Ketan Ramanlal Bulsara was selected to be the Chief of Neurosurgery at the

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. He also serves as the Director of Neurovascular/Endovascular Surgery and Director of Skull Base Microsurgery. He thus transitioned from serving in the

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Department of

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where he directed Neuroendovascular surgery and Skull Base Microsurgery.

Background

Dr. Bulsara is a neurosurgeon who has dual fellowship training in

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cerebrovascular Cerebrovascular disease includes a variety of medical Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their heal ...

microsurgery Microsurgery is a general term for surgery requiring an operating microscope. The most obvious developments have been procedures developed to allow anastomosis of successively smaller blood vessels and nerves (typically 1 mm in diameter) which ...

and

endovascular Interventional radiology (IR) is a medical specialty that performs various minimally-invasive procedures using medical imaging guidance, such as Fluoroscopy, x-ray fluoroscopy, CT scan, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or ultraso ...

neurosurgery. He was a member of the team that led to the identification of

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and CAP-23 co-expression and its ability to promote

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in the

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General

Dr. Bulsara was born in Mumbai, India. He grew up in Zambia, Central Africa, and immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. He went to Davidson College for his undergraduate studies. He attended

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and graduated with honors. He completed his neurosurgical residency at Duke Medical Center. Dr. Bulsara received his training in microsurgery and endovascular surgery from the pioneers in the field. Dr. Bulsara is consistently selected as one of the top surgeons/physicians in the United States by the Consumer Research Group of an America based company in Washington, D.C. Aside from holding numerous leadership positions in national and international neurosurgical societies, Dr. Bulsara was appointed to serve on the National Quality Forum for neurosciences. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and 3 books. In addition, he obtained an MBA from the

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. He is a frequently invited national and international lecturer.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American neurologists Duke University School of Medicine alumni Davidson College alumni Yale School of Management alumni Indian emigrants to the United States American people of Indian descent American people of Gujarati descent Medical doctors from Mumbai {{US-physician-stub