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Basant Kumar Misra is a neurosurgeon specialising in treating brain and spine disorders, pathologies and malformations. He is a former President of the Neurological Society of India, current President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons, and former Secretary General and Vice-President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. He is a recipient of Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest medical honour in India.
Early life and education
Basant Misra was born to eminent economist, Dr. Baidyanath Misra. He did his schooling from the Demonstration Multipurpose School, Bhubaneswar, MBBS from the Government Medical College, Sambalpur, his MS General Surgery from Delhi University, his MCh in Neurosurgery from AIIMS, New Delhi and DNB Neurosurgery from the National Board of Examinations. He received Commonwealth Medical Fellowship to the University of Edinburgh.
Career
He started his career as a Research officer at the Indian Council of Medical Research, and is currently the Chairman & Chief of Surgery, and Head of the Neurosurgery department at Hinduja Hospitals, Mumbai.
His notable patients include Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Abhijat Joshi, Anand Kumar, among others
- He is the first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for intracranial aneurysms.
- He is the first neurosurgeon in South Asia to perform gamma knife radiosurgery.
- He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform laparoscopic spine surgery.
- He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform awake craniotomy.
He has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals.
He runs a free weekly clinic at Hinduja Hospital, Mahim, providing free consultations to patients from the weaker sections of the society and waives off his surgical fees either partially or completely.
Along with Cardiac surgeon, Ramakanta Panda and former Police Commissioner of Mumbai, Arup Patnaik, he set up the Konark Cancer Foundation for patients coming to the Tata Memorial Hospital for cancer treatment, providing them with financial support of up to INR 1 lac per patient, logistical support such as finding food and shelter for their attendants, providing other voluntary support, collecting and donating blood, medications and prosthesis. Around 10,000 patients and their families have been benefited since its inception.
He started the Baidyanath Neurosurgery Charitable Trust to fund travelling fellowships of young neurosurgeons (below 40 years) from both public and private sectors, and of senior neurosurgeons from only the public sector, seeking advanced training abroad.
He started the 6-year DNB course in Neurosurgery for MBBS graduates (one of the only 32 NBE-accredited tertiary-care institutions in India) and a 3-month fellowship programme (one of only 23 WFNS-accredited Class-1 postgraduate training centres in the world) at Hinduja Hospital.He also conducts cadaveric demonstrations, hands-on dissection workshops, seminars and CME courses. He has previously taught at SCTIMST (an Institute of National Importance), Australian School of Advanced Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
