Dr.J.K.B.C.Parthiban is a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon with expertise in Micro Neurosurgery and special interest in Spinal Surgery. After obtaining M.B.B.S (1983) and M.Ch. Neurosurgery (1991) from Madurai Medical College, Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamilnadu he focused his career in excelling in Microsurgical techniques in Spine and Brain surgery. By actively participating in most of the spine conferences in the early 90s in India, he made friends with spine loving orthopaedic and neurosurgeons all over the country and abroad. This friendship encouraged him to conduct workshops, conferences and live demonstrations on spine surgery since 1991 to till date. Contribution in the form of demonstrations of pedicle screw fixations in early 90s and the resultant teaching quality enabled him to start Fellowship programmes in spinal surgery in 2001 to train young ortho and neurosurgeons. Skill in microsurgical techniques and spinal instrumentation made him one among the complete Neurospine surgeons in India.
Academic contributions in the form of Original articles on Cervical interbody allo/auto grafts, Ventral screw fixation for type 2 Odontoid fractures and Double hook retractor for Microlumbar discectomy and Text book chapters on Posterior cervical fusion techniques, Fusion techniques in lumbar spine and Pedicle screw fixation in 'Text book of Operative Neurosurgery' are few among many to mention.
Teaching faculty in Spinal sugery in India – Live demonstrations and Cadaver workshops.
EXPERIENCE
In 1991, Dr. JKBC joined as a Junior Consultant Neurosurgeon at Medical Trust Hospital (MTH), Cochin, Kerala and was later promoted as Head – Cerebrovascular and Spinal surgery in the same hospital between 1996 – 1998. At MTH Dr. JKBC, introduced Microsurgery in various fields of brain surgery viz skull base surgery, aneurysm & AVM surgery, transphonoidal pituitary surgery and in conventional brain tumour surgery. Advanced Spinal Surgeries like micro lumbar discectomy, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, ventral screw odontoid fixation, pedicle screw dorso lumbar stabilization, lateral mass cervical fixation and various other spinal instrumentation techniques were introduced in the Neurosurgical practice at MTH, Cochin.
In 1999, he joined Department of Neurosurgery, Kovai Medical Center and Hospital, Coimbatore as Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon where he Introduced Minimally Invasive Stereotactic Neurosurgery and Micro Endoscopic lumbar discectomy in spine surgery, Started Fellowship-Training program in spine surgery for young Orthopaedic and Neurosurgeons and established a Microsurgery training lab to propagate the value of microsurgery in spinal surgery among young Ortho and Neuro surgeons.
In 2008, he estabilished and developed the Institute of Neurosciences and Spinal disorders at Global Hospitals in Chennai, where he contributed in developing the Epilepsy surgery Unit. In 2012, he joined as Senior Consultant SPINE – NEUROSURGERY in the Department of Neurosciences, Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Chennai
He is one of the founder members of Neuro Spinal Surgeons Association India, an organisation established with the sole aim of spreading high quality education in Spinal surgery among young Neuro and Ortho surgeons. During his tenure as the President of NSSA, he organized the most successful Annual Conference of NSSA - SPINE 2012 at Chennai in September 2012.