Vimala Elumalai

Researcher

UAMS

Also affiliated: Arkansas Children's Hospital (2021–2022)

Unknown Researcher

3 h-index 8 pubs 47 cited

Research Areas

Biomedical Subjects

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Vimala Elumalai's research focuses on understanding and improving health outcomes for children with epilepsy and hereditary spastic paraplegia. Her work has investigated barriers and facilitators to epilepsy self-management among Black children and caregivers in Arkansas, a topic explored in a qualitative study. Elumalai has also examined physicians' perspectives on shared decision-making in pediatric epilepsy surgery and the conceptualization of interdisciplinary clinics for drug-resistant epilepsy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her research extends to understanding seizures in rare genetic syndromes like Malan syndrome and epilepsy associated with the NIPA1 gene. Elumalai has contributed to studies on caregiver reports of seizures and has explored educational methodologies, such as asynchronous learning in flipped classrooms for online environments. She has collaborated with researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including Debopam Samanta, Geoffrey Curran, Aravindhan Veerapandiyan, and Akilandeswari Aravindhan.

Metrics

h-index: 3
Publications: 8
Citations: 47

Selected Publications

Understanding Seizures in Malan Syndrome Through Caregiver Reports: A Cross-Sectional Study (2025)

Journal of Child Neurology 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
Understanding Seizures in Malan Syndrome Through Caregiver Reports: A Cross-Sectional Study (2025)

medRxiv DOI OpenAlex
Epilepsy in hereditary spastic paraplegia associated with NIPA1 gene (2022)

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience 2 citations DOI OpenAlex