Curriculum Vitae

M.A., FACS, FAANS

Neurosurgeon Board Certified

Recent Accomplishments

Advanced Trauma Life Support
Instructor, Brackenridge Hospital
Austin, Texas

Locum Tenens Goals

• Provide expert care within current guidelines
  and recommendations
• Integrate into the system being covered
• Work with the current permanent physicians
  to provide seamless coverage
• Provide up to date patient treatment plans
  concordant with accepted norms

Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio 1980-84

Education

M.D., Honors in Medicine and Neurosurgery Clinical
Clinical Epilepsy Service
National Institutes of Health,

• Directed by Roger Porter, M.D.
  and William Theodore, M.D.
• Supervisor Douglas Rose, M.D.

Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 1976-1980

B.A., Political Science and Chemistry
M.A., Political Science,
Integrated Graduate Studies Program

• Summa Cum Laude,
• Honors, Political Science

St. Paul, Minnesota

Hospital Affiliations

Regions Hospital

• Operating Room Committee
• Hospital Quality Assurance Committee
• Term Completed January 2011

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Golden Valley, Minnesota

North Memorial Hospital

Examinations

American Board of
Neurological Surgery

Flex Examination

National Board Examinations

Fargo, North Dakota

Teaching Appointments

University of North Dakota

Sacramento, California

Dayton, Ohio

Clinical Instructor

University of California-Davis

Wright State Univeristy

State Licensure

California
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Maine
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Texas
Wisconsin
Virginia

December 2011 - Present

Professional Experience

Locum Tenens Neurosurgery

2019 - Present

Private Practice Neurosurgery

January 2012 - October 2019

Neurosurgeon, Altru Health System

April 2005 - January 14, 2011

Neurosurgeon, Regions Hospital, Level 1

July 1997 - March 2005

Neurosurgeon, Park Nicollet Clinic
(Alternated Chief position)

October 1993 - July 1997

Private Practice Neurosurgery
Southwest Ohio Neurosurgery
Upper Valley Medical Center
Level 1, Miami Valley Hospital

August 1991 - August 1993

Neurosurgeon
David Grant Medical Center
USAF
(Alternating Chief Position)

June 1991 - July 1991

Officers Training
Sheppard Air Force Base

July 1990 - June 1991

Fellowship, “Microneurosurgery”
Presbyterian University Hospital
(Posterior fossa, skull base)

July 1985 - June 1990

Residency, Neurosurgery

July 1984 - July 1985

Internship, General Surgery

Memberships

• American Medical Association
• American Association of Neurological Surgeons
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons
• American College of Surgery

Neurosurgical Interests

• Neurotrauma - craniectomy, progesterone,
  head injury outcomes
• Posterior Fossa Surgery
• Neuro-oncology Cervical Spine Surgery
• Skull Base Approaches
• Endoscope-Assisted Neurosurgery
• Frameless Stereotaxy
• Intra-operative Neurophysiological Monitoring

Additional Training

Central Intelligence Agency
Office of Scientific and Weapons Research
Summer Graduate Fellow

EEG/Evoked Potentials Course
Cleveland Clinic, Clinical Epilepsy Section
Hans Luders, M.D., director

Neurotrauma Rotation
Allegheny General Hospital, Level 1
Jack W. Wilberger, M.D., director
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

January - June 1989

Bench Research Experience

Residency Research

Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain pH
in Experimental Limbic Epilepsy
The Intra-Hippocampal Tetanus Toxin Model, (stereotactic installation of tetanus toxin into the rat hippocampus with subsequent EEG recordings and intra-ictal cerebral blood flow measurement with autoradiiography, establishment of the model), Issam Awad, M.D., John R. Little, M.D., director

1989

Meeting Abstracts

Larkins, M.V., Hahn, J.F.: Unusual Presentation of Torticollis. Annual Meeting, Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS and CNS, Cancun, Mexico.

1989

Larkins, M.V., Hahn, J.F., Zins, J.: Split- Thickness Cranioplasty. Annual Meeting, Neurological Society of America, Bermuda.

1989

Larkins, M.V., Barnett, G.H.: Wegner's Granulomatosis of the Spine. Annual Meeting, Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral Nerves of the AANS and CNS, Cancun, Mexico.

