Dr. Girish Krishna Joshi — Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon in Bengaluru

Dr. Girish Krishna Joshi is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon at Apollo Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road, Bengaluru, with more than 15 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list is cranial. He performs brain tumor surgery and glioma surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, endoscopic brain surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, craniotomy and epilepsy surgery.

His training is an unusually long sequence of short fellowships taken across the country. After MBBS and an MS in general surgery he graduated from J.N. Medical College, Belgaum, in 2005 and took his MCh in neurosurgery at Rajagiri Medical College, together with a DNB in neurosurgery and the FRCS at Edinburgh. In 2017 he completed a fellowship in endoscopic pituitary surgery and a fellowship at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, in brain tumour surgery and awake craniotomy with intraoperative assistance and fluorescence guidance. In 2018 he took a fellowship in anterior approaches to spine at Bangalore with AIMIS/IMIS and a fellowship in skull base surgery at Lucknow, and in 2019 a fellowship in minimally invasive spine surgery at IGIMS, Lucknow, with epilepsy monitoring participation at NIMHANS and an observership in renal and liver transplantation at Hyderabad. He also holds a fellowship in intraoperative neuroelectrophysiological monitoring taken at Kolkata.

His record notes further training in endoscopic spine and brain surgery at AIIMS, New Delhi, and in minimally invasive spine surgery at AIIMS, Lucknow, and a Best Outgoing Student Award. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh, the Neurological Society of India, AOI and the Indian Medical Association.