Expertise in conditions including:

  • Neuromuscular conditions

  • Muscle pain

  • Genetic muscle conditions

  • Pins and needles

  • Neuropathy

  • Myasthenia

  • Myotonia

  • Myotonic dystrophy

  • Neurotoxicity - side effects of chemotherapy/cancer treatment 

  • Headache

  • Weakness 

  • Parkinsons disease

  • Epilepsy

  • Movement Disorders

Awards

2022       MDUK Early career Researcher of the year 2022

2022       UCL Research Culture Awards

2021       Association of British Neurologists 2021 Top Platform Presentation Prize

2020       Fastrack Grant (BRC & UCLH Charities)

2020       Muscle Study Group Conference Shark Tank Winner

2007       Clinical Skills in Medicine Award. Southern Clinical School.

2007       Invited to the Golden Key International Honour Society

2007       Consideration for the Year 2 Portfolio Prize

2006       Cardinal Knox Scholarship. Mannix College.

2005       John Flynn Scholarship Scheme

2004       Order of Australia Student Citizenship Award

2004       TJ Ryan Scholarship

2004       Australian Students Prize for Excellence. - Awarded to the top 500 students in the nation.

2004       Inaugural Peter Doherty Senior Science Student Award

2004       Lions Youth of the Year, Regional Finals Winner, Queensland

2003       Rostrum Voice of Youth Public Speaking State Finalist, Queensland

2002       Inter-school Debating Winner, North Queensland

2002       Rostrum Voice of Youth Public Speaking State Semi-Final Runner-up, Queensland

Publications

1.   Vivekanandam V, et al.  (2024) Mexiletine versus lamotrigine in non-dystrophic myotonias: a head-to-head, randomised phase III non-inferiority trial. Lancet Neurology. Volume 23, Issue 10, 1004 - 1012

2.   Vivekanandam V, …. Hanna M. (2023) Muscle MRI in periodic paralysis shows myopathy is common and correlates with intramuscular fat accumulation. Muscle and Nerve. DOI:10.1002/mus.27947

3.   Vivekanandam V, Jayaseelan D, Hanna M. (2023) Chapter 21 - Muscle channelopathies. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Elsevier. 195; 521-532. doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-98818-6.00006-6.

4.   Vivekanandam V, Jaibaji R … Hanna M. (2023). Prevalence of genetically confirmed skeletal muscle channelopathies in the era of next generation sequencing. Neuromuscular Disorders. doi.org/10.1016/j.nmd.2023.01.007.

5.     Vivekanandam V., Jayaseelan D., Hanna M. (2022). COVID-19 infection and vaccination in patients with skeletal muscle channelopathies. Muscle and Nerve. doi.org/10.1002/mus.27704

6.     Vivekanandam V….Hanna, M. (2022). In silico predictive tools are poor predictors compared to in vivo functional characterisation of genetic variants - lessons from muscle channelopathies and implications for genomic medicine. Brain. doi.org/10.1093/brain/awac431

7.     Vivekanandam V., Jayaseelan D., Munot P., Hanna M. (2022). Chapter to The Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Elsevier.  “Paediatric Neuromuscular Channelopathies”.

8.     Vivekanandam V., … Hanna, M. & Matthews, E. (2022). Andersen-Tawil Syndrome: deep phenotyping reveals significant cardiac and neuromuscular morbidity. Brain. doi.org/:10.1093/brain/awab445

9.     Vivekanandam, V., Bugiardini, E., Merve, A., Parton, M., Morrow, J. M., Hanna, M. G., & Machado, P. M. (2020). Differential Diagnoses of Inclusion Body Myositis. Neurologic Clinics, 38 (3), 697-710. doi:10.1016/j.ncl.2020.03.014

10.   Vivekanandam, V., Mannikko, R., Matthews, E., & Hanna, M. G. (2020). Improving genetic diagnostics of skeletal muscle channelopathies. Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics. Jul;20(7):725-736. doi: 10.1080/14737159.2020.1782195.

11.   Vivekanandam, V., Munot, P., Hanna, M., & Matthews, E. (2020). Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies. Neurologic Clinics. doi:10.1016/j.ncl.2020.04.003

12.   Paterson, R. W., Brown, R. L., Benjamin, L.,…Vivekanandam, V.,. . . Zandi, M. S. (2020). The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: Clinical, radiological and laboratory findings. Brain, 143 (10), 3104-3120. doi:10.1093/brain/awaa240

13.  Paterson, R. W., Brown, R. L., Vivekanandam V., … Zandi M. S., for the UCL Queen Square National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery COVID-19 Study Group, (2020). Reply: Concentric demyelination pattern in COVID-19-associated acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis: a lurking catastrophe?, Brain, 143 (10), 1-2. doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaa377

14.  Suetterlin, K., Vivekanandam, V., James, N., Sud, R., Holmes, S., Fialho, D., . . . Matthews, E. (2019). Annual renal ultrasound may prevent acute presentation with acetazolamide-associated urolithiasis. Neurology: Clinical Practice. October 00; 1-3. doi:10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000761

15.   Suetterlin, K., ... Vivekanandam, V.,…Matthews, E. (2020). Andersen-Tawil Syndrome Presenting with  Complete Heart Block. J Neuromuscul Dis. Oct. doi: 10.3233/JND-200572. 

16.   Thor, M. G., Vivekanandam, V., Sampedro-Castañeda, M., Tan, S. V., Suetterlin, K., Sud, R., . . . Männikkö, R. (2019). Myotonia in a patient with a mutation in an S4 arginine residue associated with hypokalaemic periodic paralysis and a concomitant synonymous CLCN1 mutation. Sci Rep, 9 (1), 17560. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-54041-0

17.   Khoo, A., Smyth, D., & Vivekanandam, V. (2020). COVID-19 in a UK neurology hospital: Australasian Fellows facing Covid-19. Internal Medicine Journal. 50. 10.1111/imj.14925.

18.   Vivekanandam V, Hoskote C, Rossor AM, Reilly MM. (2019) CNS phenotype in X linked Charcot- Marie-Tooth disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. Dec. 90:1068.

19.   Vivekanandam, V., Li, V., Wu, T., … Mitchell, P. (2020). Cerebrospinal fluid cannot be used to distinguish inflammatory myelitis from congestive myelopathy due to spinal dural arteriovenous fistula: case series. BMJ Neurology Open 2019; 1:e000019. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2019-000019 

20.   Vivek V, Kalincik T, Kilpatrick TJ, Butzkueven H et al; on behalf of the MSBase Study Group. (2013) Sex as a determinant of relapse incidence and progressive course of multiple sclerosis. Brain; 136: 3609-17.

21.   Vivek V, Kavar B, Hogg M, Butzkueven H. (2013) Aspergillus arachnoiditis post intrathecal baclofen pump insertion. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience; 20(8):1159-60.