Dr. Nirmala S

Dr. Nirmala S graduated from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences with an MS in General Surgery and an M.Ch in Neurosurgery with an excellent track record during her undergraduate studies earning the highest marks in the subjects of Community Medicine, Surgery, and OBG at Sri Devaraj Urs Medical College, Kolar. She has gone on to have a stellar career as a Neurosurgeon with many years of experience. Her repertoire ranges across an impressive range of neurosurgical cases such as the evaluation and management of intracranial tumors, hydrocephalus, movement disorders, spinal trauma, and spinal disorders. She is an expert in handling neurosurgical emergencies like trauma, stroke, seizures, and neuro infections.Dr. Nirmala has independently performed more than 200 craniotomies for trauma, decompression, and SDH, and 100 VP shunts, EVD, and Burrholes for various cranial procedures. She has assisted in more than 100 cases of elective neurosurgical procedures for acoustic neuromas, ACM with a syrinx, intracranial tumors, over 100 cases of Intracranial aneurysms, and more than 100 interventional angiograms. She has independently performed over 100 nerve and muscle biopsies.She endeavors to provide the best care for patients by being up-to-date with the latest neurosurgical advances. To this end, she has assisted in the evaluation and management of movement disorders for DBS surgeries, in temporal lobectomies, and other procedures like dorsal column stimulation and inter stim.Dr. Nirmala has been actively involved in various health camps conducted by Aster CMI Hospital. She is actively involved in academia and research and has won accolades such as securing the First Prize in Quiz in SHINE 2015 and the First Prize for her Paper presentation in SSBASIC Sept-2014. Recently, Dr. Nirmala received a Fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka in June 2023, and this makes her the first female fellow in India. She has innumerable academic papers published in reputed journals to her credit and has presented at prestigious conferences, her research, and posters. Dr. Nirmala is also an Author, lending her expertise by contributing to the "Handbook of Deep Brain Stimulation".