Dr. V.K. Jain — Principal Director – Department of Neurosurgery in Delhi NCR

Dr. V.K. Jain is Principal Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, in Delhi NCR, with more than 35 years of experience.

His list covers tumour, vascular and stereotactic work. He performs brain tumor surgery, skull base tumor surgery and skull base surgery, craniotomy and endoscopic brain surgery, aneurysm clipping for brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformation surgery, Chiari malformation surgery and stereotactic brain surgery.

His training is dated across three decades and four countries. He read MBBS at King George Medical College, Lucknow, in 1974 and took his MCh in neurosurgery at NIMHANS, Bangalore, in 1981. A micro-neurosurgery fellowship followed at Fujita Health University in Japan from November 1985 to October 1986. He took a brain atlas operators course at Mundelein, IL, in June 1992, attended international workshops on stereotactic techniques at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm in October 1998 and a dosimetry and dose planning course at the Gamma Knife Centre, Komaki City Hospital, Nagoya, in May 1999. He was a visiting professor at Fujita Gakuen Health University in Toyoake in 1999 and at the University Hospital of Geneva in June 2001.

His published contributions include descriptions of a new entity of benign subarachnoid hemorrhage and of a new technique for surgery of atlanto-axial dislocation, and he authored Craniovertebral Junction Anomalies – The Indian Experience in 1997. He is Vice President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons and a past president of the Neurological Society of India, the Skull Base Surgery Society of India, the Indian Society of Cerebro-Vascular Surgery, the NeuroTrauma Society of India and the UP NeuroScience Society.