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April 23rd - InterContinental Hotel - Downtown Los Angeles
The AINA Executive Board invites you to the 35th AINA Annual Dinner meeting on April 23, 2018, held at the InterContinental Hotel - Downtown Los Angeles. Our meeting will be held in conjunction with the AAN meeting from April 21-27, 2018. Registration is NOW OPEN! Be sure to register today to receive adequate information and materials regarding the event.
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We look forward to connecting with colleagues, recognizing the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner, hearing from our special Keynote Speaker, Dr. Justin McArthur, awarding the 2018 AINA Trainee awards, and more. View the full flyer by clicking here. Please consider joining AINA or renewing your membership TODAY!
Neeraj Kumar, MD will direct a Mayo CME program in July 2018 in Chicago. Consider attending today! This course will take place from July 19-21 at THE WESTIN CHICAGO RIVER NORTH.
COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
At the AINA, we have started a new initiative where we will be recording audio podcasts from faculty members and leaders in the field to educate and inspire the residents, fellows and the members.
The first podcast of the series includes distinguished faculty from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at New Delhi, India - Dr. Manjari Tripathi, who is a professor of neurology and Dr. Sarat Chandra, a professor of neurosurgery who is the leader for the prestigious center for excellence in epilepsy and MEG center at AIIMS.
Please listen into the live podcast here, or read along the script by clicking here.
AINA Announces 2018 Lifetime Achievement Winner
Dr. Chaudhry is Professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he is the co-director of EMG laboratory and was Vice‐Chair of Clinical Affairs and Director of the Neurology Outpatient Center. He is internationally recognized as a clinician, teacher, researcher, and a leader in field of neuromuscular medicine and electrophysiology. Dr. Chaudhry’s areas of research include Wallerian degeneration in human nerves, multifocal motor neuropathy, toxic neuropathies, and electrophysiological aspects of neuromuscular diseases. Dr. Chaudhry has over 130 publications and has participated in numerous clinical trials in motor neuron disease, peripheral neuropathies, myasthenia gravis, and myotonic muscular dystrophy. He has been on the editorial board of Muscle Nerve, Neurologist, and Science AAN.com. He has served on the board of directors of AAN and American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Chaudhry was the chair of Neuromuscular section of AAN (2001-05) and it was under his leadership that Neuromuscular Medicine Board was created. Dr. Chaudhry was President of the AINA from 2001-2003 and President of Aiimsonians of America (2002-4), his alumni group, which also awarded him with a distinguished alumnus award in 2006.
AINA extends sincere congratulations to Dr. Chaudhry for his lifetime of great work! Dr. Chaudhry will be recognized at the 35th Annual AINA Dinner Meeting in conjunction with AAN's annual meeting. Final details will be announced shortly!
In 2007, the AAN Foundation partnered with the Association of Indian Neurologists in America (AINA) to create an award recognizing those who have been committed to advancing the Indian neurologic community. The AINA presented the AAN Foundation Chair Austin Sumner, MD, with a $50,000 check to endow the award.
The AINA Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a leader in neurology by her/his peers. The recipient will be a North American neurologist chosen based on her/his dedication in advancing the training of North American neurologists of Indian origin and promoting innovation and research in the field of neurology. The recipient will have supported Indian neurologists over a significant period of time in achieving meaningful progress toward expressed goals.
The Tarang is the electronically published newsletter of the Association of Indian Neurologists of America. This is an opportunity to share the work throughout the year with our membership! Have something you are proud of at the local, state or national level? Be sure to share with us that we can include in the Tarang and/or monthly eNews!
Take a look at the 2017 Tarang Newsletter and previous by clicking here.
We are happy to share that our first get together of AINA-Neurocritical Care Section at the Kona Tap Room, Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii was a success. This get together during the 15th Annual Neurocritical Care Society meeting in October 2017 was a great starting point in understanding the mission of AINA.
Dr. Vineeta Singh helped put together a list of Neurointensivists of Indian origin using a list of board certified Neuro intensivists from the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties (UCNS) website. Of course, there were many trainees and Neurointensivists we missed including. Our goal is to create inter-generational mentorship for Neurointensivists just like AINA has created for Neurologists of Indian origin. We hope to spread this message to our Neurocritical care colleagues and encourage their involvement in this mission.
