Dr. Girish Joshi

Overview

Dr. Girish Joshi is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon with 12 years of experience at Apollo Hospitals. His specialization includes all forms of neurosurgical and spine surgery, from simple brain surgeries to complicated and advanced spinal surgeries. Dr. Joshi is specially trained to treat neurological and spinal ailments, including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, scoliosis, trigeminal neuralgia, craniosynostosis, Moyamoya disease, and metachromatic leukodystrophy. His surgical experience to this date includes but isn’t limited to craniotomy, laminectomy, spinal fusion, and endoscopic brain surgery.

Dr. Joshi is committed to providing holistic care to his patients, pays a lot of attention to details, and incorporates technology in his work and personal touch in the treatment. Over these years, he has presented several papers and publications in reputed national and international journals, and his contributions to the medical field are highly regarded.

Work Experience

• Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon – Apollo Hospitals – 2014 to Present
• Assistant Professor of General Surgery – Raja Rajeswari institute of medical sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka – June 2010 to March 2011

Education

• MBBS – Rajiv Gandhi university of health science, Bangalore – 1999 – 2005
• MS (General Surgery) – Rajiv Gandhi institute of health science Bangalore – 2007 – 2010
• MRCS (General Surgery) – Royal college of surgeons Edinburgh, UK – 2008 – 2010
• DNB – Diplomate national board, New Delhi – 2010 – 2011
• MCH (Neurosurgery) – West Bengal University of health science, Kolkata – 2011 – 2014

Fellowship

• Fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery – Fujita medical university, Nagoya, Japan – 2020
• Fellowship in Endoscopic Neurosurgery – Institute of Medical and Minimal Access Surgery Training (IMMAST)
• Fellowship in minimally invasive spine surgery – Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI)

Honors & Awards

Publications

• EC-IC Bypass; Our experience of cerebral revascularization with intraoperative Dual-Image Video Angiography (Diva): Asian Journal of neurosurgery- 2020| Vol 15| Issue-3 | page 499-506
• Dorsal Spinal Epidural Cavernous Angioma; A Case Report| Asian J Neurosurg. 2021 Jan-Mar; 16(1): 144–149
• Surgeon experience of surgical safety with kinevo 900 in vascular neurosurgery: The initial experience. Kazutaka Nakao , Binoy Thavara , Riki Tanaka , Yasuhiro Yamada , Girish Joshi , Kyosuke Miyatani , Tsukasa Kawase , Yoko Kato : CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Asian J Neurosurg 2020; 15(02): 464-467: DOI: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_40_20.
• Analysis of the surgical outcome of unruptured intracranial saccular aneurysms in octogenarians (80–89 Years): Binoy Thavara , Yasuhiro Yamada , Girish Joshi , Riki Tanaka , Kyosuke Miyatani , Gowtham Devareddy , Kazutaka Nakao , Tsukasa Kawase , Yoko Kato : Asian J Neurosurg 2020; 15(03): 640-643: DOI: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_44_20
• Rare cases of contrast-induced encephalopathies. Kazutaka Nakao , Girish Joshi , Yuichi Hirose , Riki Tanaka , Yasuhiro Yamada , Kyosuke Miyatini , Binoy Thavara , Tsukasa Kawase , Yoko Kato : Asian J Neurosurg 2020; 15(03): 786-793: DOI: 10.4103/ajns.AJNS_68_20

Trainings & Courses Attended

• Cerebrovascular surgery fellowship at Fujita university, Japan 2020
• Endoscopic spine surgery workshop at AIIMS, New Delhi 2016
• Endoscopic brain & spine workshop at Madhya Pradesh India at 2015
• Minimally Invasive spine surgery fellowship at SGPGI Lucknow in 2018
• Skull base surgery workshop at AIIMS, new Delhi in 2017
• Neuro Onco surgery – brain surgery fellowship at Tata Memorial hospital in 2016, Mumbai.
• Cerebro vascular surgery workshop at Ludhiana
• Endoscopic 3rd ventricular surgery at CEMAST, Mumbai
• Endoscopic, Transnasal pituitary surgery at AIIMS, New Delhi

Membership

• Neurological society of India
• Bangalore Neurological society
• Indian Medical association
• Cerebrovascular society of India

Area of Expertise

• Minimally invasive spine surgery
• Endoscopic spine surgery
• Neuro Oncology
• Cerebrovascular surgery
• Endoscopic brain surgery
• Keyhole/ Micro neurosurgery