Dr. Suresh Sankhla — Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Suresh Sankhla is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, with more than 41 years of experience in neurosurgery.

His list is cranial and divides between tumour and paediatric work. He performs 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, craniotomy and endoscopic brain surgery. The paediatric side covers pediatric brain tumor surgery and hydrocephalus surgery in children and adults.

His qualifications are MBBS and a DNB together with the FICS and FIMSA. Between 1995 and 1998 he took two clinical fellowships in the USA, one in skull base surgery and one in neuro-oncological surgery, which are the two areas his tumour list is built around.

He has held three society presidencies in six years: the Skull Base Surgery Society of India in 2013, the Bombay Neurosciences Association in 2014 and the Indian Society of Neurooncology in 2019. He founded the Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences as its editor in 2006, and is senior faculty of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery and of the International Federation of Neuroendoscopy, which correspond to the paediatric and endoscopic parts of his list.

His writing runs to over 114 published papers and articles in indexed journals, more than 24 chapters in medical books, and two neurosurgery textbooks he has edited.

Besides Gleneagles Hospital at Parel he has been associated with the Sir JJ Group of Hospitals and the Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, both in Mumbai.