Dr Garima Shukla

Dr. Garima Shukla
MBBS, MD, DM
Professor, Department of Neurology,
Room #2, 6th floor, Neurosciences Center, AIIMS , New Delhi
Phone: +91 11 26593785
+91 11 26593838 (Sleep Laboratory)
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Outpatients clinic ( including Sleep disorders clinic and Intractable epilepsy clinic)

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Dr. Garima Shukla is Professor of Neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. She heads the Sleep disorders facility at her center and is a senior member of the Comprehensive Epilepsy care team here. Her specialized training, interest and research focus is in Sleep Medicine and medically refractory epilepsy, and the fascinating interface between these areas. She is a recipient of more than 25 academic awards and has more than 100 indexed publications to her credit.

 

Dr. Shukla graduated from medical school with MBBS (1994) and completed her postgraduate degree (MD) in Medicine (1997) from the Faculty of Medicine, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat. Subsequently she completed training at the Department of Neurology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences resulting in a post-doctoral specialist certification in DM (Neurology) in 2001. After completion of her training she was appointed to the faculty at the department of Neurology at AIIMS. She has several academic distinctions during her postgraduate training, having been awarded a gold medal for MD (Medicine) and the Manoharlal Soni ‘best student award’ at her DM course.

Having chosen epilepsy (especially medically refractory epilepsy) and Sleep Medicine as her areas of interest and research focus, she pursued fellowship training with a Department of Science and Technology, Government of India grant, in Epilepsy, Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA in 2008. She has been actively involved in her research interests, having secured funding and support from National Agencies (ICMR, DST) leading to a well established nationally recognized research program.

All along with this program, she has provided guidance and training to more than 50 DM and PhD students in their research work. In addition, her passion in education is to empower Neurology trainees in their approach to neurological disorders, clinical localization, epilepsy classification and diagnosis, developing a novel approach in evaluation of Sleep disorders, neurophysiological evaluation of epilepsy and sleep disorders and in compassionate and ethical management of all Neurology patients.

Dr. Shukla is the recipient of more than 25 academic awards at National and International scientific forums, mainly for her work in the field of “Restless legs syndrome” and “pharmaco-resistant epilepsies”. Several of her students have also won academic awards and honors, under her guidance and mentorship, over recent years.

Her research focus has been in the fields of Sleep Medicine and epilepsy, mainly the fascinating interface between these areas. She has also worked extensively in the areas of Restless legs syndrome, advanced multimodality treatment of sleep disordered breathing and non-seizure outcomes of epilepsy surgery. Over the last few years, she has been keenly involved in developing evaluation tools for various sleep disorders tailored to the socio-cultural characteristics of the Indian subcontinent. To date she has more than 100 indexed publications in high impact International peer-reviewed journals.

She also serves on the editorial board of the prestigious journal, Sleep Medicine as well as that of the Indian Journal of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Shukla is a executive member of the International RLS study group, member of the International Liasion committee of the World Association of Sleep Medicine and has been on the Scientific committee of the last three World Sleep congresses.

 

 

 

Important recent publications:

