Dr Soaham Desai

Workplace & Affiliations:
Sr Consultant Neurologist, Professor And Head, Neurology, Shree Krishna Hospital, PSMC, Karamsad, Anand, Gujarat, India.

 As. Editor: Annals of IAN[ AIAN journal]

CertainHonours / Awards/Recognitions:
Soriano Award, WSC 2018
WSO young scientist fellow 2017
IAN Travel fellowship 2017
WFN Research Grant Award 2019

Certain papers/ presentations at conferences:
• IPDMDS MDS Congress 2019, Nice, presented a case in VIDEO CHALLENGE ROUND
 And also presented papers on cost of treatment of PD in India and comorbid cervical and
lumbar spondylosis
 IANCON 2019, was conveyer of symposium on peri-operative management of neurologic
disorders.
 AOPMC Hangzhou 2019, presented paper on mimics and chameleons of blepharospasm
 IAPRD Congress , Lyon 2018, presented a case “accountant fumbling and stumbling” in
the VIDEO CHALLENGE ROUND. Also presented 3 other papers.
 IANCON 2018, presented a lecture on neurologic manifestations of hematologic disorders
 WSC , 2018 Montreal presented paper on Etiology of stroke in rural India: comparison of
TOAST and ASCOD classification of ischemic stroke.
 WCN 2017, Kyoto, Sept 2017: Knowledge, awareness and attitude towards
dementia amongst medical undergraduate students, Can a sensitization program help?
• MDS 2017, Vancouver June 2017: presented 5 papers.
• AAN 2017, Boston April 2017. Going global in neurology: innovative neurology
curriculum for trainees in resource limited settings
• AAN 2017 , Boston , April 2017.Global Neurology Initiative, Piloting an
innovative global health curriculum for neurology residents of UMASS in
collaboration with CAM.
• TIC-PDMD March 2017, Taipei: A video case; paroxysmal dysarthria ataxia
post stroke.
• IANCON2016, Kolkata, Nov 2016; Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in the
comatose and non-comatose: should they be viewed similarly?
• WSC 2016, Hyderabad, Oct 2016: Spectrum of different disorders in patients
presenting with acute ischemic stroke in the setting of background migraine
headaches.
• WSC 2016, Hyderabad, Oct 2016: Intraventricular hemorrhage as the
presenting feature of sickle cell disease associated vasculopathy.
AOCN, Kuala Lumpur, Aug 2016: Case series of patients with Paroxysmal
hemicrania responsive to etoricoxib.
• responsive to oxcarbazepine.
• AOCN, Kuala Lumpur, Aug 2016: An Ambispective study of factors
responsible for uncontrolled seizures in patients with Juvenile myoclonic
epilepsy in rural western India.
• AOEC, Hong Kong, May 2016: NCSE amongst the comatose and noncomatose:
should they be viewed similarly?
• AOPMC, Manila, March 2016: “Dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome in
patients with Parkinson’s disease.”
• APOMC, Manila, March 2016: Levo-dopa responsive secondary Parkinsonism
in the setting of post-partum posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
• MDS Congress, San Diego, May 2015: Dopamine dysregulation syndrome in
Parkinson’s disease.
• MDS Congress San Diego, May 2015: Excessive tobacco consumption
amongst patients with Parkinson’s disease: should it be considered an
impulse control behavior disorder
• MDS Congress San Diego, May 2015: Spectrum of different disorders in
patients admitted with secondary parkinsonism in a rural medical teaching
hospital in Western India
• International Headache Society Conference, Valencia, Spain, April 2015: Axis
1 DSM IV psychiatric disorders in patients with migraine attending a rural
based headache disorders clinic in Western India.
• International Headache Society Conference, Valencia, Spain, April 2015:
 Prevalence of different headache disorders in a rural headache clinic in
western India
• International Headache Society Conference, Valencia, Spain, April 2015:
Spectrum of headache disorders amongst patients with rheumatologic
disorders in a rural based medical teaching hospital in western Indi
• 10th Indian National Stroke Conference 2015, Chandigarh. “ Spectrum of
disorders in patients presenting with Stroke with background history of
migraine in a rural hospital in Western India
• 10th Asia Oceanian Congress of Epileptology 2014: Singapore. “Role of
STVEEG in diagnosis of episodes of transient unresponsiveness and
suspected PNES
• 8th World Stroke Congress, Istanbul 2014. “Knowledge of warning signs of stroke
and acute treatments in rural population of western India”.
• European Congress of Epileptology, 2012, London. “Role of one hour Portable
EEG in identification of Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in patients with
Encephalopathy admitted in Medical ICU.”
• Represented TEAM INDIA in the EPILEPSY OLYMPIAD at European Congress
of Epileptology, 2012, secured 6th position amongst all countries of the world.
• International Congress of Neuro-Epidemiology, Nice, France
2012.” Knowledge and Awareness towards Stroke warning signs in
patients attending a tertiary care hospital”
• National Stroke Symposium, 2012, Bengaluru. Stroke risk factor and warning
sign awareness in rural population.