Sejal Jain, M.D.

Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Biography

Sejal Jain, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management and the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is a fellowship-trained interventional pain management physician whose treatment approach involves multimodal pain management that minimizes narcotics and optimizes sleep and function.

Dr. Jain earned her medical degree at the Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India. She performed her residency in child neurology at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where she also gained advanced training through a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology. She also completed fellowships in sleep medicine and pain management at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Arizona, respectively.

Certified in pain medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, in addition to neurology with special qualification in child neurology, sleep medicine, and epilepsy, Dr. Jain joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022.

Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. Prior to that, she served at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she was the Founder and Director of the Neurology-Sleep Program, the Associate Director of the hospital’s Sleep Center, the Director of the Epilepsy Fellowship Program, and the Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program.

Dr. Jain’s research interests include evaluating the effects of sleep and circadian rhythm on pain perception and industry-sponsored clinical trials in pain management. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has presented at conferences worldwide.

In addition, she serves as a review editor for Frontiers in Neurology, Frontiers in Sleep and Frontiers in Psychiatry and as an ad hoc reviewer for several other academic journals, as well as for the Neurology Panel of the Federal Drug Administration’s Office of Orphan Products Development.

Professional Associations & Affiliations

United States Association for the Study of Pain
American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Honors & Awards

America’s Top Physicians 2009-2014, Consumer Research Council of America
Top Scholar Epilepsy Fellow Award 2007, American Epilepsy Society 61st Annual Meeting
Epilepsy Patient Care Award 2007, VCU Medical Center
Top Scholar Child Neurology Fellow Award 2006, Child Neurology Society 35th Annual Meeting
American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Resident Travel Scholarship 2006, AAN 58th Annual Meeting

Books & Publications

Books
- Epilepsy and Sleep in Pediatric Epilepsy, Diagnosis and Treatment
  Jain SV (2017), New York, Demos Medical Publishing
- Disorders of excessive sleepiness in Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice
  Jain SV, Kothare SV (2017), London, UK, Elsevier Health Sciences
- Epilepsy and Sleep in Adolescents in Sleep Disorders in Adolescents: A Clinical Casebook
  Jain SV, Kothare SV (2017), Switzerland, Springer International Publishing
- Sleep and Epilepsy in Sleep Disorders in Children
  Jain SV, Kothare SV (2017), Switzerland, Springer International Publishing
- Nocturnal Paroxysmal Disorders in Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice
  Kothare SV, Jain SV (2017), London, UK, Elsevier Health Sciences
- Sleep Terrors and Confusional Arousals in Children and Adolescents in Prasomnia: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment
  Jain SV (2013), New York, Springer
- Sleep Walking in Children and Adolescents in Parasomnia: Clinical Characteristics and Treatment
  Arya R, Jain SV (2013), New York, Springer
- Evaluating the Child with Seizure in Pediatric Epilepsy, Diagnosis and Treatment
  Jain SV, Morton LD (2007), New York, Demos Medical Publishing
Publications
- Lead and Pulse Generator Migration After Spinal Cord Stimulation Implantation: Insights From an Analysis of 7322 Patients.
  Speltz Paiz R, Kaizer A, Jain SV, Darrow DP, Shankar H, Goel V, Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society 2022 Aug
- Increased Incidence of Pediatric Narcolepsy Following the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic: A Report from the Pediatric Working Group of the Sleep Research Network.
  Simakajornboon N, Mignot E, Maski K, Owens J, Rosen C, Ibrahim S, Hassan F, Chervin RD, Perry G, Brooks L, Kheirandish-Gozal L, Gozal D, Mason T, Robinson A, Malow B, Naqvi K, Chen ML, Jambhekar S, Halbower A, Graw-Panzer K, Dayyat E, Lew J, Melendres C, Kotagal S, Jain S, Super E, Dye T, Hossain MM, Tadesse D, Sleep 2022 Jun
- Evaluation of green light exposure on headache frequency and quality of life in migraine patients: A preliminary one-way cross-over clinical trial.
  Martin LF, Patwardhan AM, Jain SV, Salloum MM, Freeman J, Khanna R, Gannala P, Goel V, Jones-MacFarland FN, Killgore WD, Porreca F, Ibrahim MM, Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache 2021 02 41 2 135-147
- Green Light Exposure Improves Pain and Quality of Life in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Preliminary One-Way Crossover Clinical Trial.
  Martin L, Porreca F, Mata EI, Salloum M, Goel V, Gunnala P, Killgore WDS, Jain S, Jones-MacFarland FN, Khanna R, Patwardhan A, Ibrahim MM, Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) 2021 02 22 1 118-130
- Improvement of Parasomnias After Treatment of Restless Leg Syndrome/ Periodic Limb Movement Disorder in Children.
  Gurbani N, Dye TJ, Dougherty K, Jain S, Horn PS, Simakajornboon N, Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2019 05 15 5 743-748
- Value of combined video EEG and polysomnography in clinical management of children with epilepsy and daytime or nocturnal spells.
  Jain SV, Dye T, Kedia P, Seizure 2019 Feb 65 1-5
- Outcomes of long-term iron supplementation in pediatric restless legs syndrome/periodic limb movement disorder (RLS/PLMD).
  Dye TJ, Jain SV, Simakajornboon N, Sleep medicine 2017 Apr 32 213-219
- Clinical factors predict surgical outcomes in pediatric MRI-negative drug-resistant epilepsy.
  Arya R, Leach JL, Horn PS, Greiner HM, Gelfand M, Byars AW, Arthur TM, Tenney JR, Jain SV, Rozhkov L, Fujiwara H, Rose DF, Mangano FT, Holland KD, Seizure 2016 Oct 41 56-61
- Should spikes on post-resection ECoG guide pediatric epilepsy surgery?
  Greiner HM, Horn PS, Tenney JR, Arya R, Jain SV, Holland KD, Leach JL, Miles L, Rose DF, Fujiwara H, Mangano FT, Epilepsy research 2016 May 122 73-8
- Preresection intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) abnormalities predict seizure-onset zone and outcome in pediatric epilepsy surgery.
  Greiner HM, Horn PS, Tenney JR, Arya R, Jain SV, Holland KD, Leach JL, Miles L, Rose DF, Fujiwara H, Mangano FT, Epilepsia 2016 Apr 57 4 582-9
- Sleep and Epilepsy.
  Jain SV, Kothare SV, Seminars in pediatric neurology 2015 Jun 22 2 86-92
- Central Hypersomnia.
  Dye TJ, Jain SV, Kothare SV, Seminars in pediatric neurology 2015 Jun 22 2 93-104
- Melatonin improves sleep in children with epilepsy: a randomized, double-blind, crossover study.
  Jain SV, Horn PS, Simakajornboon N, Beebe DW, Holland K, Byars AW, Glauser TA, Sleep medicine 2015 May 16 5 637-44
- Absence Epilepsy: Older vs Newer AEDs.
  Tenney JR, Jain SV, Current treatment options in neurology 2014 May 16 5 290
- In response: Effects of epilepsy treatments on sleep architecture and daytime sleepiness: an evidence-based review of objective sleep metrics.
  Jain SV, Glauser TA, Epilepsia 2014 May 55 5 778
- Central sleep apnea: does stabilizing sleep improve it?
  Jain SV, Simakajornboon N, Arthur TM, Journal of child neurology 2014 Jan 29 1 96-8
- Effects of epilepsy treatments on sleep architecture and daytime sleepiness: an evidence-based review of objective sleep metrics.
  Jain SV, Glauser TA, Epilepsia 2014 Jan 55 1 26-37
- Provider practices impact adequate diagnosis of sleep disorders in children with epilepsy.
  Jain SV, Simakajornboon N, Glauser TA, Journal of child neurology 2013 May 28 5 589-95
- Narcolepsy-cataplexy: is streptococcal infection a trigger?
  Natarajan N, Jain SV, Chaudhry H, Hallinan BE, Simakajornboon N, Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2013 Mar 9 3 269-70
- Obstructive sleep apnea and primary snoring in children with epilepsy.
  Jain SV, Horn PS, Simakajornboon N, Glauser TA, Journal of child neurology 2013 Jan 28 1 77-82
- Ictal MEG onset source localization compared to intracranial EEG and outcome: improved epilepsy presurgical evaluation in pediatrics.
  Fujiwara H, Greiner HM, Hemasilpin N, Lee KH, Holland-Bouley K, Arthur T, Morita D, Jain SV, Mangano FT, Degrauw T, Rose DF, Epilepsy research 2012 May 99 3 214-24
- Obstructive sleep apnea in children with epilepsy: prospective pilot trial.
  Jain SV, Simakajornboon S, Shapiro SM, Morton LD, Leszczyszyn DJ, Simakajornboon N, Acta neurologica Scandinavica 2012 Jan 125 1 e3-6
- Should we be targeting the sleep-wake patterns of children with epilepsy?
  Jain SV, Kothare SV Neuropsychiatry 2011 6 1 517?520
- Ischemic stroke and excellent recovery after administration of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator.
  Jain SV, Morton LD, Pediatric neurology 2008 Feb 38 2 126-9

Research