Dr Arani Nitkunan FRCP

Dr Arani Nitkunan studied at Newnham College, Cambridge and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London graduating in 1999. Arani was awarded a PhD for stroke research at St George’s Hospital, London in 2007. Arani was appointed as a consultant neurologist in 2013 with general neurology clinics at Croydon University Hospital and a specialist neuro-ophthalmology clinic at St George’s. Her two sub-specialist areas are stroke and neuro-ophthalmology. She was appointed clinical lead for neurology at Croydon in 2015 where she has transformed acute neurology and driven the appointment of five nurse specialists. Since May 2023, Arani is the chair of the Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Services Committee and hence a member of ABN executive council. She has held the previous ABN role of vice-chair of the newly formed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and was a member of the Quality Committee and Acute Neurology Special Interest Group. She has been secondary care co-chair of the S