Dr. Rukmini Mridula Kandadai — Senior Consultant Neurologist & Clinical Director in Hyderabad

Dr. Rukmini Mridula Kandadai is Senior Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Director at Yashoda Hospitals, Hi-Tech City, in Hyderabad, with more than 26 years of experience.

Her list is concentrated on movement disorders. It covers Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonism, dystonia and tremor disorders, neuro rehabilitation for movement disorders, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, epilepsy and motor neuron disease, with EEG, deep brain stimulation and botulinum toxin therapy among the procedures.

She read MBBS at Kasturba Medical College in Manipal between 1994 and 1999, taking a gold medal in pathology in 1997 and the Late Mrs. Muktaben D. Chandrana Prize as best outgoing lady medical graduate. Her DNB in general medicine and her DM in neurology were both taken at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, between 2001 and 2008, and she also holds the DNB in neurology.

Her committee work is the most distinctive part of her record and matches her clinical focus exactly. She is a founder member and has served on the executive committee of the Movement Disorders Society of India, is a founding member and treasurer of both the Parkinson's Research Alliance of India and the Parkinson's Society Hyderabad, sat on the newsletter committee of the International Association of Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders across two terms, and has served the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society on its membership committee and its Asian Oceania section underserved committee since 2023.

Founding a patient society and a research alliance alongside clinical practice reaches patients who are not in her own clinic. She is also a member of the Indian Academy of Neurology and the Andhra Pradesh Neuroscientists Association.