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Neurologist</p><button class="btn btn-buttonAP hvr-sweep-to-right animate__animated animate__fadeInUp animate__delay-2s">Book An Appointment</button><button class="btn btn-buttonVi hvr-sweep-to-right animate__animated animate__fadeInUp animate__delay-3s">Video Consultation</button></div></div><div class="col-md-8"><div class="doc-profile animate__animated animate__fadeInDown animate__delay-3s"><h5>Profile</h5><div><h1>Senior Consultant Neurologist</h1> <p><strong>Academic Qualification</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>MBBS:</strong> Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, 1997</li> <li><strong>MD General Medicine</strong>: MKCG Medical College, Orissa, India. Behrampur 2004</li> <li><strong>DM Neurology:</strong> NIMHANS, Bangalore, 2010</li> </ul> <p><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Professional Record</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><strong><em>Consultant in Neurology: </em></strong>Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva, Kerala, India. 2014-2022</li> <li><strong><em>Consultant in Neurology: </em></strong>Sunrise Hospital, Kakkanad, Kerala, India. 2013-2014</li> <li><strong><em>Visiting Consultant </em></strong><strong>in <em>Neurology: </em></strong>Don Bosco Hospital, North Paravur, Kerala, India. 2012 onwards.</li> <li><strong><em>Consultant in Neurology: </em></strong>Indo American Hospital, Vaikom, Kerala, India. 2011 – 2013</li> <li><strong><em>Senior Resident in Neurology: </em></strong>Department of Neurology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India. 2007- 2010.</li> <li><strong><em>Registrar in Neurology: </em></strong>Department of Neurology, Lakeshore Hospital, Ernakulum, Kerala, India. 2006- 2007</li> <li><strong><em>Junior Consultant in Internal Medicine: </em></strong>Department of Medicine at Lisie Hospital, Ernakulum, Kerala, India. 2004 –2006</li> </ul> <p> </p></div><h5>Academic qualification</h5><p>MBBS, MD, DM (Neurology)</p><h5>Professional record</h5><div><p><strong>12 Years Experience</strong></p> <p><strong>Clinical Expertise:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Inpatient and outpatient care of patients with Neurological diseases in tertiary care facility.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Stroke and Other Vascular Disease</strong></p> <ol> <li style="text-align: justify;">Management of patients in a Comprehensive stroke unit with facilities for acute care, Intravenous and Intra arterial thrombolysis and Mechanical thrombectomy.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Lead role in setting up and implementing Acute Stroke Protocol for Rajagiri Hospital, Aluva and Sunrise Hospital, Kakkanad.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Expertise in evaluation of various stroke etiologies and management of same.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Management of Cortical venous thrombosis, Subarachnoid aneurysm, CNS vasculitis, Moyamoya disease and various Cerebral small vessel diseases.</li> <li style="text-align: justify;">Familiar with Diagnostic 4 vessel Digital subtraction angiogram and interpretations.</li> </ol> <p><strong> Movement Disorders </strong></p> <ol> <li>Supervises Parkinson’s and other movement disorder clinic, where there is a comprehensive management including evaluation and management of motor and non motor symptoms, fall risk assessment, psychotherapy and physiotherapy.</li> <li>Evaluation of patient for deep brain stimulation (DBS).</li> <ol> <li>Has completed successful DBS for Parkinson’s disease.</li> </ol> <li>Expertise in injection of Botulinum toxin for</li> <ol> <li>Cervical dystonia</li> <li>Blepharospasm</li> <li>Hemifacial spasm.</li> </ol> </ol> <p><strong>General Neurology</strong></p> <ol> <li>Expertise in emergency management of the acutely ill neurological patient.</li> <li>Acquired expertise in clinical neurological examination, diagnosis and treatment of chronic neurological disorders including</li> <ol> <li>Multiple Sclerosis and other demyelinating disorders.</li> <li>Epilepsy including Refractory epilepsy</li> <li>Myelopathy</li> <li>Various peripheral neuropathy</li> <li>Myasthenia Gravis.</li> </ol> <li>Performance and interpretation of electrophysiological investigations like</li> <ol> <li>Electromyography</li> <li>Nerve conduction studies</li> <li>Electroencephalography (EEG) and Evoked potential studies.</li> </ol> <li>Interpretation of Neuro-imaging studies (CT, MRI and angiography).</li> <li>Routine performance of various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including diagnostic and therapeutic lumbar puncture.</li> </ol> <p><strong> Special Interests </strong></p> <ol> <li>Acute Stroke Care</li> <li>Interventional Neurology- Intra Arterial Thrombolysis, Neuro interventions in Acute Stroke Care.</li> <li>Movement Disorders, especially Parkinson’s Disease</li> <li>Neuro-rehabilitation, mainly Stroke rehabilitation, Gait Disorders and Parkinson’s disease.</li> </ol></div></div><div class="doc-other-details bg animate__animated animate__fadeInUp animate__delay-2s"><div><p><strong>Publications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Para-infectious Opsoclonus- myoclonus syndrome with COVID-19. Annals of Indian academy of Neurology 2022.</li> <li>A tale of two patients: Levodopa and creative awakening in Parkinson’s disease-a qualitative report. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 43(2019) 179-181.</li> <li>Elucidating the etiology in a subject with undiagnosed dyspnea- Thinking out of the box. Pulmonology, Volume 21. Issue 1, January-April 2019.</li> <li>Branch Atheromatous Disease (BAD) Versus Lipohyalinosis(LPH)-MRI Brain Imaging Helps to Classify and in Turn Prognosticate Patients with Lacunar Infarcts. Journal of Neurological Disorders and Stroke 6(2): 1139 (2018).</li> <li>Gas in the venous sinus: An incidental finding. Neurology India, July-August 2017, Volume 65, Issue 4.</li> <li>Clinical, neuroimaging and pathological features of 5-nitroimidazole-induced encephalo-neuropathy in two patients: Insights into possible pathogenesis. Neurology India, September-October 2011, Volume 59, Issue 5.</li> </ul> <p><strong> Original Research:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Vitamin D in ischemic stroke, Published as thesis, NIMHANS, 2010.</li> <li>eNOS gene polymorphism in small vessel stroke’, Published as thesis, NIMHANS, 2010.</li> <li>Clinical profile of stroke in Southern Orissa’, Published as thesis, Berhampur University, 2003.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Short fellowship and Observership:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Observership (4 weeks) in Stroke and Neurological Intensive critical care in Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 2015</li> <li>Short fellowship: Cerebrovascular Ultrasound including Trans Cranial Doppler, and extra cranial cervical Duplex scan at National University Hospital, Singapore. 2014</li> </ul></div></div><div class="doc-other-details bg membership-area animate__animated animate__fadeInUp animate__delay-3s"><div><p><strong>Memberships:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Life member, Bangalore Neurological Society, 2009.</li> <li>Life member, Indian Academy of Neurology, 2010.</li> <li>Life member, Indian Medical Association, 2010.</li> <li>Life member, Cochin Neurological Society, 2011.</li> <li>Life Member, International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society, 2015.</li> <li>Life member, Indian Stroke Association, 2015</li> <li>Life member, Movement Disorders Society of India, 2015.</li> </ul></div></div></div></div></div></section></div><script> (function (botId) { var s = document.createElement("script"); 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