Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao - Best Neurosurgeon in Bangalore

He worked as faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery & was a Professor of Neurosurgery, at Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram from 1998-2010. Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao gained invaluable experience in cerebrovascular surgery, Skull Base Surgery, Epilepsy surgery, DBS surgery for Parkinson’s disease, and Lesioning for Parkinson’s Disease

He has established a multidisciplinary team of neurosciences specialists at Apollo Hospitals Seshadripuram, Bangalore, which is committed to excellence in neurological sciences. The team members include Neurosurgeons, Neurologists, Interventional neuroradiologists, and ENT surgeons.

His major interests are:

1. Cerebrovascular Surgery: Microsurgical treatment of Giant and complex aneurysms, microsurgical treatment of intracranial Arterio-venous malformations, carotid endarterectomy, Extracranial-Intracranial bypass surgeries.
2. Epilepsy Surgery: He has done more than 300 epilepsy surgeries since leaving SCTIMST in 2010. Apart from routine epilepsy surgery, he has been doing SEEG for the evaluation of complex epilepsy patients.
3. Functional Neurosurgery: One of the areas of expertise is awake craniotomy and language mapping guided resection of dominant hemisphere tumors and resection of the epileptic focus.
4. Skull Base Surgery: he has proficiency in treating a wide variety of skull tumors which include petroclival meningiomas, CP angle vestibular schwannomas, and trigeminal schwannomas.
5. Cranial endoscopy: He has extensive experience in treating hydrocephalus, pituitary adenomas and CSF Rhinorrhea
6. Stereotactic Neurosurgery: Large experience in doing DBS and lesioning for Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.