Dr. Anand V K — Senior Consultant in Bengaluru

Dr. Anand V K is a Senior Consultant at Medicover Hospital, Bangalore, in Bengaluru, with more than 20 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

Vascular work heads his list. He performs aneurysm clipping for brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformation surgery and cavernoma surgery. The tumour work covers glioma surgery and meningioma surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, brain tumor surgery and spinal tumor surgery, with craniotomy, endoscopic brain surgery and epilepsy surgery alongside them.

His training moved from Bangalore to Chandigarh and then overseas. He read MBBS at BMC Bangalore and took both his MS in general surgery and his MCh in neurosurgery at PGIMER, Chandigarh. He then took a diploma in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at Sapporo in Japan and a fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery at Catholic University in Seoul, South Korea, the two subjects that head his procedure list. His fellowship in endoscopic neurosurgery was taken with ESMINT.

His examination record is the clearest marker of that training. He placed second in both the AIIMS and PGI entrance examinations for the MCh simultaneously, and was named best outgoing student at Dr. RML Hospital. He also took second prize in a poster presentation at IASG and has presented at national and international conferences.

Besides Medicover Hospitals in Bengaluru he has been associated with Narayana Hrudayalaya at its Whitefield and HSR branches, Apollo Hospitals, and Amara Hospital in Tirupati.