Dr. Dattatray Mazumdar — Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Dattatray Mazumdar is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, with more than 23 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with neuro-oncology on the surgical oncology side.

His list reflects that pairing. The tumour work covers brain tumor surgery, glioma surgery and meningioma surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma surgery and spinal tumor surgery. Alongside it he performs epilepsy surgery, craniotomy and endoscopic brain surgery.

His qualifications are the longest string on this profile set and run to eight entries. After MBBS and an MS he took the FCPS of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the MCh in neurosurgery, a DNB and MNAMS as a member of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. Two international fellowships complete the list: FICS as a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons and FACS as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

His attachments explain the two specialties on his profile directly. Besides Gleneagles Hospital at Parel he is associated with KEM Hospital through its epilepsy surgery programme and neuro-oncology tumor board, which correspond to the epilepsy and tumour entries on his list, and with Tata Memorial Hospital through joint neuro-oncology meetings.

That combination of a cancer centre tumour board, a hospital epilepsy programme and a private consultant post describes a practice in which cranial tumour surgery and epilepsy surgery are both handled through multidisciplinary meetings rather than in isolation.