The American Association of Neurological Surgeons named Dr. BK Misra as the recipient of its International Lifetime Achievement Award, Microbiz India reported Aug. 25.
Dr. Misra, of P.D. Hinduja Hospital in India, was honored at the AANS' Annual Scientific Meeting 2021. He's the first Indian doctor to receive the award.
He has expertise in complex spine and brain disorders, minimally invasive neurosurgery and gamma knife radiosurgery. He was the first to perform an image-guided aneurysm microsurgery globally and the first in South Asia to perform a gamma knife radiosurgery.