Doctor and educator working towards integrating AI into surgery and medical education, aiming to be a neurosurgeon.
My work runs on three threads: patients, teaching and technology. After qualifying and working in India, I moved to the UK for a competitive foundation post in Aberdeen that took me through neurosurgery, trauma and orthopaedics and palliative medicine, then spent a year in Glasgow as a clinical fellow in neurosurgery. I now teach medical students while studying for a PG Diploma in Health Professions Education, and build AI tools, like ConsentSim, that help them practise.
Conversational AI to Practise Procedural Consent: a pilot mixed-methods study
With Dr Ruaridh Griffin, presented at TICC 2026, Bristol.Taking consent is a critical skill, but chances to practise it are limited: standardised patients are costly and hard to schedule.
We built a conversational AI patient that students can consent at any time, anywhere, at no cost, and tested it with 42 medical students.
76% of students felt more confident afterwards. What they valued most was psychological safety. They also asked for more emotional range, harder patients who refuse, and fewer mark-scheme prompts, which shape the next version.
A more comfortable and safe space to make mistakes.
More harsh and honest than peer feedback.
Practise remotely… before OSCEs.
Hall M, Chigurupati D. The Royal College of Radiologists Open. 2026;4:100505. doi:10.1016/j.rcro.2026.100505
Srinivasan S, Craig-McQuaide A, Elsheikh M, Chigurupati D, Ravindran R, Rajkumar S, Khan S, Pollard C, Mathieson C. Asian Journal of Neurosurgery. 2025;20(3):627–630. doi:10.1055/s-0045-1808235
Srinivasan S, Hegde A, Nair R, Jampani RT, Ashraf M, Chigurupati D, et al. Surgical Neurology International. 2025;16:138. doi:10.25259/SNI_1068_2024
Chigurupati DC, Vasiullah M, Aneela I, Purcell M, McCaughey EJ. Spinal Cord Series and Cases.
El-Maadawi I, Chigurupati D, Anyaegbunam G, Alakandy L, Barrett C, Mathieson C, Abdelsadg M. British Journal of Neurosurgery.
Full record on Google Scholar (opens in a new tab) and ORCID (opens in a new tab).
Audited insulin prescribing, introduced new insulin charts, and re-audited: the quality of insulin prescription and delivery improved.
Reviewed island-to-mainland transfers for emergency MRI and proposed an initial CT pathway to MSN Scotland. SBNS Birmingham 2024, FM1-6.
100 single-level lumbar decompressions, graded with the Glasgow Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Scale. SBNS Belfast 2025, WM3-6.
I teach University of Glasgow medical students as they rotate through neurosciences, surgery and medicine at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, so I work with students from every year of the course.
I contributed to designing the curriculum for the neurosciences, surgery and medical specialties at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, and I deliver these sessions and teaching to the students on placement there.
Selected in the top three essays in the UK on how innovative technologies will shape surgical training, then invited to present it at the conference, where it won second prize.
GMC 7962006, full registration with a licence to practise. Check the register (opens in a new tab)
ATLS (RCS England, 2024) · Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient, CCrISP (RCS England, 2024) · Basic Surgical Skills (RCS England, 2023) · ACLS · PALS
English, Telugu, Hindi
Outside medicine: captain of the college football team, and part of the basketball team that won the inter-college university games.