Professional overview
About Dr. Rima Chaudhari
- Dr. Rima Chaudhari is one of the famous Neurologists in Mumbai.
- She completed her D.M Neurology from AIIMS, New Delhi in 2014 and clinical fellowship in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology from the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, IN 2021.
- Her work involves all acute and chronic neurological disorders.
- Her special area of interest is in epilepsy and especially medically refractory epilepsy.
- She is trained to manage children and adults including geriatric patients with all sorts of epilepsy and seizures like focal seizures, seizures due to cortical dysplasia or tumours, drug-resistant seizures, status epilepticus etc.
- Dr. Rima also manages epilepsy in various settings like sleep and epilepsy, pregnancy and epilepsy, seizures in the setting of ICU, seizure medication-related adverse events, traumatic brain injury and seizures.
- She has started the video EEG monitoring unit and works with her team caring for, refractory epilepsy patients which also includes monitoring non-epileptic patients and also pre-surgical evaluation of drug-resistant epilepsy patients.
- Her team at Fortis, Mulund, is able to offer epilepsy diagnosis, treatment, video EEG monitoring, treating complex patients, vagal nerve stimulation, resective surgery, intracranial EEG interpretation, EEG evaluation in the ICU setting, language mapping with functional MRI etc
Clinical focus
Areas of expertise
Epilepsy in adults Clinical Neurophysiology Complex Epilepsy in Adults First Seizure Assessment Geriatric Epilepsy Intractable (Drug-Resistant) Epilepsy Malformations of Cortical Development Non-epileptic Seizure Non-epileptic seizure disorder Seizures Sleep and Epilepsy Issues Status Epilepticus (continuous Seizures) Traumatic Brain Injury Causing Seizures Women's Health And Epilepsy
Training and experience
Qualifications
- Fellowship, 2021, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA
- DM, 2014, AIIMS, New Delhi