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MD-PhD Student
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Shruti Nanivadekar is an aspiring physician-scientist passionate about understanding and treating movement disorders. She is currently pursuing an MD-PhD at the University of Pittsburgh-Carnegie Mellon University Medical Scientist Training Program. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from UCLA, where she developed an algorithm to automate seizure detection from EEG recordings. Following this, she completed a post-baccalaureate training fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the Movement Disorders Clinic under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Hallett, focusing on tractography-based connectivity analyses to predict side effects in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) receiving Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS). Most recently, she completed her doctoral thesis in Dr. Aryn Gittis' lab at CMU, where her research probed thalamic electrophysiology to elucidate the neural correlates of tremor and bradykinesia in preclinical models of PD. Her work also involved studying novel patterns of DBS that leverage cell-type specific neuromodulation to produce long-lasting motor improvements.
Known Neurophysiological Mechanisms and Phenomena: Foundations for Next-Generation DBS Therapies
Friday, June 13, 2025
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM ET