INTRODUCTION:

With more than 19 years of experience, Dr. Rakesh Jain is a paediatric neurologist with training and expertise in the UK. For the past 19 years, he has been employed at Fortis Hospital as a senior consultant paediatric neurologist. He has given presentations at numerous conferences, including the Royal College of Paediatric & Child Health Conference, Paedicon, European Paediatric Neurology, and British Paediatric Neurology, to mention a few. He actively participates in a number of international neurology societies. He has played a key role in the launch of several paediatric epilepsy and paediatric EEG courses in India. In partnership with BPNA, UK, paediatricians have been trained through paediatric epilepsy courses held throughout India.

Education

• MBBS – Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences Rohtak, 1997
• Member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH, London, Glasgow or Edinburgh) – Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, London, 2005
• FRCPCH – Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, London, 2012

Experience

• Consultant Paediatric Neurology at Oxford University Hospital, London
• Consultant Paediatric Neurology at Neurodevelopment Clinics, Oxford University Hospital
• Fellowship – Paediatric Neurodisability at GOSH, London
• Consultant Paediatric Neurology at Neonatal Medicine & Neurology Clinics, Royal Berkshire Hospital
• Paeds & Neuro-intensive Care Unit at King’s College Hospital, London
• 2013 – 2017 Senior Consultant Paediatric Neurology at Fortis Memorial Hospital

Awards and Recognitions

• Publication: Skeletal Muscle Myopathy Mutations at the Actin-Tropomyosin Interface that Cause Gain Or Loss of Function. Biophysical Journal Jan 2012. 102(3) pp. 231a
• Publication: Recurrent apnoeas in an infant with Prader-Willi syndrome. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology supp.1 January 2013 Vol. 53
• Publication: Video EEG (vEEG) outcome on children referred following a single unprovoked afebrile seizure. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology supp1 January 2012; 54: 67-67
• Publication: Hypertonic nemaline myopathy: a novel disease entity (accepted in journal of ‘NEUROLOGY’/2011/395210)
• Publication: Video EEG (vEEG) outcome on children referred following a single unprovoked afebrile seizure. Arch Dis Child. 2012 Jan; 97(1):90. Epub 2011 Oct 6
• Publication: Evaluation of the floppy infant. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health Nov 2011; 21: 495-500
• Publication: Electro-clinical outcome of children referred with suspected absence seizures. Arch Dis Child. 2011 Oct; 96(10): 987-8. Epub 2011 Sep 8
• Presentation: Recurrent apnoeas in an infant with Prader-Willi syndrome. Poster presentation, BPNA Annual conference, Edinburgh. Jan 2013
• Presentation: Video EEG (vEEG) outcome on children referred following a single unprovoked afebrile seizure. Poster presentation, BPNA Annual conference, London. Jan 2012
• Presentation: The EEG in children referred for suspected epileptic absences: How often is it diagnostic. Poster presentation, BPNA Annual conference, Edinburgh. Jan 2011
• Presentation: An infantile onset epileptic encephalopathy associated with a homozygous missense variant in the SCN1A gene. Platform presentation, BPNA (British Paediatric Neurology Association) Annual conference, Edinburgh. Jan 2010
• Presentation: Non-organic seizure disorder, Paediatric grand round, JRH, Oxford. Dec 2009
• Training for examiners for OSCE, Oxford Dec 2011
• Advance Paediatric EEG Workshop (5 day), Birmingham, Oct 2011
• Paediatric Neurology master classes, Bristol Sep 2011
• Course: Quality and Safety in patient management, NESC course centre, Oxford Sep 2011
• Peadiatric Epilepsy Training Course – 2015

Memberships

• General Medical Council (GMC), UK
• Indian Medical Association (IMA)
• Delhi Medical Council
• Medical Defense Union, UK
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK
• British Pediatric Neurology Association (BPNA), UK
• International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)
• International Child Neurology Association (ICNA), US
• Association of Child Neurology, India
• International Headache Society, US