Instructor, Department of Surgical Sciences
Biosketch
Murad Alostaz, MD, is a resident physician in the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biology at UCLA, followed by clinical research at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He went on to earn his medical degree from Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University. During medical school, he completed a spine surgery research fellowship at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in Seattle, WA. Dr. Alostaz is passionate about delivering high-quality surgical care with compassion and a deep commitment to improving patients' lives.
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Education and Training
- MD 2025, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
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Publications
Alostaz M., Derman P., Lipson P., Du J., Gardocki R., Hofstetter C., Wang M., Qureshi S., Louie P.K. Attitudes regarding barriers to entry and the learning curve associated with endoscopic decompression-only surgery: an international survey Spine Journal. 2025;25(5):983-995.
Fujii T., Kumar R., Lipson P., Nold K., Bansal A., Alostaz M., Louie P.K., Sethi R.K. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Protocol in Patients With Adult Spinal Deformity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Global Spine Journal. 2025
Louie P.K., Kumar R., Bansal A., Raub S., Alostaz M., Vivelo N., Gilbert M., Leveque J.C., Nemani V. Are Variable Screw Angle Change and Screw-to-Vertebral Body Ratio Associated With Radiographic Subsidence Following Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion? Global Spine Journal. 2025;15(3):1582-1591.
Yamaguchi K., Biehl S., Alostaz M., Bansal A., Benge A., Verst L., Raub S., Lipson P., Kumar R., Nemani V., Friedman A., Louie P.K. Physical medicine and rehabilitation and interdisciplinary spine clinic referrals are associated with increased conversion to spine surgery Pm and R. 2025
Alostaz M., Bansal A., Gyawali P., Louie P.K. Ergonomics in Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review Spine. 2024;49(16):E250-E261.
Bansal A., Kumar R., Lipson P., Alostaz M., Nemani V., Leveque J.C., Louie P.K. Comparison of Oswestry Disability Index Scores between Surgical Candidates and General Population: Insights into Evaluation Criteria for Spine Surgery Spine. 2024
Eley N., Bansal A., Alostaz M., Kumar R., Leveque J.C., Louie P.K. Opiate-reduction protocol for common outpatient spinal procedures: a long-term feasibility study and single-center experience Journal of Neurosurgery. 2024;141(4):1040-1048.
Kumar R., Alostaz M., Bansal A., Varley E., Nemani V., Leveque J.C., Sethi R., Louie P.K. Describing functional low back pain disability in the American population: a crowd-sourced evaluation of the Oswestry disability index Spine Journal. 2024;24(11):2165-2171.
Louie P.K., Alostaz M., Bansal A., Drolet C.E., Gyawali P., Khan N., Vivelo N., Farrokhi F. A Tubular-Mounted Digital Camera Versus Optical Surgical Microscope for Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression Surgery: The Impact on Operative Times, Ergonomics, and Workflow World Neurosurgery. 2024;184:e65-e71.
Alostaz M., Correa S., Lundy G.S., Waikar S.S., Mc Causland F.R. Time of hemodialysis and risk of intradialytic hypotension and intradialytic hypertension in maintenance hemodialysis Journal of Human Hypertension. 2023;37(10):880-890.