Dr. Dinesh Nayak

At Gleneagles Global Health City in Chennai, India, Dr. Dinesh Nayak is the director of the department of neurology and the advanced centre for epilepsy. He is a senior consultant neurologist and epileptologist.

Dr. Dinesh completed his training in neurology (DM degree) at Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, India, a national-importance institution, from 1993 to 1995. He was awarded the S.M. Munirathinam Chetty Gold Medal for earning the highest marks in the final MD examination. He was given the Dr. PN Berry scholarship in 2000 to study epileptology at King's College Hospital in London, UK, where he did so from 2000 to 2003. He received training in intracranial EEG and video-EEG.

At the famous R. Madhavan Nayar Center for Comprehensive Epilepsy Care, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, he played an active role in the epilepsy surgery programme and pre-operatively assessed more than 2000 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. He is an expert in vagal nerve stimulation, intracranial EEG monitoring, video-EEG monitoring, and pre-surgical evaluation of medically resistant epilepsy. He had been a member of the teaching staff for the King's College Hospital, London, UK, yearly video-EEG Master class.

He teaches clinical neurology to postgraduate medical and neurological students and has vast experience treating a wide range of acute and chronic neurological diseases. He offers EEG and video-EEG workshops across the nation. Over 200 epilepsy procedures, including temporal and extratemporal as well as intracranial EEG with subdural grids and stereo-EEG depth electrodes, have been carried out since he established a thriving epilepsy surgery programme in Chennai, India, in 2010.

He has a number of articles published in reputable national and international magazines. In numerous national conferences, he has received medals for best papers. He had previously served on the Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology editorial board.

Expertise:

• Epilepsy
• Stroke
• Demyelinating Disorders
• Neurology

Treatments:

• Blood Clot Brain Surgery
• Multiple Sclerosis Treatment
• Endovascular Coiling
• Gamma Knife for AVM of Brain Tumor
• Cerebral Angiogram
• Cranioplasty
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Pineal Region Tumors Treatment
• Cerebral Angioplasty
• Brain Tumor Surgery
• Pituitary Tumor Treatment
• Craniotomy Surgery
• CyberKnife Treatment
• Brain Haemorrhage Treatment
• Alzheimer's disease treatment