Dr. Anil Nanda is Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery at LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. Appointed Chief of Neurosurgery in 1990 and then the first Neurosurgery Department Chairman with its establishment in 1995, Dr. Nanda has ushered the growth and development of University Neurosurgery through the vision he continues to share with the department's faculty and staff. In spring of 2002, Dr. Nanda successfully established accreditation of a neurosurgery residency program at LSUHSC in Shreveport, the first such residency program to be approved in the last five years. In summer of 2005, Dr. Nanda successfully obtained full accreditation and received an increase in residents per year.

Committed to the expansion of higher education, Dr. Nanda has been the invited guest lecturer and visiting professor at numerous national and international conferences. He has also published articles in neurological journals on many areas including his primary interests: aneurysms, AVMs, and skull base tumors. He has over one hundred peer review publications. In addition, Dr. Nanda continues to promote the importance of safety and prevention to both adults and children through his involvement in local community service efforts. His efforts have been acknowledged and rewarded both on a local and national level, having received the Living Legend Award in 1996 and named among the Best Doctors in America consecutively from 1996 to 2008.

Dr. Nanda has served as President of the North American Skull Base Society, Louisiana State Neurosurgical Society, and Southern Neurosurgical Society. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Louisiana State Medical Society, the Shreveport Medical Society, and the Shreveport Surgical Society.

A native of New York, Dr. Nanda earned his medical degree with honors from Madras University in 1982. He then served an internship in surgical oncology at the Sloan-Kettering Research Center in New York, and residencies in general surgery at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago and in neurosurgery at Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He then completed fellowship training in microneurosurgery and cranial base surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. Dr. Nanda specializes in general and spinal neurosurgery, as well as Gamma Knife radiosurgery, skull base tumors, AVMs, and aneurysms. He has performed more than 2,000 surgeries on aneurysms and skull base tumors.

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