Dr Michelle Kiley  

MB BS FRACP AM

Dr Michelle Kiley is a senior epilepsy specialist, she has served as the Director of Epilepsy Services at the RAH for 25 years. She has interests in EEG, status epilepticus and women with epilepsy. She has an active interest in clinical research, collaborating widely with interstate colleagues, and she is passionate about teaching and mentoring trainee specialists. 

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Dr Kiley has served on the Epilepsy Society of Australia (ESA) Executive since 2007; she was the President from 2015-2018, and Chair of the Education and Training Committee from 2018-2024. She has convened 3 ESA annual scientific meetings in Adelaide.

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Dr Kiley is the President of Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZAN). She served on the Council of ANZAN from 2010-2016, serving as the Honorary Treasurer from 2011-2016, and then again from 2019-2022 during which time she served as the Chair of the ANZAN Education and Training Committee. She has also served on the Annual Scientific Program and Women in Neurology Committees for ANZAN. Services to ANZAN were recognised with receipt of the 2024 E Graeme Robertson Lecture. In 2022 Dr Kiley was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to Neurology and Professional Associations.​​

A/Prof  David Schultz 

BM BS, FRACP

A/Prof David Schultz graduated from Flinders University in 1987. He did his Neurology training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Flinders Medical Centre, and overseas at Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham and the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, before returning to take up a consultant role at Flinders Medical Centre in 1997. He remains at Flinders, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the University and Head of Neurology and Stroke.

David is a general neurologist, and accepts referrals for all neurological conditions, but has a clinical and research interest in Motor Neurone Disease. He is a member of the Fight MND Clinical Trials and Translational Research Advisory Committee, the Research Committee of MND Australia and the MiNDAUS Partnership. Additionally, he is currently serving on the Overseas Training Physician Committee for the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.​​

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​​Please Note:

A/Prof David Schultz is the only neurologist that will accept Medico-Legal consults and associated reports.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Dr Joseph Frasca

MBBS FRACP

Dr Joseph Frasca graduated from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1981. Joseph did his Neurology training at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide  and also did further advanced specialist training overseas with a Neurophysiology Fellowship at the University of Kentucky Medical Centre and an Epilepsy Fellowship at the New York University Medical Centre.

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He is currently a senior staff Consultant Neurologist at the Flinders Medical Centre and a Senior Lecturer in Neurology at the Flinders University.

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He is a general Neurologist, but has particular interests in Epilepsy management, Epilepsy Surgery and Epilepsy drug research. Joseph is also a committee member of the Drugs and Devices Committee of the Epilepsy Association of Australia.

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He is also involved in using Botulinum Toxin for the use of Neurological conditions such as Chronic Migraine, Cervical Dystonia and Hemifacial spasm.​​​​​​

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Assoc. Prof.  Thomas Kimber

A/Prof MS BS

(Hons.) FRACP,PhD

A/Prof Dr Kimber graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1989 and then undertook basic physician training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.  He completed his Neurology advanced training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth, and the Royal Free Hospital in London.  His PhD, which concerned the effects of pallidotomy surgery on motor function in Parkinson’s disease, was awarded by the University of Adelaide in 2008.

In addition to his private practice, Dr Kimber is a senior consultant neurologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Adelaide.  While Dr Kimber sees patients presenting with a wide range of neurological disorders, his main clinical and academic areas of interest are Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Dr Sharavanan Parasivam

MS BS, FRACP​

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Dr Sharavanan (Shav) Parasivam completed his medical degree at the University of Adelaide 1997. He has had extensive clinical training in General Neurology including a year in Oxford and subsequently Movement Disorders. He has specific expertise in the management of patients with Movement Disorders particularly Parkinson’s Disease, the use of deep brain stimulation for the management of movement disorders as well as the use of botulinum toxin for the management of a number of neurological conditions.​​​​​​

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Dr Nicholas Chia

MBBS FRACP

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Dr Nicholas Chia completed his medical degree at the University of Adelaide and his Basic Physician Training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). His general neurology training in Adelaide was completed at Flinders Medical Centre and the RAH. He has undertaken fellowship training in Stroke/Cerebrovascular Neurology and Neurophysiology (Nerve Conduction Studies & Electromyography) at the RAH. He also trained overseas at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, completing a fellowship in multiple sclerosis and autoimmune neurology. He currently works as a consultant neurologist at the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals. He sees general neurological conditions but has special interest in neuroimmunological disorders including multiple sclerosis, autoimmune disorders of the central nervous system, myasthenia gravis, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), and other immune-mediated neuromuscular disorders.

Dr Janakan Ravindran

MB BS FRACP

Dr Janakan Ravindran is a Consultant Neurologist at the Royal Adelaide and Lyell McEwin Hospitals. He trained in neurology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre. He is currently the Head of Unit and Clinical Lead for Neuroimmunology, Neurology and Stroke Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Dr Ravindran has a particular subspecialty interest in Multiple Sclerosis and other autoimmune/neuroimmunological conditions as well as peripheral neuromuscular disorders.

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Dr Craig Kurunawai

MB BS FRACP

Dr Craig Kurunawai is a consultant neurologist with specialized expertise in stroke (vascular neurology) and epilepsy. By 2018, he had completed advanced training and fellowships in neurology, including stroke, epilepsy and neurophysiology. Dr Kurunawai is a fellow or the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the American college of Physicians. Craig holds consultant positions at the Royal Adelaide and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals.

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As a general knowledge neurologist, Dr Kurunawai also has an interest in headache management, including chronic migraine and the using of Botulinum Toxin for the treatment of neurological conditions such as cervical dystonia, hemifacial spasm, and chronic migraines".

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Dr James Triplett

B.Med Sci, B.Med (Dist), M. Med,FRACP

Dr Triplett also works as a neurologist and neurophysiologist at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide. He graduated from The University of Newcastle with a Bachelor of Medicine (Distinction) in 2010 and also has completed both a Bachelor of Medical Science, and Masters of Medicine from the University of Sydney. Dr Triplett undertook his neurology core training in Perth, Western Australia, and completed a neuromuscular and neuroimmunology fellowship at Concord Repatriation General Hospital, New South Wales.  Between 2018 and 2020 he undertook the Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZAN) fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, with particular focus on neuromuscular medicine, and clinical neurophysiology (nerve conduction studies, EMG and EEG). 

Dr Triplett has published widely and is involved in ongoing research in acquired neuromuscular and neuro-immunological disorders. He is is undertaking a PhD at the University of Adelaide into the  pathophysiological mechanisms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and leads the neuromuscular clinic at Flinders Medical Centre.

Dr Triplett has special interest in clinical neurophysiology, neuro-immunological disorders, hereditary and acquired neuromuscular conditions and the administration of Botulinum toxin for numerous neurological indications including migraine, hemifacial spasm, cervical dystonia and spasticity.