Dr. Rajesh Polavarapu
Consultant - Neurology
Dr. Rajesh Polavarapu is a highly skilled and experienced neurologist with a special interest in Vascular Neurology ,Headache ,Vertigo,epilepsy, sleep disorders, and neuroimmunology. He has extensive experience in diagnosing and managing a wide range of neurological conditions, including Stroke ,Headache adult and pediatric epilepsy, sleep apnea, insomnia, parasomnias, multiple sclerosis, NMO spectrum disorders, MOG, and Movement Disorders .
He possesses extensive expertise in Thrombolysis, interpreting NCS and scalp EEG,administration of Botox .He had thrombolysed 90 stroke cases in his training period and reported many EEG and NCS during his training. He Has high expertise in dealing with Headaches particularly Migraine and in Vertigo He is well trained in Transcranial Doppler studies and In Neurosonogram
- Epilepsy – adult
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Sleep medicine- insomnia, sleep apnea, parasomnias, Polysomnography interpretation
- Vascular neurology- Acute Stroke diagnosis and management, Stroke prevention
- Neuroimmunology: Multiple sclerosis, NMO spectrum and MOG
- Neurogenetics
- Nerve and muscle disorders and ENMG
- Parkinson and other movement disorders
- Cognitive neurology
- First place in psychiatric Quiz SMC 2007
- Best performing Medical officer at PHC lingapalem 2012
- Recognized as a personal physician to 1st Governor of Andhra Pradesh 2019-2021
- Record of achievement for training on scabies from Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases 2021
- Record of achievement for Standard precautions: Hand hygiene from WHO 2021
- Poster presentation at Kerala monsoon summit 2021
- Facilitated in achieving platinum award in RESq Stroke program 2022