Dr. Rajit Pillai

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2019 : Assistant Professor in Department of Neurology, Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
• 2019 – 2020 : Post doctoral felloship, Epilepsy, Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
• 2020 : Assistant Professor (Adhoc), Department of Neurology, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
• 2021 – 2022 : Consultant Neurologist, City Neuro hospital, Telangana, India.
• 2022 – 2023 : Consultant Neurologist, KIMS HEALTH, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

• PDF Post doctoral fellowship Epilepsy; from Seth GS Medical college and KEM
  Hospital, Mumbai, India Under: Maharashtra University of Health Sciences,
  (MUHS), Nashik, Maharashtra, India. 2019- 2020
• DM Neurology; from Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences &
  Technology, (SCTIMST – An autonomous institute of National Importance Under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India)Trivandrum,
  Kerala, India. 2016 -2018
• MD General Medicine; from Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India
  Under: Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, (MUHS), Nashik,
  Maharashtra, India.2012-2015
• MBBS Government Medical College, Miraj, Maharashtra, India
  Under: Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, (MUHS), Nashik,
  Maharashtra, India.2004-2010

Courses

• 2019 – 2020 : Post doctoral fellowship, Epilepsy, Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Indian Academy of Neurology
• Indian Medical Association

AWARDS

Paper Presentation

• Poster presentation : Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome in siblings, with worsening in
  pregnancy, KAN midterm meet, 2019.
• Platform presentation ” Clinical Profile Of Cardiac Arrhythmias In Elderly patients ” in
  APICON 2016.Invited Lecture
• Atypical semiology in Frontal Lobe Epilepsy, Saga of Epilepsy-Past and Present, SCTIMST, 2020.
• Mean Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) – Technique and Interpretation, Polysomnography
  Workshop, SCTIMST, 2022.

RESEARCH PAPERS/PUBLICATIONS

• Skull-base temporal encephalocele: Hidden cause of temporal lobe epilepsy,
  Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Volume 429, Supplement,2021.
  DM Thesis – ‘A comparative study of axonal stimulation and voluntary single fiber
  electromyography (SFEMG) in myasthenia gravis’.
• ‘Whiskey in my pee – Rhabdomyolysis in a patient with alcohol binge’, Asian Journal of
  Psychiatry, 2019.
• Pregnancy-associated respiratory failure in MuSK congenital myasthenic syndrome:
  Pregnancy in MuSK CMS, Muscle & Nerve, 2019.
• MD thesis : “To evaluate the outcome of thrombocytopenia with Dengue Fever” Published
  in IOSR Journal of Pharmacy, 2018.
• Kallmann Syndrome and Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: A Rare Occurrence, Journal of The
  Association of Physicians of India, 2016.
• Hair-on-end appearance in a case of thalassemia intermedia, BMJ Case Rep. 2013.

SPECIALTY AREAS AND SKILLS

• Epilepsy
• Acute stroke & stroke rehabilitation
• Neuro critical care
• Headache
• Neuropathy
• Parkinsonism and movement disorders
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neurological infections
• Neuroimmunological disorders
• Dementia
• Botulinum toxin administration

LANGUAGES SPOKEN

• English
• Hindi
• Malyalam
• Marathi