About Dr. Jenelle Jindal
Professional Summary
Dr. Jenelle Jindal is a board-certified neurologist and vascular neurologist whose career spans clinical leadership, hospital administration, public health crisis response, and research in artificial intelligence and medicine.
She is the founder of Jindal Neurology, Inc., a medical corporation focused on advancing the care of patients with aphasia through the Presence Medicine Approach -- a model grounded in sustained physician attention, communication accessibility, and the emerging science of AI-enabled stroke recovery.
Education
B.S. with Honors
Stanford University
Biological Sciences Major, Linguistics Minor
M.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Neurology Residency
Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Vascular Neurology Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital / Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Board Certifications
- Board Certified in Neurology (2013) -- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Board Certified in Vascular Neurology (2014) -- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Clinical Leadership (2013 - 2020)
Dr. Jindal founded and ran Jindal Neurology, Inc., a private medical practice where she cared for thousands of patients across multiple hospitals in Silicon Valley, including Regional Medical Center of San Jose, Good Samaritan Hospital, O'Connor Hospital, and El Camino Hospital. Her clinical focus included stroke, brain hemorrhage, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative disease in the emergency room, ICU, and hospital wards.
As Medical Director of the Peter C. Fung MD Stroke Program at El Camino Health (2016 - 2020), she was responsible for two hospital stroke centers accredited by the Joint Commission. She launched new programs including telemedicine and thrombectomy care, and her team received Joint Commission recognition for clinical excellence and a higher level of industry certification.
She also served as Chair of the Stroke Care System Quality Improvement Committee for Santa Clara County EMS (2018) and Vice Chair of the Bioethics Committee at Regional Medical Center (2017 - 2018).
Public Health Leadership (2020 - 2021)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Jindal served as Director of Special Operations for the Santa Clara County Public Health Department and Director of the Health System Preparedness Branch at the County Emergency Operations Center.
She contributed to public health initiatives including antigen testing and vaccine outreach, and helped redesign the county vaccine homepage. Through the collective effort of the public health team, the county reached a 70% vaccination rate within six months.
Current Research (2023 - Present)
Dr. Jindal currently collaborates on research in two areas: AI-enabled augmented reality for stroke rehabilitation, and the evaluation and deployment of large language models in healthcare. She has worked with teams led by Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD (stroke rehabilitation) and Nigam Shah, MBBS, PhD, Chief Data Scientist (LLM evaluation).
This work has produced publications in Nature Medicine, NEJM AI, JAMIA, and AAAI, among others.
Personal Connection to Stroke and Language
Dr. Jindal's commitment to stroke care is deeply personal. Her mother and her grandfather both passed away from hemorrhagic strokes. Stroke has touched multiple generations of her family, shaping her understanding of what families go through and informing the depth of compassion and presence she brings to patient care.
Her relationship with language is equally lifelong. As a child, she placed third in the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee (1995) and fourth the following year (1996). She minored in Linguistics at Stanford. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. In her creative work, she writes poetry exploring the gap between clinical language and human experience -- giving voice to the experiences of those navigating crises in their health.
This combination -- a neurologist who loves language, who has lost family to stroke, and who writes poetry about the space between what is said and what is left unsaid -- is what draws her to aphasia. It is not an abstract specialty for her. It is personal, multigenerational, and rooted in a lifelong passion for the power and fragility of words.
Teaching & Mentoring
- Guest Lecturer, Stanford d.school -- "Intro to Digital Health" (2024)
- Lab Instructor, Human Nervous System and Behavior -- Harvard Medical School (2010)
- Instructor, Patient Doctor Course -- Harvard Medical School (2010)
- Mentor, Holmes Society -- Harvard Medical School (2009 - 2010), physician mentor for approximately 120 students
- Co-Coordinator, Anatomy Teaching Program -- Yale Medical School (2005 - 2006)
- Resident Writing Tutor -- Stanford University (2002 - 2004)
- El Camino Health Career Event -- taught brain anatomy to AVID program students (2017 - 2019)
Selected Honors
- National Merit Scholar (2000)
- President's Scholar, Stanford University (2000)
- President's Award for Academic Excellence in the Freshman Year, Stanford (2001)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Grants (Stanford 2003, Princeton 2001)
- Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist (1999)
- Lucent Technologies / Bell Laboratories Global Science Scholar (2000)
- Freeman J. Dyson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Physics (2000)
- Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship (2000 - 2004)
- Third place, Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee (1995)
- Fourth place, Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee (1996)
- Yale Medical School Summer Research Grant (2005)
- Joint Commission recognition for stroke program excellence at El Camino Health