Resume

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Poster presentation - A 20-year-old male with fever and cardiac tamponade - Adult-Onset Still’s Disease, in SZIRACON, 2016, Calicut.

2. Stopping the effective non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics at day 7 vs continuing until day 14 in adults with acute pyelonephritis requiring hospitalization: A randomized non-inferiority trial. Presented at the 2nd American College of Physicians - India Chapter Congress held at New Delhi, India on August 12–13, 2017.

3. Award paper presentation - Accelerated long-term forgetting and autobiographical amnesia in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy - a cohort study, in ECON, 2020, Ahmedabad.

4. Platform presentation - Perioral myoclonia with absences: An overlooked and misdiagnosed generalised seizure type, in ECON, 2020, Ahmedabad.

5. Poster presentation – Long-term memory dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy: An observational case control study, 13th Asian and Oceanic Epilepsy Congress, 2021, Japan.

6. Poster presentation - Surgical outcomes of hypermotor seizures originating from temporal lobe: a retrospective observational study. KAN Monsoon Summit, 2021.

7. Poster presentation – Long-term memory dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy: An observational case control study, 34th International Epilepsy Congress, 2021, Paris.

8. Video poster presentation – Rock n’ Roll by a Ballroom Dancer: Periyar Neurocon, 2021, Kairaly Neurosciences Society mid-term meeting, Kochi.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Stopping the effective non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics at day 7 vs continuing until day 14 in adults with acute pyelonephritis requiring hospitalization: A randomized non-inferiority trial. PLoS One, 2018.

2. Teaching Neuro Images: A rare adult-onset genetic leukoencephalopathy. Neurology. 2020.

3. Teaching Neuroimages: Ohtahara Syndrome Due to Unilateral Perisylvian polymicrogyria. Neurology, 2021.

4. Unmasking the entity of 'drug-resistant' perioral myoclonia with absences: the twitches, darts and domes! Epileptic Disord., 2021.

5. Isolated Myelitis and Intramedullary Spinal Cord Abscess in Melioidosis—A Case Report. The Neurohospitalist, 2021.

6. How does "locus of control" affect persons with epilepsy? Epilepsy Behav., 2021.

7. Superficial Siderosis Due to Spinal Myxopapillary Ependymoma Mimicking Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology, 2021.

8. Mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients: predisposing factors, prevention and management. Acta Neurol Belg., 2021.

9. Dramatic response to plasma exchange in lupus myelitis-a case report and review of literature. Neuroimmunology Reports, 2022.

RESEARCH WORK

1. Comparison of 7-days versus 14-days antibacterial treatment for hospitalized non-severe acute pyelonephritis patients - a randomized controlled trial, done as a part of dissertation in MD course, General Medicine, JIPMER, Pondicherry.

2. Quantitative EEG and Multi-Model Neuro imaging biomarkers of Memory dysfunction in Epilepsy, an ongoing DST funded project done in SCTIMST, Trivandrum.

3. Clinical spectrum and response to botulinum toxin in hemifacial spasm – a retrospective observational study, done at SCTIMST, Trivandrum.

4. Study on patients with Perioral myoclonia with absences (POMA) among drug-refractory absence epilepsy cases admitted for VEEG monitoring – a case series, done in SCTIMST, Trivandrum.

5. Accelerated long-term forgetting and autobiographical amnesia in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy – a prospective cohort study, done as a part of dissertation in DM course, Neurology, SCTIMST, Trivandrum.

6. Hypermotor seizures originating from temporal lobe: Clinical features, video-EEG, imaging, histopathological findings, and surgical outcomes – A retrospective observational study.

7. Electrical source localization: Validation of BESA software in patients with focal epilepsy - correlation with imaging findings and post-surgical outcomes.

8. The impact of COVID-19 on Video-EEG telemetry admissions: A retrospective observational study.

9. Sexual desire and satisfaction in people with epilepsy: A questionnaire based observational study.

10. Comparison of WADA and functional MRI for language lateralization in presurgical workup of patients with epilepsy: An observational study.

11. Patient satisfaction with In-person versus video consultation in patients with epilepsy: An observational study.

12. Does intraoperative electrocorticogram alter the outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: An observational study.

13. Quality of life in people with epilepsy: An observational study.