Neurology | Epilepsy Care | Research

Dr. Sachin Sureshbabu

Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Neurology at Meitra Hospital, Kozhikode. Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and Research and Innovation.

Building advanced epilepsy care, surgical pathways, research networks, and training capacity across Kerala.

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26+ years Clinical, academic, and research leadership experience

962 citations Google Scholar profile snapshot with h-index 11 and i10-index 15

5000+ video-EEGs Annual monitoring capacity across Kerala

AIIMS DM Neurology training with advanced epilepsy and sleep medicine fellowships

Profile

Advanced neurological care with a regional mission.

Dr. Sachin Sureshbabu is a senior neurologist and epileptologist based at the Centre for Neurosciences, Meitra Hospital, Kozhikode. His work combines high-volume clinical neurology with program building, epilepsy surgery pathway development, resident and fellow training, and clinical research governance.

His career has focused on making comprehensive epilepsy care available beyond traditional metropolitan centers, including presurgical evaluation, epilepsy monitoring units, multidisciplinary surgery boards, and technology-enabled patient education.

Neuroscience faculty centre with Dr. Sachin and colleagues — Program building across clinical care, training, and research networks.

Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

From diagnosis to surgery planning, care is built as a pathway.

The program brings together epileptology, neurosurgery, neuropsychology, neuroradiology, neurophysiology, neuroanaesthesia, intensive care, and allied teams for complex epilepsy care.

Epilepsy Monitoring

Video-EEG, state-of-the-art epilepsy monitoring units, protocol MRI, and structured presurgical evaluation for drug-resistant epilepsy.

Advanced Surgery Pathways

Multidisciplinary planning for focal resections, disconnective surgery, electrocorticography, stereo-EEG, thermocoagulation, and neuromodulation.

Regional Access

Program development across Kozhikode, Wayanad, and surrounding districts, expanding access to advanced diagnostics and epilepsy surgery decisions.

Patient Education

Awareness campaigns, community education, and practical care pathways around seizure freedom, quality of life, and stigma reduction.

MEITRA EPITOME launch stage introducing Dr. Sachin Sureshbabu

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Flagship Awareness Initiative

MEITRA EPITOME - Epilepsy Awareness Campaign

MEITRA EPITOME is highlighted as Dr. Sachin's flagship epilepsy awareness program at Meitra. The public launch brought together healthcare experts, distinguished guests, and the community for conversations around epilepsy awareness, support, understanding, and access to advanced care.

The campaign launch included a public interaction with actor Manoj K. Jayan and was positioned as a community-facing extension of Meitra's advanced epilepsy care mission.

Awareness and stigma reduction Community conversations Advanced care access

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Epilepsy program team at an academic event — Academic and clinical collaboration across epilepsy care.

Epilepsy awareness campaign posters — Public awareness and advocacy around epilepsy.

Dr. Sachin with research collaborators — Research collaborations spanning epilepsy care, neurotechnology, and public health.

Research and Innovation

Clinical questions, technology, and regional datasets.

As Director of Research and Innovation, Dr. Sachin supports clinical research across neurology and the broader hospital ecosystem. His current pipeline includes drug-resistant epilepsy referral patterns, EEG biomarkers of the preictal phase, prognostic predictors in idiopathic generalized epilepsy, dementia and brain-health epidemiology, and patient education through AI-generated media.

Research Director: Dr. Sachin Sureshbabu Research Lead: Evi Dirks, Netherlands Collaborators: IIT Madras, NIT, SEIN Netherlands, Pennsieve, Monash Australia

Epilepsy Networks

EPITOME and other regional collaborations support connected epilepsy care, learning, and outcome documentation.

AI and EEG

AI/ML work explores seizure algorithms, EEG biomarkers, patient engagement, and data-driven care workflows.

Clinical Trials

Site Principal Investigator for St. Stephen's Hospital in ATTEND and ENCHANTED international multicentre stroke trials.

Teaching and Academic Forums

Training clinicians, fellows, technologists, and future researchers.

Dr. Sachin has served as a DNB Neurology teacher and postgraduate thesis guide since 2014, DNB examiner, epilepsy and neurotechnology fellowship program director, and clinical research mentor.

Epilepsy fellowship and neurotechnology training programs
Weekly patient management conferences
CHIASM, an epilepsy interface for multi-centre case discussion
EEG masterclasses, stroke modules, and conference faculty roles

Dr. Sachin teaching during a presentation — Teaching and multidisciplinary case discussion are central to the program.

Publication Record

Scholarship across epilepsy, stroke, movement disorders, sleep, and neuroimmunology.

Dr. Sachin's academic profile includes 95 categorized publications in the CV record. Google Scholar is the main public publication and citation source; ORCID is included as a persistent researcher ID, but its public record currently has limited activity listed.

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Sachin Sureshbabu

Verified email at Meitra Hospital, Kozhikode. Research areas: epilepsy and epilepsy surgery.

962 citations 11 h-index 15 i10-index

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Researcher ID

0000-0003-3658-7467

ORCID is useful for identity and attribution. The public ORCID page is sparse right now, so publication discovery is directed to Google Scholar.

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Selected Works

Representative publications and multicentre trial work.

2026

Sureshbabu S, Gilna P, Hamza A, Sruthi KG, Keni R, Kumar JS, et al. Ictal switch pattern among temporal lobe seizures and its association with other markers of bilaterality. Neurology India.

2022

Sureshbabu S, Moosan H, Joseph M, et al. Knowledge, attitude, and practice of epilepsy in Wayanad, Kerala. Epilepsy & Behavior.

2019

Anderson CS, Huang Y, Lindley RI, et al.; ENCHANTED investigators. Intensive blood pressure reduction with intravenous thrombolysis therapy for acute ischaemic stroke. The Lancet.

2017

Lindley RI, Anderson CS, Billot L, et al.; ATTEND Study Group. Family-led rehabilitation after stroke in India. The Lancet.

2008

Sachin S, Shukla G, Goyal V, et al. Clinical speech impairment in Parkinson's disease, progressive supranuclear palsy, and multiple system atrophy. Neurology India.

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Media and Public Education