Dr. Ramshekhar N. Menon

Academic Qualifications

• MBBS., MD., DNB., DM., Epilepsy Fellowship

Professional Record

• Professor
• Associate Professor 2014-2016
• Asst. Professor 2010-2014

Awards

• Commonwealth Medical Fellowship (2019-20)- Pediatric Epilepsy- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
• B Braun Medical Foundation Scholarship in Internal Medicine, 2004
• Torrent Young Scholar Award in Neurology 2008
• Asian Oceanian Travel Bursary Award 2010, Melbourne Australia.
• Best paper in Epilepsy Award, IANCON 2011, Pune.
• Travel Bursary Award for international course in pediatric epilepsy, 2012, Venice International University, San Servolo, Venice, Italy.
• Indian Epilepsy Association Travel Bursary Award 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Epilepsy Society Australia Epileptology training award (2019)- Pediatric Epilepsy- Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Area of Interest

• Pediatric Epilepsy, Cognitive Neurology, Autoimmune Diseases, genetics of epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, EEG-video EEG

Collaboration

• Whole exome sequencing in trios for complex childhood epilepsies
• ICMR task force for development of neurocognitive test battery for diagnosis of early cognitive impairment and dementia

Current Activities

• Faculty at Department of Neurology, R Madhavan Nair Centre for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, Cognition & Behavioral Neurology subsections.

Fellowships

• Epilepsy Fellowship, SCTIMST
• Commonwealth Medical Fellow (2019-20)- Pediatric Epilepsy - Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
• Epilepsy Society Australia Epileptology Observership Award- Royal Children's Hospital; Melbourne; Australia

Membership

• Indian Academy of Neurology
• Indian Epilepsy Association & Indian Epilepsy Society
• Alzheimer's & Related Disorders Society of India

On-going Projects

• Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment to conduct researach on "The Influence of Sleep Architecture on the Severity of Memory Disruption in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment".
• DST funded project (PI)- "Memory fMRI in temporal lobe epilepsy"
• ICMR funded project (PI; muliticentric study)- "Development and validation of Indian aptation of test battery for vascular cognitive impairment".
• DST-Cognitive Science Initiative- "The Human Brain Mapping Project"
• DEITY project on development of automated seizure prediction algorithm with CDAC, Trivandrum.
• ICMR- Genetics of complex pediatric epilepsy- whole exome sequencing
• DBT- Incidence prevalence and risk factors for dementia in India (Dementia Sciences Program)