Dr. Rajesh B Iyer

Biography

 Subsequently he served as a faculty at the same institute. He joined Narayana Hrudayalya in September 2005 and established the comprehensive epilepsy care center. The center has treated more than a thousand epilepsy patients and his epilepsy team has carried out epilepsy surgeries in 35 patients with medically refractory epilepsies. The epilepsy monitoring unit has also trained several neurotechnologists in Long term Video EEG monitoring. Dr Iyer also runs a monthly epilepsy clinic at Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences and Armenian Church Trauma Center at Kolkata. He has been a faculty at several regional and national epilepsy conferences and workshops. He is also the present President of the Karnataka chapter of Multiple Sclerosis Society of India. He completed his MBBS from Government Medical College, Trivandrum and M.D. in General Medicine from Government Medical College, Aurangabad. He did his superspecialty training (D.M. Neurology) and subsequently a one year fellowship in epilepsy at the prestigious Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical sciences and Technology, Trivandrum.

Research Interest

epilepsy , refractory epilepsies , Neurology