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Dr. Biji Bahuleyan

Consultant Neurosurgeon & Spine Surgeon


MEDICAL QUALIFICATION

  • September 1989 to May 1995: MBBS, TD Medical College, Alappuzha, India.
  • January 2000 to January 2005: Residency in neurosurgery (M.Ch.) 5 year combined surgical and neurosurgical training programme. Christian medical college, Vellore, India.
  • Doctoral thesis for neurosurgical training: The ability of MRI to predict consistency of pituitary adenomas. This was later published in "British Journal of Neurosurgery".

DOCTOR'S EXPERIENCE

  • July 2017:
    • Sr Consultant neurosurgeon and spine surgeon, Lisie Hospital, Kochi, India.
    • Visiting epilepsy surgeon Kovai Medical Centre Hospital, Coimbatore, India.
    • Sr Consultant neurosurgeon and spine surgeon, Sahrudaya Hospital, Alappuzha, India.
  • July 2015 to July 2017: Consultant neurosurgeon, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
  • July 2015 till June 2015: Clinical fellowship in functional and restorative neurosurgery, The neurological institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
  • July 2013 to June 2015: Clinical fellowship in neurosurgical oncology, the neurological institute, Burkhardt Brain tumour centre, the neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
  • July 2012 to June 2013: Clinical fellowship in spine surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard medical School, MA.
  • July 2009 to June 2012: Research fellowship in minimally invasive neurosurgery, Rainbow Babies and Children’s hospital and University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
  • September 2007 to June 2009: Assistant Professor of neurosurgery, Sree Chitral Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India.
  • February 2007 to September 2007: Post-doctoral fellow in neurosurgery, Sree Chitral Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India.
  • March 2005 to February 2007: Lecturer, department of Neurosurgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
  • February 2005 to March 2005: Tutor, department of neurosurgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
  • January 1999 to January 2000: Non-PG resident in neurosurgery, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
  • June 1998 to December 1998: Medical Officer in neurosurgery, MOSCMM Hospital, Kolencherry, Ernakulam, India.
  • March 1997 to June 1998: Medical Officer, GG Clinic, Alappuzha, India.
  • July 1996 to March 1995: Medical Officer in neurosurgery, Indo-American Hospital, Vaikom, India.
  • May 1995 to May 1996: Rotatory internship, TD Medical College, Alappuzha, India.

NEUROSURGERY FELLOWSHIPS

  • July 2015 to June 2015: Clinical fellowship in functional and restorative neurosurgery, The neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
  • July 2013 to June 2015: Clinical fellowship in neurosurgical oncology, the neurological institute, Burkhardt Brain tumour centre, the neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
  • July 2012 to June 2013: Clinical fellowship in spine surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • July 2009 to June 2012: Research fellowship in minimally invasive neurosurgery, Rainbow Babies and Children's hospital and University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Neurosurgical oncology
  • Epilepsy surgery
  • Spine surgery
  • Functional neurosurgery & pain
  • Minimally invasive neurosurgery

CERTIFICATIONS

  • June 2012: USMLE step 3
  • August 2011: Educational commission for foreign medical graduates (ECFMG).
  • June 2014: Gamma knife perfexion Training certificate.
  • February 2015: Artificial disc replacement (DePuy Synthes spine), Prodisc cervical artificial disc replacement.

