Dr. K R Suresh Bapu

Director

49 Years of Experience

Neurosurgeon

MBBS, MS, M.Ch

Reg. No.:25959, Tamil Nadu Medical Council

SIMS Hospital, Vadapalani, Chennai

English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu

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About Dr. K R Suresh Bapu

Dr. K. R. Suresh Bapu is a neurosurgeon with over 49 years of clinical experience.
His area of expertise is microneurosurgery of brain tumors, aneurysms, and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
Procedures such as endoscopic excision of the colloid cyst, endoscopic surgery for pituitary and skull base tumors, total excision of cerebello-pontine angle tumors with preservation of facial nerve, microsurgical excision of spinal cord tumors, neuronavigation and neurophysiologic monitoring during awake procedures for the surgical treatment of low-grade glioma in the eloquent brain, and epilepsy surgery are his forte,
Dr. Suresh Bapu completed his medical education at Madurai Medical College, obtaining his MBBS, MS in General Surgery, and MCh in Neurosurgery.
To enhance his skills and knowledge, he underwent training for microneurosurgery in Zurich, Switzerland, and completed several special training programs in neurosurgery at reputed institutions in the USA and Japan.
Dr. Suresh Bapu was the one to introduce microneurosurgery in South Tamil Nadu and became the first neurosurgeon to perform an STA-MCA anastomosis in South Tamil Nadu in 1984.
As a passionate academic, he is involved in educating and training neurosurgery students. The MGR Medical University, Chennai, awarded him the Best Teacher Award for his contributions.
A highly sought-after speaker, he has been invited to deliver lectures at international and national conferences in Washington, DC, Boston, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, etc.
His research prowess is apparent with his many publications in renowned journals such as the Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care and the Indian Journal of Neurotrauma.
Dr. Suresh Bapu is a member of esteemed organizations such as the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Neuro Spinal Surgeons Association of India (NSSA).

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Education

MBBS, Madurai Medical College, Tamil Nadu, 1975
MS, General Surgery, Madurai Medical College, Tamil Nadu, 1984
MCh, Neurosurgery, Madurai Medical College, Tamil Nadu, 1984

Training & Certificates

Training for Microneurosurgery, Zurich, Switzerland, 1982
Special Training Program for Neurosurgery, USA
Special Training Program for Neurosurgery, Japan

Past Experience

Additional Professor of Neurosurgery, Madras Medical College, Chennai
Visiting Consultant, Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai

Awards

Best Outgoing Student, Madurai Medical College, Tamil Nadu, 1973
Best Teacher Award, MGR Medical University, Chennai

Associations/Membership

American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS)
Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
Association of Spine Surgeons of India (ASSI)
Neuro Spinal Surgeons Association of India (NSSA)
Spinal Cord Society of India
Indian Medical Association (IMA)

Paper Published

Gopinathan Nair, A., Bassi, S. R., Olma Noronha, V., Moodambikana, K., & Suresh Bapu, K. R. (2011). What Comes Down Must Go Up—Chiasmal Prolapse: A Field Report. Neuro-ophthalmology, 35(4), 214-218.
Patel, P., Kalyanaraman, S., Reginald, J., Natarajan, P., Ganapathy, K., Bapu, K. S., ... & Balamurugan, M. (2005). Post-traumatic cranial nerve injury. Indian Journal of Neurotrauma, 2(01), 27-32.
Kumar, V. R., Subramaniam, S. B., Murugan, A. G., & Bapu, K. S. (2017). Endovascular pulmonary artery inflatable balloon-induced hypotension: A novel technique for clipping giant intracranial aneurysms. Neurology India, 65(3), 566-569.
Sampath, N., Subramaniam, S., Sankaran, V., Kumar, R., & KR, S. B. (2016). Brainstem auditory evoked potentials for intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring. Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care, 3(04), S1-S3.
Mohan, B., Bapu, S., Mahapatra, R. K., & Lakshmanan, M. (2020). A rare presentation of solitary pineal region metastasis in a case of lung cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, 16(6), 1532-1534.