Paediatric Neurology
Visiting Consultant
MBBS, D.N.B., MRCPCH (U.K.), Fellowship In Pediatrics Neurology
Dr Omkar Hajirnis is working as a Visiting Consultant Paediatric Neurology with Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital. He is amongst the far and few trained pediatric neurologists in the country. His areas of expertise are with children suffering from neurological, behavioral and developmental disorders. These include children with disorders like cerebral palsy and developmental delay, epilepsy, various genetic and metabolic disorders. He caters to treatment of children with neurological emergencies like status epilepticus, meningoencephalitis, coma and stroke. He also deals with children with behavioural disorders like autism and hyperactivity.
His special interests lie in the fields of neurometabolic disorders and refractory epilepsy. He also specializes in electrophysiology reporting like EEG’s. He has a number of chapter publications, articles and case reports to his credit. He is a Honorary Pediatric Neurologist and involved in teaching undergraduates and postgraduate students at the municipal corporation run Rajeev Gandhi Medical College and CSM Hospital, Kalwa, Thane.