Dr. Ravi Gopal Varma

Dr. Ravi Gopal Varma is a Chief of Neurosciences and Lead Consultant Neurosurgery in Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore. He was also instrumental in setting up and running the highly successful Institute of Neurosciences at M S Ramaiah Medical College and Hospital, where Dr. Ravi was Professor and Head of Neurosurgery since 2008. He holds a special interest in Movement Disorders and brings with him more than 20 years of experience. Dr. Varma has undergone extensive training in all aspects of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery which includes specialized surgery for Epilepsy, Movement Disorders, and chronic pain. He has gained surgical training in neurosurgery including Paediatric, vascular and endoscopic neurosurgery. He is one of the few neurosurgeons, in India, with a large experience with DBS surgery for Parkinson ’s disease. Dr. Ravi started a DBS program for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease at NIMS, Hyderabad and  KEM Hospital, Mumbai. He was also among those very few who were selected for a DBS workshop with advanced training in the Netherlands, as a part of a prestigious Indo-Canadian collaboration. He has served as Member of the Board of Studies, NIMHANS, for a tenure of 3 years and Dr. Ravi is the first Neurosurgeon to be invited to speak at the HT Summit, where he spoke on “Unravelling the Brain’s Enigmas”.