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Dr. A. Anand Kumar

Vice Principal, School of Medicine, Kochi | Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Kochi

Qualification: MD, DNB
anandkumar@aims.amrita.edu
Research Interest: Paediatric Neurology, Childhood Epilepsy, Learning Disabilities, Cerebrovascular Disorders

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Bio

Dr. Anand Kumar took his MBBS and MD [General Medicine] from Medical College, Trivandrum. He did his post-doctoral training in Neurology at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, an institute of national importance. After obtaining his DM in Neurology, he joined as faculty in Trivandrum Medical College.

After his short tenure in Medical College, in 1989, he joined the Ministry of Health, Sharjah as specialist Neurologist. He established the Department of Neurology at Al Qassimi and Kuwait Hospitals, Sharjah. He relocated to India in 1999 and joined the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences. The Neurosciences Division at Amrita was started by him and now has the capability of a tertiary care referral center with ten formally trained neurologists.

He has several publications to his credit and has special interest in cognitive neurology, sleep medicine and bio-medical research. Dr. Anand has also worked in medical artificial intelligence and was member of a team that developed an expert system for epilepsy.

Currently, he is working in memory, autonomic function studies, dysarthria, patient monitoring, life style modification, space-mind medicine and epilepsy prediction.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2016

Autoimmune atypical parkinsonism – A group of treatable parkinsonism

Cite this Research Publication : Sudheeran Kannoth, Anandkumar Anandakuttan, Annamma Mathai, Anuja Nirmala Sasikumar & Vivek Nambiar. Autoimmune atypical parkinsonism -A group of treatable parkinsonism. Journal of Neurological Sciences;2016 362:40-46

Year : 2010

Effect of music on comprehension and recall among medical students in Kerala

Cite this Research Publication : Sa Aswathy, Kurian, Ba, Sreeja, Kb, Valsala, L. Sb, Kalapurakal, Ab, Kumar, A. Ab, Anjana, A. Sb, Thomas, A. Sb, Prathap, Ab, and Nair, AbRajendran, “Effect of music on comprehension and recall among medical students in Kerala”, National Medical Journal of India, vol. 23, pp. 373-374, 2010.

Publisher : National Medical Journal of India

Conference Paper

Year : 2016

Feature Normalization for Enhancing Early Detection of Cardiac Disorders

Cite this Research Publication : Dr. Anand Kumar A, Kumar, C. S., and S, N., “Feature Normalization for Enhancing Early Detection of Cardiac Disorders”, in 2016 IEEE Annual India Conference, INDICON 2016, 2016.

Publisher : 2016 IEEE Annual India Conference, INDICON 2016, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Conference Proceedings

Year : 2019

Embedding Linguistic Features in Word Embedding for Preposition Sense Disambiguation in English – Malayalam Machine Translation Context

Cite this Research Publication : Premjith B., Soman Kp, M. Anand Kumar, Jyothi Ratnam "Embedding Linguistic Features in Word Embedding for Preposition Sense Disambiguation in English-Malayalam Machine Translation Context", In book: Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence (pp.341-370), 2020

Qualification
  • MBBS, Medical College, Trivandrum
  • MD General Medicine, Medical College, Trivandrum
  • DM in Neurologym Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
Language Known
  • English
  • Arabic
  • Hindi
  • Malayalam
Work Experience
  • He has a work experience of 37 years in the field of neurology.
Memberships
  • Membership in organizations
  • Indian Academy of Neurology
  • Indian Stroke association
  • Past president Kerala Association of Neurologists
  • Past president Neurological Society of India Kerala chapter
  • Past president Cochin Neurological Society
Awards
  • Master teacher award [ Shine, Chennai]
  • Lifetime achievement award [ Neuro-critical care ]
  • Master teacher award [ Kerala Association of Neurologists ]
  • Distinguished Alumni award [ Trivandrum Medical College ]
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