Dr Alok Gupta Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Head of Neurosurgery Metro Hospital, Faridabad Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon

QUALIFICATIONS

M.Ch Neurosurgery 1994, Three years degree course in Neurosurgery from G.B.Pant Hospital, Delhi University New Delhi, India M.S. (Gen.Surgery) 1989, Three years degree course in General Surgery from G.R. Medical College, Jiwaji University Gwalior (M.P.) India M.B.B.S. 1985 G.R. Medical College, Jiwaji University Gwalior (M.P.) India

SPECIALITY EXPERIENCE (NEUROSURGERY) (18 Years experience post M.Ch)

Jul 2001 - Nov 2011 - Senior Consultant Neurosurgery VIMHANS and later on Head of Neurosurgery. VIMHANS is a teaching institute for neurosurgery, has two Diplomate National Board (D.N.B.) candidates in Neurosurgery every year and deals with all aspects of Neurosciences like Minimally Invasive Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Gamma Knife, all kind of brain tumours, trauma, aneurysm cases and Interventional Neuroradiology

Jan 2003 - Sep 2009

Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon and Head of Neurosurgery, Sunflag Hospital, Faridabad Chief Consultant and Head of Neurosurgery at Escorts Hospital & Research Centre, Faridabad Senior Resident in Neurosurgery at G.B.Pant Hospital, New Delhi P.G.I.M.E.R., Chandigarh Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi

Aug 1995 -Jun 2001 Jul 1992 -Jul 1995 Jan 1992 -Jul 1992 Jul 1991- Dec 1991 Feb 1990 - Jun 1991

MAJOR INTERESTS

Deep Brain Stimulation surgery for Movement Disorders Epilepsy and Psychiatric Surgery Stereotactic Neurosurgery Microvascular surgery for Aneurysms Brain Tumor Surgery

Functional Neurosurgery
Functional Neurosurgery for Parkinson disease and other movement disorder was started byme in Oct 1998 and so far more than 175 cases of Functional Neurosurgery for movement disorder and Parkinsons disease were performed by me that include Pallidotomy and Deep brain stimulation surgery.This is the largest series of Functional Neurosurgery in South East asia
Started Deep brain Stimulation in OCD for the first time in Asia in August 2010 So far more than 300 Stereotactic biopsies were performed by me in last 10 Years Started Deep brain stimulation for the first time in Asia for intractable Epilepsy

Spine Surgeries
Performed 1,500 spine surgeries for various disorder like spinal cord tumor, spine fixation, single and multiple level disc both lumbar and cervical region along with spinal tumor. More than 300 spine surgeries were performed on foreign nationals

Brain Surgeries
So far more than 3,000 brain surgeries were performed by me for brain tumors of all kind, Aneurysm clipping, head injury operations, functional Neurosurgery for movement disorder, operations for C.S.F. rhinorrhoea etc. Web Site: www.parkinsonindia.org INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS Presented paper on Parkinson,s disease in World Stereotactic Congress held at Adelaide in Sep.2002 *First Asia Pacific Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Course held at Singapore General Hospital (5th-7th March 1994) under supervision of Dr.Prem Pillay *7TH International workshop on Leksell Microstereotactic system held at Karolinska Hospital Stockholm Sweden under supervision of Professor Mayerson. *International workshop on Leksell Microstereotactic system held at AMC Netherland (May 1998) under supervision of Professor D.A.Bosch

