Dr. Sunil Manjila is a clinical neurosurgeon working with the Department of Neurosurgery, Garden City Hospital, Michigan where he works on pathologies of brain, spinal cord, spinal column and peripheral nerves. Apart from cranial and spinal trauma, he also does transcranial endoscopy, awake craniotomies, endonasal trans- sphenoidal skull base surgery, SI joint fusions and pain procedures including intrathecal pumps and spinal cord stimulators.
He has been trained in neurosurgery residencies twice, the first one in Christian Medical College Vellore (India) 1997-2002 and again at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) 2008-2015. He has been an avid researcher and a prolific author with over 115 PubMed-indexed peer-reviewed neurosurgical manuscripts and nearly 3000 Google scholar citations. He did a clinical fellowship at Fujita Health University, Japan, in 2003. He subsequently did research fellowships in vascular neurosurgery and Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, respectively as well making him a well-rounded clinician scientist.
Dr Manjila completed a postdoctoral fellowship in surgical robotics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University. He has co-edited a textbook on Lumbar Interbody Fusions (Elsevier, UK) available on Amazon which is now translated into Simplified Chinese. He has authored many book chapters and given many national and international lectures and meeting presentations.
Dr Manjila has performed original research in both cranial and spinal surgical areas involving surgical techniques and technologies using cadaver studies. Currently, his clinical research focuses on minimally invasive spine and brain surgery, AI in spine and brain surgery, and neurosurgical robotics in brain and spine. He serves on the National Committee for research under North American Skull Base Society. He has conceptualized and published 5 eponymous classifications named after Sunil Manjila namely, Manjila-Semaan grading for jugular bulb position in the skull base, Manjila grading of persistent falcine sinuses, Manjila sign in kyphoplasty, Manjila classification of spinal epidural lipomatosis and Manjila Chiari Protocol 1.0. He is a reviewer for many national and international neurosurgery journals, serving on the Editorial Board of Neurosurgical Review and as Associate Editor of Frontiers in Surgery.
Currently he is a cofounder in a Bengaluru (also called Bangalore)-based medical tech start up called Healthstream, offering AI in healthcare for surgical hand and cranial conditions. He had mentored several young scientists and start ups. He also serves on the advisory board of Oncosimis Biotech (India), a biosimilars manufacturing pharma company in Hyderabad, India. When he is not working, he is with family, traveling, watching a movie, reading a novel, hunting, fishing or performing stand-up comedies.