Dr. Siddharth Kharkar — Consultant Neurologist in Mumbai

Dr. Siddharth Kharkar is a Consultant Neurologist at KIMS Hospitals, Thane, in Mumbai, with more than 22 years of experience.

His list covers epilepsy and drug-resistant epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and dementia, migraine and chronic headache, stroke treatment and recovery, tremor disorders and dystonia, and neuro rehabilitation for both brain injury and movement disorders. The procedures include EEG and lumbar puncture, IV thrombolysis, deep brain stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, botulinum toxin therapy and migraine nerve block.

His two fellowships correspond to the two halves of that list: epilepsy at the University of California, San Francisco, and Parkinson's disease at King's College, London. Vagus nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation, one for epilepsy and one for movement disorders, are the implanted treatments each fellowship leads to.

He holds MBBS, an MD in neurology taken in the USA and an MHS.

His awards are from his American training years: the Humanitarian Resident of the Year Award at Drexel University in 2008, selection for the national Neurology Residents Scholar Program in 2010, and the Best Resident Research Project Award at Drexel in 2011.

He serves as an editorial board member or reviewer for Epilepsy Research, Neurosurgery, the Journal of Neurosurgery and Annals of Neurology. That spread of two surgical journals alongside two neurological ones matches a practice built around implanted stimulation, where the neurologist selects and programs and the surgeon implants.

He is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Epilepsy Society, the Indian Academy of Neurology, the Maharashtra Academy of Neurology and the Movement Disorders Society of India.