Dr. Suresh Sankhla

With 41 years of experience, Dr Suresh Sankhla is a Senior Consultant - Neuro and Spine Surgery practising at Gleneagles Global Hospital, Parel. He has worked as an expert in different cities in India. Previously, he was associated with hospitals with Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, Bhatia Hospital and Saifee Hospital and various national and international societies, including:

• Vice President, Indian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Past President, Skull Base Surgery Society of India
• Executive Council Member, Neurological Society of India
• President, Congress of Asian Australian Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery, Mumbai

He also trained overseas, serving as Registrar in the Department of Neurosurgery, Richmond Institute of Neurosciences at Beaumont Hospital in the Republic of Ireland (1991-92), and as Senior Registrar in the Department of Neurosurgery at Royal Preston Hospital, UK, from January 1993 to April 1995.

The speciality interests of Dr Suresh are:

1. Cranio-vertebral junction surgery
2. Endoscopic Brain surgery
3. Intra-ventricular tumour surgery
4. Minimally Invasive Brain and Spine Surgery
5. Paediatric Neurosurgery
6. Skull base surgery Cerebro-vascular surgery

Dr Suresh earned his MBBS degree from Grant Medical College and Sir J J Group of Hospitals situated in Mumbai. Then he completed his MS in General Surgery from Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences, Mumbai. Further, he did a DNB in Neurosurgery from the National Board of Education. He further completed his three fellowships. These are:

1. Fellowship of the International College of Surgeons
2. Fellowship training in Skull Base Surgery
3. Fellowship training in Neuro-Oncology Surgery from USA

He is an active member of several international and national associations, including:

• American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
• International Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN)
• Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS)
• Skull Base Surgery Society of India
• Bombay Neurosciences Association

Dr Sankhla has been actively involved in awareness campaigns and regularly participates in workshops. He believes in supporting economically weak sections of society. Hence, he organizes medical camps and provides free neurosurgical treatment to them.

He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, contributed over 20 chapters to various books, and authored one book himself. In 1994, he has received the Sydney Driscoll Award, UK.

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