Neurosurgeon added to the roster at Sparks Neurosurgical Associates

Dr. Timothy Maryanov has joined Sparks Neurosurgical Associates located inside Sparks Plaza on Dodson Avenue.

Among the diseases he treats are spinal degenerative diseases, spinal cord injuries, spinal and cranial trauma, tumors of the spine, brain and pituitary gland, as well as intracranial aneurysms.

Maryanov graduated Cum Laude from the University of California at Los Angeles, with degrees in neuroscience and psychology and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from University of California at San Diego. He was a psychology major in his undergraduate program and worked with autistic children and adults with disabilities at a summer camp. But one class took his education in a new direction.

Maryanov completed his residency at the University of North Carolina’s hospital in Chapel Hill before working as a neurosurgeon at the University of South Carolina’s hospital in Columbia. He most recently worked at a hospital in Jonesboro, Ark.

The Ukraine native and his family moved to southern California when he was a teenager. He is fluent in Russian and Spanish. Maryanov was trained and certified in medical Spanish by the University of California at San Diego.