P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans

DR. ACHAL ACHROL is Director of Neurovascular Surgery and Neurocritical Care at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute and Chief of the Glioma Surgery Program at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica (Los Angeles), CA. Previously, he was a neurosurgeon at Stanford University School of Medicine.

Achal specializes in computer-assisted minimally invasive keyhole and microvascular neurosurgery, using advanced neuroimaging and stereotactic navigation techniques to safely reach even the most difficult lesions. As an academic neurosurgeon and physician scientist, Achal is committed to leading translational research programs that advance treatment options for patients suffering from brain tumors, stroke, intracranial aneurysms and vascular malformations.

Born in Jaipur, India, Achal moved to the US in 1981 with his family, who live in Vienna, VA.

Achal graduated from George Washington University in 2003, magna cum laude, with a degree in computer science. He completed his MD in 2009 at Stanford University School of Medicine.

As a researcher at University of California at San Francisco he developed a handheld electrocardiogram monitoring system, an NIH-funded bioinformatics database, a portable cerebral perfusion measurement device, and techniques to utilize magnetic resonance imaging to study volume and hemodynamic changes in aneurysms. For more information please visit the Pacific Neuroscience Institute website.