Nilika Singhal, MD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

She is medical director for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Clinical Documentation Integrity Program. She is a UCSF School of Medicine Bridges coach, and she is course director for the Inquiry Immersion course. She is a member of the Haile T Debas / UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. She is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion champion. She ran the longitudinal neurology clerkship for medical students from 2016-2019. She has a passion for medical education, from direct teaching to education leadership.

• De novo KCNA6 variants with attenuated KV 1.6 channel deactivation in patients with epilepsy.
  Epilepsia 2022 Salpietro V, Galassi Deforie V, Efthymiou S, O'Connor E, Marcé-Grau A, Maroofian R, Striano P, Zara F, Morrow MM, SYNAPS Study Group, Reich A, Blevins A, Sala-Coromina J, Accogli A, Fortuna S, …
• Health Disparities in Pediatric Epilepsy: Methods and Lessons Learned.
  Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings 2022 Wagner J, Bhatia S, Marquis BO, Vetter I, Beatty CW, Garcia R, Joshi C, Kumar G, Rao K, Singhal N, Skjei K
• Inequities in Therapy for Infantile Spasms: A Call to Action.
  Annals of neurology 2022 Baumer FM, Mytinger JR, Neville K, Briscoe Abath C, Gutierrez CA, Numis AL, Harini C, He Z, Hussain SA, Berg AT, Chu CJ, Gaillard WD, Loddenkemper T, Pasupuleti A, Samanta D, Singh RK, Singhal NS, …
• Comparison of Cosyntropin, Vigabatrin, and Combination Therapy in New-Onset Infantile Spasms in a Prospective Randomized Trial.
  Journal of child neurology 2022 Knupp KG, Coryell J, Singh RK, Gaillard WD, Shellhaas RA, Koh S, Mitchell WG, Harini C, Millichap JJ, May A, Dlugos D, Nickels K, Mytinger JR, Keator C, Yozawitz E, Singhal N, Lockrow J, Thomas JF, …
• Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as therapy in an infant with epilepsia partialis continua.
  Epilepsy & behavior reports 2021 Chang D, Singhal NS, Tarapore PE, Auguste KI
• Longitudinal analysis of regional brain changes in anti-NMDAR encephalitis: a case report.
  BMC neurology 2021 Nillo RM, Broce IJ, Uzgil B, Singhal NS, Glastonbury CM, Hess CP, Barkovich JA, Desikan RS, Sugrue LP
• Comparative Effectiveness of Initial Treatment for Infantile Spasms in a Contemporary US Cohort.
  Neurology 2021 Grinspan ZM, Knupp KG, Patel AD, Yozawitz EG, Wusthoff CJ, Wirrell EC, Valencia I, Singhal NS, Nordli DR, Mytinger JR, Mitchell WG, Keator CG, Loddenkemper T, Hussain SA, Harini C, Gaillard WD, …
• Treatment Practices and Outcomes in Continuous Spike and Wave during Slow Wave Sleep: A Multicenter Collaboration.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2021 Baumer FM, McNamara NA, Fine AL, Pestana-Knight E, Shellhaas RA, He Z, Arndt DH, Gaillard WD, Kelley SA, Nagan M, Ostendorf AP, Singhal NS, Speltz L, Chapman KE
• Design and implementation of electronic health record common data elements for pediatric epilepsy: Foundations for a learning health care system.
  Epilepsia 2020 Grinspan ZM, Patel AD, Shellhaas RA, Berg AT, Axeen ET, Bolton J, Clarke DF, Coryell J, Gaillard WD, Goodkin HP, Koh S, Kukla A, Mbwana JS, Morgan LA, Singhal NS, Storey MM, Yozawitz EG, Abend NS, …
• Pediatric Neurology.
  Seminars in neurology 2020 Singhal NS, Nash KB
• Pediatric Neurology.
  Seminars in neurology 2020 Singhal NS, Nash KB
• SLC35A2-CDG: Functional characterization, expanded molecular, clinical, and biochemical phenotypes of 30 unreported Individuals.
  Human mutation 2019 Ng BG, Sosicka P, Agadi S, Almannai M, Bacino CA, Barone R, Botto LD, Burton JE, Carlston C, Chung BH, Cohen JS, Coman D, Dipple KM, Dorrani N, Dobyns WB, Elias AF, Epstein L, Gahl WA, Garozzo D, …
• Global Teleneurology Service: First Insights (P2.6-045).
  Neurology 2019 Riley Bove, Jalayne Arias, Andrew Barnecut, Linda Branagan, Felicia Chow, Jeffrey Gelfand, S. Andrew Josephson, Maya Katz, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Erica Schleimer, Nilika Singhal, Michael Wilson, …
• Direct cortical stimulation of inferior frontal cortex disrupts both speech and music production in highly trained musicians.
  Cognitive neuropsychology 2018 Leonard MK, Desai M, Hungate D, Cai R, Singhal NS, Knowlton RC, Chang EF
• Breaking the curve: moving from normative to criterion-based grading on neurology clerkship (S14.001).
  Neurology 2018 E. Alexandra Brown, Nina Garga, Megan Richie, Nilika Singhal, Audrey Foster-Barber, Vanja Douglas
• Responsive neurostimulation for treatment of pediatric drug-resistant epilepsy.
  Epilepsy & behavior case reports 2018 Singhal NS, Numis AL, Lee MB, Chang EF, Sullivan JE, Auguste KI, Rao VR
• PCDH19-related epilepsy is associated with a broad neurodevelopmental spectrum.
  Epilepsia 2018 Smith L, Singhal N, El Achkar CM, Truglio G, Rosen Sheidley B, Sullivan J, Poduri A
• 68 Epileptic Spasms and Myoclonic Seizures.
  Swaiman\u0027s Pediatric Neurology 2017 Nilika Shah Singhal, Chellamani Harini, Joseph Sullivan
• Clinical Reasoning: Seizures from the neglected lobe.
  Neurology 2016 Muhlhofer W, Paul B, Lin G, Singhal N
• Cannabidiol in patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy: an open-label interventional trial.
  The Lancet. Neurology 2015 Devinsky O, Marsh E, Friedman D, Thiele E, Laux L, Sullivan J, Miller I, Flamini R, Wilfong A, Filloux F, Wong M, Tilton N, Bruno P, Bluvstein J, Hedlund J, Kamens R, Maclean J, Nangia S, Singhal NS, …
• Acute transverse myelitis and silent infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
  Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2015 Sirisha Grandhe, Jacqueline Marcus, Nilika Singhal, Marisa Gardner, Emmanuelle Waubant
• Continuous Spike-Wave during Slow Wave Sleep and Related Conditions.
  ISRN neurology 2014 Singhal NS, Sullivan JE
• Idiopathic basal ganglia calcifications: an atypical presentation of PKAN.
  Pediatric neurology 2013 Wu YW, Hess CP, Singhal NS, Groden C, Toro C
• Role of trauma and infection in childhood hemorrhagic stroke due to vascular lesions.
  Neurology 2013 Singhal NS, Hills NK, Sidney S, Fullerton HJ
• PCDH19-related epilepsy.
  Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy 2012 Nilika Singhal
• Alexander Disease: Demonstration on Neuroimaging.
  Neurological Bulletin 2012 Nilika Singhal, Audrey Foster-Barber