Dr. Panigrahi serves as HOD & Senior Consultant Neurosurgery at KIMS Hyderabad. Trained at NIMHANS, he has held professorship roles at NIMS and led a fellowship in skull base/cerebrovascular surgery in the U.S.. He has performed thousands of procedures—including over 1,000 glioma surgeries, 400+ aneurysm repairs, and pioneered epilepsy and deep brain stimulation programs at KIMS. A prolific academic, he has over 140 publications, numerous awards, and is internationally involved in neurosurgery societies