Dr. Rajendra Prasad is one of India's most senior and venerated Neurosurgeons and Spine Specialists, possessing more than 40 years of international and national operative excellence. He currently serves as Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi.
After earning his MBBS from Ranchi University in 1979, Dr. Prasad moved to the United Kingdom, where he underwent comprehensive higher surgical training in neurosurgery, microneurosurgery, and complex spinal disorders. He achieved the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) from Glasgow, UK, and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in Neurosurgery from Edinburgh, UK, serving in renowned National Health Service (NHS) tertiary neuroscience units.
Since returning to India and joining Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals at its inception in 1996, Dr. Prasad has completed thousands of delicate cranial and spinal procedures. He is celebrated for introducing innovative microdiscectomy workflows, cervical artificial disc replacements, stereotactic radio-neurosurgery protocols, and complex craniovertebral junction (CVJ) reconstructive surgeries.
His clinical practice focuses on brain tumor surgery (gliomas, acoustic neuromas, skull base meningiomas), spinal instrumentation for degeneration, deformities, and fractures, minimally invasive lumbar and cervical decompression, endoscopic pituitary tumor resections, and microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia.
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