Publications from 2020
RamachandranNair R. Encephalopathy Associated with Electrical Status Epilepticus of Sleep (ESES): A Practical Approach. Indian J Pediatr. 2020 Dec;87(12):1057-1061. doi: 10.1007/s12098-020-03422-9. Epub 2020 Jul 6. PMID: 32632569.
Swarnalingam ES, RamachandranNair R, Choong KLM, Jones KC. Non-neurophysiologist Physicians and Nurses Can Detect Subclinical Seizures in Children Using a Panel of Quantitative EEG Trends and a Seizure Detection Algorithm. J Clin Neurophysiol. 2020 Dec 29;Publish Ahead of Print. doi: 10.1097/WNP.0000000000000812. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33417383.
Dr Rajesh RamachandranNair is A pediatric epileptologist & neurologist at the McMaster Children's Hospital since 2006. He is also the medical director of the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Program.
When people ask what it is like to be a woman in interventional electrophysiology, I tell them the truth: for most of my career, I was the only one at the table. Not the only woman in the EP lab; nurses, techs, and coordinators have always been the backbone of every EP lab I have worked in, but the only woman standing in lead, with the catheters in her hands. That has changed. It has not changed enough. Cardiology remains one of the least gender-balanced fields in medicine, and the procedural subspecialties EP, interventional, structural are the narrowest part of that funnel. We are not short on talented women entering medical school. We lose them somewhere between the classroom and the lab. I have thought a lot about where that loss happens, and I no longer believe it is mostly about ability or even about ambition. It is about permission, the quiet, cumulative sense of whether a room expects you to be in it. The room does not hand you authority ... Early on, I learned that bei...

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