Chairman and Professor
LSU Health Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States
Dr. Bharat Guthikonda is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Louisiana State University Health Shreveport in Shreveport, Louisiana. He has been a member of the department since 2007, after completing his neurosurgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine and a skull base fellowship at the University of Cincinnati.
His areas of expertise include skull base surgery, endoscopic skull base and intracranial surgery, cerebrovascular surgery, and general neurosurgery. His research primarily focuses on anatomic skull base research, clinical outcomes research, and the socioeconomics of neurosurgery. He also truly enjoys being a part of a strong neurosurgical residency program and is passionate about training the next generation of neurosurgeons, especially in microsurgical technique.
Dr. Guthikonda is board certified and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a past President of the Louisiana Neurosurgical Society (LANS) and started the annual hands on course associated with the LANS annual meeting. He is quite involved in the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies (CSNS) holding leadership roles including past Medical Legal Committee Chair, the current Communication and Education Committee Chair, and the immediate past Southwest Quadrant Chair. He is also a past member of the AANS Washington Committee and is a current member of both the Congress of Neurological Surgeons and American Association of Neurological Surgeons scientific program committees. With a special passion for skull base and endoscopic skull base surgery, Dr. Guthikonda is very involved with the North American Skull Base Society serving as a frequent member of the NASBS summer resident course faculty, as a past co-chair of the NASBS pre-meeting course, and as a current member of the NASBS scientific program committee and research/grants committee. He has given over 300 presentations at national and international meetings and published more than 100 peer reviewed journal articles, comments, and book chapters. Dr. Guthikonda participates in global neurosurgery as part of an annual medical mission trip to Duhok in the Kurdistan region of Iraq by bringing much needed neurosurgical equipment, delivering lectures on key neurosurgical topics and mentoring local neurosurgeons in performing complex intracranial surgical procedures. He has helped start and develop the transsphenoidal pituitary surgery program in Kurdistan.
To gain more knowledge about the business and financial part of neurosurgery, Dr. Guthikonda earned his MBA from Brandeis University in May 2020.
During his spare time, he loves spending time with his family and is the proud father of two boys, Rowen (16) and Avi (13). He has always enjoyed running and ran track / cross country in college at Cornell University. He has continued this hobby and has completed three marathons and many half marathons. He also enjoys playing tennis and cooking.
(SS#VI) Locum Tenens Neurosurgery
Saturday, April 22, 2023
4:11pm – 4:24pm PST
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