Geriatric Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery”
14:4 2024 - World Neurosurgery
Azam Faraaz, etal A 3-Year Study Investigating the Utility of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System-29 for Long-Term Follow-Up in Adult Spinal Deformity
186 2024 - World Neurosurgery
Azam Faraaz, etal Trends of the Oswestry Disability Index in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients: A 3-Year Study
181 2024 - Global Spine Journal
Pernik Mark N., etal Psoas Muscle Index as a Predictor of Perioperative Outcomes in Geriatric Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery
13:7 2023 - Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Barrie Umaru, etal Impact of obesity on complications and surgical outcomes after adult degenerative scoliosis spine surgery
226 2023 - Journal of the Endocrine Society
Jinnur Shanthakumari, etal PMON105 Giant Growth Hormone (GH)-Secreting Pituitary Tumor with Massive Sphenoid Sinus Invasion and Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak: A Case Report
6:Supplement_1, p. A529 - A530 2022 - Spine deformity
Akbik Omar S, etal Genetic and serum markers in adult degenerative scoliosis: a literature review
10:3, p. 479 - 488 2022 - Global spine journal
Akbik Omar S., etal A Comparative Analysis of Frailty, Disability, and Sarcopenia With Patient Characteristics and Outcomes in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery, p. 21925682221082053 - 21925682221082053 2022 - Spine Journal
Barrie Umaru, etal Transfusion guidelines in adult spine surgery: a systematic review and critical summary of currently available evidence
22:2 2022 - Pain Physician
Akbik Omar S., etal Open Paddle Lead Trial for Spinal Cord Stimulation: An Institutional Experience
25:1 2022 - Surgical neurology international
Carlson Andrew P., etal Laser speckle imaging to evaluate scalp flap blood flow during closure in neurosurgical procedures
12, p. 632 - 632 2021 - Stroke and Vascular Neurology
Owen Bryce, etal Incidence and outcomes of intracerebral haemorrhage with mechanical compression hydrocephalus
6:3 2021 - World Neurosurgery
Al-Adli Nadeem, etal The Clinical Use of Serum Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review Stratified by Injury Severity
155 2021 - World Neurosurgery
Akbik Omar S., etal Endoscopic Transforaminal Drainage of a Ventrally Located Thoracic Epidural Abscess
139 2020 - Surgical Neurology International
Akbik Omar Saleh, etal Treatment of unusually located traumatic intracranial aneurysms and severe vasospasm following a gunshot wound to the head: A case report
11:57 2020 - World neurosurgery
Akbik Omar S, etal Mortality and Functional Outcome in Surgically Evacuated Acute Subdural Hematoma in Elderly Patients
126, p. e1235 - e1241 2019 - Journal of neurotrauma
Akbik Omar S, etal 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., etal The Utility of Cerebral Blood Flow Assessment in TBI
16:8, p. 72 - 72 2016 - Current Neurobiology
Akbik Omar S., etal The roles of ventricular and parenchymal intracranial pressure monitoring
7:1 2016 - Case reports in surgery
Akbik Omar S., etal A Unique Case of an Aggressive Gangliocytic Paraganglioma of the Filum Terminale
2016, p. 1232594 - 6 2016 - Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.)
Chohan Muhammad Omar, etal A Novel Single Twist-Drill Access Device for Multimodal Intracranial Monitoring: A 5-Year Single-Institution Experience
10:3, p. 400 - 411 2014