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Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Senior Consultant 
39 Years of Experience
Neurosurgeon, Spine Surgeon
Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
MBBS, Fellowship, FRCS

English, Hindi
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About Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  • Dr. Rajendra Prasad is a Neurospine Surgeon with over 38 years of experience.
  • His expertise lies in spine surgery for degenerative diseases like lumbar and cervical disc prolapse, lumbar canal stenosis, and spinal instrumentation for injuries, infections, tumors, spondylolisthesis, and artificial disc replacement.
  • He has investigated and treated over 250 patients with low back and neck pain using Radiofrequency (RF) Rhizotomy, a significant series presented at the American Congress of Neurological Sciences meeting.
  • He has performed approximately 1500 microsurgical excisions of brain and spinal tumors, utilizing robotic frameless image guidance or frame-based stereotactic assistance.
  • Dr. Prasad has conducted over 4000 brain and spine surgeries at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital.
  • He conducted Asia's first Robotic spine surgery using the da Vinci robot at Apollo Hospital and was awarded the British Medical Journal Award (2014) for the "Surgical Team of the Year."
  • In India, he was amongst the first users of artificial discs for Cervical and Lumbar disc Replacement (Bryan Disc) and Interspinous Dynamic stabilization devices before they were approved for use in the USA by the FDA.
  • He is actively involved in social healthcare, particularly in head injury prevention and neuro-rehabilitation, founding and managing three neuro-rehabilitation centers for the less privileged.
  • Dr. Prasad was the finalist at the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Awards for South Asia (2015) for advocacy work on decreasing the impact of road traffic trauma.
  • He was the head of India's Primary Trauma Care team, conducting head injury training programs for medical personnel and first responders.
  • He is presently collaborating with the WHO to promote Assistive Technology for Neuro-rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) and the elderly in Southeast Asia.
  • Dr. Prasad has conducted OPDs in several cities in India and Africa, contributing significantly to medical tourism, particularly from East Africa, since 1998.
  • Delhi Neurological Society awarded him the "Lifetime Achievement Award" (2019) for his clinical and philanthropic contributions.
  • He has presented many presentations at National and International meetings.
  • Dr. Prasad is a member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), USA, Global Cooperation on Assistive Health Technology (GATE), Association of Spine Surgeons of India, Neurological Society of India, Delhi Spine Society, Primary Trauma Care Foundation UK (India Chapter), Indian Society for Critical Care Medicine, Neuro Trauma Society of India, Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO).

Awards of Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  • Received the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Award 2014 for the "Surgical Team of the Year."
  • Finalist of BMJ Awards 2015 South Asia.
  • Winner of BMJ Awards, South Asia 2017.
  • Received the Lifetime Achievement award for distinguished services in the field of neurosciences from the Delhi Neurological Association (DNA), 2019, at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.

Paper Published by Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  • "Spinal Instrumentation – Evaluation of Morbidity related to 250 consecutive cases": Apollo Medicine Volume-2 Number1, March 2005.  
  • "Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery": Apollo Medicine Volume-2 Number1, March 2005. 
  • "Recent Advances in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy," Co-author. Medicine Update Vol. 14, 2004. The Association of Physicians of India publication.   
  • "Microscopic laminotomy of lumbar canal stenosis": Apollo Medicine - Volume 3, Issue 4, Dec. 2006. 
  • "Minimally invasive endoscopic brain and spine surgery": Apollo Medicine - Volume 3, Issue 4, Dec. 2006.
  • "Minimally invasive treatment for craniopharyngioma": Apollo Medicine - Volume 3, Number 2, June 2006.
  • "Use of hyperbaric oxygen in traumatic brain injury: Retrospective analysis of data of 20 patients treated at a tertiary care center," published in the April 2012 British Journal of Neurosurgery.
  • "Acute subdural hematoma in a patient with dengue": Apollo Medicine – Volume 5, Number 2, June 2008.
  • "Leiomyoma of skull base" - Reference: APME142 and "Management of non-discogenic low back pain: our experience of 40 cases of RF Rhizotomy" - Reference: APME149: Apollo Medicine Volume 10 in October 2013.
  • "Design and Development of Technological Aids to Rehabilitate Spinal Cord Injury Patients" J. Santhosh, S.Anand, R. Prasad
  • Guideline Development Team for Traumatic Brain Injury- Multi Organizational Consensus Recommendations for India on behalf of Indian Head Injury Foundation by American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and American Association of South Asian Neurosurgeons.
  • Research Project on "Affordable, high-quality assistive devices for everyone; what can we do with the newest manufacturing technologies?" in Neuro-rehabilitation with other co-investigators, Dr. Tarun Lala (Neurorehab Advisor) and Prof. Luc De Witte, Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare, (CATCH), University of Sheffield.

Experience of Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  • Clinical Tutor, Apollo Hospitals Educational & Research Foundation
  • Director, Indian Head Injury Foundation, New Delhi
  • Senior Registrar, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK, 1992
  • Registrar, Nottingham University Hospital, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, 1987
  • Registrar, National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London, 1983
  • Senior House Officer, Cork Regional Hospital, Cork, Ireland 1980

Education of Dr. Rajendra Prasad

  • MBBS, Ranchi University, 1979
  • FRCS (Neurosurgery), Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1983
  • Fellowship (Spine Surgery), Royal National Orthopedic Hospital, Stanmore, London, 1995 - 1996
  • Fellowship, Intercollegiate Specialty Board in Neurosurgery, Uk

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