Dr. Hema R. Murali

Hema Murali, MD, is a pediatric neurologist specializing in sleep medicine. She provides treatment for a variety of neurological conditions including headaches, seizures, syncope, epilepsy, developmental delay, tics, movement disorders, weakness, numbness, nerve palsies, strokes, bleeds in the brain, tremors, cognitive decline, autism, problems with cranial nerves, muscles or eye movements, altered sensorium, dizziness, closed head injury, concussion, nerve injury, brain malformations, hydrocephalus, skull abnormalities, optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis.|Dr. Murali performs procedures and tests that include EEG, EMG, nerve conduction studies, MSLT and sleep studies.|She also treats sleep disorders including excessive daytime sleepiness, difficulties with falling asleep and staying asleep, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, parasomnias, sleep associated movement disorders and cataplexy.|Dr. Murali attended Mysore Medical College in Mysore, India, where she earned her medical degree. After medical school, she completed her residency at the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia. She followed that with a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science in Rochester, MN.|The thing she loves most about her job is interacting with her patients and their families. “The privilege of being a part of a trusted team to take care of a precious child's health is what brings me to work every day. There is immense joy and fulfilment in caring for children and being a trusted part of the team in this relationship,” she says.|Originally from India, Dr. Murali moved to the East Coast from Wisconsin to be closer to her children and extended family.|“I have been the service line medical director of neurosciences in a large multispecialty organization for several years,” she says. “In this role, I was able to stabilize and grow the department. I developed many new services and of course many new relationships that I still maintain. I have also been an integral part of a team running the Bardet-Biedl center of excellence for all of North America, and hope to establish one in the East as well.|Dr. Murali and her husband, a Geisinger nephrologist, have two children who are attending college. “We have a beautiful goldendoodle, who is smarter than our children, and very loving. We are a sandwich generation, and our parents live with us as well,” she says.|In her spare time, she enjoys walking her dog, hiking, biking, reading and traveling with family and friends.

Dr. Murali is highly rated in 2 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, Myoclonic Epilepsy, and Dravet Syndrome.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 3 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.