Doctor

Dr. Ashok Hande M.S., MCh.

APPOINTMENTS at present:

• Hon. Consultant Neurosurgeon at Wokhardt Hospital, Bombay
• Hon. Consultant at M.G.M'S New Bombay Hospital, Sector 3, New Bombay. PIN 400703, India.
• Head and Honorary Prof of Neurosurgery: M.G.M. Medical College, Kamothe, New Bombay, India.
• Member of Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons (ACNS).
• Member of Society of Young Neurosurgeons of Asia.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS :

• Honorary consultant Neurosurgeon at Jaslok Hospital and Research Center, Bombay from 1995-99
• Honorary consultant neurosurgeon at Lilawati Hospital and Research center. Bombay, 1999-2000.

POST-DOCTORAL THESIS:

1. Craniostenosis: retrospective study of 67 cases.
2. Functional block dissection of the neck in tuberculous lymphadenitis: retrospective study of 67 cases.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

23 years of experience to the undergraduate and postgraduate students.

RESEARCH WORK:

1. National multicenric trial of Z flow shunts verses conventional shunts.
2. National multicentric trial if ceredrain shunts.
3. National multicentric trial in Fistula in ano (Indian council of medical research trial).

FELLOWSHIPS ABROAD :

• Sugita Fellowship (1992).: at Nagoya, Japan for special training in vascular surgery and skull base tumors.
  
• Hamilton Bailey Foundation Trust Scholarship (1993): Visited Dr. Benet Stein's dept at Columbia University, New York for a special training in vascular and skull base surgery.
  
• Radiosurgery (1997) training in X-knife radio surgery in Radionics at Boston, USA.
  
• Fellowship in Microneurosurgery (1998), Fugita University, Japan.
  
• Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (2002): Trained in Neurosurgery department, Tokyo University Medical College for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.

SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PRESENED:

a) International Conferences:

• Early personal experience with 25 cases of brain AVMs: in Japanese Zonal Congress held in Nagoya in 1992.
• Iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm of the vertebral artery in a patient with neurofibromatosis: presented in Japanese Zonal Congress held in Nagoya in 1992.
• Personal experience in 15 cases of primary brain stem injury presented in Nihon University, Japan, 1999.
• History of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Tokyo 2002
• History of stereotactic and Functional neurosurgery, presented in National SFNS conference, Matsumoto, Japan, 2002

b) National Conferences:

• Intramedullary Lipoma: at Annual National Neurosurgery-Neurology meet, 1993.
• Z-flow shunts- a multicentric trial: at Annual National Neurosurgery-Neurology meet, 1994.
• Multiple papers on subarachnoid hemorrhage and AVM presented in Zonal conferences.

PUBLICATIONS:

Published

• Unusual complication following transnasal trans-sphenoidal surgery- a case report> Br J Neurosurgery. 5(no 2):205-208, 1991.
• Hemmorrhage into an intradiploic arachnoids cyst and review of literature: a case report. J of Neurosurgery, December 1991.
• Cerebellar hemangioblastoma with distant metastasis with review of the literature. Br J of Neurosurgery, 1996.
• Postmyelographic changes in CSF: a study of 50 cases. J of Postgraduate Medicine, March 1992.
• 4 th Ventricular Arachnoids cyst. Accepted in Br J of Neurosurgery, 1995.
• Dilemma in aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage: Jaslok Bulletin, April 1995.
• Pseudo aneurysm of the vertebral artery: a case report, Jaslok Bulletin, June 1995.
• Mobile Pseudo cyst of pancreases: a diagnostic conundrum, a case report. J of postgraduate medicine 33:91-93, 1987.
• Fistula in Ano, Indian Journal of Medical Research 94 (B): 177-185, 1991.

VISITS ABROAD:

• Worked with Late Prof Kenichiro Sugita at Nagoya University, Japan in 1992.
• Worked with Prof Bennette Stein at Columbia University, New York in 1993.
• Visited skull base neurosurgery centre headed by Dr. Chandranath Sen at Mount Sinai hospital, New York in 1993.
• Visited Maudsley Hospital, London as an observer in Epilepsy Surgery 1993.
• Visited neurosurgery dept at Matsumoto, Japan-headed by Prof. Kobayashi, 1996.
• Visited Radionics at Boston for X-knife training, 1997.
• Visited Dept of neurosurgery at Freiburg, Germany for functional stereotaxy in 1997.
• Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Fugita, Japan, 1998.
• Tokyo University Medical College, Tokyo, Japan, 2002.

Special interest:

• Pediatric Neurosurgery
• Vascular neurosurgery
• Neuro-spinal trauma
• Skull Base surgery
• Stereotactic neurosurgery