Dr. Pradnya Gadgil

• Dr. Pradnya Gadgil is a renowned pediatrician who specializes in paediatric neurology and epilepsy.
• Paediatric Neurology, Paediatric Epilepsy, and Complex Epilepsy Developmental Disorders are Dr. Gadgil’s areas of expertise.
• She has worked as a National Coordinator for the British Paediatric Neurology Association’s Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET) program.
• Dr. Pradnya Gadgil  received her paediatric neurology training at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London and PD J Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai.

Dr. Pradnya Gadgil received her medical degree with honors from Mumbai’s B.Y.L. Nair Hospital. She received her paediatric medicine training in the United Kingdom. She then went to London to study Paediatric Neurology and Complex Epilepsy. In her super-specialty, she has worked in centers of excellence. Great Ormond Street Hospital is a quaternary paediatric neurology center that offers one of the world’s best complex epilepsy services.

Dr. Gadgil was an essential member of this group. She also spent two years as a Paediatric Neurology Fellow at P. D. Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai, giving her a wide range of experience. After having worked for 9 years in the UK, Dr. Pradnya Gadgil returned to Mumbai.

Experience of Dr. Pradnya Gadgil

Dr. Pradnya Gadgil is a well-known Paediatric Neurologist with more than 14+ years of experience.

• MBBS, B L Y Nair Hospital, Mumbai
• Fellowship, Complex Paediatric Epilepsy UK
• MRCPCH, U K

• Paediatric Neurologist and Epileptologist Epilepsy
• Cerebral Palsy
• Developmental Delay (difficulties in walking/ speech, etc)
• Disorders of social communication (Autism, ADHD, Learning disorders)
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Neurodegenerative diseases
• Acute neurological conditions such as meningitis, GBS, Childhood stroke, ADEM

• English
• Hindi

• Best Award Paper’ ECON 2010, Indore ‘Vigabatrin induced MRI changes in infants’

• American Epilepsy Society 2016 Annual Meeting Poster presentation titled “Outcome of epilepsy surgery in a developing country in a heterogeneous group of adults and children”
• Vigabatrin-induced reversible changes on magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in Neurology India 2015 May-Jun
• Nonparaneoplastic Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis: A Case Series of Four Children in Paediatric Neurology
• Paediatric Epilepsy: The Indian experience in Journal of Paediatric Neurosciences
• Monograph-Infantile spasms in British Medical Journal- BMJ Point of Care
• Management of Refractory Epilepsy in Childhood in Pediatric Therapeutics
• American Epilepsy Congress, Philadelphia, Poster presentation “New-onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) with generalized dyskinesia- a new ACTH responsive syndrome”
• Co-authored 3 chapters in IAP Specialty Series on Rational Antimicrobial Practice In Pediatrics (Under IAP action plan 2006) – Penicillins and monobactams, Antifungals, Antimicrobial therapy in empyema thoracis

• Indian Epilepsy Society
• Neurology Subchapter, Indian Academy of Paediatrics
• Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK