Department of Pediatrics

Education

• BS, Valedictorian, Michigan State University, 2005
• BS, Valedictorian, Michigan State University, 2005
• PhD, (DPhil), University of Oxford, 2008
• MD, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, 2012

Training

• Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital / Washington University School of Medicine, 2012 - 2014
• Resident in Child Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, 2014 - 2017
• Fellow in Movement Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, 2017 - 2018

Licensure and Board Certification

• 2018 - PresAmerican Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Child Neurology Specialization
• 2018 - PresMissouri Medical License

Honors and Awards

• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 2004
• George C. Marshall Scholarship (funded graduate studies at the University of Oxford), 2005
• NIH-Oxford Graduate Partnership Program Fellowship (fully funded enrollment in the Washington University Medical Scientist Training Program and funded additional graduate training at the NIH while completing my DPhil at Oxford), 2005
• Washington University School of Medicine Outstanding Medical Scientist Trainee Scholarship, 2005
• Movement Disorders Society Young Investigator Grant, 2006
• Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society, 2012
• Washington University School of Medicine Irwin Levy Prize in Neurology and Neurological Surgery, 2012
• Washington University School of Medicine Richard S. Brookings Prize, 2012
• St. Louis Children's Hospital "High Five" Award for Clinical Excellence, 2014
• Boston Children's Hospital Von L. Meyer Travel Award, 2015
• Boston Children's Hospital Farley Award, 2016
• Boston Children's Hospital Neurology Resident Clinician of the Year, 2017
• Boston Children's Hospital Neurology Resident Teacher of the Year, 2017
• Boston Children's Hospital Honor for Great Care, 2017
• Child Neurology Society Outstanding Junior Member Postgraduate Award, 2018
• Neurobiology of Disease in Children Young Investigator Award, 2018
• American Academy of Neurology Emerging Leaders Program, 2020
• American Neurological Association Emerging Scholar Lecture, 2020

Recent Publications view all (25)

