Dr. Ankith Bhasi
Associate Consultant
Dr. Ankith Bhasi is an Associate Consultant in Neurology and Epilepsy with advanced superspecialty training and focused expertise in epilepsy care and clinical neurophysiology. He completed his MBBS from Government Medical College, Kottayam, MD in General Medicine from AIIMS Rishikesh, and DM in Neurology from SCTIMST, Trivandrum, followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in EEG and Epilepsy from SCTIMST. He secured Rank 1 in the Common Merit List in the Institute of National Importance Superspeciality Examination (2022).
With around 5 years of clinical experience, Dr. Ankith Bhasi specializes in epilepsy management, drug-resistant epilepsy evaluation, EEG interpretation, status epilepticus care, neuropsychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy, stroke management, and advanced neuro-intensive care. He is trained in comprehensive epilepsy assessment and evidence-based neurological treatment.
He has received multiple academic recognitions, including First Prize in Oral Presentation at ECON 2025 (Chennai) and prizes in national EEG and ECG quiz competitions. He has presented research at major international forums including the World Stroke Congress (Abu Dhabi) and the ILAE International Epilepsy Congress (Portugal).
Dr. Ankith Bhasi has authored and co-authored numerous research papers and case reports in reputed international and national journals across neurology, epilepsy, and internal medicine. He is actively involved in research on refractory seizures, neuropsychiatric aspects of epilepsy, and advanced neuroimaging correlations, reflecting a strong commitment to academic neurology and patient-centered epilepsy care.
● Epilepsy & Neuropsychiatric Comorbidities
● Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Predictors
● Clinical Neurophysiology
● Status epilepticus Management
● Advanced Neurointensive Care
● Stroke Management
- Secured Rank 1 (Common Merit List)– Institute of National Importance- Superspeciality Examination, 2022, Conducted on Dec 7,2021
- First prize achieved in ECON-2025(Chennai, India), Category -Oral presentation
- Second prize achieved in ECON-2025(Chennai, India), Category – Preconference EEG Quiz
- Second prize achieved in Cardiabcon- ECG Quiz, Conducted in AIIMS Rishikesh, India (2018)
- Best outgoing student from Higher Secondary School – Saraswathi Vidyalaya, Passing Year -2010
Notable Presentations:
International conferences:
● Poster presentation in World stroke congress-2024, conducted in Abu Dhabi, UAE – “Focal cerebral arteriopathy of young”.
● Poster presentation in ILAE-2025 conducted in Portugal,2025 – “Predictors of refractory seizures and neuropsychiatric disorders in tuberous sclerosis patients with epilepsy “.
National conferences:
● First prize achieved in ECON-2025(Chennai, India), Category -Oral presentation, Personality Disorders in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy
● Multiple national and state-level conference participations in epilepsy, neurology, and internal medicine.
Publications:
- Bhasi A, Bharanidharan G, Abraham M, Vilanilam GC, Menon RN, Thomas B, Kesavadas C, Nandini VS, Basheer T, Radhakrishnan A. Drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: Seizure outcome in children versus adults. Epileptic Disord. 2026 Jan doi: 10.1002/epd2.70172. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41518484.
- Bhasi A, Paramasivan NK, Kumar AA, Govindaiah RM, Kesavadas C, Enakshy Rajan J, Sreedharan SE, Sylaja PN. Focal Cerebral Arteriopathy of the Young: Clinical Profile, Outcomes, and Utility of High-Resolution Vessel Wall Imaging. Cerebrovascular Diseases Extra. 2025 Jan 1;15(1):137-42.
- Bhasi A, Puri O, Pathania M, Saha S, Dhar M, Kulshreshta P. Waist Circumference as a potential indicator of cardiac autonomic profile in Metabolic Syndrome-A cross-sectional study. medRxiv. 2023 Nov 16:2023-11.
- Personality Disorders in Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy – Presented at international neurology conference. [In press], First Author- Under review- The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
- Predictors of refractory seizures and neuropsychiatric disorders in tuberous sclerosis patients with epilepsy – Single-centre study (2012–2023) – Presented at ILAE conference, (Lisbon, Portugal). [In press], First Author
- Impact of Antiseizure medications on thyroid function in Persons with epilepsy
- Corresponding Author: Dr Ashalatha Radhakrishnan, Co-Authors: Maraludevanapura Govindaiah Rohith, MD DM; Gurumurthy Bharanidharan, MD DM; Ankith Bhasi, MD DM; Nadarajan Aravind Ram, MD.; KY Manisha, MD DM; Kiren G Koshy, MD DM; Ramshekhar N Menon, MD DM [In press], Submitted to Epilepsy and Behaviour
- Pre and Post CPAP improvement in Cognitive status of patients with OSA. Single-centre study, [In press]
- Mohanty V, Pathania M, Bhasi A. Vitamin D Correlation with Echocardiographic Function in Patients of Congestive Heart Failure. Journal of The Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging. 2021 May 1;5(2):134-8.
- Mohanty V, Pathania M, Bhasi A. Effect of vitamin supplementation in patients of congestive heart failure deficient in vitamin D: A study at a tertiary care center of North India. Annals of African Medicine. 2022 Apr 1;21(2):107-12.
- Panda PK, Manna S, Bhasi A, Singh SS, Maneesh VS. Paraquat poisoning in Andaman and Nicobar Islands–Government must intervene. Journal of family medicine and primary care. 2021 Apr 1;10(4):1780-4.
Case reports
- Mehta V, Bhasi A, Panda PK, Gupta P. A coinfection of severe leptospirosis and scrub typhus in Indian Himalayas. Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care. 2019 Oct 31;8(10):3416-8.
- Bhatia R, Kaeley N, Kant R, Bhasi A. Fever with persistent flagellate erythema in a primigravida: a rare presentation of adult-onset Still’s disease. BMJ Case Reports CP. 2019 Jul 1;12(7):e229332.
- Mohanty V, Bhasi A, Suresh S, Pathania M. STATUS EPILEPTICUS AS A RARE CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2. European Journal of Biomedical. 2020;7(10):359-62.
- Radhakrishnan DM, Bhasi A, Saurya S, Shree R, Kumar N. Spinal intramedullary neurocysticercosis an unusual cause of Paraparesis. The Journal of the Association of Physicians of India. 2021 Sep;69(9):11-2.
- Koshy KG, Vijayaraghavan A, Kumar AA, Bharanidharan G, Bhasi A. Unilateral Motor Band Sign in Hemiplegic Primary Lateral Sclerosis. Neurology India.:10-4103.
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