Varun Kshettry MD, FAANS

Varun Ranjan Kshettry, MD, FAANS, is a neurosurgeon specializing in Skull Base, Pituitary, Cerebrovascular Surgery, and Trigeminal Neuralgia. He is the Surgical Director for the Cleveland Clinic Trigeminal Neuralgia Program. He also is the Director of the Advanced Endoscopic & Microscopic Neurosurgery Laboratory. He is the Neurosurgery Department Quality Improvement Officer. He is Associate Program Director for the Neurosurgery Residency Program and an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Kshettry received his BA in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He earned his medical degree from Northwestern University, Chicago. He completed his residency training at the Cleveland Clinic, during which, he performed a Research Fellowship in Skull base & Microsurgical Anatomy at Ohio State University. He then performed a Clinical Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Cranial Base & Pituitary Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Kshettry has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and is an editor for a book on Endoscopic and Keyhole Cranial Surgery. He serves as an editor or reviewer for multiple neurosurgical journals. He is co-chair of the Committee on Value-Based Health Care for the North American Skull Base Society and Scientific Lead for the RAPID multi-center Pituitary Consortium. He serves as faculty director for the Cleveland Clinic Pituitary Tumor Board and is an investigator in several multi-center clinical trials.