Dr. Shanti Shankar Praharaj

He completed his M.B.B.S degree in 1984 and M.S.(Gen. Surgery) in 1988 from G.R.Medical College, Gwalior India. He also completed his Diplomate National, neurosurgery (National Board Exam, 1992) from New Delhi. And did his M.Ch (Neurosurgery) from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science & Technology Trivandrum, (An Institute of National Importance) in 1991. In the field of research, he has presented many research papers worldwide and also published more than 20 papers and chapters. He has also been actively involved with study of critical care management of head injury. He evolved a protocol based management of severe head injury so as to maintain an optimum CPP and measure the cerebral compliance. He was also the main investigator for conducting the Multicentric International CRASH trial (Corticosteroid Randomisation after Severe Head Injury). To his credit, he holds many best paper awards at national and international levels, including best paper awards at British Neurological Research conference in Chollerford, UK. He has visited the Dept of Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas and worked as Research associate in head injury there for 9 months under Professor Claudia Robertson.

• Gender : Male
• Hospital Affiliations : Fortis
• Experience / Tranining : 31 Year
• Medical School : MBBS, MS, MCH(Neurosurgery) Diplomate National Board (Neurosurgery)