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Dr Sunil Furtado
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Dr Sunil V Furtado is a senior consultant neurosurgeon in Bangalore with over 17 years experience in Neurosurgery. After MBBS and specialising in General surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, he secured the MCh degree in Neurosurgery from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum ; an Institute of national importance under the Cen-tral
Government ministry of Science and Technology. He worked for 9 years at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute for Higher Medical Sciences at Whitefield, Bangalore. During his stay, he was actively in-volved with neuro-oncology projects with the Indian Institute of Science and CSIR and focused on brain tumours and cerebrovascular disorders. He then completed two fellowships in the United States of America: Cerebrovascular & Skull Base Surgery at Stanford University, California & En-dovascular Neurosurgery at
The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York. These fellowships provided a multimodality approach to managing complex head, neck and brain tumours, integrating skills of operative neurosurgery and radio-interventional neurosurgery.
He is a member of various national and international neurosurgical societies , holds academic posts and has more than 80 indexed publications and book chapters to his credit.
His areas of interest are Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery (Aneurysms, AVM), Stroke Intervention, Neuro-oncology-brain and spine tumour surgery, Skull base surgery.
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Trivandrum ( 2002-2004 )
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Bangalore ( 2005-2013 )
Stanford University Medical Centre ( 2013-2014 )
Mount Sinai Hospital & Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai Hospital, New York ( 2014-2015 )