Professional Qualifications And Fellowships

Qualification	Year	Institution / University & City
M B B S	2000	Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore University
M.Ch	2006	Nimhans, Bangalore

Experience Profile

• Senior Resident Dept of Neurosurgery NIMHANS, Bangalore: 2006-2007.
• Consultant Neurosurgeon, Kerudi Hospital, Bagalkote, Karnataka: 2007.
• Specialist Neurosurgeon, King Abdul Azeez Specialist Hospital, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: 2007-2008

Academic Achievements and Awards

Publications:

• Maqsood AAR, Devi IB, Mohanty A, Chandramouli BA, Sastry KVR .Third Ventricular Colloid Cysts in Children. PediatrNeurosurg 2006; Vol 42, No. 3:147-150.
• AR Maqsood Ahmed, DI Bhat, B Indira Devi, BA Chandramouli. Management dilemmas in delayed presentation of traumatic atlanto occipital dislocations. The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma June 2005; Vol 2, No 1: 41-45.
• Shukla D.P, Indira Devi B, Hegde T, Ahmed Maqsood AR. An Extradural Epidermoid of Posterior Fossa: a case report. Indian Journal of Otology 2004; Vol 10, 38-40.
• Ahmed M.A.R, Bhat D.I, Devi I.B. Cerebellopontine angle extradural hydatid cyst mimicking an intracranial abscess. Indian Journal of Otology 2004; Vol 10, 41-44

Presentations

First Author

• Third Ventricular Colloid Cysts : Paper presented at the 14th annual conference of the Indian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery & the CME programme of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2003, Lucknow, INDIA.
• Cerebrovascular surgery in NIMHANS: Poster presentation at the National Neuroscience conference 2003, Bangalore, INDIA.
• Rate of resolution of histologically verified intracranial tuberculomas: Paper presented at the 55th  Annual Conference of the Neurological Society of India, Neurocon 2006 at Madurai, India.

Co-Author

• 31 PMRS characteristics of intracranial tuberculomas and their resolution. Paper presented in 9th annual conference of Indian Society of Neuro Radiology in Guwahati Nov 2006.

Thesis submitted for the MCh (Magister Chirugiae) Degree in Neurosurgery:

“Rate of resolution of histologically verified intracranial tuberculomas”:

This was a prospective cohort study aimed at finding the optimal duration of therapy for intracranial tuberculomas(IT) also their rate of resolution which was documented with serial CT Scans. Only patients with histological proof of IT were selected.  This study is one of very few studies dealing with the topic

Areas of special Interest

• Brain and Spinal cord  tumours.
• Aneurysm clipping.
• Spinal Instrumentation.
• Minimally Invasive Neuro Surgery.