Dr. Kairav Shah

To serve humanity by acquiring expertise in neurosurgery, with a special interest in neuro-oncology and spine surgery.

• Honorary consultant neurosurgeon at V.S. Hospital, Ahmedabad.
• Heading the Department of Neurosurgery at GRMI (Rajasthan Hospital), Ahmedabad, since April 2017, with around 4,000 neurosurgical operations.
• Consultant neurosurgeon at Rajasthan Hospital, Ahmedabad, since 2015.
• Visiting faculty at Roshanlal Jain Hospital, Pali, and Sun City Hospital, Jodhpur.
• Visiting neurosurgeon at Nanavati Hospital, Bhuj; Dr. S.R. Shah Hospital, Nadiad; Siddhivinayak Hospital, Bhilwara; S.G.V.P. Hospital, Ahmedabad; and Sterling Hospital, Ahmedabad.
• Senior resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Goa Medical College, 18 July 2012 to 17 July 2015.
• Full-time resident, postgraduate medical studies and research, B.J. Medical College, Gujarat, 1 May 2008 to 11 October 2011.
• Research fellow in neuro-oncology surgery, Gujarat Cancer Research Institute, Ahmedabad, September 2011 to June 2012.
• Fellowship in microneurosurgery, University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, 2019.

• More than 4,000 neurosurgical operations, including gliomas, convexity meningiomas, cerebral metastasis, cervical and lumbar degenerative disease, compressive myelopathy, spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, hydrocephalus, pediatric neural tube defects, Chiari malformation, traumatic brain injuries and stereotactic biopsies, aneurysmal rupture, posterior fossa and cerebellopontine-angle tumours, sellar and suprasellar tumours, neuroendoscopy, vascular malformations, trigeminal neuralgia, spinal tumours, complex meningiomas, pediatric brain tumours, and spine instrumentation.
• Work with CUSA, neuronavigation, C-arm, the neuroendoscope, a stereotactic biopsy frame, pneumatic drills, and aneurysm clips and applicators.

• Comparative study between phenytoin and levetiracetam in post-traumatic brain injury seizures prophylaxis. Indian Journal of Neurosurgery. ISSN 2277-954X. Read the paper
• Role of repeat CT scan in mild and moderate traumatic injury. Asian Journal of Neurosurgery.
• Comparative study between phenytoin and levetiracetam in post-traumatic brain injury seizures prophylaxis. Presented at NSICON 2014, Neurological Society of India.

• DNS TALKS Bharat Medical Excellence Award for advanced neurosurgery, 3 January 2025, presented by the Hon. Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel.
• Best orator, and second runner-up, Torrent Young Scholar Award for Neurosurgery, 2014, national level.
• Three gold medals for first rank in the Gujarat University M.S. General Surgery examination.
• Gold medal from the B.J. Medical College alumni for best outgoing student in M.S. General Surgery.
• Scholarship from the Shri Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation for first rank in Kheda district in the H.S.C. examination.
• More than 30 district, state, and national awards in public speaking and elocution.
• Awarded by Manav Kalyan Mandal, Rajkot, in 2018 and 2019, for serving humanity.
• Felicitated by the Hon. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, for gold medals in M.S. General Surgery, 2011.