ONGOING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

  • Prospective study on the serum level of phenytoin in patients

PUBLICATIONS

  • Bahuleyan B, Raghuram L, Rajshekhar V, Chacko AG. To assess the ability of MRI to predict consistency of pituitary macroadenomas. British journal of neurosurgery. Oct 2006;20(5):324-326.
  • Bahuleyan B, Rao A, Chacko AG, Daniel RT. Supracerebellar arachnoid cyst - A rare cause of acquired Chiari I malformation. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. Sep 2007;14(9):895-898.
  • Bahuleyan B, Daniel RT, Chacko G, Chacko AG. Epidermoid cysts of the velum interpositum. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. Oct 2008;15(10):1159-1161.
  • Biji B, Moorthy RK, Rajshekhar V. Posterior longitudinal ligament cyst as a rare cause of lumbosacral radiculopathy with positive straight leg raising test. Neurology India. Jan-Mar 2008;56(1):96-97.
  • Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Nair S. Immediate postoperative death due to hypothalamic injury following surgery for craniopharyngioma. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. Jun 2009;16(6):850-851.
  • Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Nair S, Rao BR, Easwer HV, Krishna K. Non-surgical management of cystic prolactinomas. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. Nov 2009;16(11):1421-1424.
  • Menon G, Bahuleyan B, Nair S. Acute subdural hematoma after transsphenoidal surgery. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. Jan 2009;16(1):160-162.
  • Menon G, Nair S, Sudhir J, Rao BR, Mathew A, Bahuleyan B. Childhood and adolescent meningiomas: a report of 38 cases and review of literature. Acta neurochirurgica. Mar 2009;151(3):239-244; discussion 244.
  • Bahuleyan B, Manjila S, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Minimally invasive endoscopic transventricular hemispherotomy for medically intractable epilepsy: a new approach and cadaveric demonstration. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics. Dec 2010;6(6):536-540.
  • Kesavadas C, Bahuleyan B, Chatterjee S, Kapilamoorthy TR. Post gamma knife subarachnoid hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. Neurology India. Jan-Feb 2010;58(1):158-160.
  • Saini J, Singh A, Kesavadas C, et al. Role of three-dimensional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3D FLAIR) and proton density magnetic resonance imaging for the detection and evaluation of lesion extent of focal cortical dysplasia in patients with refractory epilepsy. Acta radiologica. Mar 2010;51(2):218-225.
  • Bahuleyan B, Menon G, Hariharan E, Sharma M, Nair S. Symptomatic posterior fossa and supratentorial subdural hygromas as a rare complication following foramen magnum decompression for Chiari malformation Type I. Journal of neurosurgery. Feb 2011;114(2):510-513.
  • Bahuleyan B, Omodon M, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Frameless stereotactic endoscope-assisted transoccipital hippocampal depth electrode placement: cadaveric demonstration of a new approach. Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery. Aug 2011;27(8):1317-1320.
  • Bahuleyan B, Vogel TW, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Endoscopic total corpus callosotomy: cadaveric demonstration of a new approach. Pediatric neurosurgery. 2011;47(6):455-460.
  • Cohen AR, Bahuleyan B, Robinson S. Unusual Resolution of a depressed skull fracture following repeat head trauma: the two-hit hypothesis? Pediatric neurosurgery. 2011;47(3):230-232.
  • Radhakrishnan A, James JS, Kesavadas C, et al. Utility of diffusion tensor imaging tractography in decision making for extratemporal resective epilepsy surgery. Epilepsy research. Nov 2011;97(1-2):52-63.
  • Bahuleyan B, Fisher W, Robinson S, Cohen AR. Endoscopic transventricular selective amygdalohippocampectomy: cadaveric demonstration of a new operative approach. World neurosurgery. Jul-Aug 2013;80(1-2):178-182.
  • Bahuleyan B, Groff MW. Management strategies for patients with spinal synovial cysts. World neurosurgery. Feb 2013;79(2):277-280.
  • Bahuleyan B, Robinson S, Nair AR, Sivanandapanicker JL, Cohen AR. Anatomic hemispherectomy: historical perspective. World neurosurgery. Sep-Oct 2013;80(3-4):396-398.
  • Gaab MR. Endoscopic mesial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. World neurosurgery. Jul-Aug 2013;80(1-2):59-61.
  • Vogel TW, Bahuleyan B, Robinson S, Cohen AR. The role of endoscopic third ventriculostomy in the treatment of hydrocephalus. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics. Jul 2013;12(1):54-61.
  • Weaver J, Manjila S, Bahuleyan B, Bangert BA, Cohen AR. Rhombencephalosynapsis: embryopathology and management strategies of associated neurosurgical conditions with a review of the literature. Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics. Mar 2013;11(3):320-326.
  • Manjila S, Miller BR, Goodman A, et al. Pharmacoresistant epilepsy in hypomelanosis of Ito: palliative surgical treatment with modified anatomic posterior quadrantic resection. Clinical neurology and neurosurgery. Aug 2014;123:15-17.
  • Bahuleyan B, Patel VT, Usurumarthi P, Madhavan GK, Thomas SG. Posttraumatic Intralaminar Hematoma Developing between Cranial Dural Layers: A Case Report. Pediatric neurosurgery. 2018;53(1):55-58.
  • Menon D, Bahuleyan B, Ahammed S, Belthazar A. A "cure"ttable cause of secondary headache. Neurology India. Mar-Apr 2018;66(2):577-578.
  • Manuel A, Jayachandran A, Harish S, Sunil T, K R VD, K R, Jo J, Unnikrishnan M, George K, Bahuleyan B. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as a rare cause of meningitis and ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection. Access Microbiol. 2021 Oct 7;3(10):000266