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Department of Neurology

KMC , Manipal
Health Sciences

Established in the early 1980s in association with Neurosurgery — officially starting on 6 November 1981 under Prof. Dr. S. N. Rao as the first Neurophysician and Head — the Department of Neurology at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, is one of the oldest academic neurology departments in Karnataka. It provides state-of-the-art care for neurological disorders, including emergency services such as IV thrombolysis and carotid stenting for stroke, working in multidisciplinary collaboration with Neurosurgery, Radiology, Neuro-rehabilitation, Psychiatry, and General Medicine, with faculty committed to teaching, research, and patient care.

Highlights

  • Kasturba Medical College was the first private institute in the country to start a DM Neurology training program, in 1992, and has since trained more than 42 neurologists.
  • Serves as a referral centre for coastal Karnataka, catering to patients from Uttara Kannada, Udupi, Shimoga, Chikmagalur, Davangere, and Ballari districts.
  • Established a comprehensive Epilepsy Surgery and Epilepsy Care Centre in 2015 under the guidance of Dr. Kurupath Radhakrishnan, and began performing intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) and cortical stimulation and mapping (CSM) during epilepsy surgery.
  • Runs dedicated subspecialty clinics for neuromuscular disease, epilepsy, movement disorders and Botox, stroke, and dementia, alongside a stroke unit offering IV/IA thrombolysis.
  • Houses a Neurology Research Unit (Clinical Research Unit), established in 2018, coordinating extramural and student research projects, and participates in ICMR-funded multicentre stroke trials.
  • Has hosted major scientific meetings, including the Neurological Society of India (1991), the Indian Society of Cerebrovascular conference (2009), and the Society for Evidence-Based Health Care India conference (2019).

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