Achievements
- Subspecialised in STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY. Pioneer
in Stereotactic Radiosurgery in South Asia,
carrying out the first procedure in South Asia in
May 1995 at the Apollo Hospitals Madras.
Other special areas of interest include Stereotactic Biopsy and Management
of Head Trauma.
- Pioneer in
introducing telemedicine
in India.
Invited guest speaker in International Conferences on Telemedicine held at
Cairo, Kosovo, Dhaka etc. Have given lectures at national conferences
on Medical Informatics, besides being resource person for the MGR
Medical University
and Pondichery universities for these subjects.
Only one from India
to have participated in multipoint intercontinental telemedicine
conferences. Organized teleconferences with New
Jersey, Nagoya
(Japan), Riyadh,
etc. Popularized using video teleconferences for CME programmes in India.
- 31 years
of extensive teaching, clinical and operative experience at the Institute
of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Stanley Medical College and the Apollo Hospitals and Sundaram Medical Foundations Madras.
- Postgraduate
Teacher, question paper setter, examiner and inspector in Neurosurgery for
the National Board of Examinations,
Govt. of India.
- External
overseas examiner for Master’s degree in neurosurgery - Universiti
Sains Malaysia
- First Neurosurgeon in India
to get a Ph.D. in Neuroimaging (1990).
- Second
Neurosurgeon in India
to get the Membership of the National Academy of Medical Sciences in
Neurosurgery in 1981.
- Youngest
Indian neurosurgeon to have obtained the Fellowship of the American
College of Surgeons in 1986.
- Awarded
Fellowship of the International College
of Surgeons in 1987.
- Presented
about 260 papers in National Conferences and 40 in International
Conferences.
- Published
about 150 papers and several chapters in books.
- Chaired
scientific sessions in National and International Conferences.
- Awarded
the International College of Surgeons visiting professorship (Indian
Section) in 1993 and Kamarakar Oration 1999.
- Formerly member,
Neurotraumatology Committee, Neurological
Society of India
- Charter
member and member Executive committee, Asian Society of Stereotactic and
Functional Neurosurgery
- Charter
member of the Indian Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
- Formerly
Associate Editor, Neurology India
and Associate editor of the CME Programme, Neurological Society of India . Formerly Co-Convenor CME programme NSI and
Co-Editor Progress in Clinical Neurosciences. Member Editorial Advisory
board and referee Neurology India
- Member,
Editorial Advisory Committee of Neurosciences Today
- Delivered
lectures in Acapulco (Mexico) Bangkok, Bahrain, Bali, Baghdad, Beijing,
Boston, Chicago, Colombo, Cairo, Canberra, Dhaka, Dubai, Jordan, Hong
Kong, Houston, Japan (Nagoya, Sapporo, Karuwasi)
Karachi, Kathmandu, Pristhina
(Kosovo), Lahore, Manila, Marrakech, Muscat, Madrid, Kuala Lumpur, Kota Bharu (Malaysia), New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh,
Riyadh, San Francisco, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Shangai,
Washington
- Faculty
member Wold
Federation of Neurological Sciences Post Graduate course held at Dhaka
Bangladesh
February 2003 and Riyadh Saudi Arabia 2004
- Certified
in Biomedical Communication and Bioinformatics.
- Member
Advisory Board Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons / Asian Australasian Society of Neurological
Surgery / Wold
Federation of Neurological Sciences Joint educational neurosurgical
programme
K Ganapathy
