A:   AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

 

1.       

President, Neurological Society of India. 2006

2.       

Secretary General of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurosurgeons (the largest continental society of Neurosurgeons) from Nov 1999 ( re-elected in 2003 up to 2007)

3.       

Secretary, Neurological Society of India 1997 to 2002

4.       

Invited as “Honoured Guest” to address the Korean Neurosurgical Society April 2005

5.       

Invited as “Honoured Guest” to address the Annual conference of American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin – Phoenix Sep 23rd 2006

6.       

Founder Joint Secretary and Treasurer Telemedicine Society of India

7.       

Member, Board of Studies Faculty of Medicine, University of Madras

8.       

Adjunct Professor IIT Chennai Only neurosurgeon on the faculty of a world-renowned Institute of Technology

9.       

Visiting Professor of Telemedicine; Tamilnadu  Dr MGR Medical University, Chennai

10.  

Course Director: Certificate Course on “ Introduction to Telehealth for doctors”- The Tamilnadu  Dr MGR Medical University , Chennai

11.   

Visiting Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit

12.   

Mentor M.Phil (Hospital Administration) course BITS Pilani 

13.   

Only medical doctor to be featured in excerpts of the Indian National Science Congress 2005 published in National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources 2005 http://www.niscair.res.in

14.   

OVERSEAS EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA – First and only Neurosurgeon from India 2004, 2006, 2007

15.   

Examiner Dip NB Neurosurgery National Board of Examinations Ministry of Health Govt. of India

16.   

Inspector, National Board of Examinations Ministry of Health Govt. of India

17.   

Guide and supervisor for the Ph.D in Neuroradiology Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai Oct 2004

18.   

Faculty, Fellowship in Emergency Medicine Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh

19.   

Faculty- Course for senior officers – Defence College of Management Hyderabad from 2003 onwards

20.  

Adjunct Professor, School of Electronics and Telecommunications. Anna University since 2000. Only medical doctor on the faculty of a technological university. Have taken lectures and guided MS Biomedical engineering thesis

21.   

Course Director  Telehealth Technology Course with Anna University

22.  

Visiting Professor Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Thiruvananthapuram

23.  

Advisor and guide for Fullbright scholar from Yale university (in telemedicine) at the  Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Thiruvananthapuram

24.  

Chairperson of first Telemedicine session to be held at the International World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies  Conference at Marakesh 2005

25.  

Only invited speaker from Asia to give a guest lecture on “ Stereotactic Radiation” at the International World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies conference at Marakesh 2005

26.  

Hon consultant and advisor in neurosurgery to the Armed Forces Medical Services since 2001

27.   

Only neurosurgeon to be featured in World Neurology – official newsletter of the World Federation of Neurology

28.  

Only neurosurgeon to be invited to deliver a key note address of 60 minutes  (Neurosciences in 2020 -  a peep into the future” at the Pan Asian Oceanian Congress of Neurology at Manilla 2002

29.  

Awarded the University of Madras Dr A L Mudaliar Endowment Oration – August 2002

30.  

Chairman Symposium on “Pre hospital management” Neuro Trauma Conference 2000

31.   

Guest faculty Reserve Bank of India – Health programme for senior officers since 2001

32.  

Convenor National Symposium on “ Stereotactic Radiosurgery “ Annual Conference Neurological Society of India 1999

33.  

International College of Surgeons, Indian Section, Dr H Karmakar Oration Award, 1999

34.  

Invited participant and faculty member at the workshop on "Computers and biology" held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Feb 13th to 15th 1997

35.  

Carried out the first Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Stereotactic Radiosurgery procedure in South Asia on May 27 and May 30 1995 at the Apollo Cancer Hospitals, Chennai, with a personal series of 595 cases of Stereotactic Radiation as on November   2005, have one of the largest experience in this subspeciality in South Asia

36.  

Represented India at the 2nd Seminar of Neurosurgery Update for Young Neurosurgeons in Asia held in Sapporo Japan December 1 -5 1995

37.   

Co Convenor  / Editor CME programme Neurological  Society  of India 1995 - 1996

38.  

Featured in documentary the “Gift of Life” produced by Films Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India – as the one responsible for the first multiple organ transplant in India Dec 25th 1995

39.  

Chairman, Academic Committee 4th National Neurotrauma Conference

40.  

Chairman and Moderator National Symposium on "Critical care in Neurosurgery" 43rd Annual Conference of the   Neurological Society of India

41.   

Convenor – National symposium on Head Injuries Annual Conference of Association of Surgeons of India 2000

42.  

Chairman Scientific Sessions, Annual Conferences of the Neurological Society of India from 1989 onwards till date

43.  

Chairman Scientific Session  Neuro trauma section, Neurological Society of India- 1997, 1998, 1999

44.  

Chairman Scientific Session, International World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies  conference at Acapulco, Mexico,  1993, 2001 Sydney and Marakesh 2005

45.  

Chairman Continuing Medical Education Programme 39th Annual Conference of the Neurological Society of India   - Indore 1990 and subsequently on several occasions

46.  

Awarded Visiting Professorship at the Dept.  of  Neurosurgery, University  of  New Jersey and Dentistry Medical  School,  New Jersey,  U.S.A.  by the International College  of  Surgeons  - October 1993

47.   

Awarded 1993, Pondicherry visiting professorship by the Indian Section of the International College of Surgeons

48.  

National Delegate of the Neurological Society of India for the International Congress of Neurological Surgery - Acapulco, Mexico 1993 and 2001 Sydney

49.  

Honorary Neurosurgical consultant to the Madras branch of the Spastic Society of India and faculty for post graduate  diploma in special education since 1993

50.  

Convenor  `Head injury section' - II National Conference on Neurotrauma. Madurai August, 1993

51.   

Invited participant for the first workshop on Biomedical Communication jointly organised by the ICMR and WHO held at Pondicherry from June 1-5, 1992

52.  

Visiting Neurosurgeon, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Choolangon University, Bangkok - Oct 1991

53.  

Chairman scientific session - 8th Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgery,- Seoul, Korea, Oct 6-11, 1991 & again in 1999 and 2003

54.  

Invited participant for National Seminar on Bioinformatics, Oct 1990

55.  

Awarded the Ph.D. degree in Neurosurgery by the Madras University in 1990 for thesis "CT Numbers in Intracranial space   occupying lesions and its diagnostic significance " - Sixth Neurosurgeon in India to be awarded a Ph.D

56.  

Awarded certificate by COSTED (Committee for Science and Technology in Developing countries) for completing an intensive   hands on course on "Computers and applications   in medicine" August 1988

57.   

Expert Member  - Panel discussion on Cancer Chemotherapy  - 33rd Annual Conference of the International College of   Surgeons (Indian section) Calcutta October 1987

58.  

Guest Lecturer, Australian National University, Oct 1987

59.  

Contributing Editor `INFORMED' (Quarterly Journal of Society for Medical Learning and Resources Transfer)

60.  

Co-Investigator, ICMR study on Brain tuberculoma from 1986 September, 1990

61.   

Referee for Neurology India - official Journal of the   Neurological   Society of India