Nikita Srinivasan

Movement Disorders neurologist with fellowship training at the NIH/NINDS, with clinical interests in Parkinson's disease, atypical parkinsonism, dystonia, and neurodegenerative disorders. Active involvement in translational and clinical research focused on phenotype-genotype correlations and microbiome-related mechanisms in movement disorders.

Clinical Fellow, Movement Disorders Branch at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), NIH (2025-07 – Present)

• Evaluation and management of complex movement disorders in a tertiary academic center
• Participation in NIH intramural clinical research protocols
• Trained in EMG and ultrasound guided botulinum toxin injections
• Medtronic DBS programming including adaptive DBS

Neurology Residency at Tufts Medical Center (2022-07 – 2025-06)

• Administrative Chief Resident (2024–2025)
• Social Chair, Tufts Neurology Residency (2023–2024)

Internal Medicine Internship at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (2021-07 – 2022-06)

Sub-investigator at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (2023-07 – Present)

PI: Dr. Diana Apetauerova. Unraveling Gut Microbiota in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy - Prospective study identifying gut microbiome characteristics of PSP patients to facilitate early detection and future therapeutic approaches.

• Responsibilities include protocol writing, IRB submission, budgeting, and patient sample collection coordination

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Pediatric Neurology at Yale New Haven Hospital (2019-07 – 2021-07)

PI: Dr. Naila Makhani. A Pediatric Radiologically Isolated Syndrome (PARIS) Consortium Longitudinal Study of the Natural History and Predictors of Outcomes for Children with Radiologically Isolated Syndrome.

M.B.B.S. in Medicine – Pravara Institute of Medical Sciences (2013-08 – 2019-03)