Neha Dangayach and Sachin Agarwal will be co-ordinating this section's future meetings.
The newly created Residents and Fellow Section held their first meeting in early November to help determine training needs for future neurologists in AINA and in their professional practices.
The Residents and Fellow Section members are: Zain Guduru, Deepak Gupta, Vishal Shah, Urvish Patel and lead with Executive Committee Members - Seemant Chaturvedi, Prachi Mehndiratta and Vishal Jani. The section determined to be sure to add additional benefits to belonging to AINA, as well as adding mentors of AINA to help develop new neurologists. Each of the members will be working in their region to grow membership and interest in AINA. We continue to look forward to additional updates from the Resident and Fellows Section to grow AINA!
Dear AINA members:
The Resident and Fellow section would like to establish a mentor-mentee program to connect Neurologists in academia and private practice with those in training. This is an excellent suggestion and it offers a method to grow AINA and help the next generation of Indian neurologists.
Please let Jamie Michael, AINA Association Staff, know if you are willing to be included in the roster of mentors and if you prefer one mentee only or if you are open to advising more than one neurologist in a training program.
AINA@badgerbay.co
Thank you.
-Seemant Chaturvedi, MD, FAAN
AINA President
Krishnankutty (Krish) Sathian, MBBS, PhD, FANA, who previously served as professor of neurology, rehabilitation medicine and psychology at Emory University, has took over as chair of the Department of Neurology for Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, effective July 1, 2017. Dr. Sathian is also Professor of Neurology, Neural & Behavioral Sciences and Psychology at Penn State University.
Dr. Sathian is committed to improving the lives of patients suffering from dementia and other neurological disorders. A neurologist and neuroscientist with clinical and research interests in cognitive neurorehabilitation, his research interests also include multisensory perception, visual rehabilitation and interfaces between perception and language.
He underwent medical training at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, graduating as the class valedictorian. He obtained his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he was the recipient of the Sir MacFarlane Burnet Biomedical Research Scholarship of the state of Victoria and the Sir Grafton Elliot Smith Award of the Australian Neuroscience Society.
He moved to the United States for postdoctoral training at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, then completed a residency in neurology at the University of Chicago. In 1994, he joined the faculty at Emory University. Dr. Sathian is a graduate of the Academic Leadership Program at Emory University. He directed the Rehabilitation Research and Development Center for Visual and Neurocognitive Rehabilitation at the Atlanta VA from 2009-2017, and served as neurology vice chair for faculty recruitment and development from 2015-17. He is a past president of the American Society for Neurorehabilitation (2013-14).
Dr. Sathian’s research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1995-2018, and he has also received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and private foundations. Apart from authoring numerous publications and book chapters, he is co-editor of a volume on cognitive plasticity. His study section service includes multiple NIH, VA and Department of Defense panels. A fellow of the American Neurological Association, he serves on a number of editorial boards, including that of the Journal of Neuroscience, and is a member of the Faculty of 1000. He received the 2001 Albert Levy Award for the best scientific publication by a senior faculty member at Emory University.
Indian Neurologists make their mark at 2017 ANA conference
Several neurologists of Indian origin had featured roles in the 2017 American Neurologic Association (ANA) conference.
Dr. Kevin Sheth, Chief of the Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology and Associate Chair for Clinical Research at Yale University School of Medicine, received the Derek Denny Brown Young Neurological Scholar award in Clinical Science. Dr. Sheth gave a presentation on future treatments for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and how best to design ICH trials in the future. Dr. Sheth thanks vascular neurologists and neurocritical care physicians from AINA who have inspired him to pursue an academic career focused on excellence.
Dr. Shri Mishra, Professor of Neurology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, spoke on “The future of Global Neurology and the ANA Global Neurology Fellowship.” Dr. Mishra also chaired the ANA global neurology task force.
AINA President Dr. Seemant Chaturvedi, from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, chaired the Cerebrovascular disease Special Interest Group and was a panelist in the “Meet the Editors” interactive session.
Dr. Pravin Khemani, of UT-Southwestern Medical Center, chaired the Special Interest Group on Movement disorders.
Dr. Sanjeev Thomas of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences, spoke in the Global Neurology session on “Neurology in India.”
Several other neurologists of Indian origin spoke in breakout sessions at the 2017 ANA conference and many were first authors of posters. We congratulate all for their accomplishments.
