Dr.Arvind Sukumaran is a distinguished neurosurgeon with over 14 years of experience after his neurosurgical training at the prestigious national institute, NIMHANS, Bangalore. He has further completed accredited fellowship training in Paediatric neurosurgery and Epilepsy/Functional neurosurgery from the prestigious University of Calgary, Canada. He has successfully performed more than 4000 neurological surgeries, with an equal distribution between spine and brain.
He is one of the handful surgeons in India performing niche surgeries like deep brain stimulation(DBS), complex epilepsy , spasticity surgeries , endoscopic and open craniosynostosis surgery, awake craniotomy and tractography/fluorescence guided resection of tumours and other complex pediatric neurosurgical problems. His expertise also involves advanced surgeries like LITT(laser interstitial thermal therapy), robotic stereotactic EEG placement which he is trying to bring to India.
He has also pioneered and patented low cost fluorescence guided glioma surgeries, that provides a testament to his innovative streak and original thinking. He has presented in several national and international conferences, conducted workshops and has several academic papers to his credit. He has also been the organizing secretaries of many international conferences. His educational videos have are featured in international websites. He has been raising public awareness on many of these rare diseases, through active engagement with the media.
Dr.Arvind Sukumaran, with his patient centric focus, engages expertise with accessibility to chart a holistic approach towards patient care. Within an system that boasts the best in class infrastructure, Dr.Arvind Sukumaran believes in delivering affordable healthcare by cost-conscious and judicious use of resources and complication avoidance.
Areas of interest & unique expertise
Neuro-oncology: Awake surgeries, fluorescence guided resection for intraaxial lesion like glioblastoma, skull base tumours( cranial & endonasal endoscopic) like schwannoma, chordoma, meningioma
Functional neurosurgery: Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and OCD, spasticity surgeries(rhizotomy, IBT), Sacral neuromodulation, spinal cord stimulation, Programmable VP shunt
Epilepsy surgery: ECoG guided resection, functional hemispherotomy & quadrantectomy, vagal nerve stimulation, callosotomy, temporal lobectomy
Paediatric neurosurgery: Hydrocephalus( open shunt and endoscopic), spinal dysraphism( spinabifida), spasticity, craniosynostosis(open & endoscopic) and craniofacial diseases, pediatric tumours, craniovertebral junction anomalies