Amit Dhakoji
Specialty: Neurosurgeon
Experience: 13 years
Clinic: Manipal Hospitals Network
Admission fee: To be clarified
About doctor Amit Dhakoji
Dr. Amit Dhakoji is a highly qualified neurosurgeon with 13 years of experience, practicing in Baner, Pune. The doctor has completed his graduation from the prestigious Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute, Trivandrum and also completed his medical education from the renowned KEM Hospital, Mumbai. Dr. Dhakoji successfully passed the National Entrance Examination for the SCTIMST Neurosurgery program in his first attempt after completing his postgraduate training in General Surgery from Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur, being one of the best students.
After completing his training in neurosurgery, Dr. Dhakoji did a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery at SCTIMST, Kerala in 2011. He spent six years at the Central India Institute of Medical Sciences (CIIMS), Nagpur, where he set up a comprehensive epilepsy surgery unit.
As part of his advanced training, the doctor visited the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where he underwent advanced training in epilepsy surgery under the guidance of Professor Gonzalez. Dr. Dhakoji has successfully performed over 300 epilepsy surgeries in various medical centers.
Doctor’s specialty
The main areas of clinical practice and scientific activity of Dr. Amit Dhakoji are:
- neurosurgery;
- epilepsy surgery;
- cerebrovascular surgery;
- spine surgery;
- deep brain stimulation;
- awake craniotomy;
- telovelar approach brain surgery;
- minimally invasive skull base surgery;
- endoscopic transnasal pituitary surgery.
- STA-MCA bypass;
- aneurysm treatment:
- treatment of intramedullary spinal cord tumors;
- craniovertebral junction decompression surgery;
- transarticular fixation of C1, C2.
Advanced training courses
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Indo-Japan Scholarship at Hiroshima University and Fukushima Medical University, Japan;
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Internship in cerebrovascular anastomosis at Fukushima Medical University, Japan;
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Internship at the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Surgery and Stereo EEG, Ohio, Cleveland.
Membership in medical associations
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Neurological Society of India (NSI);
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Indian Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ISSFN);
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Walter E. Dandy Neurosurgical Society;
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AO Spine.
Achievements and awards
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Award for the best paper on “Problems in Surgical Management of Focal Cortical Dysplasia” at NSI Chapter Kerala 2009, Trivandrum.
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