Dr. Manas Kumar Panigrahi — Head of Department & Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon in Hyderabad

Dr. Manas Kumar Panigrahi is Head of Department and Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad, in Hyderabad, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list covers tumour, vascular and functional work. The tumour work runs to brain tumor surgery and glioma surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, with craniotomy and endoscopic brain surgery. The vascular work covers aneurysm clipping for brain aneurysms and arteriovenous malformation surgery. The functional work covers deep brain stimulation, epilepsy surgery and focused-ultrasound thalamotomy, the last of these an incisionless technique that is rare on an Indian operating list.

His training is dated across eleven years. He read M.B.B.S. at M.K.C.G. Medical College in Berhampur, Orissa, between 1983 and 1989, and took his MCh in neurosurgery at NIMHANS in Bangalore between 1989 and 1994. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

His academic record is the largest part of his profile. He has more than 140 publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals, has contributed chapters to textbooks in neurosciences and has received multiple best paper awards at national and international meetings. He is a regular faculty member at national and international meetings and CME programmes, has organised numerous meetings in neurosciences, and is an international member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

He practises at KIMS Hospitals in Secunderabad and Hyderabad.