Arani Nitkunan

Services Committee Chair 2023-2026

Dr Arani Nitkunan was appointed as consultant neurologist at Croydon University Hospital in 2013. She is chair of the South West London Acute Provider Collaborative Neurology stream whose aim is to provide equitable accessible care in the region.

She read medicine at Newnham College, Cambridge and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. She was awarded a PhD for stroke research at St George’s Hospital, London in 2007. Her neurology training was in southwest London with stints at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, as well as one month in Jaffna Teaching Hospital, Sri Lanka.

Dr Nitkunan runs general neurology clinics at Croydon University Hospital and a specialist neuro-ophthalmology clinic at St George’s. She is clinical lead at Croydon with a particular focus on transforming acute neurology. She is part of the team managing patients on the Hyperacute Stroke Unit at St George’s and has inpatients at the regional neuroscience centre, Atkinson Morley Wing, St George’s Hospital.

Dr Nitkunan was appointed as council member of the Association of British Neurologists in July 2018.