Dr. Basant Kumar Misra is a neurosurgeon specialising in treating brain, spine, cerebrovascular and peripheral nervous system disorders, injuries, pathologies and malformations. Presently, he is the Honorary President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, and the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons. He is the first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms. He is a recipient of Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest medical honour in India.
Previously, he served as the Vice-President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, and the President of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons, and the Neurological Society of India, and the Chairman of WFNS Foundation.
Basant Misra was born in Bhubaneswar to eminent economist, Dr. Baidyanath Misra and Mrs. Basanti Misra, a homemaker. He did his schooling from the Demonstration Multipurpose School, Bhubaneswar, MBBS from the Government Medical College, Sambalpur, his MS General Surgery from Delhi University, his MCh in Neurosurgery from AIIMS, New Delhi and DrNB Neurosurgery from the National Board of Examinations. He received Commonwealth Medical Scholarship to the University of Edinburgh Medical School.
He started his career as a Research officer at the Indian Council of Medical Research, and is currently the Chairman & Chief of Surgery, and Head of the Neurosurgery department at Hinduja Hospitals, Mumbai.
His notable patients include Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan, Abhijat Joshi, Anand Kumar, among others
He is the first neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms.
He is the first neurosurgeon in South Asia to perform gamma knife radiosurgery.
He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform EC-IC bypass for Moyamoya disease.
He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform endoscopic spinal surgery.
He is the first neurosurgeon in India to perform awake craniotomy.
He is also working with Dr. B. Ravi, institute chair professor of Mechanical engineering and the founder of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (incubation) Centre (BETiC) at IIT Bombay, to co-develop biomedical devices.
He has authored and co-authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed national and international journals.
He started the 6-year DrNB course in Neurosurgery for MBBS graduates (one of the only 32 NBE-accredited tertiary-care institutions in India) and a 3-month fellowship programme (one of only 23 WFNS-accredited Class-1 postgraduate training centres in the world) at Hinduja Hospital. He also conducts cadaveric demonstrations, hands-on dissection workshops, seminars and CME courses. He has previously taught at SCTIMST (an Institute of National Importance), Australian School of Advanced Medicine and Harvard Medical School.
He is holding / has held the following positions:
Honorary President of World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
Honorary President of Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons
Chairman (2021-'25), World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Foundation
First V-P (2019-'21), World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies