Achal Kumar Srivastava is an Indian neurologist and medical researcher. He is Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology in the Department of Neurology at

All India Institute of Medical Sciences The All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is a group of autonomous government public medical universities of higher education under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. These institutes ha ...

(AIIMS) in

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, heads its clinical neurophysiology and

ataxia Ataxia (from Greek α- negative prefix+ -τάξις rder= "lack of order") is a neurological sign consisting of lack of voluntary coordination of muscle movements that can include gait abnormality, speech changes, and abnormalities in e ...

facilities, and is a member of its

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of Non-communicable disease, non-communicable Neurological disorder, neurological disorders characterized by a tendency for recurrent, unprovoked Seizure, seizures. A seizure is a sudden burst of abnormal electrical activit ...

care team.

Education

Srivastava earned his medical degree in 1991 and his MD in 1994 from Motilal Nehru Medical College in

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, and specialist postgraduate certification (DM) in neurology from AIIMS in 1998.Dr Achal Srivasrtava
Neurology,

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, 17 January 2020, retrieved 14 November 2021.

Career

After working for over a year as a scientist fellow at the CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in

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, in 2001 he became an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at AIIMS. he is Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology and head of the clinical neurophysiology facility and ataxia center and a member of the epilepsy care team.M. V. Srivastava
"History of neurology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences"
''Neurology India'' 63:5 (2015) 751–61. He established the department's Movement Disorder Clinic. Srivastava's research focuses on the genetics, prognosis, and diagnosis of movement disorders including hereditary ataxias. He received a young investigator award for presentations on CAG triplet repeat disorder, the best paper award at the 1998 conference of the

Neurological Society of India Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the s ...

, and the outstanding paper presentation award at the 2004 conference of the

American Academy of Neurology The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is a professional society representing over 40,000 neurologists and neuroscientists. As a medical specialty society it was established in 1948 by A.B. Baker of the University of Minnesota to advance the a ...

, and has been invited to present his work on

spinocerebellar ataxia Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) is a progressive, degenerative, genetic disease with multiple types, each of which could be considered a neurological condition in its own right. An estimated 150,000 people in the United States have a diagnosis of ...

type 12 at

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

References

External links

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"An interview with - Dr. Achal Kumar Srivastava, AIIMS"
''Aaj Savere'',

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, 21 November 2017 (video, 42 mins) {{DEFAULTSORT:Srivastava, Achal Kumar Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Indian neurologists All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi alumni Academic staff of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi