Shukla | Department of Medicine | School of Medicine

Garima Shukla MBBS, MD, DM, FRCPC

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Professor

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613-549-6666 ext 6242

Dr. Garima Shukla is a Professor of Neurology, specializing in Epilepsy and Clinical Sleep Medicine, appointed at the Department of Medicine, Queen’s University, since June 2018. She leads advanced neurophysiological evaluation including stereotactic EEG, for potential epilepsy surgery patients at the Kingston Health Sciences District Epilepsy Centre.

Dr. Shukla completed her MBBS and Internal Medicine training at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, India. She then completed her DM (Neurology) at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India followed by her epilepsy and sleep fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA.

Her current funded research focusses on studying the value of high-density EEG studies in overall (seizure and non-seizure) outcome prediction in patients with focal onset pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Findings from recently concluded studies assessing the ‘impact of cannabis use on sleep and mood among Canadian patients with epilepsy’, ‘association of comorbid sleep disorders with mortality risk in epilepsy’ and ‘Restless legs syndrome phenotypes and course among patients with acute stroke’ have been presented at reputed international platforms and are currently under review for publication.

She has more than 150 high impact peer-reviewed publications, and is a recipient of several research grants, academic awards and honors. She is the Secretary of the International Restless legs syndrome Study Group (2019-current) and Field Editor of the prestigious journal, Sleep Medicine (2021-current).

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