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NEUROPATHOLOGY UNIT

Dr. Geeta Chacko, Professor and Head

Dr Geeta Chacko, Professor of Pathology is a Neuropathologist at Christian Medical College Vellore. She joined the faculty of Neurological Sciences and Pathology in 1992 after completing her undergraduate and postgraduate training at CMC. The subspeciality of Neuropathology was demarcated in 1992 and she was invited to develop this division of the Department. She later did a stint as a postdoctoral fellow at The Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas from 1997-1999. She completed her PhD in 2010 on the Pathobiology of Pituitary adenomas. Her areas of research interest include the pathobiology of brain tumors particularly meningiomas, oligodendrogliomas, glioblastoma and the pathobiology of pituitary adenomas.