Dr. Vasanthi Anand

Dr. Vasanthi Anand is the Director of Manasa Cochlear Implant and ENT Centre. After completing MS (ENT) from Government Medical College-Bellary, she worked at Tata Memorial Hospital- Mumbai as Fellow in Head and Neck Onco surgery. She has served as a faculty at Vydehi Institute of medical sciences for 12 yrs. She started Manasa with the interest of giving internationally standardised diagnostic and treatment for hearing loss and post Cochlear Implantation Habilitation. Trained in Minimally invasive Cochlear Implant surgery by Padmashri Prof Dr J M Hans and Dr. Trifon Kiratzidis, Veria ,Greece. She has successfully completed more than 800 cochlear implantation surgeries in normal and anomalies of cochlea. She has performed cochlear implantation surgery for people ranging from 10 months to 79 year old individuals. She has undergone training for VERIA cochlear implantation at Inns brick, Austria. Attended surgical training workshops at Sydney and Kuala Lumpur. Been an observer under Dr. Levent Sennaroglu, Ankara, Turkey for implantation in cochlear anomalies.