Dr. Muralidharan Nair

About The Doctor
Has 39 Years of Clinical and Teaching experience, after MD, Medicine 1980-2019
He served as Professor Neurology from 2003 and later Sr.Professor from 2016 and Head of the Department Neurology 2009- 2018 at The Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology Trivandrum an Institute of National importance under the Govt of India
Dr Nair was Incharge of Neuro Muscular subspeciality and involved in formation of a multidisciplinary Comprehensive Neuro Muscular Clinic comprising of Senior MSW, Senior Physiotherapist, and staff NurseSCT, to address the special needs of patients with complex neuro muscular disorders like Myasthenia Gravis, Guillain Barre Syndrome, CIDP. Muscular Dystrophy, Motor Neurone Disease and others .
He was also instrumental in starting a PDF programme in Neuromuscular Medicine for the first time including planning of curriculum and the opportunity to participate in Drug trials.
He has been a Post Graduate teacher involved in teaching and training of 104 DM post graduates, 1985- 2018, and a PG guide for DM thesis for several batches of students, Internal examiner for DM Neurology examination of SCTIMST years 1992,1994, 1995,2001,2002,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013. Dr Nair was the DM postgraduate External Examiner for the following Institutions
- NIMS HYDERABAD 2001,2002,2003,2004
- Medical College Trivandrum 2001
- Medical College Calicut, 2000, 2001
- NIMHANS, Bangalore, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2011
- Madurai Medical College, 1998
- JIPMER, Pondicherry, 2013
- Grant Medical College & JJ group of hospitals, Mumbai, 2012, 2013
- SMS Medical College, Jaipur, 2011, 2013
Dr Nair was the editor of Progress in Clinical Neuroscience 3 volumes 2012-2014 and has several publications to his credit
Presently, Dr Nair is working as Senior Consultant Neurology at PJSC, BNSRC since 2nd February 2022. His expertise includes clinical neurology and electrophysiology. He imparts clinical teaching and PG lectures for the Neurology trainees and medical students.
Qualifications:
- MBBS 1976
- Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- MD General Medicine 1980
- Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
- DM Neurology NIMHANS, Bangalore 1984
Memberships and Achievements
- Life Member Neurological Society of India: NNP-9
- Life Member Indian Academy of Neurology: LM-1646
- Life Member ISA Indian Stroke Association LM 570
- Associate Member Society for Biomaterials and Artificial Organs
- Regular member BCL library, Indian Council of Cultural Relations, 1978 till 2008
- Life member of VIDYANANTHA, A society for the promotion of Education, Arts and Crafts, Andhra Pradesh Public Societies
- Active member European Neurological Society 2009
- Expert member Post-Doctoral committee Neurosciences NIMHANS 2009-12
- Member Academic Committee NIMHANS, 2010-13
- Member Academic Committee SCTIMST, 2014
- Member Institutional Ethics Committee, Kerala University, Kerala.
- President Trivandrum Neuro Club 2009
- President Neurological Society of India (NSI) Kerala Chapter, 2013-14
- Executive committee member NSI 2012-14
- Dr Abdul Gafoor, Orator 17th Feb 2013, Kerala chapter NSI and CNS meeting
- Awarded INSA fellowship to study muscle and nerve histopathology, including electron microscopy, in the department of neuropathology, NIMHANS, Bangalore August – October 1997.
- Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics fellowship, Katholic University Leuven, Europe ,2006
- Expert Adviser UPSC selection Board, New Delhi, 2002
- Evaluation Faculty, Kerala Public Service – Commission, Trivandrum.
- Subject Expert, JIPMER
- ICMR reviewer Extramural projects from AIIMS New Delhi, NIMHANS Investigators 2012 X 3
- Visiting Faculty, Medical College, Trivandrum MD trainees.
- Visiting Professor, Madurai Medical College, Madurai to conduct post-graduate lectures for DM trainees
- Medical Concil of India Inspector for the following medical colleges
- CMC Vellore, Kottayam Medical College, Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad.