Dr. Alok Sharma

Dr. Alok Sharma is a seasoned Neurosurgeon from Mumbai in Maharashtra who is currently associated with LTMG Hospital's Department of Neurosurgery as Professor & Head of Department, NeuroGen Brain & Spine Institute as Director, and Fortis Hospital as Consultant Neurosurgeon. His areas of interest are Stem cell therapy, Central nervous system regeneration, Neuroprotection for CNS injury, Neural transplantation, Neurobiology of the mind, Neurotrauma (Head injury & Spinal cord injury), Cerebrovascular surgery for CVA, Neurostimulation, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery, Neuropsychiatric surgery, CV Junction surgery, CNS Infections, Paraplegia / Spasticity

Dr. Sharma is an alumnus of prestigious and reputed Seth G.S.Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai from where he has pursued his MBBS, MS in General Surgery, and MCh in Neurosurgery.

Dr. Sharma has worked with LTMG Hospoital & LTM Medical College as Professor of neurology and Associate Professor. He also worked with BAM Central Railways Headquarters Hospital as an Honorary Consultant neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospital as Consultant Neurosurgeon, and NeuroGen Brain and Spine Institute as Consultant Neurosurgeon & Director. Dr. Sharma is a teaching/ visiting faculty for MSc Occupational Therapy (University of Mumbai), MSc Physical Therapy(University of Mumbai), MPhil Psychology (Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research, SNDT Women’s University), MA Psychology (Department of Applied Psychology of the University of Mumbai), BSc Life Sciences (Sofia Collge), and BA Mass Media (Wilson College). His other teaching related assignments are as below.

• Convener of a committee “To make the syllabus for the M.Ch. (neurosurgery)” course of Mumbai University.- July 2004.
• Member of committee for “Recognition of persons as teachers of the Mumbai University in the subject of Neurosurgery – for 3 years from July 28^th 1998 to July 2001.
• Member of the “Doctoral committee for PhD “ for the Advanced center for treatment , Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) of Tata Memorial hospital, Mumbai.- 2002
• Appraiser for DNB for Lilavati Hospital, and BAM Central Railway Hospital
• Post graduate teacher of Mumbai University for M.Ch. Neurosurgery since July 1997
• Post graduate teacher for DNb Neurosurgery of the National Board of Examinations
• Convener & Examiner of M.Ch. Neurosurgery exam of Mumbai University since 2003
• Examiner in neurosurgery by the selection committee of Tamil Nadu for setting questions for M.S. in January 2003
• “Expert panel” in the subject of Neurosurgery of the Directorate of medical education, Madhya Pradesh, 2010

 Below mentioned is a list of Conferences/ CMEs/ Surgical Workshops which Dr. Sharma has attended

