Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram

Chandrashekhar Mahadeorao Meshram is a neurologist from Nagpur known for his clinical work, public health education and international role in neurology. He was named for the Padma Shri in 2024 in the field of medicine, from Maharashtra ^[1].

Training and career

He was born on 9 July 1954 ^[2]. He studied medicine at Government Medical College, Nagpur, and then took an MD and a DM in neurology at PGIMER, Chandigarh ^[2]. He is director of the Brain and Mind Institute in Nagpur ^[2].

Meshram has represented India at the World Federation of Neurology, and was president of its tropical and geographical neurology group and a trustee of the federation, the first Indian neurologist in 65 years to hold that post, according to his citation ^[2]. He was national president of the Indian Academy of Neurology in 2013–14 ^[2].

Public awareness and research

Through radio talks, television, school and college lectures and newspaper columns, he has written some 400 pieces on conditions such as stroke, epilepsy, dementia, Parkinson’s disease and rabies ^[2]. He has also arranged for students from poorer Asian countries to train in neurology departments in India ^[2].

He has 63 journal publications and was a principal investigator in 18 international clinical trials, two of which led to new medicines for epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease being approved in the United States ^[2].

Outside medicine he founded the Orange City Cultural Foundation, which has run international film festivals in Nagpur, and he is a trustee of Baba Amte’s Maharogi Seva Samiti ^[2].