Dr. Nikhil Jadhav 

Dr. Nikhil Sharad Jadhav first developed an attraction towards the field of medicine after reading about Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease from his father’s textbooks for his science projects during his school days at Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania school, Thane. He was one of the few students from Maharashtra to simultaneously crack multiple national level medical entrance exams. He completed his MBBS from the renowned Kasturba Medical College, Manipal on merit and with an ICMR research scholarship. 

His passion for neurology was reaffirmed after visiting NIMHANS, Bangalore where he narrowly missed out on post MBBS DM Neurology and Mch Neurosurgery seats. Repeating his stint at national level entrance exams, he went on to join the second largest medicine department in the country then at RNT Medical College, Udaipur. During his MD General Medicine residency tenure he worked extensively in the fields on gastroenterology, cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology and critical care assisting in endoscopic interventions and temporary pace maker insertions, set new benchmarks for critical care mortality in medical ICU and carried out the first IV thrombolysis for stroke at his institution. 

His unwavering love for the subject and exposure to several top faculty members from across India kept his flame for neurology alive. After a series of exams and gruelling interviews at New Delhi he was selected for the DM Neurology super specialty program at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he routinely managed challenging neurological cases referred from across the country. Over the past 12 years Dr. Jadhav has garnered a broad experience working in some of the best private, state and central government institutions in different parts of the country. Dr Nikhil Jadhav is one of the very few neurologists trained from AIIMS practicing in Mumbai region. With stalwarts in the family like Dr JD Jadhav one of the first thoracic surgeons in Mumbai and Dr SH Jadhav one of the first physicians in the country to be trained in cardiac catheterization, Dr Nikhil carries forward his family's legacy of pushing the boundaries of medical sciences.

• He is the first neurologist to develop a validated screening tool for Migraine amongst headache patients in an Indian language.

• After a landmark study among headache patients, he was the first neurologist to show correlation between cranial autonomic symptoms, cutaneous allodynia and vertigo in migraine patients and was the first in world to propose a common interconnecting neural circuit linking these features.

• He reported the first case in world literature of Tourette’s syndrome in a patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy highlighting non-muscular manifestations of Dystrophin mutation.

• He has carried out IV thrombolysis for stroke in over 200 patients including cases with MRI diffusion negative stroke who were diagnosed and treated purely based on clinical features and later proved to be basilar artery thromboses on angiography which would have otherwise had a fatal outcome.