Aditi Sharma, MD, MBBS

Professional Background

Aditi Sharma, M.D., MBBS, is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Kansas Department of Neurology. She received a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, India, and completed her Neurology residency at the University of Iowa. In 2023, she received clinical training funding to study autoimmune neurology at the University of Utah.
Dr. Sharma’s clinical interests include autoimmune neurology and the treatment of myasthenia gravis.

Research

Overview

Dr. Sharma started her career in Neurology after she joined the Program in Clinical and Translational Neuromuscular Research at the Yale School of Medicine. Her lab research with the Guthy Jackson foundation under the mentorship of Dr. Kevin O’Connor focused on novel high throughput assays studying serum and CSF biomarkers in NMO. She interfaced between the clinic and basic science laboratory, acting as a link between them. She helped develop the bio-repository, followed research subjects, developed research questions and areas of independent investigations. She served as the principal blinded evaluator for multiple clinical trials as well as PI coordinator for a large NIH sponsored multicenter clinical trial, interfacing with multiple centers throughout the country. She was also in charge of the development, successful launch and maintenance of the EXPLORE-MG registry using REDCap, which enabled this to be used as a tool to study MG patients longitudinally. She also completed an independent project studying the disease burden and characteristics of refractory MG patients under the mentorship of Dr. Richard Nowak. She then completed a residency in Neurology at the University of Iowa, and subsequently a fellowship in Autoimmune Neurology under the mentorship of Dr. Stacey Clardy, during which time she focused her research interests in the management of patients with neurosarcoidosis. She joined The University of Kansas Medical Center in 2024 as a faculty member and currently works with patients who have rare autoimmune neurologic conditions including multiple sclerosis. She is an investigator in multiple clinical trials and also participates in teaching the medical students and residents.