Dr. Jayadev Panchawagh

Brain & Spine surgeon practising in the city of PUNE in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Has been active in the field of Neurosurgery for the past 18 years, from the days of his internship.
During his general surgery training, worked for 2 years as Neurosurgery registrar as an additional responsibility, at the KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, PUNE.
During general surgery training days, conducted a study on the Stereotactic Brain Biopsies and Interventions.
After completing his MS, worked as Neurosurgery Senior Registrar at the Pune Institute of Neurology for 6 months.
Joined the MCH course in Neurosurgery at the prestigious KING EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, MUMBAI. This department is one of the busiest Neurosurgical Services in India and is well known for vascular, Skull Base & Spinal Surgery. Here, he was trained for three years under Prof. (Dr.) Sunil Pandya, Prof. (Dr.) Atul Goel, Prof. (Dr.) Anil Karapurkar (Endovascular Interventional Neurosurgeon) and Prof. (Dr.) Ranjeet Nagpal.
Having worked for six & a half years in Neurosurgery , he worked as Associate (Junior) Consultant in Neurosurgery at the Pune Institute for Neurology & Neurosurgery for 1 year.
He worked with Prof. KVR Sastri (Chairman and Head Neurosurgery) at the NIMHANS (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES), Bangalore for Endoscopic & Vascular-Neurosurgery
After this Stint, he has been working as consultant Neurosurgeon in the city of Pune since November 1999.
His interest lies in dealing with complex brain and spinal surgery.
He was trained by Prof. Gaab of Germany in Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy, a technique which he started for the first time in pune in the year 2000.
He has also spent time with Prof. Raabe at FRANKFURT to learn the technique of Intra-Operative Angiography on the Zeiss Pentero Microscope and with Prof. Volger Seifert to learn the technique of Neuronavigation and use of Intra-Operative MRI.
He was member of the team which conducted, for the first time in Pune, a Series of Lesioning Procedures for Parkinson’s Disease and other movement disorders.
He wrote a thesis on the accuracy of the first Indian made Stereotaxy system after performing 80 cases on this system.(which established the accuracy of this system statistically for the first time)
Wrote a thesis on “The comparison between the Anterior and Posterior surgical approaches for the treatment of Cervical Spondylosis(100 cases).”
Conducted a project “Study of the perforators of the A1 segment of the ACA from the point of view of Aneurysm clipping-study on 20 Cadaveric Specimens”
He is a Founder and Chairman of the Synapse Brain & Spine Foundation. This foundation is active in the social and scientific aspects of Neurosurgery.
He is the recipient of the prestigious KWP excellence award for outstanding work in Neurosurgery in 2007
He has been involved in management of over 10,000 neurosurgical cases till date.
Has National and International Publications on his name.

Apart from neurosurgery, Dr. Panchawagh is keenly interested in mountain biking, trekking, deep sea diving, painting and Indian classical music.

He is an accomplished sitar player. He is a disciple of late Shri Sudhir Phadke (a renowned sitar player ) who was in turn, a disciple is a disciple of the world renowned maestro- Pandit Ravi Shankar.