Sithara Ramdas

Sithara Ramdas is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist based at the Oxford Children’s Hospital  and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer with the University of Oxford. Having graduated in Medicine from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College in Belgaum, India, she went on to do a decade long postgraduate Paediatric training spread over centres in both England and Scotland and then completed her specialist Paediatric Neurology and neuromuscular training from Evelina Childrens Hospital in London. 

Her specialist clinical and research focus are on neuromuscular disorders and neuroimmunology. She leads the regional NHS Paediatric Neuromuscular multi-disciplinary service. She is the Paediatric lead for the National Highly Specialised Services for Congenital Myasthenia Syndromes and Neuromyelitis Optica. She leads the Highly Specialised Service for Paediatric Multiple Sclerosis. She is the principal investigator for several past and current clinical trials and her current areas of research interest are on DMD, SMA, Congenital and Acquired Myasthenia. Since 2022, she leads the NHS England Rare Disease Collaborative Network (RDCN) for Juvenile Myasthenia Gravis.