Academic

  • He has secured an MBA in Hospital Management through distance education from Alagappa University (First Class) in 2010.
  • He has over 43 publications in Indexed journals (28 in Indian and 15 in International).
  • He put in all efforts to see that the MCh training programme in Neurosurgery was established in BMCRI. The institution has been sanctioned 2 MCh seats per year by MCI / NMC. This has catapulted the department to a teaching department of repute in the city.
  • Catalogued all the CT and MRI Scans in the department to make storage and retrieval easy (“Scan library”) in M. S. Ramaiah Medical College and now in BMCRI.
  • Helped in designing and installation of computer software for patient data storage, retrieval and discharge summary preparation in M. S. Ramaiah Medical College.
  • Carried out original research study of the cerebral arterial network in Indian cadavers (the first and only research in India) which has been published and well acknowledged by the peer community.
  • Established a Cadaveric Microneurosurgical Dissection Laboratory in M. S. Ramaiah Medical College, Bangalore (one of the first of its kind in Karnataka).
  • Helped in establishing a Clinical Skills Centre along with Dr K Lakshman at the BMCRI.
  • He takes regular classes for all the PG students both theory, clinical case discussions and operative which have been well received and appreciated by the students. Everyday pre op discussions, weekly seminars, case discussion and journal club was done by him. He has been training the PGs in surgery on cadavers every month (2nd Saturday) at the Clinical Skills Centre which is the first of its kind in the state and probably in the country. This initiative has been well received and appreciated by one and all.
  • He has been taking regular monthly Sunday CMEs (classes) for all the MCh / DNBE PGs of Bangalore city. So far, he has taken around 110 such classes. This has been well appreciated by not only all the PGs in Bangalore but also their teachers.
  • He has made a video on the entire neurological examination (albeit in multiple parts) called “Neurological Examination made easy” which is available for free on Youtube. Many students have drawn enormous benefit from this video.
  • Conducted Cadaveric Workshop on Spinal Instrumentation – September 11th, 2011 at BMCRI., Bangalore.
  • Organizing Secretary of the Spinal Arthroplasty Workshop 2007, March 30-31, 2007 at M.S. Ramaiah Medical College and Hospitals, Bangalore.
  • Conducted the Basic Drilling Course in Neurosurgery at Clinical Skills Centre, BMCRI under RGUHS on Nov 12th 2011
  • Conducted the Basic Drilling Course in Neurosurgery at Clinical Skills Centre, BMCRI under RGUHS on May 18th, 2014
  • Conducted the Hands-on Microvascular Anastomosis Workshop (Organizing Secretary) at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute Skills Centre on September 5th, 2014.
  • Conducted the Basic Drilling Course in Neurosurgery on 10th April, 2016 at Clinical Skills Centre, BMCRI.
  • Conducted the Neurosurgical Approaches Workshop - Cadaveric Demonstration on 15th and 16th of October, 2016 at Clinical Skills Centre, BMCRI.
  • Conducted and Organized the Neurosurgery Cadaveric Workshop on June 9th and 10th, 2023, at Clinical Skills Centre, BMCRI.
  • Attended various conferences and presented papers at various fora. Have always tried to keep myself as updated as possible.
  • Was a faculty in the Cadaveric Spine workshop held at CMC Vellore on 3rd and 4th March, 2023.
  • He has been training PGs and assisting them in Paper presentations, poster presentations and publications.

Operative Manual of Neurosurgery – a step by step pictorial atlas

Edited by: S. Balaji Pai

This is a step-by-step pictorial atlas on most of the neurosurgical procedures performed across the country.

Aims and objectives:

  • This atlas is aimed at the neurosurgical residents and junior neurosurgeons just entering practice and not exposed to the wide variety of neurosurgical procedures.
  • The focus of this atlas are the steps involved in the various surgical procedures through photographs and illustrations rather than on theoretical knowledge of the same.

Characteristics of the Atlas:

  • The atlas has 22 sections with around 155 chapters written by various experts in the field and are simple and easily understandable. It includes most of the procedures performed on the brain and spine.
  • Each chapter has an introduction (with radiological imaging), position and procedure with systematic steps all corroborated by appropriate photographs and illustrations along with the author's tips.
  • Each chapter are drawn from many patient videos and photographs
  • Out of the 155 chapters over 81 chapters have been authored by Dr. S. Balaji Pai.