Dr. Nambudripad

The Department of Neurosurgery at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana was started in 1963 after by Dr. K N Nambudripad. It was also a separate department from the Dept of General surgery as early as 1970. Our department is one of the earliest neurosurgical centre in Northwest India. Till now, it is a prominent referral centre for complex neurosurgical problems. In 1988 the department consisted of 3 professors of Neurosurgery. Dr. Yashbir Dewan joined the department in February 1998 and was the head till March 2009. After Dr Dewan resigned Dr Tripathy was appointed as head of the department. Dr Tripathy and Dr Grewal were professors and heading unit I and Unit II respectively. Dr Tripathy resigned in December 2009. Prof Sarvpreet Grewal is heading the department since then. Dr Pranshu Bhargava has joined the department as Assistant Professor since May 2010. Dr Sukhdeep Singh Jhawar joined the department in November 2010 as Assistant Professor. Since 2006 we also started MCI affiliated M. Ch. Neurosurgery course with one resident joining per year.

The neurosurgery department deals with all kinds of complex brain and spine related ailments. All kinds of traumatic, oncological, vascular, pediatrics, congenital and infective pathologies of brain and spine are managed with standard of care. Recently, epilepsy surgery and functional neurosurgery programs have also been started for first time in region.