Biographical summary
Oluwaseun O. Akinduro, M.D., is a fellowship trained Neurosurgeon specializing in Complex Spine and Spinal Oncology. He serves as the Director of Spinal Oncology at Mayo Clinic.
Dr. Akinduro completed medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and then completed his neurosurgical training at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. He then completed a Complex Spine and Spinal Oncology fellowship at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Dr. Akinduro runs a basic science laboratory focused on finding targeted therapies for patients with spinal cancers. His clinical and research interests are: drug delivery techniques for spine tumors, chordoma treatment, minimally invasive techniques for treatment of degenerative spinal conditions as well as spinal tumors, robotic spine surgery, awake spine surgery, endoscopic spine surgery, lateral approaches to the spine, and stabilization techniques for craniocervical junction disease.
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Anterior lumbar interbody fusion
- Awake spine surgery
- Back surgery
- Cervical disk replacement
- Cervical diskectomy
- Cervical laminectomy
- Cervical pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Cervical scoliosis surgery
- Cervical spine fusion
- Cervical spine surgery
- Complex oncologic multidisciplinary pelvic surgery
- Diskectomy
- Endoscopic procedure
- Endoscopic spine surgery
- Foraminotomy
- Laminectomy
- Lateral lumbar interbody fusion
- Lumbar diskectomy
- Lumbar fusion
- Lumbar laminectomy
- Lumbar pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Lumbar scoliosis surgery
- Minimally invasive cancer surgery
- Minimally invasive cervical diskectomy
- Minimally invasive cervical foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive cervical spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive diskectomy
- Minimally invasive foraminotomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar decompression
- Minimally invasive lumbar diskectomy
- Minimally invasive lumbar spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive neurosurgery
- Minimally invasive spinal fusion
- Minimally invasive spine surgery
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Minimally invasive thoracic diskectomy
- Minimally invasive thoracic spinal fusion
- Prone lateral lumbar interbody fusion
- Pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Revision spinal surgery
- Robotic spine surgery
- Sacrectomy
- Spinal fusion
- Spine tumor surgery
- Spondylolisthesis surgery
- Thoracic diskectomy
- Thoracic fusion
- Thoracic laminectomy
- Thoracic pseudoarthrosis procedure
- Thoracic scoliosis surgery
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2024
Fellowship - Complex Spine and Spine Oncology Brown University
- 2023
ResidentNeurologic Surgery, Programs in Florida, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
- 2022
Post Doctoral Fellowship - Cancer BiologyNeurosurgery Research and Education Foundation
- 2016
MDMorehouse School of Medicine
- 2011
BS - Biology, Chemistry, Psychology University of Alabama at Birmingham
Activities and honors
Awards and honors
- 2023
Selected as Cover Figure Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
- 2022
Resident of the Year Award Department of Neurosurgery
- 2021
Selected as Cover Figure Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
- 2021
Travel ScholarshipSociety for Neuro-Oncology (SNO)
- 2021
Research Fellowship GrantNREF & AANS/CNS Section on Tumors
- 2021
Selected as Cover Figure for June 2021 Edition Journal of NeuroOncology
- 2018
First Place AwardDepartment of Surgery
- 2017
Winner of Neurosurgical Top Gun Competition: Trigeminal Rhizotomy American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
- 2015
Educational GrantDepuy Synthes
- 2015
Academic ScholarshipMorehouse School of Medicine
- 2010
InductionPhi Beta Sigma Biological Research Honors Society
- 2009
Dean' ListUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham
Professional memberships
- 2019 - present
OrganizerNeurosurgery Morbidity & Mortality Conference
- 2018 - present
Subcommittee MemberSimulation Subcommittee
- 2014 - present
MemberAmerican Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
- 2012 - present
MemberChristian Medical Association
- 2010 - present
MemberPhi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society
- 2009 - present
MemberKappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc
Publications