Deepak Agrawal

Deepak Agrawal born 10 November 1970, is a professor neurosurgery at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi is one of the top 10 surgeons in the neurosurgery. During his stint as chairman computerization, he reformed the ICT processes at AIIMS, New Delhi and also helped patients in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi to get a Unique Health Identification (UHID), which documents their journey in the hospital. He also pioneered stem cell research in spinal cord injury in India. Agrawal has pioneered DREZotomy technique for neuropathic pain in India and has refined the procedure to make it safer and more accessible to patients.

Agrawal was responsible for the care of Baby Falak and raising the issue in the media which led a national outcry against Child Abuse and Human trafficking.

He developed an UHID system in AIIMS to take appointment easily through ors.gov.in portal.

Agrawal developed mechanical AgVa Ventilator in collaboration with Indian scientist Diwakar Vaish of A-SET Robotics. During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 10,000 ventilators were manufactured and sold to various public and private hospitals across the Indian subcontinent.

Agrawal has been instrumental in setting up the most advanced Neurotrauma center in India (JPNATC). He equipped the department with India's first Intraoperative spine CT (O-arm) and portable CT scanner, which has benefited more than 20000 patients till now.

He has been editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Peripheral Nerve Surgery'' (JPNS) since 2019, and editor-in-chief of the ''Indian Journal of Neurotrauma'' (IJNT) since April 2019.

He has 3668 citations on his published research with an h-index of 32 and i10-index of 92 as on 19 May 2024. Provided by Wikipedia