Dr. Ari G. Chacko is a distinguished neurosurgeon with over 30 years of experience. His clinical focus includes microsurgical and endoscopic removal of brain and spinal cord tumors, skull base tumors including pituitary adenomas, and surgeries for epilepsy. He is known for his expertise in awake surgeries for gliomas, microsurgical excision of intramedullary spinal cord tumors, vestibular schwannoma surgery for facial nerve preservation, and maximal safe resection of craniopharyngiomas.

Educational Qualifications:

• MBBS
• MCh (Neurosurgery) from Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India

Professional Experience:

• Director of Neurosciences and Senior Consultant - Neurosurgery at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, Chennai

• Senior Consultant Neurosurgery, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2022 to 2023)
• Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, CMC Hospital, Vellore, Tamilnadu (2003-2022)
• Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, CMC Hospital, Vellore, Tamilnadu (1999-2003)
• Research Associate, Department of Neurological Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA (1997-1999)

Notable Achievements:

• Program director for a structured fellowship program in Vascular Interventional Radiology and trained many students successfully under this fellowship program since year 2016.
• Best oral paper award for paper presented on “Endovascular management of very small intracranial aneurysms”- in ISVIR national conference - 2018

• Best poster award for poster presented on “Interventional management of visceral artery dissection in SLE” in IRACON 2017

Certifications:

• MCh in Neurosurgery