*Received training in functional Neurosurgery under supervision of Prof.D.A.Bosch (May 1998). *Invited as guest speaker in First South Asian Neurosurgical Congress held at Kathmandu Nepal (March 1999) and delivered lecture on Outcome of Pallidotomy in Parkinsons disease. *Worldwide Conference for Pain and Neuromodulation held at San Francisco from 15th August to 21 August 2000 and also attended cadavaric courses on Spinal cord stimulation and head and neck pain. *Worked with Dr.Phil Starr in V.A.Hospital San Francisco from 21st August till 2 nd October 2000 and learned the technique of micro electrode recording and stimulation for Movement disorder *Poster presentation in 3rd Asian conference of Neurological surgeon on Thermo coagulation and Deep brain Stimulation procedures for Parkinson disease and Essential tremor held at Nagoya Japan 5th-9th Nov.2000 *Thermocoagulation and Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinsons Disease and Essential Tremor in 2nd South Asian Neurosurgical Conference held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 22 nd Feb.-25th Feb.2001 *Invited as guest speaker in 2nd Middle East Neurosciences Conference held at Dubai from 4th Oct.-8th Oct.2003 *Presented paper on Parkinson disease in World Congress of Neurological surgeon held in Morocco 19th-24th June 2005 Invited as member of World Psychosurgical Forum held in Shanghai to formulate policy for Psychosurgery in world in March 2011 Organizer * Organized a Workshop on Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery at Escorts Hospital & Research Centre along with Prof.Lazlo B Tamas, Director Pacific Neurosciences Centre California in October 1999. *Organized a workshop with Professor D.A.Bosch, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery AMC Netherland and performed Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery (Subthalamic Electrodes Implantation) with him in Feb.2000 at Escorts Hospital & Research Centre Faridabad, India. * Organized several camps in North India at various cities like Hissar , Jaipur Gwalior Bhopal, Ludhiana, Aligarh etc to create awareness about Parkinson disease

PAPERS PRESENTED IN VARIOUS NATIONAL CONFERENCES * Pallidotomy for Parkinsons Disease in 48th Annual Conference of Neurological Society of India held at Hyderabad (16th-19th December 1999) Surgical Treatment of Parkinsons Disease in Indian Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Meet at Pune, India (9 th-10th October 1999). *Invited as a Guest Speaker in Annual Conference of Neurological Society of Delhi held at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (5th April 1999) & delivered a lecture on Pallidotomy for Parkinsons Disease. * Pallidotomy for Parkinsons Disease, My Initial Experience in 2nd National conference of Indian Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery at Bangalore, India (14th-15th December 1998). *Delivered guest lecture on Surgery for Parkinsons disease in National Millenium Meet on Controversies in Neurological Practice held at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi (12 Feb. 2000). *Invited as a guest speaker in Annual Conference of Neurological Society of Delhi held at Apollo Hospital New Delhi (5th-6th Feb.2000) and presented work on Parkinsons disease. *Invited as a guest speaker in the First M.P. Neurocon held at Gwalior (M.P.) India (8th-9th April 2000) and delivered a lecture on Pallidotomy and Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Movement Disorder. *Delivered a symposium on surgery for movement disorder in the 4th National Conference of Indian Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery held at Indore from 13 th to 15th October 2000 * Invited as a Faculty in ACADIMA 2000- Conference organized by Ministry of Health, Govt. of India, Indian Medical Association and Indian Council of Medical research held in New Delhi, from 18th to 21 October 2000 Presented paper in 50th Annual conference of Neurological Society of India on Surgery for Parkinsons disease held at Chennai from 14th- 17th December 2000.

*Presented Symposium on Surgical treatment of Parkinsons disease in National Surgical Update 1999 (March 24th-28th 1999) organized by International College of Surgeons, Indian Section held at Faridabad India. *Invited as a faculty in 1st Indo-US conference on Geriatric organized by Geriatric Society of India in association with Geriatric Centre, University of Michigan (USA) on 2 nd-4th February 2001 at Army Hospital, New Delhi and delivered a lecture on Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinsons Disease. Presented paper on Movement disorder surgery-Long term outcome in Indian Academy of Neurology Annual conference held at Nagpur in Oct.200 Invited as guest speaker in Central Zone Psychiatry meet held in Kanpur on 14 th Oct.2011 *Delivered Guest lectures on Movement Disorder in various local & Regional Meet of Neurologist & Neurosurgeons.

PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH WORK *Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder A Case Report(Sent for Publication in Neurology India) *Pallidotomy for Parkinsons disease Neurology India Suppl. 1, Dec.99, Page 71. *Chronic Subgaleal Haematoma in Childhood Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences Vol. 39 1995. *Choroid Plexus 1996,Page 420-422. Carcinoma a case Report Indian Paediatric Vol.33,May

*Thermocoagulation and Deep Brain Stimulation procedures for Parkinsons disease and Essential Tremor in 3rd Asian Conference of Neurological Surgeons Program and Abstract P3-4 *Cervical Spondylotic Myeloradiculopathy Research work for M.Ch degree in Neurosurgery. *Urolithiasis Research work done for M.S. Degree in General Surgery.

SOCIETIES World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery European Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Indian Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery Neurological Society of India. Indian Academy of Neurology