Exceutive Board Member, International Society on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Dr Sujoy K Sanyal is based as a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon-Spine Surgeon-Neurointerventionist at the NH Institute of Neurosciences, NH Rabindranath Tagore Hospital/Armenian Church Trauma Centre, Kolkata (Calcutta) India. Dr Sanyal was one of 34 selected from all over India to do MBBS (medical schooling) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, which is the premier medical institution of India. Immediately thereafter, he joined an Integrated 5-year Neurosurgical M.Ch at the same institution, which had only one vacancy every year during his time. He thereafter did extensive Fellowship Training in the USA/Canada, which made him India’s First Fellowship-trained Vascular-cum-Endovascular Neurosurgeon. He was awarded the J Douglas Miller Fellowship in Spine Trauma and Neuro-critical Care by the American Association of Neurosurgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He was also awarded an International Paediatric Epilepsy Surgery Fellowship by the American Association of Neurosurgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, which he obtained at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Thereafter, he joined the NH Institute of Neurosciences, Rabindranath Tagore Hospital in his hometown Calcutta, India in 2007 with a dream of starting and establishing Advanced Neurosurgery/Spine Surgery/Neurointervention in Eastern India. Dr Sanyal is the Pioneer in Eastern India of:
1. Deep Brain Stimulation/Brain Pacemakers for Advanced Parkinsons' Disease
2. Minimal Access/Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery
3. Percutaneous Vertebral Augmentation for Osteoporotic Spinal/Vertebral fractures
4. Motion-preserving Cervcal Spine Disc Replacement
5. Transthoracic Spine Surgery & Biomechanical Cervical Dislocation Surgery
6. Surgery/Percutaneous Intervention for Trigeminal Neuralgia
7. Epilepsy Surgery
8. Baclofen pumps for Spasticity
9. Spinal Cord Stimulation and Sacral Nerve Stimulation for Urinary Incontinence/Retention
10. Combined Endovascular-Vascular Neurosurgical program (AVM Embolisation, Carotid Stenting,
Aneurysm Clipping/Coiling)
11. Programmable Shunts for NPH
Member, Executive Council, International Society of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Honours and awards
1. Invited Faculty on Deep Brain Stimulation for Advanced Parkinsons Disease
A. World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (Special Congress), Beijing, China, 2019
B. World Congress of Neurosurgeons, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
C. World Congress of Neurosurgeons, Seoul, South Korea, 2013
D. 2nd International Fujita Bantane Interim Meeting of Neurosurgery, Bali,Indonesia, 2018
E. Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons, Astana, Kazakhstan 2014
F. 5th International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Phuket, Thailand, 2019
2. Invited Faculty on Cervical Spine Surgery
A. World Congress of Neurosurgeons, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
B. World Spine VIII, Porto, Portugal, 2018
C. Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2016
D. Asian Congress Of Neurosurgeons, Dubai, UAE, 2018
E. Asian Congress Of Neurosurgeons, Cairo, Egypt, 2024
3. Invited Faculty on Minimal Access Spine Surgery
A. World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (Interim meeting), Rome,Italy, 2015
B. 5th WFNS Spine Committee Biennial Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 2018
C. Spine Surgery in the XXI Century, Serbia, 2018
D. World Spine VII, Delhi, India, 2016
E. Asian-Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Jeju Island, South Korea, 2015
F. 3rd International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Cairo, Egypt, 2016
G. Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Jerusalem 2022
4. Invited Faculty on Trigeminal Neuralgia
A. 4th International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Moscow, Russia, 2018
B. 3rd International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Cairo, Egypt, 2016
C. World Congress of Neurosurgeons, Seoul, South Korea, 2013
D. Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons, Surabaya, Indonesia, 2016
E. 7th International Congress of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Tashkent, 2023
5. Invited Faculty on Vascular-Endovascular Neurosurgery for Aneurysms and AVM’s
A. International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery, Prague Neuroweek, Czech Republic, 2018
B. International Conference on Cerebrovascular Surgery, Indonesia, 2014
C. World Intracranial Haemorrhage Conference, Granada, Spain, 2019
D. 4th International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Moscow,Russia, 2018
E. 3rd International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Cairo, Egypt, 2016
F. Asian Congress of Neurosurgeons, Dubai, UAE, 2018
G. World Congress of Neurosurgeons, Istanbul, Turkey, 2017
H. Asian Australasian Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Jerusalem 2022
6. Invited Faculty, Asian Epilepsy Surgery Congress, 2012 Busan Korea & 2015 Udaipur India
7. Best Scientific Paper Award and Highest contributor at the 1st International Congress on Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Florence, Italy, 2012.
8. Young Neurosurgeon Award awarded by the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Vienna, 2004
9. Douglas Miller Fellowship Award awarded by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons (AANS/CNS) Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care, 2005.
10. Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship 2005 awarded by the Rotary Foundation International (Chosen to be one of 20 candidates from all over the developing world across all disciplines).
11. Young Investigator Award awarded by the ILAE, International League against Epilepsy, Paris, 2005
12. Represented India on “Epilepsy Surgery Scenario in India” at Workshop on Development of Epilepsy Surgery in Asia organized by the Asian Section of the International League Against Epilepsy and invited to write an Invited Article in Neurology Asia on Solutions to the Problem of Medically Intractable Epilepsy in India and other developing countries
13. Invited as Guest Faculty at the Chongqing International Neurological Forum, China, 2009 on “Multitasking in Neurosurgery: From Vascular/Endovascular to Functional to Minimal Access spine”.
14. Awarded Congress Grants by the International Association for the Study of Pain, the European Skull Base Society and the European Neurological Society.
15. Indian Scholarships-
a. National Talent Search Scholarship in 11thStandard
from the NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training)
b. Paul Foundation Scholarship
c. Hargobind Foundation Medical Fellowship
d. Birla Medical Fellowship
