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Education / Qualifications:

• MBBS (Aug 2004- Jan 2009: including Internship): Government Medical College, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
• MD (General Medicine): Seth G.S. Medical College, KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra. (May 2010- April 2013)
• DM Neurology: Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (Jan 2014- Dec 2016)
• Fellowship in Epilepsy (PDF) (July 2018- June 2019) at Krishna institute of medical sciences, Hyderabad, under Dr. Sita Jayalakshmi
• IAN-AINA observership at Creighton University, Omaha, USA (July 2019) under Dr. Sanjay Singh
• Fellowship of the European Board of Neurology: 2022

Professional Experience:

• May 2010-2013: House officer (residency)-3 YEARS
• Assistant Professor in Department of Medicine: Government Medical College Miraj, Maharashtra. (Aug-Dec 2013)
• Senior Residency at Department of Neurology, PGIMER (Jan 2014- Dec 2016)
• Neurology consultant at Sterlings Hospital, Ahmedabad, from February to September 2017
• Assistant lecturer Neurology: At TNMC BYL Nair hospital, Mumbai (Nov 2017 –May 2018)
• Epilepsy fellow at KIMS Hospitals, Secunderabad (Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences), Hyderabad (July 2018- June 2019)
• Consultant Neurologist at KIMS Hospitals (Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences), Secunderabad. (Nov 2019 - onwards)

Grant & Fellowship Awards:

• World Federation of Neurology Junior Traveling Fellowship for 2017.
• Bursary Award for World Congress of Neurology, Kyoto, September 16-21, 2017.
• IAN Fellowship during IANCON-2017 held at Chennai.
• IAN- AINA travel and observership grant 2019.

Memberships & Positions in Neurology Societies:

• Life Member of the Indian Academy of Neurology (LM-1270)
• Member of the American Academy of Neurology: AAN ID:  292902
• Indian Stroke Association: ISA-753-LM
• Indian Epilepsy Society: IES-592
• Executive committee member: Indian Epilepsy Association 2025-27.

Publications:

1. Anuja Patil, Aastha Takkar, Manoj Goyal, Ramandeep Singh, Vivek Lal. Sequential NAION presenting as pseudo- Foster Kennedy syndrome. Journal of the neurological sciences,376 (2017) 49-51.
2. D. Khurana, A. Kumar, S. Kamath, A. Patil, T. Kaur. Mitoxantrone in aggressive relapsing multiple sclerosis in resource limited settings. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 381 (2017), 447.
3. Patil Anuja, Vishnu Venugopalan, Naheed Darakhshan, Awadh Pandit, Vinny Wilson, Manoj Goyal et al. Rapidly progressive dementia: an eight-year (2008-2016) retrospective study. PLoS One. 2018 Jan 18;13(1): e0189832.
4. Pulikottil Wilson Vinny, Madakasira Vasantha Padma, PN Sylaja, Praveen Kesav, Vivek Lal, Lakshmi Narasimhan, SN Dwivedi, Pradeep P Nair, Thomas Iype, Anu Gupta, Anuja Patil, Venugopalan Y Vishnu. Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy in Vascular Neurology Between Neurology Residents and a Neurology Differential Diagnosis App: A Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Observational Study. Journal of Stroke Medicine. 2020;3(1):21-27. 
5. SB Pasangulapati, A Patil, S Jayalakshmi. Clinical, Imaging and EEG Patterns in Refractory Epilepsy With Focal Cortical Dysplasia and Predictors Of Outcome After Surgery. Epilepsia, 2019
6. Garg D, Dhamija RK, Choudhary A, Shree R, Kumar S, Samal P, Pathak A, Vijaya P, Sireesha Y, Nair SS, Sharma S, Desai S, Sinha HP, Agarwal A, Upadhyay A, Padma Srivastava MV, Bhatia R, Pandit AK, Singh RK, Reyaz A, Yogeesh PM, Salunkhe M, Lal V, Modi M, Singh G, Singla M, Panda S, Gopalakrishnan M, Puri I, Sharma S, Kumar B, Kushwaha PK, Chovatiya H, Ferreira T, Bhoi SK, Bhartiya M, Kaul S, Patil A, Mathukumalli NL, Nagappa M, Sharma PP, Basheer A, Ramachandran D, Balaram N, Sebastian J, Vishnu VY; GBS consortium. Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Frequency, Clinical Spectrum and Outcomes of Pediatric Guillain-Barré Syndrome in India: A Multicentric Ambispective Cohort Study. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2022 Jan-Feb;25(1):60-67. doi: 10.4103/aian.aian_392_21. Epub 2021 Nov 17. PMID: 35342256; PMCID: PMC8954314.
7. Jayalakshmi S, Patil A, Challa A, Parekh M, Khandelia H, Vooturi S. Determinants of mortality and long-term outcome in children with refractory and super refractory status epilepticus. J Clin Neurosci. 2022 Jan 11;97:12-16. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2021.12.030. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35030458.
8. Madhamanchi K, Madhamanchi P, Jayalakshmi S, Panigrahi M, Patil A, Phanithi PB. Endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein accumulation correlate to seizure recurrence in focal cortical dysplasia patients. Cell Stress Chaperones. 2022 Oct 18. doi: 10.1007/s12192-022-01301-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36258150.
9. Individualised prediction of drug resistance and seizure recurrence after medication withdrawal in people with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis Remi Stevelink,a,b,  Dania Al-Toma,a Floor E. Jansen, Herm J. Lamberink, Ali A. Asadi-Pooya, Mohsen Farazdaghi, Gonçalo Cação, Sita Jayalakshmi, Anuja Patil, Çigdem Özkara, ˘  S¸enay Aydın, et al. November 2022 DOI:10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101732.
10. Gudapati MK, Sirisha S, Patil A, Manukinda J, Yada PK, Jayalakshmi S, Varalakshmi EA, Kaul S, Surath M. Etiological spectrum of cardioembolic strokes in a tertiary care hospital of India: Analysis of one year data. J Med Sci Res. 2022; 10(3):118-122 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/ JMSR.2022/10-22
11. Sita Jayalakshmi, Ramakrishna Telugu, Sudhindra Vooturi, Anuja Patil, Sai Sirisha, S Shanmukhi. Anxiety, depression, and psychosocial adjustment in people with epilepsy. November 2022. Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice. DOI: 10.25259/JNRP-2022-6-40.
12. Sireesha Y, Shree R, Nagappa M, Patil A, Singla M, Padma Srivastava M V, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on Guillain-Barre syndrome in India: A multicentre ambispective cohort study. Ann Indian Acad Neurol 2022;25:1116-21.
13. Jayalakshmi S, Vasireddy S, Sireesha J, Vooturi S, Patil A, Sirisha S, Vadapalli R, Chandrasekhar YBVK, Panigrahi M. Long-Term Seizure Freedom, Resolution of Epilepsy and Perceived Life Changes in Drug Resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with Hippocampal Sclerosis: Comparison of Surgical Versus Medical Management. Neurosurgery. 2023 Feb 9. doi: 10.1227/neu.0000000000002358.  Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36757322.
14. Jayalakshmi S, Anuja P, Parekh M, Vooturi S, Madigubba S, Panigrahi M. Ictal bruxism in temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis. Epileptic Disord. 2023 Mar 22. doi: 10.1002/epd2.20053. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36946360.
15. Jayalakshmi S, Dhondji M, Vooturi S, Patil A, Vadapalli R. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2020 Sep;196:106022. doi: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2020.106022. Epub 2020 Jun 15.
16. Sankaraneni, R. M., Patil, A., & Singh, S. (2020). Outcome of vagal nerve stimulation for treatment of primary generalized epilepsy (2883).
17. A Patil, M Parekh, S Jayalakshmi, M Panigrahi. Surgical outcome and Electro-Clinical profile of posterior cortex epilepsies. Epilepsia, 2021
18. Madhamanchi K, Madhamanchi P, Jayalakshmi S, Panigrahi M, Patil A, Phanithi PB. Dopamine and Glutamate Crosstalk Worsen the Seizure Outcome in TLE-HS Patients. Mol Neurobiol. 2023 May 20. doi: 10.1007/s12035-023-03361-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37209264. 
19. Kishore M, Pradeep M, Narne P, Jayalakshmi S, Panigrahi M, Patil A, Babu PP. Regulation of Keap1-Nrf2 axis in temporal lobe epilepsy-hippocampal sclerosis patients may limit the seizure outcomes. Neurol Sci. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1007/s10072-023-06936-0. Epub ahead of print. Erratum in: Neurol Sci. 2023 Jul 24;: PMID: 37432566.
20. Patil A, Jayalakshmi S, Somayajula S, Shah D, Vooturi S, Panigrahi M. Long-Term Outcome of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2025 Jan 1;28(1):32-37. Doi: 10.4103/aian.aian_389_24. Epub 2025 Feb 14. PMID: 39951020.
21. Anuja Patil, Sita Jayalakshmi. Clinical Spectrum of Epilepsia Partialis Continua and Predictors of Outcome. International Journal of Epilepsy 2025; 11(S 02): S1-S56. DOI: 10.1055/s-0045-1813052.
22. Sirisha S, Jala S, Vooturi S, Patil A, Somayajula S, Jayalakshmi S. Association between behavioural problems and parental stress in children and adolescents with epilepsy. Epilepsy Behav. 2025 Feb; 163:110229. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2024.110229. Epub 2024 Dec 24. PMID: 39721232.
23. Jayalakshmi S, Pachipala S, Patil A, Goli A, Sirisha S, Vooturi S, Khandelia H, Yada PK. Clinical characteristics, etiology and outcome of new onset refractory status epilepticus in adults. Neurol Sci. 2026 Jan 7;47(1):113. doi: 10.1007/s10072-025-08601-0. PMID: 41498863.
24. Jayalakshmi S, Patil A, Shah D, Parekh M, Vooturi S, Panigrahi M. Ictal Bruxism - A Sign of Temporal Lobe Ictal Localization: A Case Series. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2026 Jan 31. doi: 10.4103/aian.aian_814_25. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41622588.
25. Jayalakshmi S, Pachipala S, Patil A, Goli A, Sirisha S, Vooturi S, Khandelia H, Yada PK. Clinical characteristics, etiology and outcome of new onset refractory status epilepticus in adults. Neurol Sci. 2026 Jan 7;47(1):113. doi: 10.1007/s10072-025-08601-0. PMID: 41498863.

Review Articles and Book Chapters:

1. Review: Joint-lung interface. Nadkar MY, Phatak S, Patil A, Jankar R. Journal of Post Graduate Medicine, vol XXVII, 2013.
2. Continuous EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit. Anuja Patil, Sudhindra Vooturi, Sita Jayalakshmi.  Int J Epilepsy 2018;5:62–67.
3. Pearls & Oy-sters: Paraneoplastic cerebral vasculitis: Rare cause of spontaneous convexity subarachnoid hemorrhage. Anuja Patil, Ritu Shree, Darakhshan Naheed, et al. Neurology 2018;90;e815-e817. DOI 10.1212/WNL.0000000000005025
4. Anuja Patil, Kartik Vinay Mahesh, Nandita Prabhat, Ramandeep Singh, Aastha Takkar, Sucharita Ray, Naresh Tandyala, Manoj Kumar Goyal & Vivek Lal (2019) Non-Arteritic Anterior Ischaemic Optic Neuropathy – Myths and Misconceptions: Experience from a Tertiary Care Centre in North India, Neuro-Ophthalmology, DOI: 10.1080/01658107.2019.1688356
5. Neurological manifestations due to, during and after COVID-19 Patil A, Mohandas S. J Med Sci Res. 2020; 8(S1):81-89. . DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2020/8S1-10
6. Drugs, toxins, nutrition, and cognition in Reviews in Neurology by IAN 2017.
7. Epilepsy in Women in the Neurology section of “Clinical Approach and Management Strategies of Medical Ailment in Women; OORJA-THE POWER OF HER” 2020.
8. C-2 Surgery for Extra Temporal Lobe Epilepsy by Anuja Patil, Sita Jayalakshmi, Manas Panigrahi in “Complicated cases in Epilepsy” Vol. 2 (2020). Editor: Bhim Singhal 
9. Role of Prognostic Studies in the management of epilepsy. Reviews in Neurology by IAN 2022

Case Reports:

1. Case report: Leukemoid reaction, a rare manifestation of autoimmune haemolytic anaemia in a case of small duct primary sclerosing cholangitis. Salagre KD, Sahay RN, Patil A, Joshi A, Shukla A.Journal of association of physicians of India, vol 61; October 2013.
2. Hot cross bun sign. Das B, Patil A, Goyal MK, Lal V, Ahuja C. QJM. 2016 Mar; 109(3):203-4.
3. Under recognized cause of reversible cognitive decline: A radiological aid. Kumar AS, Shree R, Sachdeva J, Patil A, Goyal MK, Lal V. Neurol India. 2017 Jul-Aug;65(4):872-873. doi: 10.4103/neuroindia.NI_1244_16. 
4. Balabhadra A, Parekh M, Patil A, Jayalakshmi S. A Case of Drug-resistant Epilepsy Associated with Ring Chromosome 20. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2021 Sep-Oct;24(5):805-807. doi: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_1292_20. Epub 2021 Apr 16. PMID: 35002161; PMCID: PMC8680879.
5. Srinath Vasagiri, Anuja Patil, & Kulkarni, P. (2023). Paget’s disease presenting with multiple cranial neuropathies. Indian Journal of Case Reports, 9(2), 32–33
6. Anusha Challa, Sai Sirisha, Harsh Khandelia, Mihir Parekh, Anuja Patil, Sita Jayalakshmi. A case of eosinophilic granulomatous polyangiitis with concurrent central and peripheral nervous system involvement, Oxford Medical Case Reports, Volume 2023, Issue 7, July 2023, omad067

International Paper Presentations:

1. “Clinical profile of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy: north Indian population-based study” Paper presentation at 15th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Neurology (AOCN) August 18th -21st, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2. “Infections masquerading as dementia: an eight-year retrospective study” poster presentation American Academy of neurology 69th Annual Meeting April 22-28, 2017, in Boston MA.
3. “Rapidly Progressive dementia: a retrospective cohort study from a tertiary care hospital” poster presentation American Academy of neurology 69th Annual Meeting April 22-28, 2017, in Boston MA.
4. “Rapidly Progressive dementia: eight-year retrospective cohort study” platform paper presentation at XXIII World Congress of Neurology, Kyoto September 16-21, 2017. 
5. “Outcome of Vagal Nerve Stimulation for Treatment of Primary Generalized Epilepsy (2883)” E-poster in 2020 Annual Meeting of American Academy of Neurology (virtual)
6. “EEG patterns in Refractory Epilepsy with Focal Cortical Dysplasia and predictors of outcome after surgery” (P10-1.010) Anuja Patil, Sita Sattaluri, Sudhindra Vooturi. Poster in 2023 75th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Neurology, held in Boston MA, April 22-27. 
7. “Long-term Remission and Resolution of Epilepsy following Surgery for Drug Resistant Lesional Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. (P2-1.001) Sita Sattaluri, Anuja Patil, Akanksha Choudhary, Sudhindra Vooturi. 
8. “Long-term Remission in Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy (S44.009)” Shashank Jaiswal, Sita Sattaluri, Anuja Patil. Platform presentation in 2023 75th Annual Meeting of American Academy of Neurology, held in Boston MA, April 22-27.
9. “Predictors of long-term surgical outcome (2-18 years) in drug refractory epilepsy with focal cortical dysplasia”. Anuja Patil. Platform presentation in 15th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress, held between 20-23 February 2025, in New Delhi, India.

National Paper Presentations:

1. A case of Schilder’s disease a variant of MS poster presentation at Maharashtra association of physician’s conference, Sept 29th-Oct 2nd, 2011, LTMGH Sion Hospital, Mumbai.
2. Acute phase reactants in Rheumatoid Arthritis poster presentation at 67th Annual conference of Association of physicians of India Jan 12th-15th 2012, Kolkata.
3. Clinical profile of anterior ischemic optic neuropathy: north Indian population-based study Paper presentation at 23rd Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurology under the aegis of Agra Academy of Neurology, Oct 1st -4th, 2015, Agra.
4. Rapidly Progressive Dementia: a retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital Poster presentation at 24th Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurology, Nov 10-13, 2016, Kolkata.
5. Sequential NAION presenting as pseudo-Foster Kennedy syndrome Poster presentation at 24th Annual Conference of Indian Academy of Neurology, Nov 10-13, 2016, Kolkata.
6. Clinical, imaging and EEG patterns in refractory epilepsy with FCD third prize as best star award paper in ECON 2019 8-10th March, 2019, New Delhi. 
7. EEG patterns in focal cortical dysplasia and refractory epilepsy: correlation with imaging and post-surgical outcome. Best award paper in epilepsy at 27th IANCON, 3rd- 6th October 2019, Hyderabad.
8. Long-term Seizure Freedom, Cognitive Outcome and Quality Of Life After Surgery In Children with Drug Resistant Epilepsy and Focal Cortical Dysplasia. Best award paper in epilepsy at 18th Asian Oceanian Congress of Neurology and 29th Annual Conference of the Indian Academy of Neurology 2nd – 6th November 2022, New Delhi, India.
9. Outcome of Vagal Nerve stimulation in Drug refractory epilepsy 1st prize in platform presentation at ECON 2023 held at Jaipur jointly organised by IEA and IES from 21-23 July 2023
10. Autoimmune Epilepsy: Clinical, Radiological, PET Characteristics and Outcome Best platform presentation award at 7th Annual Conference of Autoimmune Subsection of Indian Academy of Neurology: Indian Committee of Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ICTRIMS 2024) held from 14th - 16th November 2024 in Chandigarh.