Ajay Niranjan MD, MBA

Dr. Ajay Niranjan received his medical training at the King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, India, from 1980 to 1985, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery degree. He completed general surgery residency in 1989 and neurological surgery residency in 1992. Dr. Niranjan joined the University of Pittsburgh as a fellow in image-guided neurosurgery in 1997 and completed his fellowship in 2000, joining the faculty in July of 2000.

Dr. Niranjan has co-authored over 300 articles in refereed journals, over 170 book chapters, and five books. He has contributed guidelines for stereotactic radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia, pituitary adenomas, arteriovenous malformation, acoustic tumors, and brain metastases. Dr. Niranjan is the director of the UPMC Brain Mapping Center, which houses a magnetoencephalography (MEG) unit. MEG is performed for pre-surgical mapping of critical brain functions in patients with brain tumors and for localization of seizure focus in patients with long-standing epilepsy.