Academic Coordinator Telemedicine

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr AKHIL SUNIL

Current Designation

Consultant – Department of Neurosurgery,

Bishop Benziger Hospital,

Kollam,

Kerala

Personal details

Date of Birth : 14th November, 1988

Nationality : Indian

Kerala Medical Council : TDMC 49269

Registration number

Karnataka Medical Council : KRL20130000407KTK

Registration number

Permanent Address : Chaithram, Pullichira P.O, Kollam, Kerala. PIN-691304

Phone : +91-999*******

Email : ************@*****.***, *****************@*****.***

Education

BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY (MBBS)

September 2007 to October 2013

Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

DIPLOMATE OF NATIONAL BOARD, NEUROSURGERY

March 2015 to April 2021

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka

MBA IN HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT -2021 BATCH (Ongoing) BITS Pilani

Professional Appointments

Casualty duty doctor: LMS Hospital, Kundra, Kollam and Sree Narayana Medical Mission Hospital, Cherthala, Alappuzha.

Resident: DNB Neurosurgery (6 year),

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences,

Whitefield, Bangalore.

March, 2015 to April, 2021.

Junior Consultant: Department of Neurosurgery,

Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences,

Whitefield, Bangalore.

From May, 2021 to June 2022

Consultant Neurosurgeon,

Bishop Benziger Hospital, Kollam, Kerala

From June 2022 to present.

DETAILS OF WORK EXPERIENCE

I began my training in Neurosurgery in March,2015 at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences under the guidance of Prof. Dr. A.S.Hegde, Dr Sai Kiran, Dr Dilip Mohan, Dr Saritha Aryan and Dr Sumit Thakar. Sathya Sai hospital is a Tertiary care, referral hospital which receives patients from all over the country. It is a completely free hospital, one of its kind globally, which doesn’t even have a billing counter with a state of art infrastructure.

My clinical duties and responsibilities included the management of the outpatient and telemedicine clinic, and the in-house patients in the ward and ICU. I have initially assisted and have subsequently performed surgeries of increasing complexity, first under supervision and then independently. During my initial years as a junior resident, I have performed procedures such as, insertion of Ventriculoperitoneal shunts, Theco-peritoneal shunts, drainage of abscesses, decompressive craniectomy, evacuation of EDH, SDH, ICH, contusions, decompressive laminectomies, and discectomies. In the wards and ICU, I have done minor procedures such as Lumbar punctures, EVD and lumbar drain placement, application of skull traction, tracheostomy and tarsorraphy.

During the latter half of my residency, I have done procedures such as excision of meningiomas, decompression of glioma, Sylvian fissure dissection, ACF Base repairs, foramen magnum decompression, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, cervical laminectomy, excision of spinal extradural and intradural extramedullary tumors, percutaneous procedures for trigeminal neuralgia, foraminal blocks and filum terminale sectioning under supervision. I have assisted senior Neurosurgeons with subspecialty interests in Neurovascular Surgery, Paediatric- Neurosurgery, Spinal Neurosurgery, Cranial Base Surgery, Neuro-oncology etc., and have adequate experience in all types of craniotomies and spinal exposures. During my fifth year of residency, I have undergone 3 months of training in Trauma, from December,2018 to March,2019 at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. I have undergone 15-day training in Neuro-pathology at NIMHANS during my residency.

We have had an extensive and a structured academic program over the course of our training period in our institute. We have had seminars, Journal clubs, case presentations and Blackboard teaching schedule on a weekly basis. I played an active role in the development and implementation of the resident curriculum, have coordinated interdisciplinary specialty educational activities such as weekly Neuro-radiology, Neuro-pathology, Neuro-endocrinology and Neuro-ophthalmology meetings. I have also been an active part in the monthly Neurosurgery meetings held in Bangalore Medical college held by Dr.Balaji Pai as well as the meetings held by Bangalore Neurological Society where I have presented seminars and case presentations on a frequent basis.

During the period as the Senior Resident following the final exams, I was given the responsibility of being the academic coordinator, which included preparation of the monthly academic roster, mentoring, and teaching the National Board residents. During this period, I have done more complex surgeries such as Corpectomy and fusion, Cervical lateral mass fixation, Dorsal and Lumbar pedicle screw insertion and fusion, Awake Craniotomies, Spinal dysraphism, Neuro-endoscopy and skull base endoscopic surgeries, Minimally Invasive Spine Surgeries, intraventricular tumours, skull base approaches and posterior fossa lesions under supervision. This period was a transition phase from residency to that of a consultant where I learnt the art of management of all the associated factors of Neurosurgery which enabled me to be a full-fledged and a committed professional that I am today. I continued my Neurosurgical career as a junior consultant in the same hospital where I honed my skills further in various forementioned cranial and spinal surgeries. During this time, I have also been given the responsibility of sharing and teaching the junior residents along with supervising them for the surgeries I became a competent professional in providing comprehensive Neurosurgical care with compassion and empathy.

My dissertation on “Changes in Sinonasal and Overall Quality of life following Endoscopic Endonasal Surgery for Non-Functioning Pituitary Adenomas: Results of a prospective observational study” which has been accepted for printing in the indexed journal Neurology India. A paper on “Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) complicating the postoperative clinical course in a child with a suprasellar craniopharyngioma” has also been accepted for printing in Neurology India.

AREAS OF INTEREST

●Neuro-endoscopy and endoscopic skull base surgery

●Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Spine surgery

●Spinal instrumentations

●Neuro-oncology

PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS

1.Neurological Society of India (NSI)

2.Skull base Surgery Society of India (SBSSI)

PRESENTATIONS

1.Presented a paper on “Sinonasal and overall quality of life assessment following endoscopic resection of non-functioning pituitary adenomas: A prospective analysis of 25 patients” at SKULLBASECON 2017 held at Kochi.

2.Presented a paper on “Optic Chiasm morphology and its implications on visual recovery after pituitary adenoma resection: Analysis of an under-recognized phenomenon” at SKULLBASECON 2018 held at Ludhiana.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED

1.Endoscopic skull Base Surgery Workshop and Neuro-endocrine Symposium, May 2015, held in Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. I was a part of the organizing committee and was fortunate to have close interaction with Dr Ari Chacho from CMC Vellore and Dr Kanna Gnanalingham from Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre, UK.

2.Spine deformity correction CME, January 2016, Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India. Was a part of the organizing committee. It was a 2-day program where I could see Dr. Ajeya Joshi, Consultant Spine Surgeon from Texas, USA in live surgeries for deformity correction.

3.Neurosurgical Approaches workshop – Cadaveric Demonstration. Conducted by RGUHS and Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore, India on October, 2016. It was a 2-day hands-on workshop on various cranial approaches and micro dissection techniques on cadavers.

4.Participated in the Neurological Society of India 7 th Foundation Course held at NIMHANS, Bangalore on January 2018.

5.Participated in the 16th Instructional Course by the Neurological Society of India at SCTIMST, Trivandrum on May, 2019.

6.Participated in the Interlaminar Endoscopic Discectomy and decompression cadaveric and live surgery workshop held on March, 2021. It was a 2-day workshop by Dr Sukumar Sura, an eminent in the field of endoscopic spine surgery.

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