Dr. Alok Ranjan — Consultant and Coordinator in Hyderabad

Dr. Alok Ranjan is Consultant and Coordinator of the Department of Neurosurgery at Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, in Hyderabad, with more than 25 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list is short and cranial: brain tumor surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, craniotomy, epilepsy surgery and deep brain stimulation. His qualifications are MBBS, an MS in general surgery, an MCh in neurosurgery and the FRCS in neurosurgery.

His presented work includes an award-winning case presentation on a rapidly evolving intracerebral mass mimicking brain abscess surgery, intrinsically invasive growth factor, alfa antibodies and IgG4-related hypertrophic pachymeningitis. He has also received the best GNCC prize for neurosurgical presentations since 1993 at Nizam's Hospital in Hyderabad.

His published research covers epidural spinal cord compression, hub injuries and neurosurgical outcomes, and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including Neurology India and the British Journal of Neurosurgery. He has further publications on gunshot and ballistic surgery, epidural abscess management and craniofacial surgical approaches. Taken together, the trauma and infection subjects in that list sit alongside rather than inside the elective tumour and functional work his procedure list describes.

Besides Apollo Hospitals and Apollo Health City at Jubilee Hills he has been associated with Aware Gleneagles Global Hospital at LB Nagar, also in Hyderabad.