Dr. Naren Nayak — Senior Consultant in Mumbai

Dr. Naren Nayak is a Senior Consultant at Gleneagles Hospital, Mumbai, with more than 11 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with spine surgery.

His list is short and weighted towards functional work. He performs deep brain stimulation and epilepsy surgery alongside brain tumor surgery, acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma surgery, pituitary tumor surgery and craniotomy.

After MBBS and an MS he took his MCh in neurosurgery, then a fellowship in stereotaxy and functional neurosurgery in the Department of Neurosurgery at Tokyo Women's Medical University in Japan, under Prof. Takaomi Taira. That fellowship is the training behind the deep brain stimulation and epilepsy entries that head his procedure list.

His record credits him with initiating and co-leading the first deep brain stimulation programme at Gleneagles Hospital, Parel, where he now practises, so the subject of his fellowship became a new service at his own hospital rather than an individual technique he brought back. He has also served in academic and surgical leadership roles at top Mumbai medical institutions, and has been associated with Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Medical College in the same city.

The rest of his list sits either side of that functional core. Brain tumor surgery, pituitary tumor surgery and acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma surgery are the tumour work, and craniotomy is the approach recorded for it. Spine surgery is listed as his second specialty.