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Sudhansu Chokroverty , MD , FRCP
Area of Specialty: Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine.
Professional Appointments: Co-Director of Neurology (Clinical Neurophysiology and Sleep Medicine) at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey;
Academic Appointments: Professor of Neuroscience, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange , New Jersey
Graduate Education: Fellow in Neurophysiology,
Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 1966-1968; Senior Resident and Resident Coordinator in Neurology, VA Hospital, Hines, IL, 1966-1967; Registrar in Medicine at Royal Alexandra Hospital, N. Wales, United Kingdom, 1964-1966; Registrar in Neurosurgery at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester, England, 1964; Registrar in Medicine at Burton Road Hospital, Dudley, England, 1963-1964; Senior Registrar in Medicine at Plymouth General Hospital, Plymouth, England, 1962-1963; Registrar in Medicine and Neurology at Staffordshire General Infirmary, Stafford, England, 1961-1962; Senior House Physician in Neurology and Medicine at City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1960; Senior House Physician in Neurology at Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, England, 1959-1960; Senior House Physician in General Medicine, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychiatric Clinics at Western Hospital and Royal Infirmary, Doncaster, England,
1958-1959; House Physician in Medicine at Memorial Hospital, Darlington, England, 1958; Senior House Officer in Medicine at Medical College Hospital, Calcutta, India, 1957-1958; House Officer in Medicine at Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, 1956, 1957.
Medical School : University of the State of New York , MD, 1999; University of Calcutta , India , MBBS (MD), 1956.
Specialty Board Certification: Board certified in Neurology; Clinical Neurophysiology; Added qualification in Clinical Neurophysiology; Electrodiagnostic Medicine; Sleep Medicine.
Research Interests: Blink reflex excitability in Restless legs Syndrome and narcolepsy-cataplexy; Neurophysiologic investigation of myoclonus and tremor; Startle reflex study in normals and RLS patients; PLMS actigraphic study correlating with overnight PSG study; Abnormal motor activities during RE M sleep; Transient phenomena at sleep onset: A clinical and PSG study; Cyclic alternating pattern in the PSG, sleep apnea and CPAP titration; Actigraphic study in insomnia.
Professional Memberships: American Academy of Neurology (Fellow); American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (Fellow); American College of Physicians (Fellow); Neurological Society of India; American Neurological Association; Eastern Association of Electroencephalographers; American Academy of Sleep Medicine; The Movement Disorder Society; American Academy of Clinical Neurophysiology; American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine; Royal College of Physicians, UK (Fellow).
Honors and Awards: Listed in “Best Doctors in America”, 1994-present; listed in “Best Doctors in Northeast and Metropolitan New York Area”, 1996-present; Listed in “Guide to America's Top Physicians”; Neurology Delegate Leader, People to People International – Citizen Ambassador Program: Russia and Hungary, 1997. President, World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM), 2003-2005; Chair, Sleep Science Award Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology, 2001-Present.
Books Published or Edited:
• Sleep Disorders Medicine: basic science, technical considerations and clinical aspects, Butterworth / Elsevier, 2nd edition, 1999; 1 st edition, 1994
• Sleep and Movement Disorders, Butterworth/Elsevier, 2003
• Movement Disorders, PMA Publishing Corp., 1990
• Magnetic Stimulation In Clinical Naurophysiology, Butterworth, 1990
• Magnetic Stimulation in Clinical Naurophysiology, Edition 2, 2005
• Management of Epilepsy, ButterworthHeinemann, 1996
• Clinical Companion to Sleep Disorders Medicine, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
• 100 Questions and Answers About Sleep and Sleep Disorders, Blackwell Science, 2001
• Atlas of Sleep Medicine, Butterworth / Elsevier, 2005
Representative Publications:
Chokroverty S, Bhatt M, Zhivotenko S, Sleep and Neuromuscular Disorders. In: Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology, Daube J (ed): IFCN Handbook of Sleep Disorders, Guillerminaulte (ed), Elservier Science, Amsterdam, Vol. 6, 2005: 225-234.
Bhatt M, Podder N, Chokroverty S, Sleep and Neurodegerative diseases. In: Avidan A (ed), Seminars in Neurology: Sleep in Neurological Practice, Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., New York , Vol. 25, 2005: 42-51.
Chokroverty S., Motor Restlessness. In: Hening W, Allen R, Chokroverty S, Earley C (eds), Restless Legs Syndrome, Butterworth Elservier ( In Press).
Chokroverty S, The Assessment of Sleep Disturbances in Autonomic Failure. In: Mathias C, Bannister R (eds), Autonomic Failure, ed. 5, Oxford University Pass, Oxford (In Press).
Chokroverty S, Adult Sleep Disorders. In: Hallett Et al (eds), Recent Advances in Clinical Neurophysiology, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam , 2004.
Chokroverty S, Polysomnography and related procedures. In: Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology, Daube J (ed): IFCN Handbook of Movement Disorders, Vol. 1, Hallett M (ed), Elservier Science, 2003: 139-151.
Chokroverty S. Editor's corner: restless legs syndrome, a common disease uncommonly diagnosed. Sleep Med. 2003 Mar; 4(2): 91-3.
Chokroverty, S. Sleep-disordered breathing in neuromuscular disorders: a condition in search of recognition. Muscle Nerve. 2001 Apr; 24(4): 451-5.
Chokroverty, S. Diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders caused by co-morbid disease. Neurology. 2000; 54(5 Supplement 1): S8-15. Review.
Sander HW, Geisse H, Quinto C, Sachdeo R, Chokroverty S. Sensory sleep starts. J Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry. 1998 May; 64(5): 690.
Sander HW, Quinto CM, Elinzano H, Chokroverty S. Carpet carrier's palsy: musculocutaneous neuropathy. Neurology. 1997 Jun; 48(6): 1731-2.
Sander HW, Chokroverty S. Musculo-cutaneous nerve nomenclature: in the arm or the leg? Ir J Med Science. 1997 Apr-Jun; 166(2): 108.
Sander HW, Tavoulareas GP, Quinto CM, Menkes DL, Chokroverty S, Menkes DM. The exercise test distinguishes proximal myotonic myopathy from myotonic dystrophy. Muscle Nerve. 1997 Feb; 20(2): 235-7.
Chokroverty S. Sleep and degenerative neurologic disorders. Neurol Clin. 1996 Nov; 14(4): 807-26. Review.
Editorial Positions: Sleep Medicine, published by Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (Editor-in-Chief); Current Treatment Options in Neurology, published by Current Science, Inc. (Section Editor). Encyclopedia of Neurological Sciences, Published by Academic Press/Elsevier (Associated Editor). Member of the Editorial Boards of Electromyography & Clinical Neurophysiology, and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. Past member of the Editorial Boards of Neurology, Muscle and Nerve and Clinical Neurophysiology.