Dr. Ravi Gopal Varma
Director - Aster Global Institute of Neurosciences & Lead Consultant - Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
Aster RV Hospital - Bangalore, India
Qualification
MBBS, MS, MCh (Neurosurgery), FFSNLanguages
English Hindi Kannada MalayalamWork Experience
25 YearsAwards & Achivements
• Established the MCh program to train Postgraduate doctors in Neurosurgery at the Institute of NeurosciencesMSRMC
Bangalore.
• Established a fully functional and successful Movement Disorder Program at M.S.Ramaiah Medical College
Bangalore.
• Initiated a DBS program for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease at NIMS
Hyderabad.
• Initiated a DBS program for the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease at KEM Hospital
Mumbai.
• Initiated a DBS program in Apollo Hospital
Hyderabad.
• Was selected for a DBS workshop with advanced training in the Netherlands
as a part of a prestigious Indo-Canadian collaboration.
• Organized the first International Workshop on Surgery for Movement Disorders at M.S. Ramaiah Memorial Hospital
Bangalore. It was the first time in the world that a live DBS surgery was relayed to an interactive forum.
• Served as Member of the Board of Studies
NIMHANS
for a tenure of 3 years.
• Was invited as Guest Speaker at Hindustan Times Leadership Summit
New Delhi
where he shared the dais with other dignitaries like HH. Dalai Lama
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Al Gore and the RT. Hon. Gordon Brown. He is the first Neurosurgeon to be invited to speak at the HT Summit
where he spoke on “Unravelling the Brain’s Enigmas”.
• Designated Visiting Professor at the Raman Research Institute.
• Dr. Varma also has the distinction of having conducted the first successful DBS surgery for Neuroacanthosis in India and third in the world.
Memberships
• Member of the Neurological Society of India• Member of Bangalore Neurological Society
• Member of ISSFN
Indian society for stereotactic and functional Neurosurgery
• Member of Indian Society for pediatric Neurosurgery