Dr. Ritu Jha — Director & HOD in Delhi NCR

Dr. Ritu Jha is Director and Head of Neurology at Sarvodaya Hospital, Faridabad, in Delhi NCR, with more than 26 years of experience.

Her list covers epilepsy and drug-resistant epilepsy, stroke treatment and recovery, migraine and chronic headache, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis, diabetic neuropathy, motor neuron disease, and dystonia and tremor disorders. The procedures include EEG, nerve conduction studies and evoked potentials, IV thrombolysis, deep brain stimulation, botulinum toxin therapy, IVIG and migraine nerve block.

She read MBBS at GSVM Medical College in Kanpur, took her MD in medicine at King George Medical University in Lucknow, and her DM in neurology at SGPGIMS in the same city. She was a gold medallist in anatomy, took a bronze medal in biochemistry, and placed sixth in the UP CPMT examination, first among girls.

Her published research covers nerve and cognitive work. Two papers study vitamin B12 deficiency neurological syndrome, one a clinical, nerve conduction and nerve biopsy study with short-term follow-up and the other a neurobehavioral, psychometric and P3 study. Two more examine cognition after cardiac surgery, asking whether coronary artery bypass leads to cognitive impairment and evaluating cognitive function and P300 in patients undergoing the operation. She has also published on the spectrum of fungal infection in a neurology tertiary care centre, on cortical blindness after a contrast-enhanced CT scan in sarcoidosis, and on barriers to evidence-based medicine practice in South Asia.

Her earlier posts were at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital and UCMS, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital and B L Kapoor Hospital in New Delhi.