Rupavathana Mahesparan

Associated prof. Mahesparan was born in Srilanka and moved to Norway where she finished her MD degree in 1997. She has done her PhD in malignant brain tumors in 2000. She specialized in neurosurgery in 2005 and became the first female consultant in neurosurgery at the department of neurosurgery, Haukeland university teaching hospital, Bergen, and the fourth female neurosurgeon in Norway. Her main interest is on Neuro-oncology, skull base, pituitary surgery, gammaknife radiosurgery, pediatric neurosurgery and functional neurosurgery. She has been working as the Head of the department of neurosurgery since 2011 and in charge of pediatric neurosurgery and neurooncology at the department.