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Dr. Nihal Ahemad
Epilepsy SurgeonA neurosurgeon who has set sail in the deep waters of a very much evolving and no doubt,one of the most intriguing subspecialities of neurosurgery,what we call today functional neurosurgery. As a doctor, I want to make neuromodulation a reality in a low middle income group country like India,and bring newer technology to the underprivileged at affordable costs to make their quality of life better. I would love to call myself a student of neurosurgery forever and currently I am seeking to explore more avenues in this rapidly emerging field.
MEDICAL QUALIFICATION
- Aug - 2005 MBBS : Medicine
Mar 2011 Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University - mangalore - Jun 2012 - M.S General Surgery: General Surgery
May 2015 Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences. - Bellary - Aug 2016 - M.Ch: Neurosurgery
Jul 2019 Madras Medical College - Chennai
DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE
- Aug 2021- Fellow in Epilepsy and Functional Neurosurgery-2 years
- Aug 2023 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi(AIIMS)
- Assisted more than 200 epilepsy surgeries
- Experience in Robotic guided hemispherotomies,Robotic guided ablation of Hypothalamic Hamartoma,Stereo EEG placements.
- Temporal Lobectomies,ECOG guided resection of FCD and lesional epilepsy, Posterior quadrant disconnection for epilepsy.
- Neuromodulation in Epilepsy DBS and VNS.
- DBS for Parkinsons disease, dystonia and other movement disorders.
- Lesioning surgeries for movement disorders.
- Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok,Sikkim,INDIA
- May 2020 - Oct 2020 Associate Consultant in Neurosurgery Fortis Hospitals,Cunningham Road., Bangalore,INDIA
- Nov 2019 - Mar 2020 Associate Consultant in Neurosurgery Sparsh Hospitals,Infantry Road., Bangalore,INDIA
MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATIONS
- Member of the Neurological Society of India(NSI)
- Life Member of the ISSFN-India Chapter(Stereotaxy and Functional) Life Member of the Indian Epilepsy Society(IES).
- Life Member of the Neuromodulation Society of India.
- Member of the European Association of Neurosurgery(EANS).
- Member of the Movement Disorder Society(MDS).
- Full member of the International Epilpesy Surgery Society(IESS)
- 37 years /Male/Married/Place of birth:Mangalore, Karnataka. Date of birth:21/03/1987.
- Doddamani R, Kota RC, Ahemad N, Chandra SP, Tripathi M. Endoscopic Total Corpus Callosotomy and Pan Commissurotomy for Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. Neurol India 2022;70:63-7
- Doddamani R, Kota R, Ahemad N, Chandra PS, Tripathi M. Minimally invasive hemispherotomy refractory epilepsy in infants and young adults'.J Neurointerv Surg. 2023 Sep;15(9):933-934.
- Arumugam T, Ahemad N. A Rare Case Report of Frontotemporal Oligodendroglioma with Extraneural Orbitoethmoidal Invasion: Its Current Implications. Int J Neurol Neurosurg. 2019;11(3):249-25
- Ahemad N,Arumugam T."Correlation of injury of arcuate fasciculus with aphasia in patients of mild TBI using diffusion tensor imaging", International Journal of Current Research,2018, 11, (06), 4935-4940.
- Have presented my paper on Stereo EEG in the management of MRI negative epilepsy cases: an institutional experience in Epilepsy conference ECON held in Aug 2022 in Trivandrum,India.
- Have presented my award paper on 'Correlation of MRI with MER in targeting STN during DBS for PD the ISSFN CME 2023 held at Jodhpur, India.
- The same paper has been selected for presentation in the free paper category at the ESSFN Conference to be held in Stockholm, Sweden in September 2023.
- Presented my case series on Vagal nerve schwannomas at the TANS conference 2018 held at Kodaikanal
- Presented my case series on occipital AVMs at the TANS conference 2019 held at Mahabalipuram.