Dr. Sailesh Modi

OP Timing:

Education & Qualifications:

• MBBS - Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada (2001-2007)
• DM in Neurology - NIMHANS, Bangalore (2008-2013)

Licences and Certifications:

• Registered with Andhra Pradesh Medical Council (Reg No. 57859)
• Life member, Indian Academy of Neurology (LM-999)
• Life member, APNSA (LM-459)
• Life Member, NEUROVISION VIZAG
• Life Member, Vizag Neuro Club

Academic Achievements:

• Received Gold Medal in Pediatrics (Final Year M.B.B.S)
• Received a Gold Medal in DM Neurology exams at NIMHANS
• Best outgoing student at NIMHANS
• Represented India in the Tournament of Minds at the World Congress of Neurology, 2013, held in Vienna, and stood in 3rd place
• Best Paper Award in IANCON 2012
• Best Paper Award in DNACON 2013

Work Experience:

• Inpatient and outpatient care of patients suffering from a wide variety of neurological diseases at a 900-bedded tertiary care facility, a national referral centre for neurological and psychiatric diseases, the largest in the area.
• Management of patients in a 26-bedded ICU unit, housing facilities for acute care, including intravenous thrombolysis.
• Acquired expertise in clinical neurological examination, diagnosis, and treatment of acute and chronic neurological disorders, and in emergency management of the acutely ill neurological patient.
• Performance and interpretation of electrophysiological investigations like electromyography and nerve conduction studies.
• Interpretation of neuro-imaging studies (CT, MRI).
• Routine performance of various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, e.g., biopsies of nerve, muscle, and skin, and diagnostic and therapeutic lumbar puncture.

• Managing OPD independently
• OP and IP case discussions
• Teaching junior residents
• Supervising the emergency department on unit duty days
• Reviewing and reporting video EEGs of the concerned unit
• Running a monthly Neuromuscular clinic

• Established full-time Neurology services with NEURO ICU and specialized NICU nursing team.
• Implemented Protocol for Code Stroke

Skills:

• Clinical neurology: Ability to obtain relevant and detailed clinical history with thorough neurological examination and a relentless pursuit of the diagnosis in each particular case is one of my most important skills.
• Streamlined approach using various clinical, imaging, and lab cues in order to narrow down the differential diagnosis in complex/vague cases or those with unusual presentation.
• Special interest in diagnosing and treating various primary and secondary Headache disorders, Neuro immunology, Autoimmune neurological conditions, Parkinsonism, and Disorders of cognition.
• Treatment of common neurological conditions like LBA and Neck pain.
• Distinct focus on identifying psychiatric conditions mimicking systemic and neurological symptoms, counselling and referring them for appropriate treatment.
• Proficient in recognising and diagnosing Obstructive sleep apnea and have a high index of suspicion for a common but underdiagnosed disease. Over the years, he helped a number of patients with OSA by evaluating and starting on appropriate PAP therapy in collaboration with a pulmonologist.
• Treatment of a wide array of neuroinfections and care of patients with stroke, epilepsy, and neuropathies.
• Identifying and treating delirium and non-convulsive seizures in hospitalised and ICU patients.
• Treating neurological complications of several systemic diseases, such as post-cardiac arrest anoxia, cardiac delirium, hepatic and uremic encephalopathy, critical illness neuromyopathy, sepsis with encephalopathy, malignancy, and its treatment-related neurological complications.
• Adept in recognising drug-induced neurological disorders such as cephalosporine and carbapenem-induced seizures, pregabalin-induced encephalopathy and myoclonus, drug-induced tremors, and drug-induced delirium.
• Experience with diagnosis and treatment of varied presentations of COVID-19, including unusual presentations such as MIS-C and MIS-A, and hemorrhagic ADEM.
• Management and follow-up of neurological sequelae of long COVID.
• Identifying, declaration, and certification of brain death.
• Diagnosing various neurodegenerative disorders and giving closure and counselling to patients and relatives.
• Special focus on prevention of hospital infections, with emphasis on prevention of secondary infections in ICU patients.
• Thorough in-depth knowledge of Neuroimaging.
• Guiding juniors through difficult cases.
• Playing a pivotal role in multidisciplinary cases, and communicating effectively to arrive at a comprehensive treatment plan.
• Extensive experience in managing patients on a ventilator, including good knowledge of ventilator modes and successful weaning strategies.
• Experienced in successfully diagnosing and treating PUO.

Research Experience:

