Mr. K. Ravindran Katheerayson

MD(USM), FRCSI, CMIA(Malaysia), Clinical Fellowship in Neurosurgery (Glasgow)

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Mr. Ravi graduated from University Science Malaysia (USM) in 1990 and obtained his postgraduate specialist qualification as a general surgeon from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1999. He was attached to the government service for 18 years, including 2 years in the Armed Forces. He then received his general surgical and subspecialty training in various departments (General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, Breast & Endocrine and Vascular besides Neurosurgery) in Hospital Ipoh and Hospital Kuala Lumpur. He worked in Neurosurgery for about a year from 1997 to 1998 and decided to pursue Neurosurgery after his fellowship.

Mr. Ravi was gazetted a Neurosurgeon after 3 years of subspecialty training that included his one year of Clinical Fellowship at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, which is recognised as the birthplace of the Glasgow Coma Scale. His last posting was as the Head of Department of Hospital Pulau Pinang (formerly Penang General Hospital) where he served from 2004 until 2008. He managed to set up the first ‘Neurosurgical ICU’ that is independent from the General ICU, outside of Kuala Lumpur in 2006. The Neurosurgical ICU is 5-bedded and is still operating today.

During his training in Glasgow, Mr. Ravi was trained in the field of mainly spinal and vascular neurosurgery. While he was in Penang, he completed his training in the field of Radiosurgery in Berlin and was then actively performing Stereotactic Radio Surgery (SRS) and Stereotactic Radio Therapy (SRT) for patients with brain tumours at Mount Miriam Hospital. He continues his service, which is now available at Gleneagles Penang.