About Sleep Medicine

From 1981 to 1993

Dr. MANVIR BHATIA completed MBBS in the year 1981 & MD Medicine in the year 1986 from Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana and completed DM in Neurology in 1993, at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She joined in the department of neurophysiology lab at AIIMS, Delhi where She was a key player in initialing the epilepsy surgery programme

From 1981 to 1993

In this role, she was deeply interested in the nocturnal events experienced by patients and this started her journey into the field of Sleep Medicine. She visited the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston for Sleep medicine training and for Pre-surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy Surgery, with emphasis on Video EEG Monitoring at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

After 1993

She started the country’s first sleep disorder clinic in Neurology services at AIIMS. Over the years she has organized & attended numerous national and International conferences in the field of sleep medicine.

In 2008

She founded the Neurology Sleep Center, New Delhi in 2008, to offer comprehensive neurology and sleep related services under one roof. During her career as faculty at AIIMS, she trained residents in clinical neurophysiology, and has continued to do that.

From 2012 to 2020

To enhance the training of Sleep medicine she co founded the Ace School of Sleep Medicine in 2012 & then the first of its kind online learning platform for Sleep Medicine Institute in 2020 for training physicians and paramedics.
She is also a member of international and national bodies of neurology, Sleep medicine and Epilepsy.

From 2014 to 2022

She has completed the Ambassadors program at ISB for 10K Women Entrepreneurs’ program and the masters program at ISB in 2014 and 2022.
She is the recipient of the Indira Gandhi Mahila Ratan Award, and the AAPIOS in 2017 for extraordinary contribution in sleep medicine and for also increasing awareness of sleep medicine throughout India.

And also in 2014

She has also been a speaker to talk on SLEEP Health at various wellness meetings.
She has also contributed to the national OSA and Insomnia Guidelines. and conducted awareness Programs on Sleep Disorders in the community for creating awareness about SLEEP and its importance, celebrated World Sleep Day for > 10 years. Having given interviews on TV and Radio for popular channels like Times Now Big 92.7 FM etc and Print Media for Navbharat Times, HT Media etc

Major Past Positions-

1. 1. Additional Professor and In-charge of Neuro-Electrophysiology, Sleep Medicine at AIIMS, New Delhi.
2. 2. Chairperson Sleep Medicine, Senior Neurology Consultant at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
3. 3.Chairperson Sleep Medicine, Senior Consultant Neurology, Medanta, Gurgaon.
4. 4. Director of Sleep Medicine and Senior Neurologist at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute-New Delhi.