• Thesis: “Phenotypic Characterisation, Muscle Immunohistochemistry and Immunoblot Studies in Patients with Autosomal Recessive Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy” Under the guidance of Prof.A.Nalini, HOD, Department of Neurology, NIMHANS, and Dr.N.Gayathri, Professor, Department of Neuropathology, NIMHANS, and Dr. Srinivas Bharath M.M.,Department of Neurochemistry, NIMHANS.
• Modi, S. & Nalini, Atchayaram & Gayathri, Nandivada & Bharath, M.S. & Balaraju, Sunitha & Polavarapu, Kiran. (2013). Detection of limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2A (calpainopathy) by autocatalytic activity of calpain and by quantification of calpain bands by densitometry. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 333. e429. 10.1016/j.jns.2013.07.1541.
• Modi, S. & Nalini, Atchayaram & Gayathri, Nandivada & Bharath, M.S. & Balaraju, Sunitha & Polavarapu, Kiran. (2013). LGMD2I: Immunohistochemical and immunoblot technique assisted identification of 51 cases with both duchenne and becker phenotype. Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 333. e428-e429. 10.1016/j.jns.2013.07.1540.
• Pseudotumor of muscle - focal myositis, Bhavana V. Nagabhushanarao, Sailesh Modi, Aripaka P. Kumar, and Lakshmi Sushma Chembrolu, International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences,2024, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:270873629}
• Nalini, Atchayaram & Polavarapu, Kiran & Balaraju, Sunitha & Kulkarni, Sandhya & Gayathri, Nandivada & Bharath, M. & Modi, Sailesh & Preethish-Kumar, Veeramani. (2015). A prospective study on the immunophenotypic characterization of limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2 in India. Neurology India. 63. 548-560. 10.4103/0028-3886.162048.
• Preethish-Kumar, Veeramani & Polavarapu, Kiran & J, Francis & Nalini, Atchayaram & S, Modi & Balaraju, Sunitha & Gayathri, Nandivada & MM, Srinivas & Mangalore, dr sandhya. (2015). Genotypic and phenotypic characterisation of a large cohort of patients with Dysferlinopathy.
• Amirtharaj, Francis & Balaraju, Sunitha & Kandavalli, Vinodh & Polavarapu, Kiran & K, Shiva Krishna & Modi, Sailesh & Bharath, M & Gayathri, Nandivada & Nalini, Atchayaram & Thangaraj, Kumarasamy. (2014). Novel TCAP mutation c.32C>A causing limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2G. PloS one. 9. e102763. 10.1371/journal.pone.0102763.
• Dalai S, Datla AV, Korada SK, Modi S, Bura HK. Endovascular Management of Spontaneous Subclavian Artery Dissection. Cureus. 2023 Jun 1;15(6):e39828. doi: 10.7759/cureus.39828. PMID: 37397647; PMCID: PMC10312358.
• Dalai S, Limaye US, Maturu MVS, Kolli SR, Pati R, Marthati MB, Modi S, Datla AV, Anantamakula S, Donkada R. Role of Transluminal Balloon Angioplasty for the Treatment of Vasospasm Due to Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage: A Multicentric Indian Experience. Cureus. 2022 Sep 19;14(9):e29311. doi: 10.7759/cureus.29311. PMID: 36277540; PMCID: PMC9579828.
• Subasree R, Kulkarni GB, Kumar MV, Bharath RD, Sandhya M, Yadav R, Modi S, Kumar N, Panda R. Charles Bonnet syndrome in a case of cerebral venous thrombosis with fMRI-EEG correlation. Neurol India. 2014 Sep-Oct;62(5):557-9. doi: 10.4103/0028-3886.144489. PMID: 25387635.
• Kulkarni GB, Yadav R, Mustare V, Modi S. Intravenous thrombolysis in a patient with left atrial myxoma with acute ischemic stroke. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2014 Oct;17(4):455- 8. doi: 10.4103/0972-2327.144038. PMID: 25506173; PMCID: PMC4251025.
• Kulkarni GB, Mustare V, Pruthi N, Pendharkar H, Modi S, Kulkarni A. Profile of patients with craniovertebral junction anomalies with posterior circulation strokes. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 Nov-Dec;23(10):2819-2826. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2014.07.003. Epub 2014 Oct 12. PMID: 25314945.
• B. V. Nagabhushana Rao1*, S. C. Sinha2, S. Modi3, S. Sunita4. Healthy blue man: congenital methemoglobinemia. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20174610
• BV Nagabhushana Rao, BVS Raman, Sailesh Modi, M Umamaheswara Rao.Amebiasis Mimics Malignancy in the Transverse Colonand Transpires in Liver Abscess. Indian journal of clinical practice Volume 26, Number 10, March 2016
• Editor, Neurovision 2019 CME Update

Participation in Conferences and Workshops:

• Attended the Teaching Course in Movement Disorders, organised by the World Federation of Neurology-Parkinsonism and Related Disorders Section at NIMHANS – Bangalore, November 2010
• Attended the Neuro-Opthal Update in 2010
• Participated in the “Knowledge Exchange program” organized by ENS (European Neurological Society) in Nov 2011 at Bangalore.
• Participated in the IAN Postgraduate summer course in Neurology-2012.
• Attended the stroke update held at NIMHANS in 2012
• Best Paper Award in IANCON 2012
• Best Paper Award in DNACON 2013
• Paper presentation at the World Congress of Neurology, 2013 held in Vienna, Austria
• Poster presentation at the World Congress of Neurology, 2013 held in Vienna, Austria
• Poster presentation at IANCON 2013.
• Attended the IAES epilepsy conclave held at NIMHANS in 2013
• Colloquium on Drug Resistant Epilepsy, August 2013
• Delegate, IANCON 2014
• Delegate, IANCON 2015
• Delegate, T.S.SRINIVASAN-NIMHANS, knowledge conclave 2017
• Delegate, FINE, Movement Disorders course, 2017
• Delegate, Eisai MS Summit, 2018
• Delegate, ECON FEB 2018
• Delegate, AP NEUROCON -2019
• Speaker, NEUROVISION VIZAG 2015: Acute treatment of Ischemic stroke
• Speaker, NEUROVISION VIZAG 2017: Treatment of ischemic stroke beyond 4 and half hours
• Speaker, NEUROVISION VIZAG 2019: Approach to muscle disorders
• Speaker ISNR 2023 Vizag MEET: Overview of Acute Ischemic Stroke: Causes, risk factors and pathophysiology
• Speaker ISNR 2019 Vizag MEET: Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke (Interesting cases)