Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao - Best Neurosurgeon in Bangalore

Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao

Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao

Senior Consultant – Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery

Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao

Senior Consultant - Neurosurgery and Spine Surgery

MBBS, MS (Gen Surgery), MCh( Neurosurgery ), DipNB ( Neurosurgery )

Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao is widely regarded as the best neurosurgeon in Bangalore and is currently consulting at KIMS Hospitals, Electronic City, where he provides advanced neurosurgical care to patients. An alumnus of Bangalore Medical College (1981 batch), he completed his MS in General Surgery in 1991 from JN Medical College, Belgaum, and went on to receive specialized neurosurgical training at NIMHANS from 1991 to 1995, where he was recognized among the finest neurosurgeons of his time.

From 1998 to 2010, Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao served as faculty and Professor of Neurosurgery at the prestigious Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram. During these years, he acquired extensive experience in cerebrovascular surgery, skull base surgery, epilepsy surgery, deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s disease, and lesioning procedures for movement disorders.

Recognized as one of the best neurosurgeons in Bangalore, Dr. Ravi Mohan Rao has established and led multidisciplinary neurosciences teams comprising neurosurgeons, neurologists, interventional neuroradiologists, and ENT surgeons. This collaborative approach ensures comprehensive, cutting-edge neurological care, with a strong focus on clinical excellence, innovation, and patient-centered outcomes.

Area of expertise

  • Cerebrovascular Surgery: Microsurgical treatment of Giant and complex aneurysms, microsurgical treatment of intracranial Arterio-venous malformations, carotid endarterectomy, Extracranial-Intracranial bypass surgeries.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Cranial endoscopy: He has extensive experience in treating hydrocephalus, pituitary adenomas and CSF Rhinorrhea
  • Stereotactic Neurosurgery: Large experience in doing DBS and lesioning for Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.

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