Dr. Shrivastava did his MBBS and MD in Medicine from MGM Medical College ,Indore MP and subsequently went on to do his DM in Neurology from the prestigious Christian Medical College ,Vellore ,Tamil Nadu in the year 2006. He has a lot of research work on white matter disease (Multiple Sclerosis, ADEM etc) as a student. He won the first Prize for his paper on the clinical profile of ADEM at National conference of Neurology (IANCON) in 2009 held at kochi.