Dr Mazda K Turel
- Wockhardt Super Speciality Hospital, North Mumbai
About Doctor 
Dr Mazda K. Turel is a practicing Neurosurgeon at the prestigious Wockhardt Hospitals, South Mumbai, India. He is also an Honorary Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Groups of Hospitals. He specializes in the treatment of diseases of the brain and spine and advocates an approach to neurosurgery that is both balanced and aggressive. His prolific clinical research has garnered several academic accolades both nationally and internationally and has resulted in numerous publications in esteemed scientific journals. Dr Turel’s practice style is hugely collaborative. He strongly believes that incorporation of patients, their families and the medical staff as members of his team allows patients the best possible outcome and speediest recovery.
Awards
2003 March Represented Grant Medical College and was the Key Note speaker in the Inter College Symposium at the 58th Bombay Medical Congress. Secured 2nd place for a presentation on “Stem cells – Revolution in a dish”
2004 March Honored by Zoroastrian Student Teacher Association for completion of MBBS with 5 distinctions.
2008 April Urinary Hemosiderine: Role in evaluation of Venous Ulcer. Presented at National conference on Venous Diseases (VAICON 2008), Chennai, India. The paper was awarded as one of the three best papers of the meeting.
2010 December The effect of pre-treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (PP1) on brain oedema and neurological function in an automated cortical cryoinjury model in mice. Presented at the Joint meeting of the 59th annual conference of the Neurological society of India and the Congress of Neurological surgeons, (USA), in Jaipur. This paper was awarded the best paper in Allied Neurosciences.
2011 October The effect of pre-treatment with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (PP1) on brain oedema and neurological function in an automated cortical cryoinjury model in mice. Presented at the 2nd annual research day at CMC, Vellore. This poster presentation was awarded the second prize.
2011 December Quality of life following vestibular schwannoma surgery for large and giant tumors. Mazda Turel, Prasanna Samuel, VedantamRajshekhar. Presented by Mazda Turel at the Joint Meeting of the 60th Annual conference of the Neurological Society of India and Italian society of neurosurgeons. This paper was awarded the best paper in Neurosurgery.
2012 November Awarded the Jacob Chandy Gold Medal for best student in MCh Neurosurgery. The 5th recipient of this prestigious award in 30 years.
2013 February Awarded the Dr. S. Kalyanaraman Endowment Gold Medal by the Institute of Neurology, Madras Medical college for outstanding performance in Neurosurgery.
2013 February Awarded by the Zoroastrian Student Teacher Association for competition of MCh.Neurosurgery with Honours.
2013 November Reduction in range of cervical motion with serial long-term follow-up in patients undergoing oblique corpectomy for cervical myelopathy. First prize for poster presented at the 4th CMC Annual Research Day.
2014 December Best paper published in Neurosurgery submitted to the journal “Neurology India” in 2012 awarded at the 63rd annual conference of Neurological Society in India in December 2014 in Coimbatore, India.
