Dr Umesh Vivekananda
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Location:
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
GMC/GDC number:
6159473
Professional background
Dr Umesh Vivekananda is a consultant neurologist and clinical lecturer at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, UCLH Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chalfont Epilepsy Centre, and UCL/Institute of Neurology.
He qualified from The University of Oxford and Kings College London. He trained in clinical neurology at St Georges Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
He was awarded a PhD funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Training Fellowship for work on neurological channelopathies from UCL. He has received the Queen Square Prize for Neurology, Gordon Holmes Prize in Neuroscience and ILAE Gowers Clinical Science Prize for his research work.
His laboratory’s current aims encompass the translation of cutting edge methodology to epilepsy diagnostics and functional consequence of chronic epilepsy on co-morbidities such as memory formation and anhedonia.
He runs specialist epilepsy clinics at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy. He is responsible for inpatients in the Sir William Gowers Assessment and Treatment unit at the Chalfont Centre for Epilepsy.
Specialties
Research interests
- Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography in epilepsy
- Understanding mood and cognition in medication refractory epilepsy
- Cellular network activity in medication refractory epilepsy (human tissue)