Qualifications & Experience

• M.B.B.S. of October, 1982 batch. Succeeded at first attempt from M.S. University, Baroda, India.
• M.S. (General Surgery) of October, 1986 batch. Succeeded at first attempt from M.S. University, Baroda, India.
• Worked for 6 months as House Surgeon in Department of Neurosurgery at Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals and Grant Medical College, Bombay during June -December, 1987.
• M.Ch. (Neurosurgery) December, 1990 at first attempt from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum. This institute is a central government autonomous body and has been declared an “Institute of National Importance” by an act of parliament. The M. Ch. Degree of this institute is a 3 year post M. S. course of senior residency and includes 3 years teaching along with other clinical responsibilities of a senior registrar in neurosurgery culminating in an elaborate examination of operating and clinical skills.
• Consultant Neurosurgeon: Shatadal Hospital, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad, from May 1992 to Dec-2023
• Hon. Neurosurgeon, L. G. Hospital, Ahmedabad, India from September, 1991 to July 1993.
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Gujarat Research & Medical Institute, Rajasthan Hospitals, Shahibaug, Ahmedabad INDIA from August, 1993 to May, 2012
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, S.A.L.Hospital & Medical Inalitute, Ahmedabad from November 2001 to Dec-2023
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Dr. Jivraj Mehta Hospital, Ahmedabad, from August 2005 to Dec-2023
• Worked as Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan in 1995.
• Visiting Fellow, National Hospital for Neurological Diseases, Queen Square, London in August, 1996.
• Visiting Neurosurgeon, Centre Medical International, Conakry, Republic of Guinee, West Africa.

Expertise

• Vascular Neurosurgery
• Aneurysms
• AVMs
• Carotid Endarterectomies
• Complex Brain & Spinal Tumours

Academic Accomplishments

• Project on ‘Role of local injection of Streptokinase in resolution of intracerebral haematomas in canine models
• Presented a paper on Brain Abscesses in Cyanotic Heart Disease, an abstract publication at the annual Conference in Neurosurgery at Chandigarh, India in 1988.
• Participated in hosting the ‘Symposium on Vascular Neurosurgery’ as a satellite of the International conference of Neurosurgery al Trivandrum in October, 1989,
• Selected and sponsored delegate from India for ‘NUYNA SAPPORO’, the conference for young Neurosurgeons of Asia at Sapporo, Japan in Nov. Dec., 1995.
• Received hands on paining in Neuroendoscopy at a workshop organized by the Japanese Neurosurgical Society in November, 1995 at Tokyo, Japan
• Invitee delegate from India for deliberations of the European Society of Paediatric: Neurosurgery conference in Rome, 1996
• Invitee delegate from India for deliberation on the theme “Regional Collaboration in Neurosurgery for the first South Asian Neurosurgical Congress hosted by the Nepalese Society of Clinical Neurosciences, Kathmandu, Nepal, March, 1999,
• Paper on ‘Trans-oral excision of Odontoid for Basilar Invagination’ in Journal of Otolaryngology’.
• Paper on ‘Surgery for subarachnoid haemorrhage due to ruptured intracranial aneurysms’ published in Gujarat Medical Journal, Volume 56. No. 3. December, 1999.
• Paper on “Awake Craniotomy” published in Gujarat Medical Journal, Volume 58. No.3, Dec-2001.
• Paper on “Personal Series of 172 cases of ruptured intracranial aneurysms” at the Indian Society of Cerebrovascular Surgery conference at Ahmedabad in September. 2004.
• Organizing Secretary, “ISCVS-2004” Ahmedabad.
• “International Vista member of the “CONGRESS OF NEUROSURGERY”. USA.
• Participated in the annual meeting of the CNS, New Orleans, U.S.A. in October 2009
• Presented numerous other papers, guest lectures in national and international conferences