Dr. G. Dhanunjaya Rao

He has pioneered the Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease and performed more than 100 DBS surgeries in India and USA.

Biography

Dr. Dhanunjaya Rao Ginjupally received his medical degree and then completed neurosurgery residency from the Gandhi Medical College (GMC) in Hyderabad, INDIA. Following residency, he received subspecialty fellowship training in Movement disorders and Functional Neurosurgery – Neuro Oncology in both adult and pediatric epilepsy surgery, as well as adult brain tumors, at the Kentucky Neurosciences Institute (KNI), University of kentucky, in lexington, Kentucky state, USA.

At the University of Kentucky, as a Principle investigator and Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery and Brain Restoration Center (BRC), Dr. Ginjupally focused on the surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease, Movements disorders, Refractory epilepsy, brain tumors, Obesity, stroke and psychosurgery for drug resistance obsessive compulsive disorders, refractory depression. He is particularly interested in improving provision of Deep brain stimulation, lesioning for movement disorders and also epilepsy surgery for all patients who are suffering from medically refractory epilepsy, in Telugu states and beyond. He is also interested in LASERS and awake operations for brain tumors, particularly those within or in proximity to eloquent regions of the brain (which control speech, movement, sensation, and cognitive processing), to achieve maximal tumor removal and preserve patient’s function after surgery. Dr. Dhanunjaya Rao Ginjupally is a member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), the Movement Disorder Society(MDS), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), the World Society of Stereotactic And Functional Neurosurgery(WSSFN), the American Epilepsy Society (AES) the Neurological Society of India(NSI) The Telangana State Neuroscientists Association(TSNSA).

Medical Education

2018

University of Kentucky

Fellow, Movement Disorders and Functional Neurosurgery, Neuro-oncology. Priniciple investigator in Neuro-restoration, Neuro Transplantation

2014

Gandhi Medical College

MCh Neurosurgery, Neurological Surgery Residential Program

2011

NTR University of Health Sciences CAIMS

M.S. General Surgery, General surgery Residency Program

2007

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Spasticity, Bionics, Functional implant(ITB Therapy) Hardware implantation.

1999

Gandhi Medical College

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery-M.B.B.S.

Work Experience

Specialities 

Conditions Treated

Parkinsons disease, Essential tremor, dystonia, Huntingtons chorea, Blepharospasm, Oromandibular dystonia, Post stroke tremors, Rubral tremors, Holmes tremor, Tics and Tourette syndrome, drug resistance obsessive compulsive disorders, refractory depression, refractory obesity. Refractory Epilepsy, Drug Resistant Epilepsy, Focal Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Mesial Temporal Sclerosis, Extra-temporal Epilepsy (Frontal, Insular, Parietal, Occipital), Hemispheric Epilepsy (Rasmussen’s Encephalitis, Hemimegalencephaly, Peri-Natal Stroke, Hemispheric FCD, Sturge Weber Syndrome), Epilepsy Associated with Brain Tumors, Cavernomas and Cortical Migration Abnormalities, Generalized Epilepsy with Atonic Drop Attacks, Posterior Quadrant Epilepsy, Focal Cortical Dysplasia, Syndromic Epilepsy (Tuberous Sclerosis, Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, Landau Kleffner Syndrome, Others), Benign and Malignant Brain Tumors, Skull Base Tumors, spasticity, refractory pain.

Procedures Performed

Prior Publications

Dhanunjaya Rao Ginjupally and Zain Guduru. “Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease: Past, Current and Future”. Acta Scientific Neurology 2.1 (2019): 29-30.

Kumar, N, Nookathota, Uday, Ginjupally, Dhanunjaya Rao. (2018). Outcome Analysis after Microsurgical Resection of Intra Medullary Spinal Cord Tumors: Our Institutional Experience. doi: 10.21276/sjams.2018.6.11.10. Sch. J. App. Med. Sci., Nov, 2018; 6(11): 4206-4212.

N.V.S. S Kumar, Nookathota UG, Gollapudi PR, Ginjupally DR, Pittala SR, Neeraja A Neuroendocrine Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury: Does Evaluation Improve Outcome in Acute Setting. doi: 10.21276/sjams.2018.6.10.98 Sch. J. App. Med. Sci., Oct, 2018; 6(10): 4158-4164.

Sreedharala SS, Ginjupally DR Primary Intracranial Squamous Cell Carcinoma Denovo in the Cerebello-Pontine Angle. doi: 10.21276/sjams.2018.6.4.63; Sch. J. App. Med. Sci., Apr 2018; 6(4): 1689-1692.

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