Neurosurgery
Faculty
Services
OPD Schedule
Specialty Clinics
Statistics
Courses & Short term Trainings
Research
Collaboration
Expansion plan
Neurosurgery
Vision
We aspire to be a leading international centre of excellence in Neurosurgery, maintaining highest standards in patient care, education and research.
Mission
To provide state of art care for neurosurgical patients, train neurosurgical professionals with compassion and competence, advance the field of Neurosurgery through basic and clinical research and innovation
| Photo | Name & Qualifications | Designation | Areas of Interest | Email ID / ORCID ID / Research-gate Page |
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 | Dr. Rajnish K. Arora MBBS , MS, General Surgery , MCh, Neurosurgery | Additonal Professor & Head | Clinical :- Endovascular Surgery, Functional Neurosurgery, Spine surgery, Neurooncology Research :- Neuro oncology, Spine | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8960-9215 |
 | Dr. Nishant Goyal MBBS, MCh (Neurosurgery) | Additional Professor | Clinical :- Neurovascular, Skull base pathologies Research :- Neurovascular, craniovertebral junction pathologies | |
 | Dr. Jitender Chaturvedi MCh. Neurosurgery | Associate Professor | Clinical :- Brain Tumors, Brain Aneurysms and Arterio-venous Malformation, Endoscopic Pituitary surgery, Endoscopic management of hydrocephalus & tumors, Spinal tumors, Management of Cranio-vertebral Junction (CVJ) pathologies, Pediatric Neurosurgery & Neuro-Development disorders, Epilepsy Surgery & DBS, Degenerative and Traumatic spine disease Research :- Brain Trauma, Brain Tumors, Neuro-radiology, Epilepsy & Functional Neurosurgery, Movement disorders, Cranio-vertebral Junction (CVJ) pathologies, Neuro-infection. | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8576-9470 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jitender_Chaturvedi2 |
 | Dr Saravanan S. M.S., MCh. | Assistant Professor | Clinical :- Cerebrovascular and Endoscopic surgeries Research :- Vascular | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1213-8894 |
 | Dr Rakesh Kumar Sihag MBBS, MS, MCh (Neurosurgery) | Associate Professor | Clinical :- Endoscopic spine and brain surgery, Neurooncology Research :- Endoscopic spine surgery | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5530-2602 |
 | Dr. Kavindra Singh | Assistant Professor | Clinical :- Research :- | singh.kavindra8@gmail.com |
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Services Available in the department:
Outpatients department:
- General OPD: Schedule- day and consultant wise
- Specialty Clinics/ services (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic): Schedule- day and consultant wise
In-patients department: Neurosurgery ward includes a dedicated high dependency unit that provides comprehensive Neurocritical care. In addition, a fully functional Neurotrauma ward with high dependency unit is available in Trauma center block. Academic neurosurgical residents under direct supervision of faculty members ensure round the clock in patient care.
Procedures (Diagnostic and/or Therapeutic) offered by the department:
- Department of neurosurgery performs various microscopic and endoscopic surgeries for cranial and spine pathologies. Complex procedures are performed with aid of modern facilities such as intraoperative imaging, neuro navigation, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) and intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoriong. We also collaborate with other specialties for providing multidisciplinary care.
Facilities available are
- Neurovascular surgery (surgery for stroke/ aneurysms)
- Neuro oncology- surgeries for brain and spine tumors
- Neuroendoscopy- ventricular and trans- spheniodal surgeries
- Surgery for Head & spine injuries
- Surgery for Degenerative spine, prolapsed discs, spinal stenosis, spinal instability (spondylolisthesis)
- Pediatric neurosurgery including Surgeries for hydrocephalus (shunt as well as endoscopic surgery), Spina bifida (spinal dysraphism), craniosynostosis/ craniofacial/surgery for spasticity
- Peripheral nerve surgery (brachial plexus injuries/ tumors/ surgery for carpel tunnel syndrome).
- Neurointervention services including endovascular coiling of aneurysms, flow diverters, embolization of vascular malformations in collaboration with interventional radiology department.
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Courses & Short term Trainings
| Name of the course | Curriculum | Duration of course | Present number of students | Objectives/ brief description of the course |
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| MCh Neurosurgery | 3 year | 10 | This is a 3 year specialisation in Neurosurgery, available to candidates holding post-graduate qualifications in General surgery as per institute norms for superspeciality courses. Candidates are posted to neurosurgery in-patient unit, to daily out-patient unit, emergency and trauma services, operating rooms as well as intensive care units, where they are responsible for the care of patients with a range of neurological disorders and learn art of neurological surgery. The course also includes a mandatory research component and teaching experience for undergraduate and post-graduate students. |
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Research
Projects
| Title | Site-Investigators | Principal Investigator | Collaboration, if any (Department and institute) | Funding Agency | Projects Status |
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| A study of pro inflammatory and anti-inflammatory gene polymorphism in patients of degenerative cerv | Dr.Rajnish K. Arora | Department of Biochemistry, and Orthopedics | Ongoing | ||
| Role of DREZotomy in patients of spastic cerebral palsy | Dr.Nishant Goyal, Prof Shobha Arora | Department of orthopedics | Ongoing |
Projects
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| Research | IIT Madras | Dr Rajnish Kumar Arora is Consultant for project for developing spine robot by IIT Madras with collaboration of private sector |
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Expansion planned for the future:
- Clinical Services: To start image guided surgeries , Epilepsy surgery.
- Academics and teaching: To develop cadaver lab and Endovascular simulation lab with the state of art facilities.
- Research: department is planning to start research projects on vertebral anatomy, stem cells , sleep disorders