Dr. M Balamurugan — Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. M Balamurugan is a Senior Consultant at Apollo Hospital, Chennai, with more than 30 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list covers tumour, vascular, functional and paediatric work. He performs brain tumor surgery and glioma surgery, craniotomy, spinal tumor surgery, pediatric brain tumor surgery and pediatric hydrocephalus surgery with hydrocephalus surgery generally, deep brain stimulation and stereotactic brain surgery, and on the vascular side arteriovenous malformation surgery and aneurysm clipping for brain aneurysms.

His qualifications are MBBS and a DNB in neurosurgery, together with the FRCS of Glasgow and the FAANS as a Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons. He also holds a fellowship from the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons.

Three international meetings are recorded within a single eight-month span, and they track the breadth of his list: the annual conference of the Asian Society of Cervical Spine Surgery in Istanbul in November 2014, the Hydrocephalus Update and Consensus Meeting at Le Locle in France in April 2015, and the World Spine Society Meeting in Bali in June 2015.

His published work is largely in Neurology India, where he has written on post-electrocution demyelination, midline frontal lesions and synchronous spinal lesions. He has also worked on the role of CT, MRI and neuropsychological evaluation in head injuries.

He practises at Apollo Hospitals on Greams Road in Chennai.