Designation:- Consultant- Pediatrics & Pediatric Neurology
Qualification:-MBBS,DNB(Pead),MRCPCH(UK),IAP-AOPN fellowship in Pediatric Neurology (Gold medal )
Experience:- 8+ Years
About:- Dr. B.Aarthi .is a pediatric neurologist with over 8 years of dedicated experience in Pediatrics. She has completed IAP -AOPN structured clinical fellowship in Pediatric neurology and passed with gold medal in the national level exit exam.
Expertise:- Epilepsy
Neuromuscular disorders
Neurobehavioural disorders in children -Autism, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Paediatric stroke
Inflammatory and demyelinating disorders of CNS and PNS.
Neonatal neurology
Fellowship:- Pediatric Neurology from KIMS Health Trivandrum, Kerala under Indian Academy of Pediatrics- Association of Pediatric Neurology-2025.(GOLD MEDALIST)
Awards:- First rank and Gold medalist in the IAP-AOPN Fellowship exit exam conducted
at Rainbow hospital Hyderabad in April 2025. Gold medal and certificate
received at AOPN national conference NEUROPEDICON 2025 Guwahati,
Assam, India.
2.RecIpient of National bursary award, Asian Oceanian congress of child
neurology AOCCN, 2025, New Delhi, India
3.Second prize in Quiz competition - APNMD 2025, Advances in Pediatric
Neuromuscular diseases – An International symposium, Trivandrum, Kerala
4.Best poster award – for Clinic radiological pattern of neonates with subcortical diffusion restriction –KIDS BRAIN RESCUE Conference held at Trivandrum May 2025.
5. Secured the second best paper award - for “Clinico demographic profile of acute
demyelinating syndromes” at CHILD NEUROCON 2023 ,held at
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
6. Second best poster-Case series of craniopharyngioma at CHILD NEUROCON
7. Best paper- Clinic demographic profile of Acute demyelinating syndromes at Trivandrum
Neuroexchange 2023.
Research:- Hafsa, Mohanlal S, Mubeena PM, Balaji A, Pramod S, Kumar S, Pachat D. Clinicodemographic and Genetic Profile of Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Kerala, India: A Single-Center Experience. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2026 Mar 1;29(2):206-209. doi: 10.4103/aian.aian_671_25. Epub 2026 Apr 8. PMID: 41952242; PMCID: PMC13193596.
Balaji A, Kunju PAM, Deepasree J, Baby G, Devadathan K. Retrobulbar Neuritis Associated with Mumps Infection in a Toddler. Neurol India 2025;73:1066-8.
2023 Balaji A, Mohanlal S, Pachat D, Babu SS, Kumar ES, Mamukoya N, Das S.
Genome-Based Therapeutics: Era of Precision Medicine in Genetic Epilepsies
and Epileptic Encephalopathies. Ann Indian Acad Neurol. 2023 Sep-
Oct;26(5):723-727. doi: 10.4103/aian.aian_314_23. Epub 2023 Oct 26. PMID:
38022486; PMCID: PMC10666847.
2022 Balaji, Aarthi, M. Smilu, M.P. Kavitha and Abraham Bose. “An Unusual but
Treatable Cause of Autistic Regression.” Clin Case Rep 12 (2022): 1512.
2022 Contributed the following articles to the CHILD NEURON 2022, launched by
IAP Kerala chapter
1. Dyke Davidoff Maisson syndrome :A case report
2. Acute necrotizing encephalitis