Dr. Ganesh Krishna Murthy — Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon in Bengaluru

Dr. Ganesh Krishna Murthy is a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Medicover Hospital, Bangalore, in Bengaluru, with more than 37 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list is cranial and covers both tumour and functional work. He performs brain tumor surgery, glioma surgery and meningioma surgery, craniotomy and endoscopic brain surgery, deep brain stimulation and epilepsy surgery. His qualifications are MBBS, an MS in general surgery and an MCh in neurosurgery.

His student record is a run of three gold medals awarded in a single year, and all three were taken outside neurosurgery. In 1995 he won the gold medal in medicine at Kilpauk Medical College, the inter-collegiate gold medal in urology at Madras Medical College and the inter-collegiate gold medal in clinical medicine at Stanley Medical College. He has since published multiple research papers in neurosurgery journals.

His society memberships cover both halves of his practice at national and city level. He belongs to the Neurological Society of India and the Neuro Spine Society of India, and to the Bangalore Neurological Society in the city where he practises. The spine society membership sits with the second specialty on his profile, which his listed procedures do not otherwise describe.

He currently works at Medicover Hospitals in Whitefield, Bengaluru. Between the deep brain stimulation and epilepsy entries on one side and the tumour resections on the other, his list covers both the functional and the oncological halves of cranial neurosurgery across a career of more than 37 years.