Doctor's Bio
Dr. Gustavo Pradilla, MD, is an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, he serves as chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital and is the co-director of the Grady Skull Base Surgery Center.
Dr. Pradilla completed his training in neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2012 and his fellowship training in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 2013. In addition he received postdoctoral research training in cerebrovascular research and experimental neuro-oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine prior to his residency training.
Dr. Pradilla is the director of the cerebrovascular research laboratory for the Department of Neurosurgery and a member of the Emory Brain Research Laboratory. He specializes in the surgical treatment of cerebrovascular disorders including aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and carotid artery stenosis, as well as in open and endoscopic surgery for brain and skull base tumors. His basic and clinical cerebrovascular research focuses on subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, and intracranial aneurysm formation, and his research in skull base surgery focuses on microsurgical anatomy and technique development in skull base surgery.
Board Certifications
American Board of Neurological Surgery
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: ECFMG - Educational Commission For Foreign Medical Graduates
- Internship: Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowships
Miller School of Medicine
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
OPEN 24 HOURS
Visiting hours are from 8 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. daily
Publications
- Comparing machine learning algorithms for predicting postoperative medical management in prolactinoma surgery: a nested cross-validation study.
Papisetty K, Donghyun Kim C, McCaffery T, Duggireddy H, Salmeron-Moreno K, Buclez J, Kashlan R, Theodore J, Thakar U, Hu D, Valiveti K, Kim J, Janarthanan N, Maldonado J, Pradilla G, Garzon-Muvdi T
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 2026;
PMID: 42732650 - Integrity of Tumor Tissue Collected by Ultrasonic Aspirator: A Cellular and Molecular Perspective.
Maldonado J, Zohdy YM, Salmeron-Moreno K, Aksionau A, Hirano M, Senanayake S, Faraj R, Chern B, Duggireddy H, Papisetty S, Pradilla G, Garzon-Muvdi T
Neurosurgery practice. 2026;7(5):e000270.
PMID: 42666760 - Preoperative frailty and tumor volume as determinants of primary management strategy and outcomes in petroclival meningioma patients.
Kashlan R, Faraj R, Duggireddy H, Zohdy YM, Hasa A, Agudelo Arrieta M, Barrero Ruiz E, Assi J, Rodas A, Salmeron-Moreno K, Maldonado J, Tariciotti L, Pradilla G, Garzon-Muvdi T
Frontiers in surgery. 2026;
PMID: 42657034 - Perioperative predictors of biochemical remission in acromegaly: a predictive modeling study.
Sun H, Patel B, Lohana S, Sarkar R, Chiapponi M, Antonini R, Tariciotti L, Barbero JMR, Haque N, Porto E, Rodas A, Garzon-Muvdi T, Solares CA, Pradilla G
Pituitary. 2026;
PMID: 42509491 - Endoscopic Endonasal Transclival Approach to Ventral Brainstem Cavernous Malformations: Preliminary Case Series and Technical Note on Clival Reconstruction.
Iacoangeli A, Aiudi D, Liverotti V, Chiapponi M, Antonini R, Califano A, Capuano J, Luzi M, Garzon-Muvdi T, Pradilla G, Kassam A, De Notaris M, Luzardo G, Iacoangeli M, Gladi M
World neurosurgery. 2026;
PMID: 42263904 - State of the art and future perspectives on the management of spheno-orbital meningiomas: a meta-analysis comparing transorbital and transcranial approaches.
Porto E, Fiore G, Barbotti A, Bertani GA, Del Bene M, Marfia G, Corrivetti F, de Notaris M, Solari D, Pradilla G, Marcus HJ, Locatelli M, DiMeco F
Frontiers in oncology. 2026;
PMID: 42205747 - The role of preoperative medical therapy on prolactin normalization following prolactinoma resection: evaluating longitudinal prolactin trajectories using linear mixed-effects modeling.
Papisetty K, McCaffery T, Duggireddy H, Salmeron-Moreno K, Kashlan R, Buclez J, Theodore J, Donghyun Kim C, Minseo Kim J, Valiveti K, Thakar U, Hu D, Janarthanan N, Maldonado J, Pradilla G, Garzon-Muvdi T
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. 2026;
PMID: 42190608 - An Assessment of Exposure and Maneuverability to the Upper Parapharyngeal Space Through the Multiport Endoscopic Endonasal Transpterygoid and Anterior Transmaxillary Techniques.
Tariciotti L, Rodas A, Zohdy YM, Barbero JMR, De Andrade EJ, Vuncannon J, Soriano R, Porto E, Tomas GM, Reyes C, Solares CA, Pradilla G
Head & neck. 2026;48(6):1677-1686.
PMID: 41986156 - Cranioplasty Timing After Decompressive Craniectomy: A Meta-Analysis of 4703 Patients.
Ochoa Hernandez D, Villalobos Villalobos FB, Martínez Hernández RY, Vázquez Hernández HJ, Pichardo-Rojas D, Palomino-Ojeda CJ, Fernandez EA, Rizzo Zaldumbide A, Pichardo-Rojas PS, Grossberg JA, Pradilla G, Esquenazi Y
Neurosurgery. 2026;
PMID: 41854265 - Neuro-Oncological Perspectives on Cancer Stem Cell Biology in Glioblastoma: Implications for Resection, Recurrence, Targeted Therapy, and Other CNS Tumors.
Salmeron-Moreno K, Papisetty K, Kim CD, McCaffery T, Kashlan R, Theodore J, Kim JM, Buclez J, Duggireddy H, Maldonado J, Guerrero-Cázares H, Pradilla G, Garzon-Muvdi T
Cells. 2026;
PMID: 41827847
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