Dr. Rajesh Alugolu — Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon & Clinical Director in Hyderabad

Dr. Rajesh Alugolu is Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon and Clinical Director at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad, with more than 26 years of experience. His profile records neurosurgery together with the movement disorders and Parkinson's disease side of neurology.

Functional work heads his list. He performs deep brain stimulation, epilepsy surgery, VNS implant and microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia. The tumour work covers brain tumor surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, pituitary tumor surgery, acoustic neuroma or vestibular schwannoma surgery, craniotomy and endoscopic brain surgery.

His three degrees were taken in three states. He read MBBS at Thanjavur Medical College in Tamil Nadu under Dr. M.G.R. Medical University in 2001, took his M.S. in general surgery at V.S.S. Medical College, Burla, under Sambalpur University in Odisha in 2006, and his M.Ch. in neurosurgery at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences at Punjagutta in Hyderabad in 2009.

His record puts numbers to the functional half of his practice: more than 850 DBS procedures performed in India, within a neurosurgical experience of more than 5,000 surgeries. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and 5 book chapters, has served as an examiner for M.Ch and DNB examinations and thesis assessments, and is course coordinator for the post-doctoral fellowship programme on surgery for movement disorders at NIMS.

He is a life member of the Neuro-Spinal Surgeons Association of India, the Andhra Pradesh Neuroscientists Association, the Indian Society for Bone and Mineral Research, the Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy, the Neurological Society of India and the Indian Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, where he is also an executive member. He works at Citi Neuro Centre as well.