Dr Ravi Mohan Rao

He worked as faculty in the Department of Neurosurgery & was Professor of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Thirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram from 1998-2010. He gained invaluable experience in cerebrovascular surgery, Skull Base surgery, Epilepsy surgery, DBS surgery for Parkinson’s disease, 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 Neuroradiologist, ENT Surgeon.

His major interest are:

1. Cerebrovascular Surgery: Microsurgical treatment of Giant & 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 evaluation of complex epilepsy patients.
3. Functional Neurosurgery: One of the areas of expertise is in awake craniotomy and language mapping guided resection of dominant hemisphere tumors and resection of 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, trigeminal schwannomas.
5. Cranial endoscopy: He has huge experience in treating hydrocephalus, pituitary adenomas and CSF Rhinorrhea
6. Stereotactic Neurosurgery: Large experience in doing DBS and lesioning for Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease.