Organizing Committee Member
Krupa Torne
Head of Neurosciences Department
Surya Children Hospital
India
Biography
At present she is heading the department of Neurosciences at Surya Children Multispecialty Hospital, one of the premier Institution for children in Mumbai in India. She has completed her Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy from Maharashtra University Health Sciences at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai. She has had a brief stint at the University College London Hospital, a premier academic institution cum hospital in the UK. She has been trained in Paediatric Neurology at Birmingham Children Hospital in UK where she successfully completed her International Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurorehabilitation. To complement her advanced training in Paediatric Neurology she has completed many prestigious International courses like British Paediatric Epilepsy Training Course, British Paediatric Movement Disorder Training Course in UK. She has also been trained for Ketogenic diet for drug resistant childhood epilepsies at the Asian Institute of Ketogenic Diet. Dr Torne has many accolades to her name which complements her meticulous and explicate personality. She is an invaluable Editorial Board Member of Journal of Neuroscience and brain Imaging in London UK. She was honoured by International Bursary from European Paediatric Neurology Society with an opportunity to attend one of the prestigious courses in Paediatric Neuromuscular disorder and Neonatal Neurology at Budapest in Hungary. She was invited to attend the valuable Movement Disorder International Winter School Course by Movement Disorder International society at Catania in Italy. As a feather in her cap she was invited as a Chief Guest in World Congress of Anatomist held in Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences in Karnataka and International Paediatric Conference held at Port Said in Egypt. She has to her credit many valuable publications in reputed peer reviewed index national and International Journals. She is an active Organizing Committee Member for more than 10 prestigious national and international medical conferences. She has presented many national and international papers in Cambridge, Birmingham, Italy, France and Hungary. She is affiliated to more than 15 eminent International and National Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy associations. She was honoured as the Best Woman Achiever in Paediatric Neurology at the Indian Women Convention 2018. She is a recipient of MRCPCH UK, an internationally acclaimed medical qualification.
Research Area
Her research interest is in complex paediatric epilepsies, ketogenic diet and paediatric movement disorder.