All education [Primary, High School, College & postgraduate training] has been in the English language.

IELTS Band Score 7.5 (Listening 7; Reading 7.5; Writing 7; Speaking 8;) conducted by The British Council on 25 March 2006 Center No IN120; Candidate No 014228

QUALIFICATIONS AND MEDICAL REGISTRATION

CURRENT POST

EDUCATION

NEUROSURGICAL EXPERIENCE

NEUROSURGERY AT CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE, LUDHIANA

Christian Medical College is a multidisciplinary, 750 bedded Health Care & Trauma Center .Neurosurgery was started in Christian Medical College (CMC) and Hospital Ludhiana in 1960.This was the first neurosurgical centre in this region. At present there are four neurosurgeons working in the department. The Christian Medical college & Hospital, Ludhiana, Neurosurgery Department provides a comprehensive in-patient and out-patient neurosurgical service, treating the full range of intracranial and spinal disorders. The unit treats around 1200 in-patients annually with around 50% being elective and 50% emergency. Trauma accounts for approximately 50% of the caseload. Institute has got the state of the art Emergency & Trauma centre, centrally air conditioned facility includes a code room for the critically ill and unstable patients with all facilities for stabilization. The main area of the centre is the resuscitation room where majority of patients are received and treated. The room has twelve beds with the state of the art monitors and equipment required for resuscitation and stabilization. There is a separate room for burn patients which is adequately equipped for monitoring and resuscitation. Burn patients are directly received there and treated. A separate room for emergency paediatric patients, a suturing room for a plastic surgery patients and a plaster room for orthopaedic patients with round the clock back up of Radiology and Laboratory services. Emergency department caters to about 16000 patients annually. We have well established outpatient service, seeing 3000 outpatients per year. The Neurosurgery Department has developed sub-specialty interests in cerebrovascular surgery, spine surgery, skull base surgery, pituitary surgery and Neurotrauma. We are committed to providing excellence in neurosurgical care through quality management, education and training of health care professionals.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF WORK

Traumatic Brain Injury

Every type of traumatic brain injury is managed. Minor Severe head injury Open head injury Closed Head injury Skull fractures Growing skull fractures CSF fistula and pneumocephalous Traumatic intracranial hematoma Scalp injuries Cranial defects and cranioplasty. We have a well equipped neurosurgery ICU with monitors, ventilators and facility for ICP monitoring, well trained staff and physiotherapists. All type of surgical operations from trephine craniotomies, open craniotomies, cranioplasties, and repair of CSF fistula is carried out.

Brain Tumors

Tumor surgery is done using operating microscope and microneuro surgical instrumentation, sugita head frame. All types of tumor supra-tentorial, infratentorial are treated in CMCH, for example: Glioma Surgery All types of Meningiomas Tumors of pineal gland Cerebello pontine angle tumor like vestibular schwanomma, meningioma and epidermoid etc. Posterior fossa tumor like medulloblastoma haemangioblastoma, ependymoma, astrocytoma etc. Sellar and parasellar tumors like pituitary adenoma, micro adenoma, craniopharyngiomas, and optic gliomas. All types of lateral and 3rd ventricular tumors. Tumors of the orbit like optic nerve gliomas meningiomas etc.Skull base surgery Tumors in the region of skull base and CV junction are also managed in the department.
The state of art diagnostic facilities, i.e. conventional radiology, spiral CT scan, 1.5 Tesla MRI with MR spectroscopy, DSA facilities help in diagnosing brain tumors
Congenital Disorders
The following congenital disorders are treated in the department
Congenital hydrocephalus – ventriculo-peritoneal shunt, ventriculo-atrial shunt and all types of shunt complications Spinal dysraphism Tethered cord syndrome Spinal cord lipomas and lipomeningomyeloeceles Diastemotamyelia Encephalocoeles CV junction anomalies like ADD, Basilar invagination etc Chiari malformation/ syringomyelia/ hydromyelia Craniosynostosis Intracranial arachnoid cysts.

