Arun Paul Amar

Dr. Arun Paul Amar, M.D. is the neurological surgery expert witness from Los Angeles. He also has expertise in general neurosurgery. He has an active medical practitioner’s license from the state of California and is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Dr. Amar graduated summa cum laude with distinction in philosophy from Yale University. He earned his M.D. in 1993 from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He then completed his residency in Neurological Surgery from the University of Southern California - LAC+USC Medical Center. He further completed his fellowship in Neuroradiology from the LAC + USC Medical Center. He also completed his Internship in Neurological Surgery from the LAC + USC Medical Center. After his training, Dr. Amar was recruited back to Yale as Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery. Dr. Amar's research and clinical interests include brain and spinal cord injury, aneurysms and vascular malformations, stroke and cerebrovascular disorders, blood-brain-barrier, brain tumors, vagus nerve stimulation, interventional neuroradiology, vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty, stem cell therapy, and gene therapy. Dr. Arun P. Amar is affiliated with multiple hospitals in Los Angeles, California and he has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Arun Amar, M.D., is an associate professor and the Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery at the University of Southern California. He has also edited books on spinal cord injury and interventional neuroradiology.