Christina M. Notarianni, MD
- Neurological Surgery
- English
Recently honored at the LSU Health Shreveport 2019 Evening for Healers, Christina Notarianni, M.D., FAANS is currently the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport as well as a professor and residency program director in the Department of Neurosurgery at LSU Health Shreveport.
A New Orleans native, she earned a BS in biochemistry from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She subsequently attended Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, earning her medical degree in 2003 and completing her neurosurgical residency in 2009. She then completed a pediatric neurosurgery fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis in 2010.
Dr. Notarianni is the only pediatric neurosurgeon in the Shreveport-Bossier area and one of the foremost pediatric neurosurgeons in the state. Recognized for her expert, compassionate care, she treats children for a range of disease-related conditions as well as congenital or developmental differences that appear in infancy or early childhood. At Shriners Children's, Dr. Notarianni cares for cerebral palsy patients and their families, providing them with surgical treatments for spasticity.
Pediatric Care
Specialties
- Neurological Surgery
- Spine & Spinal Cord
WHERE I PROVIDE CARE
More About Me
- American Board of Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery, Neurological Surgery - General
- American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery, Pediatric Neurological Surgery,
Medical Education
LSU Health Science Center
Shreveport, LA
United States of America
5/1/2003
Internship
Oschner LSU Health Shreveport
Shreveport, LA
6/30/2004
Residency
LSU Health Science Center
Shreveport, LA
United States of America
6/30/2009
Fellowship
University of Tennessee
Memphis, TN
6/30/2010
Graduate School
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
United States of America
12/31/2023
LSUHSC - Shreveport Human Resources
Professor
- 2017-Present: Residency Program Director
- 2019-2020: President, Shreveport Medical Society
- 2017-Present: LSUHS Faculty Senate Member
- 2017-2019: Board member, Shreveport Medical Society
- 2015-Present: Member, American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- 2018-Present: Member, American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons
- 2020-Present: Reviewer, Pediatric Neurosurgery
- 2016-Present: Reviewer, World Neurosurgery
- 2019, Healer: An Evening of Healers, LSUHSC-Shreveport
- 2014, 40 under 40 Young Professionals Award
- American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Aruba - Double Keystone (Butterfly Flaps) for the Closure of Myelomeningoceles (2/2016)
- Speaker: Community Foundation, Step Forward Symposium - Adverse Childhood Events: The Brain Doesn't Forget (9/2019)
- Speaker: AANS Annual Meeting Breakfast Seminar, San Diego, CA - Return to Play After Sports Injury II, Spine Injury (4/2019)
- Speaker: Red River Radio, Preventing Sports Injuries (8/2018)
- Speaker: Grand Rounds Speaker, LSUHSC Emergency Medicine / Pediatrics Abusive Head Trauma (11/2017)
Ratings
About the Patient Experience Rating System
The Patient Rating score is an average of all responses to care provider related questions on our nationally-recognized Press Ganey Patient Satisfaction Survey. Responses are measured on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the best score.