Dr. Shrivarthan R — Consultant in Chennai

Dr. Shrivarthan R is a Consultant in Neurology at MGM Healthcare in Chennai, with more than 18 years of experience recorded on his profile.

His clinical range covers epilepsy, stroke treatment and recovery, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, migraine and chronic headache, dystonia, tremor disorders and myasthenia gravis. His diagnostic work rests on EEG and evoked potentials. Treatment includes IV thrombolysis for acute stroke, deep brain stimulation and botulinum toxin therapy for movement disorders, IVIG for immune-mediated neuromuscular conditions, and migraine nerve block for headache. The list is broad rather than narrow, which suits a general neurology consultancy.

His training was taken entirely in the south. He read MBBS at JIPMER, qualifying in 2013, stayed there for an MD in general medicine completed in 2017, and took his DM in neurology at Madras Medical College in 2021. He is affiliated to MGM Healthcare.

That academic record is unusually decorated. He won the Dr. B.N. Ghosh Memorial Prize in pharmacology, the Sri Sudhir Chandra Bhattacharya Memorial Endowment Prize, the Dr. V. Murali Memorial Endowment Prize in medicine, the Dr. V. Udayaraj Gold Medal, the Mrs. S. Santhoshwati Memorial Medal in surgery, the Brigadier A. Nilakantan Memorial Prize and the Dr. K.G.S Nanda Endowment Prize in neurology. He was named best outgoing MBBS graduate with the Dr. Vikrant Gupta Memorial Medal, and reached the national final of the Torrent Young Scholar Award. His prizes in pharmacology, medicine, surgery and neurology, rather than in one subject alone, describe a student who was consistent across the whole course before specialising.