About Doctor

Dr Shabari Girishan

MS (General surgery) MCh – Neurosurgery (Christian Medical College, Vellore) Fellowship - Epilepsy & Functional Neurosurgery (AIIMS, New Delhi)

Dr Shabari Girishan is a consultant epilepsy & functional neurosurgeon in Bangalore with over 10 years experience in Neurosurgery. After MBBS and specialising in General surgery from Bangalore Medical College, he secured the MCh degree in Neurosurgery from the prestigious institute of Christian Medical College, Vellore, which is the first Neurosurgical centre to start in India. He continued to worke as an assistant professor for 3 years in CMC, Vellore after which he worked as a consultant in St.John’s Medical College, Bangalore. During this period he was actively involved in the neurooncology and pediatric neurosurgery practice. He then completed 2 years of fellowship in the subspeciality of Epilepsy & Functional Neurosurgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, which is ranked as the top medical institute and an institute of national importance under the Central Government ministry of Science and Technology. These fellowships provided a multimodality approach in managing complex head, neck and brain tumours, integrating skills of operative neurosurgery and functional neurosurgery. There are very few neurosurgeons in India who can provide a surgical cure for epilepsy and do deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease by surgery and he is one among them.

He is a member of various national and international neurosurgical societies, holds academic posts and has many indexed publications and book chapters to his credit.

His areas of interest are Epilepsy surgery, Functional Neurosurgery (Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease, tremors, dystonia), Pain interventions (Spinal Cord Stimulation), Neuro-oncology-brain and spine tumour surgery, Skull base surgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery.

Visit Schedule: Every Week Monday To Friday: 9:00am to 5:00pm