Dr. M. Anbuselvam — Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon in Chennai

Dr. M. Anbuselvam is a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Rela Hospital, Chennai, with more than 42 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list covers tumour, vascular, functional and paediatric work: brain tumor surgery and meningioma surgery, craniotomy, cavernoma surgery and arteriovenous malformation surgery, endoscopic brain surgery, surgery for congenital brain and spine anomalies, pediatric brain tumor surgery, deep brain stimulation, epilepsy surgery, and stereotactic brain biopsy and stereotactic brain surgery.

He read MBBS at Government Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai between 1979 and 1984, and took his MCh in neurosurgery at the Institute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, under The Dr. MGR Medical University between 1989 and 1994, where he was awarded Prof. S. Kalyanaraman's Gold Medal.

The middle of his career was spent abroad. After four years at the Institute of Neurology and Madras Medical College and Hospital from Dec 1994 to May 1998, he moved to Brunei Darussalam, working at RIPAS Hospital in Bandar Seri Begawan from May 1998 to Oct 2014 and at Jerudong Park Medical Centre and the National Stroke and Rehabilitation Centre. He was a visiting lecturer and OSCE examiner at the PAP Rashidah Sa'adatul Bolkiah Institute of Health Sciences, University Brunei Darussalam, from 2009 to 2013, and national faculty four times in the Brunei Scoliosis Week international programme between 2008 and 2014. He returned to Apollo Speciality Hospitals in Chennai from Nov 2014 to Jan 2021.

He has presented at the ASEAN Neurosurgery Conference in Singapore, the Asian Congress of Neurosurgery in Istanbul, the Asian Neurosurgery Conference in Beijing, BORNEO Surgical Delights and the Neurological Society of India annual conference.