Dr. Kanchana Pillai
Consultant - Neurology
Centre for Neurosciences, Neuro-Endoscopy Surgery Unit, Neuro Electrophysiology Unit, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (CCU 4), Stroke Unit, Advanced Aneurysm Treatment Unit, Epilepsy
Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai
Experience: 8+ Years
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About Dr. Kanchana Pillai
- Consultant – Neurology, Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai (May 2025 – Present)
- Consultant – Neurology, Bombay Hospital & Medical Research Centre (Feb 2023 – Apr 2025)
- Lecturer – Neurology, LTMGH, Sion, Mumbai (Feb 2021 – Nov 2021)
- Senior Resident – Neurology, AIIMS, New Delhi (Jan 2018 – Dec 2020)
- Speciality Medical Officer – Medicine, LTM Medical College & Hospital, Sion (Aug 2017 – Dec 2017)
- Post-doctoral Fellowship (Movement Disorders) – Aster Medcity, Kochi (2023)
- DM (Neurology) – All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi (2020)
- MD (General Medicine) – Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital & Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai (2017)
- MBBS – Seth G.S. Medical College & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai (2013)
- Indian Academy of Neurology
- Movement Disorders Society of India
- International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society
- Association of Medical Consultants, Mumbai
- “Best Resident Paper Presentation” for Mirror Movements, an Interesting Clinical Sign – Bombay Neurosciences Association Conference (2021)
- Distinction in DM (Neurology) (2020)
- First Prize – EEG Quiz, AIIMS–PGI Neurology Update (Virtual Conference) (2020)
- Second Prize – Neurology Quiz, MDSICON, Kovalam (2020)
- Third Prize – Neurology Quiz, AIIMS–PGI Neurology Update, PGI Chandigarh (2019)
- First Prize – Quiz, 72nd Annual Conference of Bombay Medical Congress (2016)
- Second Prize – Dr Jaykar, MD, Final-year Inter-College Practical Examination (2016)
- First Prize – Dr Rahul Ambedkar Memorial Award for 3rd-year MD Medicine Dissertation (2016)
- Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship – Department of Science & Technology, Government of India
- Certificate of Distinction – Dr Homi Bhabha Balvaidnyanik Science Talent Search Examination
- First Rank – All India Atomic Energy Quiz Competition
- Movement disorders
- Parkinson’s disease
- Botulinum toxin injections
- Deep brain stimulation
- Reddy C, Pillai K, Joshua S, et al. Modified ratio of Tremor/Postural Instability–Gait Difficulty score as an indicator of short-term outcomes of subthalamic-nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Movement Disorders.
- Pillai KS, Rajeswari P, Kamble RB, et al. Multimodality brain-imaging markers in progressive supranuclear palsy subtypes and Parkinson’s disease. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice.
- Chovatiya H, Pillai K, Reddy C, et al. Video-oculography for enhancing the diagnostic accuracy of early oculomotor dysfunction in progressive supranuclear palsy. Journal of Movement Disorders.
- Panigrahi B, Pillai KS, Radhakrishnan DM, et al. Fatigue in Parkinson’s disease – a narrative review. Annals of Movement Disorders.
- Kishore A, Sturm M, Soman Pillai K, et al. Resequencing the complete SNCA locus in Indian patients with Parkinson’s disease. NPJ Parkinson’s Disease.
- Saini A, Holla VV, Kalikavil Puthanveedu D, Mehta S, Elavarasi A, Pillai KS, et al. Novel PANK2 variant in Asian Indians with atypical pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration. Movement Disorders.
- Khadilkar S, Desai M, Pandya D, Pillai K, et al. Spontaneous intracranial hypotension. In: IAN Reviews in Neurology: Stroke and Headache. Jaypee Publications.
- Pillai KS, Misra S, Siripurapu S, Govinda G, et al. De novo movement disorders associated with COVID-19: a systematic review of individual patients. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology.
- Pillai KS, Bhat P, Srivastava AK, et al. Zonisamide add-on in tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled clinical trial. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders.
- Soman Pillai K, Maramattom BV, Santhamma GN, Kishore A. Head-drop and trunk flexion as an early manifestation of anti-IgLON5 disease. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice.
- Radhakrishnan DM, Pillai KS, Das A, Rajan R, Srivastava AK. Unraveling movement disorders in spinocerebellar ataxia. Annals of Movement Disorders.
- Pillai KS, Thakre M, Asole M, et al. Teaching Video NeuroImage: congenital hemidystonia–hemimidbrain atrophy syndrome. Neurology.
- Pillai KS, Vibha D, Gupta P, Sudheer P, et al. Comparison of disease profiles and three-month outcomes in neurological patients with and without COVID-19: an ambispective cohort study. Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology.
- Pillai K, Misra S, Siripurapu G, et al. Systematic review of movement disorders in COVID-19. International MDS Congress, Madrid (conference abstract).
- Pillai KS, Trivedi TH, Moulick ND. Hyponatremia in ICU. Journal of the Association of Physicians of India.