• Bio

    Dr Ravi Kumar V Cherukuri commenced his extensive international career in Neurosurgery by joining the Neurosurgery Residency Training Program at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bangalore, India in 1987.  After completing the institution’s residency program and examination, Dr Cherukuri was awarded the degree of Magister Chirurgie (M Ch) in Neurosurgery in 1992. Following this achievement and after completing further examinations, he was granted the prestigious honour of becoming a Diplomat of the National Board of Neurosurgery in India.

    Dr Cherukuri  furthered his Neurosurgical training at the Regional Neurosurgery Centre of Newcastle upon Tyne in  the UK before undertaking a Fellowship in Paediatric Neurosurgery at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit in the USA. He then completed a Fellowship in Skull base & Cerebrovascular surgery at Lousiana State University’s Health Sciences Centre in Shreveport, USA. After returning to India he worked as an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Neurosurgery at the Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences in Tirupati as well as at the Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Centre.

    In 2004, Dr Cherukuri accepted the position of Neurosurgeon at Wollongong Hospital and has now been working in the Illawarra and South Coast for more than a decade. During this time, he has been awarded Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in Neurosurgery.

    Through his surgery on Crown St, Wollongong, and Nowra rooms as well as his various appointments at hospitals in the Illawarra region, Dr Cherukuri offers treatments for a variety of neurosurgical disorders including cranial, spinal and peripheral nerves and is particularly interested in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery as well as Cerebrovascular surgery.

    Dr Cherukuri is  an active member of the community of Wollongong and the South Coast region where he resides.  He prides himself on his diligent dedication to patient care, striving to achieve the highest level of patient satisfaction while demonstrating a breadth of extensive knowledge in clinical Neurosurgical services.

     

  • Appointments

    • Senior Staff Specialist Neurosurgeon,  Wollongong Hospital  –  2004  to August 2013
    • Visiting Medical Officer Neurosurgeon,  Wollongong Hospital  – From August 2013
    • Consultant Neurosurgeon,  Figtree Private Hospital
    • Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong
    • Medical Advisory Committee Member, Figtree Private Hospital
    • Trauma Committee Member, Wollongong Hospital
  • Memberships

    • Member of Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
    • Member of American Association of Neurological Surgeons, USA
    • Member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, USA
    • Member of the Neurological Society of India
  • Selected Publications

    • Intraneural ganglion cysts of the lower extremity

      Craig Van Hoff ,  Ravi Kumar Cherukuri,  Sham R Deshpande, Anthony Cadden

      Annual Scientific Meeting of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, Perth, 2014

    • An unusual association of Calcifying Pseudoneoplasm of the Neuraxis with Interhemispheric Lipoma and Agenesis of Corpus Callosum

      AA Salim, PJ Wilson, Ravi Kumar C, S McKenzie, ME Buckland

      Pathology Dec 44 (7): 657-657, 2012

    • Lumbar Chordoma mimicking a neurogenic tumour

      P Khong, J Milross, C Ravi Kumar

      Clinical Neuroscience Feb 18 (2):302-304, 2011

    • Delayed Pituitary Apoplexy in patients with advanced Prostate Cancer treated with Gonadotrophin-releasing hormone agonists

      M Sinnadurai, C Ravi Kumar, RG Moses, E Nasser

      Journal of Clinical Neuroscience Vol. 17, Issue 9, September 1201-1203, 2010

    • Far-Lateral Approach for Lower Basilar Artery Aneurysms

      C Ravi Kumar MD, Vannemreddy, Prasad MD, Nanda, Anil MD

      Skull Base: An Interdisciplinary Approach 19 (2):141-149, 2009

    • Ventriculosubgaleal Shunts for Posthemorrhagic Hydrocephalus in Premature Infants

      BK Willis, C Ravi Kumar, EL Wylen, A Nanda

      Paediatric Neurosurgery 41:178-185, 2005

    • Complications of Bioresorbable Fixation Systems in Paediatric Neurosurgery

      C Ravi Kumar, S Sood, S Ham

      Child’s Nervous System, 21:205-210, 2005

    • Quantification of the Advantages of the Extended Frontal Approach to Skull Base

      R Acharya, M Shaya, C Ravi Kumar, GC Caldito, A Nanda

      Skull base: An Interdisciplinary Approach 14 (3): 133-42, 2004

    • Pathophysiological Changes in Cerebrovascular Distensibility in Patients Undergoing Chronic Shunt Therapy

      S Sood, C Ravi Kumar, M Jamous, MU Schuhmann, SD Ham, A Canady

      Neurosurgery Spine/Ped, 100 (5): 447-53, 2004

    • Extreme Lateral Approach for Ventrally Situated Intradural Lesions at Lower Brainstem and Upper Cervical Cord

      C Ravi Kumar, S Satyanaraya, B R M Rao, R S Palur

      Skull base: An interdisciplinary Approach, Vol 11 (40) 265-275, 2001

    • Vertebral Artery Aneurysms

      C Ravi Kumar, S Satyanaraya, B R M Rao, R S Palur

      Neurology India, 2000

    • Extreme Lateral Approach for Ventrally Situated Intradural Lesions at Lower Brainstem and Upper Cervical Cord

      C Ravi Kumar

      Annual Meeting of North American Skull Base Society, Scottsdale, USA, 1999

    • Resolution of Extensive Spinal Epidural Hematoma with Conservative Treatmen

      C Ravi Kumar, Christopher Gerber

      Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, vol.65 (6) 949-950, 1998

  • Selected Presentations

    • Interspinous Spacers

      Dr Ravi Kumar

      Andhra Pradesh State Neuroscientists Association Conference held in Rajahmandry, India, 2006

    • Spontaneous Pyogenic Spondylodiscitis

      Dr Ravi Kumar

      Annual Conference of Neurological Society held in Visakhapatnam, India, 2005

    • Far Lateral approach to Skull base tumours and Aneurysms

      Dr Ravi Kumar

      International Skull base Congress Satellite meeting held in Hayman Island, Australia, 2004

    • Spinal Endoscopy – Initial Experience

      Dr Ravi Kumar

      Andhra Pradesh State Neuroscientists Association Conference held in Tirupati, India, 2003

    • Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

      Dr Ravi Kumar

      Andhra Pradesh State Neuroscientists Association Conference held in Tirupati, India, 2003

    • Brainstem lesions

      Dr Ravi Kumar

      Andhra Pradesh Neuroscientists Association Conference held in Visakhapatnam, India, 1999