Dr. Sharath Babu M D
Associate Consultant - Pediatric Neurology
Dr. Sharath Babu is a pediatric neurologist working at Aster Whitefield, Bangalore, dedicated to providing expert neurological care for children. His background includes an M.D in Pediatrics from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer, and specialized fellowship training in Pediatric Neurology at the prestigious Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bangalore. During his 18-month fellowship, he had the privilege of training under the guidance of the renowned Pediatric Neurologist of India.
Dr Sharath has made significant contributions to the field of neurology and is an expert in managing drug-resistant epilepsy secondary to various causes such as HIE, structural malformations, FCD, and epilepsy syndromes. He is proficient in evaluating, diagnosing, prognosticating, and managing numerous metabolic and mitochondrial disorders, storage disorders, and syndromic evaluations. He is also skilled in reporting and interpreting Electroencephalograms (EEGs), Nerve Conduction Studies (NCS), and Electromyograms (EMGs). Throughout his years of practice, he has gained expertise in interpreting MRI scans, alongside Essential Clinical Correlation, Enabling Accurate Diagnoses
- Developmental Delay
- Demylinating Disorders
- Acute neurological emergencies
- Complex epilepsy
- Genetic Disorders/Metabolic Disorders
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Complex Neurological Disorders
- EEG/NCV/BERA/VEP
- Presented a research paper on a cohort of genetically proven Niemann-Pick’s type C disease at a state-level neurology conference at a tertiary hospital in South India.
- Presented a poster on a rare case of HHE (hemiconvulsion hemiplegia epilepsy) following scrub typhus at a national conference in Pune, 2022.
Memberships
- IAP
- AOCN
Papers Published
- A Spectrum of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy in Children and Outcome: A Treatable Neurological Disorder: Three Cases from Single Center
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) presenting as initial cognitive regression and myoclonic epilepsy with normal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain Karnataka Pediatric Journal
- Rare Treatable Neurometabolic Condition -Adenosine Kinase Deficiency
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis due to ALS2 Pathogenic Variant Masquerading as Cerebral Palsy
- Clinical Study on Chronic Pain Abdomen with Special Reference to Rome III Criteria and Visual Pain Scale”, IJMSIR- July -2021, Vol – 6, Issue - 4, P. No. 236 – 239.
- A clinical study of prediction of outcome of the children with shock admitted in pediatric ICU”, IJMSIR- August - 2021, Vol – 6, Issue - 4, P. No. 193 – 197
- Clinical and demographic profile of extramural neonates admitted in nicu of tertiary care hospital in central Rajasthan”, IJMSIR- June - 2021, Vol – 6, Issue - 3, P. No. 29 – 36.

