FINE

R. S. Wadia

MBBS MD (Medicine)

Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune

Sudhir Kumar

MD DM Consultant Neurologist

Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad

Rakesh K. Singh

DM DNB (Neurology)

Jupiter Hospital & Sir JJ Hospital, Mumbai

Siddharth Kharkar

MBBS MD

Wockhardt Hospital, Mira Road, Mumbai

Rakesh Singh

MBBS MD DM

Bombay Hospital, Mumbai

Shekhar Patil

MBBS MD DM

Apollo Hospital, Navi Mumbai

Sudhir Kothari

DM (Neurology)

Poona Hospital and Research Centre, Pune

Dinesh Kabra

Neurologist and Stroke Specialist

Central Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur

Sujit Jagtap

MD DM

Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune

Manoj Hunnur

MD DM DNB

Karuna Hospital, Mumbai

Anand Diwan

Neurologist

Shreeyash Hospital, Nasik

Ashish Bhutada

MD DM

Yashodhara Hospital, Solapur

Sunil Bandishti

MD DM DNB

Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune

Kavita Barhate

Consultant Neurologist

Fortis Hospital, Kalyan

Pankaj Agarwal

MD DNB DM Neurology

Global Hospitals & KEM Hospital, Mumbai.

Semir Zeki, UK

FMedSci FRS

Semir Zeki FMedSci FRS is a British neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics. He was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society before being appointed Professor of Neurobiology. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL.

Peter Nestor, Germany

Professor in Neuroscience

Prof Nestor joined the Queensland Brain Institute in October/2017 and has a conjoint appointment as a cognitive neurologist at Mater Misericordiae Ltd (Mater Hospital). His particular interests include understanding the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (i.e. before dementia is established); atypical forms of dementia with a particular focus on primary progressive aphasia; and improving differential diagnosis between the major categories of neurodegenerative diseases. He works on development of neuropsychological tests of cognition, both to acccurately track change over time and improve diagnostic accuracy between the major diseases causing dementia. He also uses multi-modal imaging (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] and positron emission tomography [PET]) to understand the sequence of events occuring in degenerative brain diseases (particularly Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson's disease, motor neuron disease [ALS], progressive supranuclear palsy [PSP] and corticobasal degeneration [CBD]) and identify novel biomarkers. A major focus of his is on developing novel approaches to MR imaging for single subject pathological diagnoses that can be exported into the everyday clinical setting; recent examples include diffusion tensor imaging to identify PSP and CBD (Sajjadi et al, 2013) and quantitative susceptibility mapping in Parkinson's disease (Acosta-Cabornero et al, 2013).

Bruce Miller, USA

MD

Dr. Miller holds the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professorship in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He directs the busy UCSF dementia center where patients in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond receive comprehensive clinical evaluations. His goal is the delivery of model care to all of the patients who enter the clinical and research programs at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center (MAC).

Neill Graff-Radford, USA

MD

The research of Neill R. Graff-Radford, M.D., involves finding genes that help people age without becoming demented. He is also studying normal pressure hydrocephalus to find those patients with good outcomes from treatment with shunt surgery; working to find a blood test that could determine if a person is at risk of Alzheimer's disease and be used as a diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease; examining differences in dementia between African-Americans and Caucasians; and collaborating to find genes related to Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

Ratnavalli Ellajosyula, (Chairperson), India

MBBS MD DM

Ratnavalli is a senior consultant neurologist. She did her medical and neurological training in New Delhi. She was faculty, Department of Neurology at the National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore for a decade. She started the behavioural neurology clinic there. She has a fellowship in Cognitive Neurology from the University of Cambridge, UK. She was also a research fellow at the University of North Carolina, Chapel hill. Currently she heads the Memory Clinic at Manipal hospital. She has more than a decade's worth experience in cognitive neurology and neuropsychology. Her clinical interests are stroke, neuroinfections and dementia. Her research interests are multilingualism and dementia, breakdown of memory and mechanisms and neural substrates of language. She has several research projects and has published in the area of stroke and cognitive neurology.

Chris Butler, UK

PhD FRCP Edin

Chris Butler studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1991-1994) and then at the University of Edinburgh (1994-1997). He conducted his PhD on the syndrome of transient epileptic amnesia under the supervision of Professor Adam Zeman. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Memory and Aging Center, University of California at San Francisco and moved to Oxford in 2009. He was awarded a Clinician Scientist fellowship from the Medical Research Council in 2013.

David Bennet, USA

Suvarna Alladi, Chairperson (India)

DM Neurology

National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences | NIMHANS, Department of Neurology, Bangaluru