Consultant Neurosurgeon and brain and spine specialist
Founder, CNS Medicolegal (2021), providing forensic expert medicolegal opinions in the field of neurosurgery.
Associate Professor at ANU Medical School from 2006 to 2013, I currently serve as the Director of CNS Neurosurgery, a multi-state private neurosurgical practice, from 2014 to 2024, and as the Director of CNS Medicolegal since 2021. I am an active member of several professional organisations, including the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia (NSA), the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), and the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ASAM). As a brain and spine specialist, I am also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS; Neurosurgery) and the Australian Medicolegal College (AMLC). Since 2009, I have been providing forensic medicolegal opinions, having authored well over 2,000 IME reports in Australia that cover both plaintiff and defendant cases related to medical diagnosis, causation, mis/management and alleged medical negligence. I hold accreditation in AMA4 and AMA5 (spine) for permanent impairment (PI) assessments and received ABIME certification in 2026, focusing on scientific causation analysis, medicolegal report writing, and court testimony. Additionally, I am a licensed and highly disciplined fixed wing aircraft pilot, certified by CASA in 2018 for both day and night VFR operations.
Chronology:
I attended Liverpool West Public School in western Sydney and then progressed to Trinity Grammar School and Sydney Grammar School (SGS), where I received the SGS General Merit Award and graduated with my HSC in 1987 (top 0.5% of the state of NSW). My medical journey began at the University of Sydney from 1988 to 1994, where I earned a BScMed with Honours 1 and medal and graduated with my BSc(Med) in 1992. I was honoured with the AMA J.G. Hunter Research Fellowship and the NH&MRC Research Scholarship, along with the University of Sydney's Peter Bancroft Prize and the P.O. Bishop Medal. I graduated with MBBS (Hons) in 1995, receiving the University of Sydney's Robert Craig Prize for Surgery.
After completing my internship at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney in 1995, I was awarded the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia Best Paper Award for my work on the Pathophysiology of Cerebral Vasospasm. I was then invited to join the Mayo Clinic's Neurosurgical Training Program in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, starting in 1997. I am a U.S.-trained neurosurgeon, having spent nine years at the Mayo Clinic, which included earning a biomedical PhD and a year as the Barrow Neurological Institute Robert F. Spetzler Fellow in Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery. I completed my PhD at the Mayo Graduate School, graduating in 2001, where I conducted the world's first genetic modification of human brain arteries, a part of my PhD thesis published in a number of journals including JCBFM 2000.
My achievements also include receiving numerous scientific and medical research awards and scholarships from organisations such as AHA, ISCBFM, ASPET, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP; first place in neuroradiology and neuropathology competition), and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), where I received the Peter Galbraith Award, along with four additional awards and scholarships from the Mayo Clinic. I became a Fellow in Neurosurgery (FRACS, Australia) in 2008 and received two clinical awards from The Canberra Hospital. From 2006 to 2013, I served as an Associate Professor at ANU Medical School and was a visiting specialist at Royal Melbourne Hospital from 2010 to 2012.
My contributions to the field include the first peer-reviewed publications from Australia on awake craniotomy patient series and cerebral microsurgery ICG videoangiography patient series. I have over 20 years of operative experience in neurosurgery, with more than 60 publications, two U.S. patents, and over 20 awards and scholarships to my name. I continue to publish ongoing research in biomedical literature and have delivered dozens of oral and platform presentations at various medical, neurosurgical, scientific, and medicolegal conferences since the 1990s. Some relevant articles authored by Dr. Khurana and colleagues are available at the bottom of the About Us Page.
Appointments in person (ACT, NSW, Tas & Vic) are available for independent medical examination (IME) with me, a brain and spine specialist. Special travel requests for other locations can be considered. I also offer tele-IMEs (national and international since 2013) with trained allied health professionals, and utilise a peer-reviewed and published forensic approach to IME cases. My services include aetiological apportionment and causation analysis, along with expertise in imaging analysis for brain and spine conditions related to neurosurgery. I address issues of alleged medical negligence and conduct file reviews or desktop assessments. I participate in expert advisory panels, engage in teleconferences and conclaves to discuss urgent and non-urgent matters, ensuring comprehensive, benchmark medicolegal opinion. I have provided expert testimony in courts and tribunals, including AAT/ART, Supreme Court (Australia), and Superior Court (Washington DC). Beyond in-person and tele-medicolegal conferences, I have also presented in person at several law conferences and seminars as an invited panel member and speaker.
CNS Medicolegal - A.C.N. 648 542 509
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