Project Description
- Speciality: Neurosurgery, Pain Medicine, Spine Surgery
- Clinic: Sunway Medical Centre Velocity
Background
Clinical Focus
- Neurotrauma
- CNS Tumours i.e. All Brain and Spinal Tumours : Open and Endoscopy, Awake Brain Surgery
- CNS Infections
- Functional Disorders including Pain, Hemifacial spasms, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Glosso-pharyngeal Neuralgia, Hyperhidrosis (Sweaty Palms)
- CSF Disorders i.e. Shunts and Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy
- Spinal Disorders i.e. Degenarative Diseases (Open and Endoscopy Approach)
- Chronic and Cancer Pain Conditions i.e. Pain surgery and Interventional Pain Procedures
- Pediatric Congenital Brain and Spinal Lesions
Procedure Focus
- Brain Tumour Resections : Open , Keyhole & Endoscopic, Awake Brain Surgery
- Skull Base Approach for Brain Tumours
- Trasphenoidal Approach for pituitary tumor and sellar tumor
- Lumbar & Cervical Discectomy : Microsurgery or Endoscopic
- Spinal Decompression
- Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy
- Pain Surgery : Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia & Glosso-pharyngeal Neuralgia; DREZotomy for Brachial Plexus Avulsion Pain
- Neuromodulation : Spinal Cord Stimulation (For Failed Back Syndrome and Other Pain Conditions)
- Interventional Pain Procedures for Trigeminal Neuralgia, Atypical Facial Pain, Cluster Headache, Occipital Neuralgia, Cervicogenic Headache, Chronic Neck & Back Pain, Cervical & Lumbar Discogenic Pain, Sympathetic block or neurolysis for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of the Limbs, Visceral & Cancer Pain
Medical School
- MBBS (MAHE), 1998
Memberships
- Life member of Neurosurgery Association, Malaysia
- Life member of Malaysia Association for the Study of Pain
- Life member and current president of Malaysia Society of Interventional Pain Practitioner
- Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, World Institute of Pain.
Awards
- Dato’ Dr Arumugasamy prize for the Best Scientific Oral Presentation, 11th June 2005: The evaluation of the predictors of delayed traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (DTICH) and progressive traumatic brain injury (PTBI) in traumatic head injured patients from HKL. 25th July 2005.
- Second prize (as a supervisor) in Dato’ Dr Arumugasamy prize; “Pioneer Malaysian Neurosurgical Centre Providing Interventional Pain Service: a clinical review” in ISMINS and NAM annual scientific meeting,1st – 5th October 2015
Board Certifications
- National Specialist Registry : Neurosurgery
- Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice (Hungary, World Institute of Pain)
- MMed (Pain Management, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines)