Dr. D. Vasudevan — Clinical Lead & Senior Consultant in Chennai

Dr. D. Vasudevan is Clinical Lead and Senior Consultant in Neurology at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 30 years of experience. He also practises at The Brain, Spine and Nerve Centre in Chennai.

His qualifications are MD and DM in neurology, with FRCP from Glasgow as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and FIAN as a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Neurology.

Epilepsy is the largest part of the clinical list, covering both epilepsy treatment and drug-resistant epilepsy. Stroke treatment and recovery, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, motor neuron disease, tremor disorders, dystonia and migraine with chronic headache sit alongside it. EEG and nerve conduction studies are the recorded investigations; IV thrombolysis, deep brain stimulation, botulinum toxin therapy and migraine nerve block the recorded procedures.

His written output occupies as much of the record as any clinical role. He is editor and author of Practice Pearls in Neurology Series 1, 2 and 3, author of Management Pearls in Neurology, section editor and author of the first edition of the IAN Textbook of Neurology, and author of the Handbook of Neurological Drugs. Four titles, most of them reference texts for other neurologists, describe someone whose contribution is written as well as clinical.

A second strand is less usual for a working neurologist. He founded the "Beyond Brain" Colloquia for the Study of Consciousness and chairs the Contemplative Neurology Subsection of the Indian Academy of Neurology, which takes his interest in the brain past the clinic and into the study of consciousness itself.