Dr. Dilip Gopalakrishnan — Senior Consultant in Bengaluru

Dr. Dilip Gopalakrishnan is a Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, in Bengaluru, with more than 38 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery covering both brain and spine surgery.

His list runs across both. The cranial work is brain tumour removal and resection. The spinal work covers cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery, spinal fusion surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, disc herniation surgery and spinal stenosis surgery, along with spinal tumour surgery, spinal deformity correction and spinal trauma surgery.

His qualifications explain the range. He holds MBBS, an MS in orthopedics and an MCh, the Master of Chirurgiae, with a neurosurgery and spine surgery specialisation. An orthopaedic master's followed by a neurosurgical one is the training that puts brain tumour resection and spinal fusion on the same list.

His research record spans three decades and more than one field. He published work on cervical intertransverse process grafting in radioculopathy in Neurology India in 2002, and research on vascularized rib graft for defects of the diaphysis of the humerus in children in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery in 2000. An earlier 1994 study on the structural organization of carbon-reduced myocardial infarctional surgery sits further back on the same record.

He is a member of the Association of Spine Surgeons of India, the Karnataka Orthopaedic Association and the Bangalore Orthopaedic Society, and is also affiliated with Apollo Specialty Hospital in Jayanagar, Bengaluru.