• Dr. Sonika Agarwal is the founder of the Fetal Neurology Consortium (as an initiative led under AAN Transforming Leadership Program 2021) that presently represents eight  fetal-neonatal neurologists involved with programs at maternal-pediatric medical centers associated with academic institutions across the US for collaborations for educational and academic scholarships. The collaborative work of the Fetal Neurology Consortium also launched the Child Neurology Society Special Interest Group at the CNS Annual meeting 2022 at Cincinnati, OH in October 2022.
• Dr. Agarwal also organized the Breakfast Seminar on Fetal Neurology: advances and future landscape- as part of the initiative under the Fetal Neurology Consortium and Child Neurology Society meeting 2022, Cincinnati, OH.
• Steering Committee Member to the Global Pregnancy Collaborative (CoLab), an international professional organization that explores improved global maternal care and adverse conditions confronted by the maternal/placental/fetal triad.
• Adjunct Member on Global Research on Developmental Disabilities Collaborators (GRDDC), a foremost culturally-diverse partnership for data driven optimal early childhood development.

• Posters:
• Tomo Tarui, Charu Venkatesan, Dawn Gano, Monica Lemmon, Sarah B. Mulkey, Andrea Pardo, Lisa Emrick, Mark Scher, Sonika Agarwal: Fetal Neurology Practice Survey. 14th International Newborn Brain Conference (INBBC) 2023 Page: Poster, February 2023.
• Renee DiCicco, Natalie Burrill, Haley Crane, Nahla Khalek, Juliana Gebb, Sonika Agarwal, Matthew Whitehead, Deborah Zarnow, Edward Oliver, Ashley Bach, Julie Moldenhauer: Two Cases of Prenatally Diagnosed Cri-du-Chat Syndrome and Associated MRI Findings. ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting 2023 March 2023.
• Virali Patel, Tomo Tarui, Charulata Venkatesan, Sonika Agarwal: Prenatal Neurologic Diagnosis: Challenges in Neuroimaging, Prognostic Counseling, and Prediction of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes. Child Neurology Society Annual Meeting 2022 October 2022

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