bhubaneswar odishaborn neurosurgeon basant kumar misra has received the prestigious international lifetime achievement award in neurosurgery conferred by the american association of neurological surgeons aans he is the first indian to get this honourmisra a native of bhubaneswar and son of noted economist and litterateur baidyanath misra is the chief of surgery head of the department of neurosurgery and gamma knife radiosurgery pd hinduja hospital and medical research centre mumbaithe award is actually a recognition of the highquality medical care of india in the field of neurosurgery the progress made in india in the past decade is phenomenal and on a par with the best in the world at a fraction of their cost misra saidhe said the care in india is worldclass and is rated very highly we have the best infrastructure skill and technology at the same time there is also a huge shortage of neurosurgeons around 2000 only for countries of more than one billion are too less he addedhe is the recipient of the most prestigious dr bc roy national award in the category of eminent medical person highest medical award in india in 2018 he was the worlds first surgeon to perform computerguided aneurysm surgerymisra is a member of over 20 associations or societies across the world he is the first vice president of the world federation of neurosurgical societies wfns president of the world federation of skull base societies and honorary president of the asian australasian society of neurological surgeryhe is the visiting professor of around 14 medical schools and hospitals including harvard medical school and brigham and womens hospital boston he is the reviewer of 10 medical journals across the world and recipient of awards and honoursmisra who has completed his mbbs from the vimsar burla was the best graduate of sambalpur university in 1975 he was the recipient of four gold medals in the mbbs course later he received a master of surgery ms degree from delhi university in 1980 and mch neurosurgery from the aiims new delhi in 1983misra an alumnus of the demonstration multipurpose school dms bhubaneswar lives in mumbai with his wife and two sons