Pria Anand, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology

Biography
Dr. Anand is the Program Director of the Adult Neurology Residency and Chief of the Division of Hospital Neurology. She practices at Boston Medical Center, where she cares for hospitalized patients with acute neurological disorders and for patients with neurologic complications of infectious diseases, including HIV, neurocysticercosis, HTLV-associated myelopathy, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, and encephalitis.
Dr. Anand received her BA in cognitive science at Yale University and her MD with a concentration in biomedical ethics and medical humanities at Stanford University. She completed her neurology residency at Johns Hopkins, where she received the Thomas J. Preziosi Award for Clinical Excellence in Neurology and the Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award for Clinical Excellence for “a level of mastery in interpersonal skills, humanism, diagnostic acumen, knowledge, and a scholarly approach to clinical practice”. She completed the Advanced General Neurology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital with a focus on neuro-infectious diseases, neuroimmunology, and neurologic manifestations of systemic diseases.
Publications
- Published on 1/15/2025
Manzano GS, Eaton J, Levy M, Abbatemarco JR, Aksamit AJ, Anand P, Balaban DT, Barreras P, Baughman RP, Bhattacharyya S, Bomprezzi R, Cho TA, Chwalisz B, Clardy SL, Clifford DB, Flanagan EP, Gelfand JM, Harrold GK, Hutto SK, Pawate S, Rivera Torres N, Abdel-Wahed L, Dunham SR, Gupta RK, Moss B, Pardo CA, Samudralwar RD, Venna N, Zabeti A, Kister I. Consensus Recommendations for the Management of Neurosarcoidosis: A Delphi Survey of Experts Across the United States. Neurol Clin Pract. 2025 Apr; 15(2):e200429. PMID: 39830676.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/13/2024
Greige T, Odo D, Mani C, Bissonnette S, Anand P. Education Research: The MANET Project: Museum Art in Neurology Education Training. Neurol Educ. 2024 Dec; 3(4):e200170. PMID: 39748893.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/4/2024
White EI, Anand P. Teaching Video NeuroImage: HTLV-1-Associated Myelopathy With Downbeat Nystagmus. Neurology. 2024 Jul 09; 103(1):e209562. PMID: 38833644.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/4/2024
Pua DKA, Anand P, Bhattacharyya S. Stroke associated with sarcoidosis: A systematic review of reported cases. J Neurol Sci. 2024 Jul 15; 462:123080. PMID: 38850770.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/7/2023
Madsen J, Vila C, Anand P, Lau KHV. Social Work in Outpatient Neurology at a Safety-Net Hospital: A 200-Hour Profile. J Immigr Minor Health. 2024 Feb; 26(1):247-252. PMID: 37676447.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/28/2023
Anand P, Cervantes-Arslanian AM, Feske S. Pandemic Neurology. Semin Neurol. 2023 Apr; 43(2):186. PMID: 37379849.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/28/2023
Faro SH, Manmatharayan A, Leiby B, Jain N, Mohamed FB, Talekar KS, Doshi A, Jambor I, Chang S, Finkelstein M, Kremer S, Lersy F, Lindgren B, Figueiredo NM, Gerevini S, Napolitano A, Jain R, Dogra S, Pillai JJ, Ryan D, Jager R, Carletti F, Mian A, Kaliev A, Anand P, Takahashi C, Murat A, Colen R, Mansueto G, Pizzini F. Neuroimaging findings in 4342 hospitalized COVID-19 subjects: A multicenter report from the United States and Europe. J Neuroimaging. 2023; 33(5):752-763. PMID: 37381160.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/1/2023
McEntire CRS, Fletcher A, Toledano M, Epstein S, White E, Tan CS, Mao-Draayer Y, Banks SA, Aksamit AJ, Gelfand JM, Thakur KT, Anand P, Cortese I, Bhattacharyya S. Characteristics of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Associated With Sarcoidosis Without Therapeutic Immune Suppression. JAMA Neurol. 2023 Jun 01; 80(6):624-633. PMID: 37093609.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/15/2023
Hingorani KS, Barnes E, Carneiro T, Sader E, Anand P, Ong CJ, Chung D, Daneshmand A, Suchdev K, Takahashi C, Greer D, Shulman JG, Aparicio HJ, Nguyen TN, Romero JR, AbdalKader M, Feske SK, Kimmel SD, Weinstein ZM, Fagan M, Dobrilovic N, Awtry E, Cervantes-Arslanian AM. Strokes in Patients With Injection Drug Use and Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis - A Case Series. Neurohospitalist. 2023 Jul; 13(3):272-277. PMID: 37441214.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/26/2023
White EI, Anand P, Cervantes-Arslanian AM. Characteristics and evolution of cerebral aneurysms among adults living with HIV: A retrospective, longitudinal case series. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2023 Jun; 32(6):107127. PMID: 37116270.
Read at: PubMed
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