1. Gupta A, Shukla G, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Behari M. Clinical and polysomnographic characteristics in 20 North Indian patients with Narcolepsy - 7 year experience from Neurology service Sleep clinic. Neurol India. 2012 Jan-Feb;60(1):75-8.
2. Gupta A, Shukla G, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Behari M. Authors’ reply. Neurology India 2012;60:368-9.
3. Shukla G, Gupta S, Goyal V, Singh S, Srivastava A, Behari M. Abnormal sympathetic hyper-reactivity in patients with myasthenia gravis: A prospective study. Clin Neurol Neurosurg. 2013 Feb;115(2):179-86. Epub 2012 Jun 5.
4. Zanzmera P, Shukla G, Gupta A, Singh H, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Behari M. Markedly disturbed sleep in medically refractory compared to controlled epilepsy - A clinical and polysomnography study. Seizure. 2012; 21:487-490.
5. Shukla G, Prasad AN. Natural history of temporal lobe epilepsy – antecedents and progression. Epilepsy Res Treat. 2012; 2012:195073.
6. Kaul B, Shukla G, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Behari M. Neurol India. 2012 Sep-Oct; 60(5):461-4. Paroxysmal occipital discharges suppressed by eye opening: Spectrum of clinical and imaging features at a tertiary care center in India.
7. Shukla G, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Behari M. Quantitative thermal sensory testing and sympathetic skin response testing in primary Restless legs syndrome – a prospective study on 57 Indian patients. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2012 Oct;15(4):260-2.
8. Yadav R, Shukla G, Goyal V, Singh S, Behari M. Knowledge of Parkinson’s disease among caregivers and patients attending movement disorder clinic at a tertiary care center in North India. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2012 Oct;15(4):294-6.
9. Zanzmera P, Shukla G, Gupta A, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Garg A, Bal CS, Suri A, Behari M. Effect of successful epilepsy surgery on subjective and objective sleep parameters – a prospective study. Sleep Med. 2013 Apr;14(4):333-8.
10. Ramakrishnan S, Juneja R, Bardolei N, Sharma A, Shukla G, Bhatia M, Kalaivani M, Kothari SS, Saxena A, Bahl VK, Guleria R. Nocturnal hypoxaemia in patients with Eisenmenger’s syndrome – a cohort study. BMJ Open. 2013 Mar 11;3(3).
11. Kaul B, Goyal V, Shukla G, Srivastava A, Garg A, Bader B, Danek A, Hayflick S, Behari M. Mineral deposition on magnetic resonance in chorea-acanthocytosis: a pathogenic link with pantothenate kinase – associated neurodegeneration? Neurol India. 2013 Mar-Apr;61(2):169-70.
12. Sharma PK, Shukla G, Gupta A, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Behari M. Primary sleep disorders seen at a Neurology service-based sleep clinic in India: patterns over an 8 - year period. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2013 Apr;16(2):146-50
13. Vibha D, Ola V, Behari M, Goyal V, Shukla G, Joseph Devarajan SL. Multiple intraventricular neurocysticerci. Neurology. 2013 Sep 3;81(10):936-7.
14. Rai V, Goyal V, Shukla G, Rath G, Behari M. Adductor laryngeal breathing dystonia in NBIA treated with botulinum toxin-A. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2013 Jul;16(3):409-10.
15. Desai S, Shukla G, Goyal V, Srivastava A, Srivastava MV, Tripathi M, Singh M, Shivanand K, Sagar R, Gupta A, Saratchandra P, Garg A, Bal CS, Behari M. Changes in psychiatric comorbidity during early postsurgical period in patients operated for medically refractory epilepsy-A MINI-based follow-up study. Epilepsy Behav. 2014,23;32C:29-33.
16. Rahul Yadav, Ongkila Bhutia, Garima Shukla, Ajoy Roychoudhury. Distraction osteogenesis for management of obstructive sleep apnoea in temporomandibular joint ankylosis before the release of the joint. J Craniomaxillofac Surg. (In Press, accepted online Aug 2013).
17. Garima Shukla, Anupama Gupta, Ravindra M Pandey, M Kalaivani, Vinay Goyal, Achal Srivastava, Madhuri Behari. What features differentiate unilateral from bilateral Restless legs syndrome? A comparative observational study of 195 patients. Sleep Med. 2014 Jun;15(6):714-9.
18. Singh S, Shukla G, Goyal V, Srivastava AK, Singh MB, Vibha D, Behari M. Impact of sleep on the localizing value of video EEG in patients with refractory focal seizures - A prospective video-EEG with EOG and submental EMG study. Clin Neurophysiol. 2014 Apr 4. pii: S1388-2457(14)00172-2.
19. Srivastava A, Sharma R, Sood SK, Shukla G, Goyal V, Behari M. Saccadic eye movements in Parkinson's disease. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2014 May;62(5):538-44.
20. Faruq M, Srivastava AK, Suroliya V, Kumar D, Garg A, Shukla G, Behari M. Identification of FXTAS presenting with SCA 12 like phenotype in India. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2014 Oct;20(10):1089-93.
21. Sharma SK, Katoch VM, Mohan A, Kadhiravan T, Elavarasi A, Ragesh R, Nischal N, Sethi P, Behera D, Bhatia M, Ghoshal AG, Gothi D, Joshi J, Kanwar MS, Kharbanda OP, Kumar S, Mohapatra PR, Mallick BN, Mehta R, Prasad R, Sharma SC, Sikka K, Aggarwal S, Shukla G, Suri JC, Vengamma B, Grover A, Vijayan VK, Ramakrishnan N, Gupta R, Apnoea INOSA Guidelines Working Group FI. Consensus & Evidence-based INOSA Guidelines 2014 (First edition).Indian J Med Res. 2014 Sep;140(3):451-68.
22. Vinod K. Rai, Garima Shukla, Mohammad Afsar, Shivani Poornima, R.M. Pandey, Neha Rai, Vinay Goyal, Achal Srivastava, Deepti Vibha, Madhuri Behari. Memory, executive function and language function are similarly impaired in both temporal and extra temporal refractory epilepsy—–A prospective study – Accepted for publication in Epilepsy Research, November 2014.
23. Anupama Gupta, Garima Shukla, Afsar Mohammed, Vinay Goyal, Madhuri Behari. Restless Legs Syndrome, a Predictor of Subcortical Stroke: A Prospective Study on 346 Stroke Patients. Sleep Med. 2015 Jul 20. pii: S1389-9457(15)00853-9.
24. Agarwal P, Kaul B, Shukla G, Srivastava A, Singh MB, Goyal V, Behari M, Suri A, Gupta A, Garg A, Gaikwad S, Bal CS. Lateralizing value of unilateral relative ictal immobility in patients with refractory focal seizures--Looking beyond unilateral automatisms. Seizure. 2015 Dec;33:66-71. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2015.08.009. Epub 2015 Sep 10.
25. Garima Shukla, Priya Agarwal, Rajesh Sagar, Mamta Sood, Aditya Gupta, Ashish Suri, Ajay Garg. Does antiepileptic drug withdrawal predispose patients undergoing temporal lobe epilepsy surgery to late onset of psychiatric morbidity? A report of three cases. Annals of the Indian Academy of Neurology Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2016 Jul-Sep;19(3):377-80.
26. Garima Shukla, Bhavna Kaul, Anupama Gupta, Vinay Goyal, Madhuri Behari. Parkinsonian syndromes presenting with circadian rhythm sleep disorder––advanced sleep-phase type. Natl Med J Ind 2015;28(5) 188-190.
27. Geetika Bajpai, Garima Shukla, Ravindra M Pandey, Anupama Gupta, Mohammed Afsar, Vinay Goyal, Achal Srivastava, Madhuri Behari. Validation of a modified Hindi version of the Epworth Sleepiness scale among a North Indian population. Accepted for publication in Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology. May 2016
    1. Garima Shukla, Anupama Gupta, Priya Agarwal, Shivani Poornima. Behavioral effects and somnolence due to Levetiracetam versus Oxcarbazepine - a retrospective comparison study of North Indian patients with refractory epilepsy. Accepted for publication in Epilepsy & Behavior. Nov 2016, 64 (PtA); 216-218.