Dr. Naveen M A — Head of Department and Senior Consultant in Bengaluru

Dr. Naveen M A is Head of Department and Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospitals in Bengaluru, with more than 19 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list is spine work performed through small access routes wherever the case allows. He carries out endoscopic spine surgery and microdiscectomy alongside cervical and lumbar spine surgery, spinal fusion surgery and spinal deformity correction, and he operates on spinal tumours.

His qualifications explain that emphasis. After MBBS, an MS and the MCh in neurosurgery, he took four fellowships, and three of them are in access technique. The FMAS is a fellowship in minimal access surgery, the FMISS was taken in minimally invasive spine surgery at Seoul, and the FASS is a fellowship in advanced spine surgery taken in the USA. His fourth, a fellowship in skull base endoscopy, was also taken in the USA and sits on the cranial side of his neurosurgical training.

Holding both a minimal access fellowship and a minimally invasive spine fellowship, from two different countries, means the endoscopic and microsurgical parts of his list were examined separately rather than picked up alongside general practice. The skull base fellowship extends the same endoscopic approach upward from the spine into the base of the skull.

He heads the department at Gleneagles and is affiliated with Gleneagles BGS Hospital at Kengeri in Bengaluru.