Dr. Muralidharan Vetrivel — Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Muralidharan Vetrivel is a Consultant at Rela Hospital, Chennai, with more than 14 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery, interventional neuroradiology and spine surgery.

His list covers open and endovascular treatment of the same conditions. On the open side he performs brain tumor surgery, glioma surgery and meningioma surgery, acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, craniotomy, spinal tumor surgery, cavernoma surgery, arteriovenous malformation surgery and aneurysm clipping. On the endovascular side he performs aneurysm coiling, AVM embolization and stroke thrombectomy, which is the interventional neuroradiology arm of his profile.

His training is dated and much of it was taken abroad. He read MBBS at Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital in 2012, then completed a six-year integrated MCh in neurosurgery at Christian Medical College, Vellore, in 2019. His fellowship in endovascular neurosurgery was taken at the University of Catania in Italy in 2020. He also holds advanced microvascular anastomosis training from the Christian Doppler Medical Centre in Salzburg, Austria, and exclusive training in microvascular anastomosis techniques at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

His speaking record is recent. He was an invited speaker at TEDx in 2023, and in 2024 was faculty at the World Neurosciences Summit and at the Neurological Society of India.

He has been at Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre in Chennai since 2025, and worked at Panimalar Medical College Hospital and Research Institute from 2021 to 2025.