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Dr. Dinesh Nayak
Director of Neurology and Advanced Centre for Epilepsy
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35+ years
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Dr. Dinesh Nayak specializes in Epilepsy, Stroke, Demyelinating Disorders, and Neurology.
Director of Neurology and Advanced Centre for Epilepsy
Consults at:
4.0
At Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai, India, Dr. Dinesh Nayak is the director of the department of neurology and the advanced centre for epilepsy. He is a senior consultant neurologist and epileptologist.
Dr. Dinesh completed his training in neurology (DM degree) at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, India, a national-importance institution, from 1993 to 1995. He was awarded the S.M. Munirathinam Chetty Gold Medal for earning the highest marks in the final MD examination. He was given the Dr. PN Berry scholarship in 2000 to study epileptology at King's College Hospital in London, UK, where he did so from 2000 to 2003. He received training in intracranial EEG and video-EEG.
At the famous R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, he played an active role in the epilepsy surgery programme and pre-operatively assessed more than 2000 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. He is an expert in vagal nerve stimulation, intracranial EEG monitoring, video-EEG monitoring, and pre-surgical evaluation of medically resistant epilepsy. He had been a member of the teaching staff for the King's College Hospital, London, UK, yearly video-EEG Master class.
He teaches clinical neurology to postgraduate medical and neurological students and has vast experience treating a wide range of acute and chronic neurological diseases. He offers EEG and video-EEG workshops across the nation. Over 200 epilepsy procedures, including temporal and extratemporal as well as intracranial EEG with subdural grids and stereo-EEG depth electrodes, have been carried out since he established a thriving epilepsy surgery programme in Chennai, India, in 2010.
He has a number of articles published in reputable national and international magazines. In numerous national conferences, he has received medals for best papers. He had previously served on the Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology editorial board.
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Treatments:
M.B.B.S, M.D (General Medicine), DM (Neurology)
2018 March to the present
Gleneagles Global Health City's Director of Neurology and Program Director for the Advanced Centre for Epilepsy
Senior Consultant & Head, Department Of Neurology, Fortis Malar Hospital
Senior Consultant, Department Of Neurology,Global Hospitals And Health City
Associate Professor Of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute For Medical Sciences And Technology
Consultant Neurologist, Kovai Medical Center And Hospital
Research Assistant, Department Of Clinical Neurophysiology, King’s College Hospital
Visiting Clinical Fellow, Department Of Clinical Neurophysiology, King’s College HospitalAssistant Professor And Consultant, Neurologist, Department Of Neurosciences, K.G Hospital And Postgraduate Institute
Assistant Professor And Consultant Neurologist, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute For Medical Sciences And Technology
Assistant Professor & Consultant Neurologist, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
S. M. Munirathinam Chetty Gold Medal In Final Examination Of M.D (General Medicine)
Best Paper Award At 5th Annual Conference Of The Indian Epilepsy Association At Jaipur, India
Best Paper Award At Kerala Chapter Of Neurological Society Of India, Cochin, India
Awarded The Dr. P. N. Berry Scholarship For One-year Fellowship In U.K
Memberships:
The Indian Academy of Neurology
The Neurological Society of India
Indian Epilepsy Association (IEA)
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