KrishanthanVigneswaranMD

Summary

• Dr. Krish Vigneswaran is a fellowship trained in neurosurgeon with expertise in neurosurgical oncology. He focuses on the surgical treatment of patients with brain and spinal cord tumors by using the latest tools neurosurgery and working closely with neuro-oncologists and radiation oncologists.
  
  Dr. Vigneswaran earned his bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating magna cum laude with research honors. He received his medical degree at UT Southwestern School of Medicine in Dallas with distinction in research, was presented with the Student Leadership Award after serving as Class president for four years and was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed residency training in neurological surgery at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, and subsequently completed a fellowship in neurosurgical oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
  
  While at Emory University as a resident, Dr. Vigneswaran worked in the neurosurgical oncology lab on independent research for which he received an NINDS R25 Research Education Grant and a Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation Research Fellowship to study new drugs to cure glioblastoma and conducted clinical trials. At UT Southwestern Medical School he conducted research in the management of large arteriovenous malformations with staged stereotactic radiosurgery, as part of the Clinical Research Scholars Program. He did related research in undergraduate summer research programs at Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, Vanderbilt University and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. He has been the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and abstracts, presented research at national and international conferences, written book chapters and served as an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Neuro-Oncology.