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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.

