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Dr Hrishikesh Sarkar

Senior Neurosurgeon | Clinical Researcher | Author | Coder | Innovator | Mentor | Patient safety advocate
MBBS (Christian Medical College, Vellore)
MCh (Neurosurgery, CMC Vellore)
Fellowship, Minimal Invasive Neurosurgery, Switzerland
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
Best Neurosurgeon Mumbai

Welcome to my website!!

Hi! I am Dr Hrishikesh Sarkar, Senior Consultant, Brain and Spine Surgery (Neurosurgeon), Researcher, Innovator, Author, and a Python Computer Language aficionado. Browse this website (which is entirely self-coded from scratch) to know more about my work, see how Brain Surgery and Spine Surgery can save or improve lives and what to expect before and after a procedure, their risks, benefits, etc. Contact by clicking the links provided. Would be happy to help!

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Click HERE if you are a patient/proxy for a patient and want to know about the diseases that I treat. To understand what to expect while surgery is prescribed - Click BRAIN SURGERY or Click SPINE SURGERY

Click HERE if you want to know WHAT IS A KEY HOLE MINIMAL INVASIVE BRAIN AND SPINE SURGERY? What are its advantages? Can Brain Tumors be treated without an operation/opening head?

Click HERE if you are an amateur programmer and interested in Digital Medicine, Coding, AI, Deep learning/Machine learning in Medicine

Click HERE if you are a Brain, Spine, Neuro enthusiast



Pioneering Surgeries

- First in the World to describe and perform a novel keyhole Minisupraorbital basal trans-isthmus approach to anterior insular lesions

- Successfully Removed largest brain tumor, a Tennis ball sized cm meningioma located in the suprasellar region, ever operated via eyelid

- First in South India to perform DREZOtomy for cancer-related pain

- First in India and South Asia to perform an "Awake" Brain Bypass Surgery for Stroke

- First in India to describe utility of intraoperative CT scan in enhancing precision and surgical safety in Neurosurgery

- First in India and South Asia to do a selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery for upper limb spasticity

- Along with colleagues in Switzerland, pioneered a novel keyhole approach to the tumors located in the lateral ventricle of the brain

- Performed a first of its kind multistage surgery - a hybrid strategy involving high flow brain bypass and endovascular intervention to treat an extremely complex, life-threatening aneurysm in a young patient

- First in the Indian subcontinent to assess serum S100 as a biomarker for diagnosis and prognostication of Intracerebral bleed

- Along with colleagues at CMC Vellore, developed and described a simple tool "Vellore Localizer" for placing the shunt tube accurately

- First in India to commence a trial on Amantidine to assess its efficacy in improving consciousness after traumatic brain injury

- First to develop an Animal model of reversible stroke and first to assess the role of lactate as a neuroprotective agent in India

- Described Shunt anchoring device of ventriculoureteral shunt


Previous and Current Hospital Attachments


My Books

Textbook of Complications prevention in Neurosurgery. Click here for details.


Confessions of a Meandering Scalpel - A collection of poems. Click here for details.

Back in the Game - A self recovery guide for those undergoing spine surgery. Coming Soon!

Thank you!

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