Manikum Moodley, M.D., FRCP

Manikum Moodley, M.D., FRCP, is a professor in the Department of Neurology and a pediatric neurologist at UT Health Austin Pediatric Neurosciences at Dell Children’s. He specializes in pediatric multiple sclerosis and neuro-immunological diseases, neurofibromatosis, autonomic disorders and neonatal neurology.

Moodley earned his medical degree from the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medical Sciences in Durban, South Africa. He completed both an internship and residency in pediatrics at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medical Sciences and a second residency in pediatric neurology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Scotland. He also completed a fellowship in neonatal neurology at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Moodley has received several teaching excellence awards in South Africa, Canada and the U.S. and has been invited to serve as an external examiner for the Specialist Pediatric Fellowship Examinations in Zimbabwe, the Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada Examinations in Canada and both the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery Final Examinations and the South African Pediatric Fellowship Examinations in South Africa. He is also a member of the Child Neurology Society and the American Academy of Neurology.