The Team

Dr GAUTAM (Vini) KHURANA, consultant neurosurgeon

MBBS, BScMed, PhD, FRACS, FAMLC

Liverpool West Public School, Sydney

Trinity Grammar School, & Sydney Grammar School (SGS)

SGS General Merit Award; Graduated with HSC 1987

Medical School, University of Sydney, 1988-1994

BScMed (Syd, Medal) - Graduated 1992

AMA J.G. Hunter Research Fellowship; NH&MRC Research Scholarship
Univ. of Sydney's Peter Bancroft Prize & P.O. Bishop Medal

MBBS (Syd, Hons) - Graduated 1995

Univ. of Sydney's Robert Craig Prize for Surgery

Internship, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney (1995)

Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Best Paper Award (Pathophysiology of Cerebral Vasospasm)

Invited onto Mayo Clinic's Neurosurgical Training Program, Rochester Minnesota, USA (1997 onwards)

U.S.-trained neurosurgeon (Mayo Clinic, 9 years including biomedical PhD; Barrow Neurological Institute Robert F. Spetzler Fellow in Cerebrovascular & Skull Base Surgery, 1 year)

PhD (Mayo Clinic/Mayo Graduate School) - Graduated 2001

World's first genetic modification of human brain arteries (JCBFM 2000; Part of PhD Thesis, 2001)
U.S.A. scientific and medical research awards and scholarships from AHA, ISCBFM, ASPET; Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP); Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS, Peter Galbraith Award)
Four additional awards and scholarships from the Mayo Clinic

FRACS (Australia) - 2008

Two clinical awards from Canberra Hospital
Visiting Specialist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 2010-2012
First peer-reviewed publication of an awake craniotomy patient series from Australia
First peer-reviewed publication of cerebral microsurgery ICG videoangiography patient series from Australia

Associate Professor

(ANU Medical School)

2006 - 2013

Private Practice (Neurosurgery)

January 2014 - December 2024

20+ years of operative experience in neurosurgery

Accreditation in AMA4 and AMA5(spine) permanent impairment (PI) assessments

Member of Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (NSA), Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM)

Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS)

Fellow of the Australian Medico-Legal College (AMLC).

Over 50 publications; 2 U.S. Patents; over 20 awards and scholarships

Ongoing publishing in the biomedical literature

Dozens of oral/platform presentations at medical/neurosurgical, scientific and medicolegal conferences/venues since the 1990s.

SOME RELEVANT ARTICLES ARE POSTED, BELOW

Australian FRACS Neurosurgeon

(multi-state Practice Est. as CNS Neurosurgery, 2014)

Medicolegal Consultant (since 2009; over 2,000 IMEs, reports in Australia, including in plaintiff and defendant alleged medical negligence matters. Est. as CNS Medicolegal 9 March 2021)

Fixed wing aircraft Pilot (licensed by CASA in 2018), day & night VFR

Ms CATHY ZHOU

Dr GAUTAM (Vini) KHURANA, consultant neurosurgeon

Manager

LAUREN & HELEN

Dr GAUTAM (Vini) KHURANA, consultant neurosurgeon

LAUREN & HELEN

Secretaries and Receptionists

Areas of Specialty (Forensic Approach)

BRAIN

VIDEO-IME Services

BRAIN

Concussion
Persistent concussion symptoms (PCS)
Pseudo-PCS (non-organic presentation)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Diffuse axonal injury (DAI)
Brain haemorrhage
Brain tumours
Cerebral vasospasm
Cranial disorders in pilots / flight crew

SPINE

VIDEO-IME Services

BRAIN

Spinal aetiological apportionment
Degenerative/constitutional disorders
Congenital
Traumatic
Pre- or post-surgical
Infective/abscess
Neoplastic/tumour
"Chronic pain syndrome"
Non-organic vs. organic presentations
Smoking-accelerated spondylosis
Treatment complications
Spinal disorders in pilots / flight crew

VIDEO-IME Services

Video-IMEs can be arranged for distantly-situated assessees
- Dr Khurana is a pioneer in video-IME
- CNS Medicolegal does these regularly, nation-wide
Language/interpreting services can be facilitated, if needed
Dr Khurana + an examining local allied health professional (supervised and exam-optimised by Dr Khurana)