[5][1] Sunkara Balaparameswara Rao was born on 12 February 1928 in a Kapu family[6] in Bhimavaram, West Godavari district of present-day Andhra Pradesh.
[1] However, the postcard intimating his admission into engineering reached a couple of months late, forcing him to take up MBBS as the medical college seat was open to students of the MPC stream at the time.
[1][4] After graduating from MBBS and MS (General Surgery), Balaparameswara Rao trained in Neurosurgery under B. Ramamurthy in Madras.
[4] After his training in Madras, he established the Department of Neurosurgery at the King George Hospital (KGH) and Andhra Medical College (AMC) in April 1956.
[1] Balaparameswara Rao ran free clinics at the St Theresa's Hospital, Hyderabad, from 1983 to 2008.
[1] Along with his wife, Nagaratnam he was honoured at the Andhra Pradesh Neuro Scientists Association (APNSA) meet in Nellore in 2017 on their 63rd wedding anniversary.