Dr. Martin G. Piazza

Martin Piazza, MD, is a pediatric neurosurgeon. He is the surgical director of the Pediatric Surgical Movement Disorders and Neurosurgery Spinal Programs at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Piazza received his undergraduate degree in chemistry with a certificate in materials science and engineering from Princeton University. He earned his medical doctorate from Wake Forest School of Medicine. Dr. Piazza spent a year at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., as a fellow in the Medical Research Scholars Program. During this time, he performed research in the Surgical Neurology Branch focused on edema associated with pediatric and adult brain tumors. Dr. Piazza is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Hospitals neurosurgery residency program. He completed fellowships in pediatric neurosurgery at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and in pediatric spinal deformity at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia.

Dr. Piazza is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Spasticity. His top areas of expertise are Lordosis, Chiari Malformation, Chiari Malformation Type 2, Spasticity, and Spinal Fusion.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 17 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 2 articles in the study of Spasticity.