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Dr Nijanth M Raj

Dr Nijanth M Raj

​MBBS, MRCP (UK), FAMS (Neurology)

Associate Consultant

National Neuroscience Institute

Specialty/Department: Neurology

Clinical Interest: General Neurology

Conditions Treated by this Doctor:
General Neurology.

Clinical Appointments

  • Associate Consultant Department of Neurology National Neuroscience InstituteNational Neuroscience Institute
  • Associate Consultant Neurology Singapore General HospitalSingapore General Hospital

Profile

​Dr Nijanth is an Associate Consultant in Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SGH). He has a special interest in Migraine and headache disorders, Stroke, and rehabilitation. In additionView More +

Education

  •  Specialist Accreditation in Neurology, Singapore 2023
  • Specialty Certificate in Neurology - Royal College of Physicians UK, 2021
  • MRCP UK - Member Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, 2019
  • Internal Medicine Residency, Singhealth, Singapore 2018
  • MBBS, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India 2005 -2011

Professional Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • ​Associate Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute (NNI@SGH)
  • Fellow, Academy of Medicine, Singapore (Neurology)
  • Member, International Headache Society
  • Member, Royal College of Physicians, UK
  • Member, Singapore Medical Association

Awards

Research Interests

Publications

  • Spinal Cord Injury: Extent of disability, its complications and management – An overview for Primary care physicians (2023)
Publication:  Journal of Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Studies & Reports
Nijanth M Raj, Nicodemus EO, Ei MZ, Chen J, Kappangathu VP
DOI: 10.47363/JPMRS/2023(5)165

  • Confidence in Neurology: How educators can help fight Neurophobia (2022)
Publication:  South East Asian Journal of Medical Education
YJ Tan, KYL Juliana, Nijanth M Raj
DOI : 10.4038/seajme.v16i2.515

  • Isolated Infarctions of the Conus Medullaris: Clinical Features and Outcomes
Publication:  Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases (2021)
You Jiang Tan, Nijanth M Raj
DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2021.106055

  • A Practical Clinical Course Model for use during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
Publication: South-East Asian Journal of Medical Education: Dec , 2021, 15 (2) : 23
You Jiang Tan, Nijanth M Raj
DOI: 10.4038/seajme.v15i2.270

  • Haemorrhagic Transformation following Ischaemic Stroke : A retrospective study (2020)
Publication:  Nature -Scientific Reports
SD Pande, MM Win, Nijanth M Raj, EM Zaw,L Lolong, AS Tin
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62230-5

  • Extradural Spinal Cavernous Hemangioma mimicking a dumb-bell shaped tumor, as a rare cause of myelopathy – Case report and review of literature (2020)
Publication:  Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
KV Prasanna, CS Ahmed, Nijanth M Raj, Poh WT, SK Dinesh

  • A Narrow Escape. High-energy Comminuted fractures of Sacrum and Pelvis – are they always associated with neurological deficits? (2019)
Publication: South East Asia Journal of Medical Sciences
Nijanth M Raj, Shakil A Chohan, KV Prasanna
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3723454

  • Sacral Insufficiency Fractures in patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Case report (2019)
Publication: Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine Clinical Communications
K V Prasanna, Nijanth M. Raj and Siddeshwar Patil
DOI: 10.2340/20030711-1000019
  • Baclofen in treatment of Stroke causing refractory hiccups (2016)
Publication: Archives of Case Reports in Clinical Medicine
Kwok KM, Cheong HY, Nijanth M Raj, Larik Ashfaq
DOI: 10.19104/crcm.2015.101

  • Effects of Fixed-dose combination strategy on adherence and risk factors in patients with or at high risk of CVD (2013)
Publication: JAMA – Journal of the American Medical Association
Thom S et al & Umpire Collaborative Group (Collaborator - Nijanth M)

Research Trials

  • ​MAESTOSO Trial – Efficacy of MLC1501 in Post Stroke subjects with motor deficits (2023) – Co Investigator
  • LIBREXIA Stroke Trial – Milvexian in participants after an acute stroke or TIA (2023) – Co Investigator
  • Burden and Care of Migraine in Singapore (2022)
  • UMPIRE Trial – Fixed dose combination strategy in patients with high risk CVD (2011- 2013) Trial Collaborator