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)
Medicolegal Consultant (since 2009; over 2,000 IME reports in Australia, including in plaintiff and defendant alleged medical negligence matters)
Accreditation in AMA4 and AMA5(spine) permanent impairment (PI) assessments
Fixed wing aircraft Pilot (licensed by CASA in 2018); PPL, day & night VFR
Chronology:
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
University of Sydney's Peter Bancroft Prize & P.O. Bishop Medal
MBBS (Syd, Hons); Graduated 1995
University 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)
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); Fellow in Neurosurgery since 2008
Two clinical awards from The Canberra Hospital
Associate Professor (ANU Medical School) 2006 - 2013
Visiting Specialist, Royal Melbourne Hospital, 2010-2012
First peer-reviewed publication from Australia of an awake craniotomy patient series
First peer-reviewed publication from Australia of cerebral microsurgery ICG videoangiography patient series
Private Practice(Neurosurgery) January 2014 - December 2024
20+ years of operative experience in neurosurgery
Over 60 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 by Dr Khurana & colleagues are posted at the bottom of the About Us Page)
Medicolegal Interests
Forensic approach
Aetiological apportionment
Brain & spine conditions related to neurosurgery
IMEs in person (ACT, Hobart, Launceston, Sydney)
Special travel requests for other locations can be considered