1989

Larkins, M.V., Goldberg, A.: Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Thoracolumbar Burst Fractures. Annual Meeting, American Society of Neuroradiology, Orlando, Florida.

1989

Larkins, M.V., Goldberg, A., Baghai, P., Wilberger, J.W.: Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Lumbar Burst Fractures. Annual Meeting, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Washington, D.C.

1989

Larkins, M.V., Epilepsy Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Gardner Day, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

1989

Awad, L.A., Larkins, M.V., Knowles, D.: Intra-Hippocampal Tetanus Toxin Model of Limbic Epilepsy, Research Day, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

1990

Hasenbusch, S.J., Larkins, M.V., Sheeler, L., Lanzieri, C.: Post-Operative Gadolinium Enhanced MRI After Transsphenoidal Pituitary Operations: Guide to Operative Technique. Annual Meeting, American Association of Neurological Surgeons Nashville, Tennessee.

1991

Papay, F., Zinis, J., Larkins, M.V., Hahn, J.F.: Split-Thickness Cranioplasty in Orbital Reconstruction, Annual Meeting, North American Skull Base Society, Orlando, Florida.

1991

Nelson, F., Larkins, M.V.: Incidence of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis in Patients with Spinal Stenosis. Annual Meeting, Joint Section on Disorders of the Spine and Peripheral AANSCNS, Palm Springs.

1991

Nelson, F., Larkins, M.V.: Incidence of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis in Patients with Spinal Stenosis. Annual Meeting, American Association of Neurological Surgeons New Orleans, Louisiana.

1991

Larkins, M.V., Jannetta, P.J., Bissonette, D.: Microvascular Decompression for Recurrent Trigeminal Neuralgia. Pienary Session Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans.

1991

Larkins, M.V., Jannetta, P.J., Bissonette, D.: Recurrent Hemifacial Spasm: Re-Operative Outcome. Annual Meeting, Neurosurgical Society of America, Destin, Florida.

1991

Larkins, M.V., Jannetta, P.J., Bissonette, D.: Re-Operation for Recurrent Hemifacial Spasm. Annual Meeting, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Orlando, Florida.

1986

Publications

Little, J.R., Larkins, M.V., Luders, H., Hahn, J.F., Erenberg, G., Fusiform Basilar Artery Aneurysm in 33 Month Child. Neurosurgery 19: 631-634, 1986.

1987

Lanzieri, C.F., Larkins, M.V., Mancal, A., Long, R., Duchesneau, P.M., Rosenbloom, S.A., Weistein. M.A.: Cranial Post-Operative Site: MRI Imaging Appearance. American Journal of Neuroradiology 9: 27134, 1987.

1989

Larkins, M.V., Hahn, J.F.: Temporal Lobectomy in Children and Adolescents: The Cleveland Clinical Experience. Epilepsy Symposium Supplement, Vol. 2 Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, 1988.

1992

Segal, R., Machiraju, U., Larkins, M.V.: Tortuous Peripheral Arteries: A Cause of Focal Neuropathy, Case Report. Journal of Neurosurgery 76(4): 701-704, 1992.

1995

Barker, F.G., Jannetta, P.J., Bissonette, D.J., Shields, P.T., Larkins, M.V., Jho, H.D.: Microvascular Decompression for Hemifacial Spasm. Journal of Neurosurgery 82: 201-210, 1995.

1995

McCafferty, R.R., Harrison, M.J., Tamas, L.B., Larkins, M.V.: Ossification of the Anterior Longitudinal Ligament and Forestiers Disease: An Analysis of Seven Cases. Journal of Neurosurgery 83: 13-17, 1995.

1996

Jannetta, F.J., Barker F., Bissonette, O., Larkins, M.V., Jho, H.D.: The Long-Term Outcome of Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia. New England Journal of Medicine 334 (17): 1077-83, 1996.

2002

Taylor, F.R., Larkins, M.V.: Headache and Chiari | Malformation: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis, and Controversies in Management. Curr Pain Headache Rep 6(4) 331-7, Aug, 2002.

Special Distinctions

ATLS Instructor since 2013

Plenary Paper Presentation at National Meeting
AANS, 2019, New Orleans

Ground level fall trauma paper for north dakota trauma society - changing policy on how these patients are treated in north dakota trauma centers

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