Dr. Vini G. Khurana MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS

Staff Specialist Neurosurgeon at The Canberra Hospital and Associate Professor
of Neurosurgery for The Australian National University Medical School

City of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Dr Vini Gautam Khurana is a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

He holds active medical registration with the Medical Boards of the Australian Capital Territory and the State of
New South Wales, Australia.

He is the only Australian medical graduate to have completed an entire neurosurgical training program,
PhD and Fellowship in the United States of America, where he trained and worked for 10 years.

He is a specialist microsurgeon for "high-risk" brain conditions.

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Specialty Interests

His specialty interests in intracranial microsurgery include:

» Cerebrovascular Surgery » Complex Brain Tumour Surgery » Microvascular Decompression (MVD) » Salvage Neurosurgery

» Microsurgery for "High-Risk" Brain Conditions » Minimal-Access Neurosurgery » Awake Brain Surgery-Awake Craniotomy Click interest topics for more information

Links of Interest	News
» Click here for images of recent operations and for more information about microsurgery for "high-risk" brain conditions" successfully treated by Dr Khurana and team » Click here for information regarding our Awake Craniotomy/ Awake Brain Surgery Program » Click here for a brain aneurysm image bank recently added to this Site at the request of Dr Khurana's brain aneurysm patients » Click here for more information about Neurosurgery services	November 2007: Dr Khurana's Neurosurgery Team wins the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Quality in Health Care Award for Patient Safety. Latest Media Reports: » Click here for the latest media reports related to Dr Khurana and team
	Brain Surgery Information
	» A comprehensive book about brain surgery written and illustrated by Dr Khurana for patients and their carers Clicking the above link will take you to our partner Site, www.brain-surgery.us. From there, simply use the browser back arrow button to return to this page or, in your browser address window, type: www.brain-surgery.net.au

While most of the patients that Dr Khurana sees and operates are from the ACT and SE NSW, many have travelled specifically to Canberra from across Australia for consultation and treatment under his care as depicted in our current referral map

Specialty Interests

Cerebrovascular Surgery: For the surgical treatment of brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and cavernous malformations (cavernoma) including those involving the brainstem; brain bypass surgery for symptomatic life-threatening carotid occlusion.

Complex Brain Tumour Surgery: For tumours of the skull base (including acoustic neuroma or vestibular and trigeminal Schwannoma, pituitary adenoma, cranio-pharyngioma and meningioma), brainstem and craniocervical junction.

Microvascular Decompression (MVD): For trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux), hemifacial spasm and glossopharyngeal neuralgia.

Salvage Neurosurgery: Appropriate, aggressive surgery for "recurrent", "persistent" or "inoperable" brain tumours. Operating on astrocytoma or glioma as early as possible following diagnosis is a high priority as these tumours become more malignant with time -- "Observing" these types of tumours is not recommended by Dr Khurana.

Microsurgery for "higher-risk" brain conditions: » Click here for images of high-risk brain conditions successfully treated by Dr Khurana and team.

Minimal-Access Neurosurgery: Using advanced intraoperative image-guidance (heads-up neuronavigation) technology and unique, comprehensively validated operative approaches to optimise the accuracy and safety of neurosurgery, and to reduce incision and craniotomy sizes to the smallest and safest possible. Dr Khurana also utilises a "minimal-shave" technique for scalp incisions. He believes minimal-access surgical approaches logically allow for safer surgery, earlier and optimal recoveries, and shorter lengths of stay.

Awake Brain Surgery-Awake Craniotomy: For CERTAIN (select) patients with tumours, aneurysms or vascular malformations in highly eloquent (highly functionally important) parts of the brain, Dr Khurana and team offer a specialised and successful Awake Brain Surgery/Awake Craniotomy Program as a means of obtaining as complete a resection as possible while having the patient awake, pain-free, comfortable and neurologically testable during ONLY the critical parts of the surgery. For all other parts of the operation, the patient is kept asleep.

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Contact Details

For all inquiries in Australia and from overseas regarding a neurosurgical opinion, consultation appointments and physician referral information, Dr Khurana can be reached at:

Dr Khurana's P.A.: Ms Vicki Gardiner [Neurosurgery Department Secretaries: Ms Vicki Gardiner & Ms Lesley Vest]

Office Address (see mailing address below): Dept of Neurosurgery, Level 9, Building 1, The Canberra Hospital, Yamba Drive, Garran, ACT 2605, Australia (for more transport & direction details, click here)

Dr Khurana's mailing address: PO Box 103, Woden, ACT 2606, Australia [Note: this address will reach Dr Khurana ONLY]

Office:
Tel: (+ 61 2) 6244 3937
Fax: (+ 61 2) 6244 2718
E-mail: gautam.khurana@act.gov.au

For Patient Film Review by Dr Khurana:
Call (+ 61 2) 6244 3937 BEFORE sending any
films or CD-ROMs (conditions apply)

Web: www.brain-surgery.net.au
(for The Canberra Hospital's official Website, click here)

The Canberra Hospital Operator:
(+ 61 2) 6244 2222

For Emergencies in Australia: Dial 000

A.C.T. & interstate patients
About neurosurgery services: click here