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! 

Dear AINA Members,

A central goal of the Executive Board has been to provide value to AINA membership by engaging the members within this organization. Given this goal, the Executive Board has developed several committees tasked with the development of “New Initiatives” for the organization that we hope will promote the goals of AINA both nationally and internationally. We are excited to share these “New Initiatives” with AINA and want to recruit motivated members to join these committees (5 members per committee). The committees and their brief descriptions are listed below:

Education Committee (Committee Chair: Geetanjali Rathore, grathore@childrensomaha.org)—to promote educational opportunities for attending physicians and trainees both within the US and in India

Volunteer Committee (Committee Chair: Shubhi Agrawal sagraw@ucdavis.edu)—to create clinical volunteering opportunities through collaboration between US and Indian medical centers

Research Committee (Committee Chair: Rajeev Garg, rajeev_garg@rush.edu)—to develop research initiatives that advance neurologic care for Indians and Indians Americans.

Advocacy Committee (Committee Chair: Atul Kalanuria, atul.kalanuria@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)—to foster greater communication and collaboration amongst members of AINA

If you are interested in joining any of these committees, please submit the following by clicking this link: AINA New Initiatives 

1) Name

2) Committee of interest

3) Personal Statement (maximum 300 words)

4) Curriculum Vitae

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact the chairs for the committee you may be interested. All material will be due by January 9, 2023. Selected committee participants will be notified by email within 1-2 months.

We look forward to working with you to build a stronger AINA and hope you will consider joining.

Sincerely,

AINA Executive Board

It is with great sadness that AINA remembers the life of Dr. Shrikant Mishra.  Dr. Shrikant Mishra was the founding President of the Association of Indian Neurologists in America.  He has been a mentor to hundreds of residents, fellows, medical students and researchers. He was a leader in both AINA and the field of neurology.  Dr. Mishra will be greatly missed. 

Congratulations Drs. Drs. Eva Mistry and Thanh Nguyen on the publication of an editorial "Blood pressure goals after mechanical thrombectomy: a moving target" in The Lancet.

Read editorial here.

Congratulations Dr. Jha on the JAMA Neurology Editorial "Monogenic Stroke—Can We Overcome Nature With Nurture?"

Read editorial here.

Dr. Kevin Sheth publishes paper on Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read the full paper here. 

Congratulations to Dr. Sonika Agarwal! 

She developed the Fetal Neurology Consortium as part of the AAN leadership program (Transforming Leadership Program 2021) and collaboratively led the work to:

• Develop a Child Neurology Society Fetal Neurology Special Interest group launch meeting at the CNS Annual meeting 2022 at Cincinnati
  
  
• Hosted and organized a Breakfast Seminar on Fetal Neurology: advances and future landscape - as part of the initiative under the Fetal Neurology Consortium.

• Dr. Agarwal's accomplishments were shared in a recent AAN news article. Read more here.

Register to join the ANA Meeting, October 22-25 in Chicago, IL!

AINA Members are well represented in a variety of sessions. 
Check out the full schedule and register here. 

Featured AINA Speakers:

Sanjay Singh, MD
AUPN-ANA Meet the Chairs Interactive Workshop
Monday, Oct. 24 | 12pm-1pm CT

Avindra Nath, MD & Kiran Thakur, MD
Neurological Complications of COVID-19; Part 1
Sunday, Oct. 23 | 11:45am-1pm CT

Sanjay Singh, MD
Neuroscience Service Line: What's the Best Model? 
Monday, Oct. 24 | 7am-8am CT

Congratulations to Dr. Geetanjali Rathore, MD, FAAN for graduating from the AAN Transforming Leaders program, September 2022! Dr. Rathore were selected because of her impressive accomplishments, and more importantly, for your outstanding potential as a future leader. Dr. Rathore was the only pediatric neurologist to be selected internationally to participate in this leadership course this year. She was also elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology in recognition of her valuable contributions to the Academy and the global Neurology community in large.

Dr. Rathore is a member of the AINA Executive Committee serving as a leader in the neurology community with numerous awards and recognitions to her name:

• Associate Editor of Neuro-immunology- Journal of Child Neurology/Child Neurology Open- September 2022
• Dr. Rathore developed the Comprehensive Pediatric Neuromuscular Program, UNMC and Children's Hospital, Omaha and serves as the Medical director of the program.(2016- present)
• She Served as the Interim Clinical and Division Chief Pediatric Neurology at UNMC and Children's Hospital, Omaha for 3 years (2018-2021)
• President, Child Neurology Chapter, Association of Indian Neurologist In America (AINA) 2021
• Co- Chair of the Department of Pediatrics Antiracist Committee, UNMC
• Co-President of the WE STRIVE he interdisciplinary association of women and allies at UNMC/Nebraska Medicine (2020- present)
• Selected as America’s Most Honored Doctor-Top 10% (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022)
• Awarded America’s Top Doctor in Child Neurology by Castle Connolly Top Doctors (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022)
• Exceptional Women in Medicine, Castle Connolly Top Doctors (2020, 2021 and 2022)
• Invited National Advisory Board Member, Treatment Algorithm and the Future Treatment Landscape for SMA. 2022
• Epilepsy Foundation Advisory Board Member for the Nebraska Chapter (2020-present)
• Newborn Screening Advisory Committee, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (2020- 2023)
• Received the A.B. Baker Teaching Award from the American Academy of Neurology in recognition for Excellence in teaching and for the contributions to improving neurology now and in the future.
• Nebraska State Expert for Neurological Disorders, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (2019)
• Member of the National COVID-19 Advisory Board for SMA patients
• Elected Member, International Affairs Committee, Child Neurology Society ( 2019- 2021)
• Elected Member, US Medical Advisory Board, Cure SMA (2018)
• Committee Member, Awareness, Diagnosis, Research and Advance Therapies for Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) and Inherited Neuropathies, Child Neurology Society (2018)