Dr. Abhaya Kumar
DesignationSenior Consultant
SpecialtyNeurosurgeon
Experience 20 years of experience
Languages SpokenEnglish, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam
About Dr. Abhaya Kumar
- He is the Head of Neurosurgery and Consultant in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery with expertise in both brain and spine surgeries.
- He has performed over 8000 neurosurgical procedures including complex brain and advanced minimally invasive spine surgeries.
- He is among the few neurosurgeons with extensive experience in awake neurosurgery, neuroendoscopy, and stereotactic procedures.
Specializations & Conditions Treated
Cerebral Angiogram
Cerebral Angioplasty
Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)
Keyhole Spine Surgery
Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
Brain Tumour Surgery
Education
MBBS
MS
Work Experience of Dr. Abhaya Kumar
He has over 20 years of experience in neurosurgery with advanced training from the United Kingdom.
He has operated more than 3500 spine cases and 5500 brain cases in the last 15 years at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.
He has performed over 2500 minimally invasive spine surgeries with a success rate of 96% and conversion to open surgery in only 2% of cases.
He has successfully treated more than 300 cases of craniovertebral junction anomalies and over 3000 brain tumor cases using intraoperative MRI, neuronavigation, stereotaxy, and neuroendoscopy.
He has performed more than 500 awake neurosurgical procedures and treated over 500 cases of refractory trigeminal neuralgia with a success rate of 98%.
Awards & Recognition
Gold Medallist in ENT during MBBS
Gold Medallist in MS (General Surgery)
Awarded "Best Neurosurgical Trainee" at Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK
Publications
He published research on spinal cord stimulation for refractory unilateral limb pain syndromes in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
He co-authored research on vagal nerve stimulation for medically intractable epilepsy published in the British Journal of Neurosurgery.
He was part of the STICH trial at Newcastle General Hospital, which was published in the journal Stroke.
He published work on simultaneous living donor liver transplant with sleeve gastrectomy for metabolic syndrome and NASH-related ESLD in the Indian Journal of Gastroenterology.
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