The Mizzou's School of Medicine names Pradeep Sahota Aspiring Leadership Award after AINA Member, Dr. Pradeep Sahota. 

Dr. Pradeep Sahota has served as chair of the Department of Neurology for the past 25 years. He has been a guiding light for the department, medical education, research, innovation, and patient care. As chair of the Department of Neurology, Dr. Sahota was a servant leader who led by example and with kindness, concern, fairness, vision, wisdom, patience, and collegiality.

Pranav Suri, M3 receives inaugural award.

Congrats to the following AINA Members on being elected for AAN Section Chairs!

Sayonna John, MD - Chair of Critical Care and Emergency Neurology Section
Rajneesh Kiran, MD - Chair of Pain Section
Aarti Sarwal, MD - Vice Chair of Critical Care and Emergency Neurology Section
Deepak Gulati, MD - Vice Chair of Stroke Section
Sonika Agarwal, MD - Vice Chair of Child Neurology Section

Congratulations Dr. Geetanjali Rathore for being selected as one of Castle Connolly's Exceptional Women in Medicine for 2023!  Castle Connolly's Exceptional Women in Medicine as a special recognition based on the outstanding accomplishments and dedication to the field of medicine, recognizing women who contribute to the advancement of healthcare through clinical care, research, community services, education and leadership. 

A new global study shows that greater use of interventional procedures to remove large brain blood clots causing stroke paralysis could potentially benefit millions of patients a year, according to Dileep R. Yavagal, M.D., professor of clinical neurology and neurosurgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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The Indian Committee of Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ICTRIMS) will be happening after a gap of four years, due to COVID-19 pandemic, from 18th to 20th August 2023 at New Delhi, India under the aegis of the Autoimmune Subsection of Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN). It is being hosted collectively by ‘Sattvum Health’ and ‘People for People with MS Foundation’.

These last four years have witnessed substantial progress in the understanding of the basic and the clinical science related to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and other Central Nervous System (CNS) demyelinating disorders including NMOSD/MOGAD in addition to introduction of many new and emerging drugs for these disorders based upon the novel disease-specific pathophysiological mechanisms. At the ICTRIMS Delhi 2023, we intend to share this up-to-date knowledge about the pathophysiology, biomarkers, neuroimaging, and treatment and monitoring tools for MS and other CNS demyelinating disorders. The conference is spread over two and a half days, starting 18th August 2023 morning with MS school/workshops and concluding by 20th August 2023 lunch.

European Charcot Foundation (ECF) has gladly agreed to be a scientific partner to the event.

If you are interested in participating in this meeting or collaborating with ICTIRMS please email Dr. Aarti Sarwal at asarwal@wakehealth.edu.

Eva Mistry, MBBS, MSCI, FAHA received the Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award in Stroke from the International Stroke Conference.  The Award is in recognition of Dr. Robert G. Siekert, founding chairman of the American Heart Association’s International Conference on Stroke and Cerebral Circulation, this award encourages new investigators to undertake or continue stroke-related research.  Congratulations to Dr. Pooja Khatri for their mentorship!

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Sandra Narayanan, MD, was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN) in 2022.

She joined the Pacific Neuroscience Institute in August 2022 and serves as the Director of the Neurointerventional Program & Co-Director of the Comprehensive Stroke Program for Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California.

• Dr. Sonika Agarwal is the founder of the Fetal Neurology Consortium (as an initiative led under AAN Transforming Leadership Program 2021) that presently represents eight  fetal-neonatal neurologists involved with programs at maternal-pediatric medical centers associated with academic institutions across the US for collaborations for educational and academic scholarships. The collaborative work of the Fetal Neurology Consortium also launched the Child Neurology Society Special Interest Group at the CNS Annual meeting 2022 at Cincinnati, OH in October 2022.
• Dr. Agarwal also organized the Breakfast Seminar on Fetal Neurology: advances and future landscape- as part of the initiative under the Fetal Neurology Consortium and Child Neurology Society meeting 2022, Cincinnati, OH.
• Steering Committee Member to the Global Pregnancy Collaborative (CoLab), an international professional organization that explores improved global maternal care and adverse conditions confronted by the maternal/placental/fetal triad.
• Adjunct Member on Global Research on Developmental Disabilities Collaborators (GRDDC), a foremost culturally-diverse partnership for data driven optimal early childhood development.

• Posters:
• Tomo Tarui, Charu Venkatesan, Dawn Gano, Monica Lemmon, Sarah B. Mulkey, Andrea Pardo, Lisa Emrick, Mark Scher, Sonika Agarwal: Fetal Neurology Practice Survey. 14th International Newborn Brain Conference (INBBC) 2023 Page: Poster, February 2023.
• Renee DiCicco, Natalie Burrill, Haley Crane, Nahla Khalek, Juliana Gebb, Sonika Agarwal, Matthew Whitehead, Deborah Zarnow, Edward Oliver, Ashley Bach, Julie Moldenhauer: Two Cases of Prenatally Diagnosed Cri-du-Chat Syndrome and Associated MRI Findings. ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting 2023 March 2023.
• Virali Patel, Tomo Tarui, Charulata Venkatesan, Sonika Agarwal: Prenatal Neurologic Diagnosis: Challenges in Neuroimaging, Prognostic Counseling, and Prediction of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes. Child Neurology Society Annual Meeting 2022 October 2022

Congratulations Dr. Sunil Sheth, MD on co-authoring the paper "Vessel Occlusion Stroke: A Guideline From the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology Guidelines and Practice Standards Committee"

Read the paper here. 

Congratulations Dr. Aggarwal on the publication of your book along with Dr. Louis Caplan!