Tarun Arora

Tarun Arora, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and serves as Chief of Neurosurgery at MarinHealth Medical Center. His clinical expertise focuses on complex brain and spine tumors, including acoustic neuromas, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, and schwannomas, with specialized training in minimally invasive spinal techniques and gammaknife radiosurgery.

Education:

• Baylor College of Medicine, MD (2002)
• UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Neurosurgery Residency (2008)
• UCSF, Skull Base and Brain Surgery Fellowship
• UCLA, Neurocritical Care Fellowship
• Prior: Licensed Physical Therapist

Research initiatives include:

• Optimizing cerebrospinal fluid leak repair techniques at the skull base
• Developing fluorescent nerve markers for safer surgical outcomes
• Odontoid fracture management in older adults

Publications (2021):

• Paramedian transparietal approach to intraventricular meningioma
• Postoperative infection risks in endonasal pituitary surgery during pandemic conditions

Clinically, Dr. Arora manages:

• Craniocervical junction disorders (Chiari malformation, basilar invagination)
• Minimally invasive spinal interventions
• Radiculopathy and degenerative spinal conditions