Scott P Falci, MD, PC

Specialties

Dr. Falci is a neurosurgeon who specializes in spinal cord injuries. He sees all of his patients through Craig Hospital.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and completed his neurosurgical residency at Georgetown in 1992. He received his undergraduate training at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. Dr. Falci initiated and designed the First Transplantation of Embryonic Nerve Cells for Spinal Cord Injury Project at Craig Center for Spinal Cord Research in collaboration with the Spinalis SCI Research Unit, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, and the department of Neurosurgery, University of Uppsala in Sweden. (J. of Neurotrauma, Vol. 14, No. 11, November, 1997) His specialties include:

Surgical treatment for posttraumatic spinal cord tethering, posttraumatic syringomyelia, posttraumatic neuropathic pain, spinal deformities, skeletal deformities, scoliosis, spasticity, research in neuropathic pain and stem cell development for spinal cord injury.

History

Established in 1993.

Acorda Award, First Prize. American Spinal Injury Association. April, 1999.

L.W. Freeman, M.D. Award. National Spinal Cord Injury Association. August 24, 1998.

The Kenneth Shulman Memorial Award. American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Pediatric Section. Resident Competition. 1989.

Phi Beta Kappa. Princeton University.

Magna Cum Laude. Princeton University.

Manfred Pyka Physics Prize. Princeton University.

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Current research includes:

Neurochemical and Histopathologic Analysis of the Dorsal Root Entry Zone in Spinal Cord Injured Patients with Central Deafferentation Pain.

Animal Modeling of neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury.

Development of Human Clinical Trial for Administration of Embryonic Stem Cells in Spinal Cord Injury.

Use of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Restoration of Neurologic Function in Spinal Cord Injured Rats.