Vascular Surgery

Treatment is provided for vascular disorders like: Aneurysm Surgery AVM Surgery Decompressive surgeries for brain infarcts (ischaemic cerebro-vascular disease) Surgeries for spontaneous intracerebral haematomas Surgeries for intra-ventricular bleeds Cavernomas etc.

Paediatric Conditions

The department manages all types of Paediatric head trauma Paediatric spine trauma Spinal dysraphism Hydrocephalus Subdural haematomas and effusions Development midline intracranial cysts. Encephalocoeles Tethered cord syndrome Diastematomyelia Congenital dermal sinus Spinal cord lipomas, lipomeningomyeloeceles, menigocoele, myelomeningocoeles

Spinal Disorders

All types of spine trauma of CV junction, cervical, thoracic, lumbosacral are managed in the department. Both anterior and posterior spinal instrumentation is carried out e.g. expandable cages, anterior cervical bone grafting and plating, pedicle screw plating and fixation, postero-lateral lumbar spinal fusion etc. All types of spine tumors primary, metastasis are treated with surgery. All type of intravertebral disc disease, spinal stenosis, degenerative spondylolisthesis cervical disc disease, OPLL, cervical spondylotic myelopathy – anterior cervical disectomy, anterior cervical corpectomy, bone grafting and fusion using plates and screws expandable cages are done. Thoracic - Laminectomy, lateral costotransversectomy transthoracic approach. Lumbar disc disease: Micro lumbar disectomy. Laminectomy, Laminotomy, Spinal fusion and instrumentation. Pain: Management of trigeminal neuralgias – Microvascular decompression Peripheral painful neuromas of extra went neuropathies – Peripheral neurectomy. Thoracic outlet syndromes. Neoplasm of peripheral nerves like neurofibromatosis, schwanomma, malignant nerve sheath tumors.

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Transphenoidal Surgery: The department is doing transnasal transphenoidal/sublabial rhinoseptal transphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma, micro adenoma empty sella syndrome etc. It has C-arm facility, full set of pituitary micro instruments. Microlumbar Disectomy: For extruded disc presently with sciatica using 3 cm incision and absorbable sutures with minimal bone removal. Transoral Surgery: Odontoidectomy for AAD with anterior compression.

CURRENT TEACHING
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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Singh Y, Dewan Y. A phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to determine the efficacy and safety of a low (50-100 mg/day) and high (150-200 mg/day ) dose range of safinamide, as add-on therapy, in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease with motor fluctuations, treated with a stable dose of levodopa.

Singh Y, Dewan Y. A phase III, double-blind, placebo-controlled, 12 month extension study to investigate the long-term efficacy and safety of a low (50-100 mg/day) and high (150-200 mg/day) dose range of safinamide, as add-on therapy, in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease with motor fluctuations, treated with a stable dose of levodopa.

Singh Y, Dewan Y, Paul R, Bala S. A 14-Week, Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pregabalin twice daily in patients with fibromyalgia

Dewan Y. Participating in CRASH2 Trial CLINICAL TRIAL ON CLINICAL RANDOMISATION OF AN ANTIFIBRIONOLYTIC IN SIGNIFICANT HAEMORRHAGE. Principal Investigator Ludhiana.

Dewan Y. Conducting “A prospective randomized study comparing the efficacy of periprocedural versus extended use of antibiotics, in patients requiring external ventricular drains”. Principal Investigator.

PUBLICATIONS

SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS

Registration or Membership in  professional
organization

AWARDS & HONOURS

Conferences Organized

Oct. 2005

Conference Secretary 
39th Annual National Academic Conference of I.M.A 21th-23nd October 2005, ACADIMA-2005, Ludhiana, India.

Aug. ‘2004

Oct. ‘1999

March ‘1999

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AREA OF INTEREST

RESEARCH INTEREST