PISHARODI

Dr. Madhavan Pisharodi is a neurosurgeon who has been practicing in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA for the last 31 years. He started his career as a board-certified neurosurgeon in India. He was the only neurosurgeon for approximately one-third of the state of Kerala at the time. During this period, he served as the head of the Neurosurgery division of the Surgery department at Calicut Medical College, Kerala. After coming to the United States, he completed the board requirements in the US (1979-1985) and became board certified in 1989. Following this, he practiced general neurosurgery in the US. During his career as a neurosurgeon he designed a unique stereotactic frame (US patent number US 5,387,220 ) Subsequently he redirected his interest to developing spinal implants. He is the inventor of a surgical technique called "Lumbar Intervertebral Disk stabilization (LIDS)" and designed a titanium disk implant to support this type of surgery. Dr. Pisharodi has spearheaded LIDS multi-..