Posts by Maya Babu, MD, MBA
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Time Constraints, Barriers to Access Limit Opioid Prescription Monitoring by Neurosurgeons
The first survey to examine neurosurgeons use of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) suggests that misunderstandings and barriers to access are limiting the efficacy of these databases.
Biography
A native of Eagan, Minnesota, Maya Babu, MD, MBA attended college at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, receiving a BS in neuroscience and BA in psychology, both summa cum laude with highest distinction in 2005. Dr. Babu attended Harvard Medical School and received an MD cum laude in 2010. She also attended Harvard Business School, where she received her MBA in 2010.
She has completed a neurocritical care enfolded CAST fellowship (2016) neurosurgical residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (2017), and Neurotrauma fellowship at Ryder Trauma Center/Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami, Miami, Florida (2018).
She served on the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association from 2013 to 2017, serves on the Advisory Council for Neurologic Surgery for the American College of Surgeons, served on the Board of Directors of the National Resident Matching Program from 2014 to 2017, and was named a Visiting Scholar by the American Board of Medical Specialties from 2015 to 2016. She chairs the Neuroscience Caucus of the American Medical Association House of Delegates.
She presently serves as Director of Adult Neurotrauma at the Massachusetts General Hospital with an appointment at Harvard Medical School. She serves as an Unaffiliated Neurotrauma Consultant for the National Football League.
Her clinical interests include treating patients with traumatic brain and spine injuries, post-traumatic pain, neurosurgical pain disorders, brain tumors, degenerative spine disorders, spinal tumors and spinal cord stimulator implantation.
Her research interests include evaluating the human and financial impact of legislation, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, industry-physician transparency, efficiency in healthcare delivery, operating room sustainability, medical ethics and surgical leadership.