1. Smith AE, Aravamuthan B. Optimizing Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy. Pediatrics. 2021. PMID:34649981 
2. Aravamuthan BR, Ueda K, Miao H, Gilbert L, Smith SE, Pearson TS. Gait features of dystonia in cerebral palsy. Dev Med Child Neurol. 2021;63(6):748-754. PMID:33411352 
3. Chintalapati K, Miao H, Mathur A, Neil J, Aravamuthan BR. Objective and Clinically Feasible Analysis of Diffusion MRI Data can Help Predict Dystonia After Neonatal Brain Injury. Pediatr Neurol. 2021;118:6-11. PMID:33677143 
4. Smith SE, Gannotti M, Hurvitz EA, Jensen FE, Krach LE, Kruer MC, Msall ME, Noritz G, Rajan DS, Aravamuthan BR. Adults with Cerebral Palsy Require Ongoing Neurologic Care: A Systematic Review. Ann Neurol. 2021;89(5):860-871. PMID:33550625 
5. Sanders JS, Keller S, Aravamuthan BR. Caring for Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the COVID-19 Crisis. Neurol Clin Pract. 2021;11(2):e174-e178. PMCID:PMC8032439  PMID:33842088 
6. Aravamuthan BR, Fehlings D, Shetty S, Fahey M, Gilbert L, Tilton A, Kruer MC. Variability in Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis. Pediatrics. 2021;147(2). PMCID:PMC7906070  PMID:33402528 
7. Aravamuthan B, Landsness EC, Silbermann E. ANA Webinars: implementation of a conference-based virtual networking event. Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2021;8(2):525-528. PMCID:PMC7886028  PMID:33352002 
8. Aravamuthan BR, Shevell M, Kim YM, Wilson JL, O'Malley JA, Pearson TS, Kruer MC, Fahey M, Waugh JL, Russman B, Shapiro B, Tilton A. Role of child neurologists and neurodevelopmentalists in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy: A survey study. Neurology. 2020;95(21):962-972. PMCID:PMC7734737  PMID:33046609 
9. Weber DJ, Albert DVF, Aravamuthan BR, Bernson-Leung ME, Bhatti D, Milligan TA. Training in Neurology: Rapid implementation of cross-institutional neurology resident education in the time of COVID-19. Neurology. 2020;95(19):883-886. PMCID:PMC7713733  PMID:32887772 
10. Gandham S, Tak Y, Aravamuthan BR. Striatal cholinergic interneuron numbers are increased in a rodent model of dystonic cerebral palsy. Neurobiol Dis. 2020;144:105045. PMID:32800997 
11. Aravamuthan BR, Pearson TS. Treatable Movement Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood. Semin Neurol. 2020;40(2):177-191. PMID:32079029 
12. Aravamuthan BR, Gandham S, Young AB, Rutkove SB. Sex may influence motor phenotype in a novel rodent model of cerebral palsy. Neurobiol Dis. 2020;134:104711. PMID:31841677 
13. Aravamuthan BR, Waugh JL, Stone SS. Deep brain stimulation for monogenic dystonia. Curr Opin Pediatr. 2017;29(6):691-696. PMID:28906342 
14. Aravamuthan BR, Mar SS, Williams KG. Factors Associated With Discharge After Initial Emergency Treatment of Pediatric Migraine. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2017;33(9):620-629. PMID:26359825 
15. Aravamuthan BR, Nath AR, Ghosh PS. Teaching NeuroImages: Medullary lesions causing dysphagia in Leigh/MELAS overlap syndrome. Neurology. 2016;87(2):e18-9. PMID:27402949 
16. Aravamuthan BR, Waugh JL. Localization of Basal Ganglia and Thalamic Damage in Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy. Pediatr Neurol. 2016;54:11-21. PMID:26706479 
17. Aravamuthan BR, Sánchez Fernández I, Zurawski J, Olson H, Gorman M, Takeoka M. Pediatric anti-Hu-associated encephalitis with clinical features of Rasmussen encephalitis. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2015;2(5):e150. PMCID:PMC4582902  PMID:26445726 
18. Aravamuthan BR, Shoykhet M. Long-term increase in coherence between the basal ganglia and motor cortex after asphyxial cardiac arrest and resuscitation in developing rats. Pediatr Res. 2015;78(4):371-9. PMCID:PMC4791178  PMID:26083760 
19. Aravamuthan BR, Angelaki DE. Vestibular responses in the macaque pedunculopontine nucleus and central mesencephalic reticular formation. Neuroscience. 2012;223:183-99. PMCID:PMC3484682  PMID:22864184 
20. Aravamuthan BR, McNab JA, Miller KL, Rushworth M, Jenkinson N, Stein JF, Aziz TZ. Cortical and subcortical connections within the pedunculopontine nucleus of the primate Macaca mulatta determined using probabilistic diffusion tractography. J Clin Neurosci. 2009;16(3):413-20. PMID:19167229 
21. Aravamuthan BR, Bergstrom DA, French RA, Taylor JJ, Parr-Brownlie LC, Walters JR. Altered neuronal activity relationships between the pedunculopontine nucleus and motor cortex in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease. Exp Neurol. 2008;213(2):268-80. PMCID:PMC4318559  PMID:18601924 
22. Aravamuthan BR, Stein JF, Aziz TZ. The anatomy and localization of the pedunculopontine nucleus determined using probabilistic diffusion tractography [corrected]. Br J Neurosurg. 2008;22 Suppl 1:S25-32. PMID:19085350 
23. Muthusamy KA, Aravamuthan BR, Kringelbach ML, Jenkinson N, Voets NL, Johansen-Berg H, Stein JF, Aziz TZ. Connectivity of the human pedunculopontine nucleus region and diffusion tensor imaging in surgical targeting. J Neurosurg. 2007;107(4):814-20. PMID:17937229 
24. Aravamuthan BR, Muthusamy KA, Stein JF, Aziz TZ, Johansen-Berg H. Topography of cortical and subcortical connections of the human pedunculopontine and subthalamic nuclei. Neuroimage. 2007;37(3):694-705. PMID:17644361 
25. Gupta V, Aravamuthan BR, Baskerville S, Smith SK, Gupta V, Lauer MA, Fischell TA. Reduction of subacute stent thrombosis (SAT) using heparin-coated stents in a large-scale, real world registry. J Invasive Cardiol. 2004;16(6):304-10. PMID:15155999