KISHORE, Asha: Kerala/India

Asha Kishore is currently the Director of the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, an Institute of National Importance, under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India. She also holds the positions of Senior Grade Professor in the Department of Neurology and the Head of the Comprehensive Care Centre for Movement Disorders of the Institute. After her 2-year clinical research fellowship training in Movement Disorders with Professor Donald Calne, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, she returned to India in 1996, set up the first Comprehensive Care Centre for Movement Disorders in India at her institute and established the first MER- guided deep brain stimulation program in India. She has had the privilege to spend time in the Movement Disorder Programs led by Professors Mahlon Delong, USA, Alim Louis Benabid, Grenoble, Antony Lang, Toronto, Professor Kailash Bhatia, London and Marie Vidailet, Paris. Under the guidance and inspiration of Professor Mark Hallet and Dr. Sabine Meunier, INSERM, Paris, she has also set up a Motor physiology and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab for Movement Disorders in India. She is also one of the leading researchers working in the field of genetics of Parkinson’s disease in collaboration with Manu Sharma, University of Tubingen. Asha had the privilege of training over 150 neurology residents, PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. She is also one of the founding members of the Movement Disorder Society of India and former executive committee member of MDS-AOS.