• Training in Microsurgery by participation in a “5 day course in microsurgery” at the Laboratory of Microsurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University hospital Zurich, Switzerland. , February 2012.
• “Leksell Gamma Knife training course “held at the Karolinska Gamma knife center, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden May 29^th to June 9, 1995.
• “Neurosurgery Update for young neurosurgeons of Asia (NUYNA)” held in Sapporo, Japan, December 1-5, 1995
• “Neurosurgery Update for young neurosurgeons of Asia(NUYNA) ” held in Osaka, Japan, October 26-30, 1998.
• “11^th symposium on Intracranial pressure and brain monitoring “ held in Cambridge, UK, July 22-26
• “The 2^nd annual International Symposium and hand on course on cerebral revasculization” held  at the Saint Louis University of Medicine, St. Louis, USA in November 30-Decemeber2,  2001.
• “Operative Techniques with the Masters” held at the Saint Louis University of Medicine, St. Louis , USA in June5 to June 8, 2003.
• “Advanced Stereotactic Workshop” held at the Academisch Medisch Centrum, in Amsterdam,  Netherlands held June 30 to July 2, 2003.
• “Indo-US Program to share best practices and latest developments in Neurosurgery” held at the Barrow Neurological Institute, at Phoenix, Arizona, USA,   16-18 November 2004.
• “A new anatomical framework in Neuropsychiatry” held at the Saint Louis University of Medicine, St. Louis, USA in November, 2005.
• “Tissue Engineering” held in Boston, USA in November 2006.
• “Operative Techniques with the Masters” held at the Saint Louis University of Medicine, St. Louis , USA , June 2007
• “Baxter Asia Pacific Peer to Peer program” organized by Baxter Biosurgery, Singapore, February, 2008.
• “Leksell Stereotactic Neurosurgery Training” at the Academic Medic Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2009.
• “Rebirth of EC_IC Bypass surgery” conference organized by the Division of Neurosurgery, University Surgical cluster, Singapore, July 2009.
• “Innovations in surgical techniques - Baxter Biosurgery Asia – Pacific 1st Peer to Peer Train the Trainer program”, Hongkong, November 2009. 
• “7^th World Stroke Congress” organized by the World Stroke Organization, Seoul, Korea, October 2010
• “6^th 2010 Annual World Stem Cell Summit” organized by the Genetics policy institute, held in Detroit, USA , October 2010
• “8^th International symposium on experimental spinal cord repair and regeneration" held in Brescia, Italy, May 2011.
• “The 2011 International Conference on spinal cord medicine and rehabilitation and The American Spinal Injury Association,  (ISCOS-ASIA) meeting in , Washington, USA, June 2011
• “7th 2011 Annual World Stem Cell Summit” organized by the Genetics policy institute held in Pasadena, Los Angeles, USA, October 2011.
• “Autism & Asperger`s Syndrome Conference” in Queens, New York – February 8^th, 2013.
• “National Autism Conference” in State College, Pennsylvania, USA, July 2013

His list of workshops/CMEs which he has organised with International and National faculty includes:

• Course director “ Neuroendoscopy workshop” held at LTMG hospital with Dr. Hae-Dong Jho , USA as faculty in Mumbai, April 2007
• Workshop director “Endoscsopic brain and spinal surgery hands on cadabeveic workshop” held at the LTMG Hospital as part of the ACNS ( Asian conferenece of neurolical surgeons with Dr. Martin Bettage, Germany, Dr. Yoko Kato, Japan as faculty  
• Course director of the “Workshop on Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery” held jointly at the Bombay hospital and LTMG hospital Overseas faculty- Professor Shizuo Oi from held in Mumbai , January 2006. Tokyo, Japan in April 2006.
• Course director of the “Workshop on Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery” held jointly at the Bombay hospital and LTMG hospital Overseas faculty- Professor Russel Gail from Chikago, U.S.A. in April 2005.
• Course director of the “Workshop on Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery” held jointly at the Bombay hospital and LTMG hospital Overseas faculty- Professor Micheal Vloeberghs from U.S.A.in March 2005.
• Course director of the “Workshop on Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery” held jointly at the Bombay hospital and LTMG hospital Overseas faculty- Professor J.Andre Grotenhuis from Nijmegen, Netherlands in April 2004.
• “Neurotrauma Update” - held at the LTMG Hospital, August 2003. International Faculty: Professor Motoi Shoda from Japan.
• ”Scientific session on acute spinal cord injury” -September 2001, International faculty: Dr. Wise Young and Ms.Patricia Morten from USA.
• “Symposium on Spasticity “March 2000 International faculty: with Barry Rawicki from Australia.
• “Neurostimulation Workshop” . International faculty: Dr. Tetsuo Kanno and Dr. Yoko Kato from the Fujita Health University, Japan.  March 1999.
• “Faculty & Workshop Conductor” of the “Hand on workshop of the Leksell Stereotactic Frame” at the Annual conference of the Indian Society for stereotactic and functional surgery, Vellore, October 2009
• “Faculty” of the “Hands on cadavers course on cervical spine “ jointly organized by the  LTMG Hospital and Lilavati Hospital , Mumbai, March 2009
• “Workshop Coordinator” of the “Workshop on advances in spinal surgery – Single balloon Kyphoplasty” jointly organized by the  LTMG Hospital and Lilavati Hospital , Mumbai, September 2007 
• “Course Director” of the “Lumbar Stabilization Techniques & Nuances”at the LTMG Hospital, Mumbai, July 2007.
• Coordinator of the “live operative demonstration on cervical corpectomy and reconstruction with titanium cage” at the ‘9^th National Neurotrauma conference’ held in Rajkot on August 2000.
• Teachers training workshop for medical teachers of the MET cell of the LTMMC.
• Ethicon Primary Sales School of Johnson & Johnson.

Dr. Sharma's list of Overseas Investigators Meetings includes “Antisense investigators (AP study 12009) meeting”, March 2003 in Basel (Switzerland), “CRASH Trial international collaborators meeting” December 2000 in London (UK), and “Antisense investigators (AP study 12009) meeting”, 16-19 September 2004 in Regenesburg (Germany).

Dr. Sharma has worked on some key projects during his stint with LTMG Hospital. It includes

• Vision 2000- A program through which major infrastructural improvements have been undertaken through private funding.
• Multi-storey OPD/Mutliorgan transplant building project: Dr. Sharma was the coordinator of new 6 floor building project and was responsible for the conceptualization, detailed planning and implementation of the project.
• The EMS Project: Dr. Sharma was responsible for the  conceptualization, creation, and organization of a large donation (Rs. 3.5 Crores) for the construction of the Emergency Medical services center of the hospital which is the finest such center in the country. 
• In charge of “Information Technology & Computerization” at LTMG Hospital from 1997-2002- He was part of the computer committee of the hospital which looked after all aspects of computerization (current as well as future up-gradation) within the hospital.
• He was responsible for designing and setting up the Hospital critical care network of the LTMG hospital which was the first in a public hospital in Western India. Dr. Sharma spent over one year with the software people in the actual designing of the specialized software to meet the special needs of hospital
• “Systems administrator” of the hospital computer network (1997-2002)
• Designed / content development of the original LTMG hospital website in 1997
• Making of a movie on the evolution of LTMG hospital on occasion of the Hospitals Golden Jubilee.
• Spent a week as Team leader of the medical team of the LTMG hospital doing medical relief work in Bhuj after the earthquake in January 2001. Set up medical camp almost at the geographic epicenter of the earthquake and treated hundreds of patients.

Dr. Sharma was the Coordinator of the Committee of Medical Teachers set up by the Municipal Corporation to introduce the new scheme of permitting existing full time medical teachers to have the option to do private practice. He was appointed by the Municipal Commissioner to draft and frame the rules and regulations and obtain all the sanctions for the same in 2004. He was also in charge of the Computer upgradation program of all 4 teaching medical college and dental college hospitals run by the municipal corporation in 2003-04. 

Dr. Sharma was a part of managing committee of the Paraplegic Foundation which is Mumbai’s only dedicated rehabilitation center for paraplegic patients. He has been Convener and in charge of the Half way Home Ward of the Paraplegic Foundation. He started a “Neurorehabilitation clinic” – a multidisciplinary clinic for patients of head injury which was the second of its kind in the country.

Dr. Sharma was coordinator and faculty member of three 15 day workshops called “Ayushdan”- a training program for policeman on “On the site management of victims of vehicular accidents”. He has been actively involved in disaster management for the city. He has coordinated the onsite medical & hospital management of many city disasters including the Ghatkoper bus blast, Mulund train blast and the multiple local train bomb blasts. Dr. Sharma played a pivotal role in setting up of a museum called “Janus’ where all the significant events from the history of the KEM Hospital are exhibited. Besides, Dr. Sharma has done one year course in Homeopathy which included study of holistic medicine and the integration of complimentary medical systems such as yoga, homeopathy, acupuncture, ayurveda, natural therapy etc with mainstream medicine.