A/Prof. Santosh Isaac Poonnoose
Neurosurgeon, MBBS,MCH, FRACS
Calvary Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
Clinical Focus
A/Prof Poonnoose is in private practice consulting from rooms at Calvary Adelaide Hospital. A/Prof Poonnoose’s current clinical duties include equal parts of cranial and spinal surgery including:
- Skull Base Surgery,
- Advanced Spinal Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery.
- Epilepsy Surgery
- Advanced Cranial
- I am a board member of the Neurosurgical Research Foundation and have currently become the NRF Chair of the Scientific Committee.
- I am the Director of the South Australian Neurological Tumour Bank.
Tertiary Education
- 1992
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS)
Christian Medical College (Madras University), Vellore, India
- 2001
- Master of Chirurgy (MCh) Neurosurgery, Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Sciences
Christian Medical College Hospital (Madras University), Vellore, India
- 2008
- Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Registration
Medical Board of South Australia - Registration No: 17496
Training Other Doctors
Currently, in addition to his current clinical duties at Calvary Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre, A/Prof Poonnoose has clinical training and administrative roles. These teaching roles involve the training of a Spinal Fellow and a Neurosurgical trainee.
Additional teaching and supervision of junior medical doctors and medical students during their neurosurgical rotation.
As a medical administrator, A/Prof Poonnoose is involved with the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, development of protocols, conducting a peer review and audit activities.
A/Prof Poonnoose also supports the collection of clinical data for benchmarking and quality assurance.
Awards
- Best Paper Award in Neurology at the 49th Annual Conference of the Neurological Society of India held at Chennai - "Clinical and radiological response of histologically proven intracranial tuberculoma to ATT
Papers Presented
- The clinical and radiological response of histologically proven intracranial tuberculoma to ATT.
Presented at the Annual Neurological Society of India (NSI) conference, 2000 - Medulloblastomas: The Vellore experience.
Presented at the Paediatric Neurosurgery Conference, 2001 - Paediatric Craniopharyngioma: The Vellore experience.
Presented at the Annual NSI conference, 2001 - Split cord malformation: Surgical outcome.
Presented at the Annual NSI conference, 2002
