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Personal profile
Biography
Dr. Shobi Sivathamboo is internationally recognised for her work on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). She leads the SUDEP research group at Monash University, which has a focus on uncovering the incidence and biomarkers for SUDEP risk. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2019, which focused on examining cardiorespiratory function in epilepsy, and the relevance this has for SUDEP.
She has obtained >$250K worth of grants and funding from several peer reviewed national and international funding bodies and >$400K in industry funding. She has published in several leading peer-reviewed journals and been an invited speaker at various national and international forums, including the International Epilepsy Congress, Epilepsy Society of Australia, and the Canadian League Against Epilepsy. She is a member of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) SUDEP Task Force.
She leads a number of wearable studies at The Alfred Hospital and Royal Melbourne Hospital for seizure detection and prediction, with the goal of developing interventions for SUDEP prevention. She co-leads the largest global efforts to study biomarkers with Prof. Orrin Devinsky and Prof. Daniel Friedman (New York University) to examine ECG and EEG biomarkers for SUDEP risk; this study will collect data across four continents and 86 international tertiary epilepsy centres.
External positions
Research Fellow, Alfred Health
8 Apr 2019 → …
Research area keywords
- Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
- Cardiac disease
- Epilepsy
- Seizure detection
- Wearables
Network
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Cardiorespiratory function as a non-invasive biomarker for detecting seizures with artificial intelligence: Utilising data from long-term patient recordings from an epilepsy monitoring unit
O'Brien, T., Kwan, P., Sivathamboo, S., Perucca, P., Ge, Z., Le, T., Phung, D., Bonnington, P. & Piccenna, L.
8/04/19 → 8/04/20
Project: Research
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Interictal EEG and ECG for SUDEP Risk Assessment: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study
Chen, Z., Hsieh, A., Sun, G., Bergey, G., Berkovic, S. F., Perucca, P., D'Souza, W. J., Elder, C., Farooque, P., Johnson, E., Barnard, S., Nightscales, R., Kwan, P., Moseley, B., O'Brien, T. J., Sivathamboo, S., Laze, J., Friedman, D., Devinsky, O. & The MS-BioS Study Group, 18 Mar 2022, In: Frontiers in Neurology. 13, 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Serious Cardiac Arrhythmias Detected by Subcutaneous Long-term Cardiac Monitors in Patients With Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Sivathamboo, S., Liu, Z., Sutherland, F., Minato, E., Casillas-Espinosa, P., Jones, N. C., Todaro, M., Seneviratne, U., Cahill, V., Yerra, R., French, C. R., Nicolo, J-P., Perucca, P., Kwan, P., Sparks, P. B. & O'Brien, T. J., 6 Apr 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Neurology. 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Altered cardiac structure and function is related to seizure frequency in a rat model of chronic acquired temporal lobe epilepsy
Powell, K. L., Liu, Z., Curl, C. L., Raaijmakers, A. J. A., Sharma, P., Braine, E. L., Gomes, F. M., Sivathamboo, S., Macefield, V. G., Casillas-Espinosa, P. M., Jones, N. C., Delbridge, L. M. & O'Brien, T. J., Nov 2021, In: Neurobiology of Disease. 159, 13 p., 105505.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus) -
Association of short-term heart rate variability and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy
Sivathamboo, S., Friedman, D., Laze, J., Nightscales, R., Chen, Z., Kuhlmann, L., Devore, S., Macefield, V., Kwan, P., D’Souza, W., Berkovic, S. F., Perucca, P., O'Brien, T. J., Devinsky, O. & on behalf of MS-BioS study group, 14 Dec 2021, In: Neurology. 97, 24, p. E2357-E2367 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Interictal autonomic dysfunction
Sivathamboo, S. & Perucca, P., Apr 2021, In: Current Opinion in Neurology. 34, 2, p. 197-205 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
9 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Bridging Postdoctoral Fellowship 2020
Sivathamboo, Shobi (Recipient), 11 Dec 2019
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
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Developing Predictive Biomarkers of Epilepsy Seizures
Sivathamboo, Shobi (Recipient), O'Brien, Terence (Recipient), Kwan, Patrick (Recipient), Vasa, R. (Recipient), Mouzakis, K. (Recipient), Jones, Nigel (Recipient), Goldin, J. (Recipient), Pastorello, N. (Recipient) & Mitrevska, M. (Recipient), 20 Dec 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)