Dr. Lokesh Lingappa is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Neurologist at Rainbow Children’s Hospital, Hyderabad. He completed his medical school from Karnatak Medical College, Hubli, Karnataka. Pediatric Training from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh and trained in Neurology (DM Neurology) at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru. He pursued his passion to further Pediatric Neurology training and completed MRCPCH from the UK and was trained at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Bristol Children’s Hospital as a Fellow in Pediatric Neurology. Bristol, UK.

It was the vision to develop high-quality Pediatric Neurology services that brought him back to India. His efforts for the last 12 years has culminated with the presence of a pediatric neurology department across all the branches of Rainbow Children’s Hospital with four full-time Pediatric Neurologists, a Metabolic and Genetic specialist, and a two Child psychiatrists team. The services are fully supported by senior Rehab team members. (Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, Audiology, Speech Therapy, Visual Rehabilitation, Child Psychology testing, and counseling)

Dr. Lingappa was awarded the Best Outgoing Neurology Student (Dr. Anisya Vasanth Award) at NIMHANS 2003. He also received Travel Fellowship Grant Award at International Child Neurology Conference (ICNA) held in Montreal, Canada in 2006. He won the Best Paper Award at International Child Neurology Conference, Brazil in 2014. (Neurological Presentations of childhood Cancers) He has many national and international publications and presentations to his credit. He has authored few chapters in books released by the Indian Academy of Pediatrics. He has three best poster awards at national and international level conferences. He has described a new mechanism for childhood stroke for the first time in the world. (Mineralizing angiopathy with infantile Basal Ganglia Stroke after Minor Trauma

Dr. Lingappa’s Research interests range from neonatal neurological disorders, infantile epilepsy, intensive care neurology and long term outcomes of acute neurological disorders. He is actively involved in educating pediatricians and the primary care team about the essentials of management of common neurological problems. He was the editor of Newsletter for Rainbow Children’s Hospital and Perinatal Centre, Hyderabad for five years. Dr. Lingappa is a member of various associations and bodies namely, International Child Neurology Association(ICNA), Association of Child Neurology, Indian Academy of Neurology (IAN) India - LM 622, and Indian Academy of Paediatrics. He was the Secretary of Paediatric Epilepsy Society of Hyderabad (PESH), Hyderabad. Dr. Lingappa was the Organizing Secretary of AOCN National Conference in Feb 2014 and IAP Neurology Conference in July 2019.

Dr. Lingappa served as Secretary of AOCN from 2014 to 2016. He has been invited as Presidential Guest for the British Pediatric Neurology Association Conference to be held at Belfast in Jan 2020. He has been elected as Chair Person of the IAP Neurology Subsection from 2020 January. As part of efforts to improve the care for children with neurological problems and their families, the team of Pediatric Neurology has been running two year IAP Neurology training program from 2014 onwards. This has helped the services to be provided with much better precision and at the highest academic standards.