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1997-2000

Name: Mark Albers
Email: mwa28@columbia.edu
Professional Interests: behavioral neurology
Selected Publications:
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Residency: 1997 to 2000, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2000 to 2001, Columbia University, fellow
Position Now: 2001 to present, Columbia University, assistant professor

Name: Abdulrahman Al-Reshaid

Name: Alison Begleiter

Name: Wes Farris

Name: Michael D. Greicius
Email: greicius@stanford.edu
Professional Interests, functional imaging, dementia
Selected Publications:
1. Greicius MD, Geschwind M, Miller BL: Presenile dementia syndromes: An update on taxonomy and diagnosis. J Neurol Neurosur Psychiatry 72:691-700 (2002).URL:
Residency: 1997 to 2000, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position, 2000 to 2002, Stanford University, post-doc
Position Now 2002 to present, Stanford University Dept of Neurology, instructor

Name: Albert Hung
Email: ahung@partners.org
Professional Interests: movement disorders, molecular neurobiology
Selected Publications:
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Residency: 1997 to 2000, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2000 to 2002, Partners Neurology, movement disorders fellow
Position Now: 2002 to present, Assistant in Neurology, MGH. Instructor in Neurology, HMS

Name: John Markman
Email: john.markman@lahey.org
Professional Interests: neuropathic pain, neuraxial approaches to pain management
Selected Publications:
1. Markman, JD, Oaklander AL. Neuropathic Pain. In: Ballantyne J, Fishman S, Abdi S, ed. Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of Pain Management, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2001.

URL: http://www.lahey.org/PhysDir/Detail.asp?ID=1656
Residency: 1997 to 2000, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2001 to 2002, department of anesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, fellow, anesthesiology and pain management
Position Now: 2002 to present, Lahey Clinic, interventional pain management, staff physician, departments of anesthesiology and neurology

Name: Claudia M. Testa
Email: ctesta@emory.edu
Professional Interests: movement disorders; basic research on pathophysiology and new therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases
Selected Publications:
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Residency: 1997 to 2000, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2000 to 2002, Emory University Neurology, Fellow, movement disorders
Position Now: 2002 to present, Emory University Neurology, Assistant Professor

1998-2001

Name: Alireza Atri, M.D., Ph.D.
Email: aatri@partners.org
Professional Interests: memory and learning, cognitive neuroscience, mathematical modeling, neuropharmacology of memory and learning, functional mri, memory disorders, dementia, alzheimer's disease, parkinson's disease, cognitive changes in healthy aging, teaching and welfare of medical students and residents, spirituality in medicine
Selected Publications:
1. sherman, s.j., atri, a., hasselmo, m.e., and stern, c.e., howard, m.w., scopolamine impairs human recognition memory: data and modeling. behavioral neuroscience. (in press)

2. atri, a., sherman sj, howard mw, hasselmo me, and stern ce. (2002) scopolamine induces impairment of subsequent item recognition in humans: data and modeling. society for neuroscience abstracts. 582.4 (abstract).

3. lee, f.s., chu, f.k., tackley m, wu, a.d., atri, a., wessels, m.r. (2000). human granulocytic ehrlichiosis presenting as facial diplegia in a 42 year-old woman. clinical infectious disease. nov; 31(5): 1288-1291.

4. atri, a. (1995). high-yield facts: immunology, microbiology and pharmacology. in: first aid for the usmle step 1 by amin, c., bushan, v., and le, t. appleton and lange publishers, norwalk, connecticut. sixth edition. 105-131, 161-193.

5. atri, a., sneyd, j., girard, s., ammundson, j., and clapham, d. (1993). a single-pool model for intracellular calcium oscillations and waves in the xenopus laevis oocyte. biophysical journal. v65: 1727-1739.

6. sneyd, j., atri, a., ferguson, m.w.j., lewis, m.a., seward, w., and murray, j.d. (1993). a model for the spatial patterning of teeth primordia in the alligator: initiation of the dental determinant. journal of theoretical biology . 165, 633-658.

7. sneyd, j., and atri, a. (1993). curvature dependence of a model for calcium wave propagation. physica d. v65, n4:365-372.

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Residency: 1998 to 2001, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position, 2001 to 2002, 1. Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School: fellowship: memory disorders and dementia 2. Boston University: post-doctoral fellowship in computational and cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
Position Now: 2002 to present, 1. MGH and Harvard Medical School: clinical associate in neurology (mgh), instructor in neurology (hms). 2. Boston University: research associate

Name: David Y. Huang, M.D., Ph.D.
Email: huangd@glial.med.unc.edu
Professional Interests: (Basic Science) Cellular Mechanisms of Neuroprotection in Stroke (Clinical Science) Stroke and Critical Care Neurology
Selected Publications:
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Residency: 1998 to 2001, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position, 2001 to 2002, Massachusetts General Hospital, Fellow, Stroke and Neurologic Critical Care
Position Now: 2002 to present, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor, Neurology

Name: Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD-PhD
Email: ccailliau@neuro.columbia.edu
Professional Interests: movement disorders research on the role of dendritic filopodia in synaptogenesis
Selected Publications:
1. portera-cailliau c, c-h sung, j nathans, r adler (1994) apoptotic photoreceptor cell death in mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa. proc natl acad sci usa 91:974-8

2. portera-cailliau c, jc hedreen, dl price, ve koliatsos (1995) evidence for apoptotic cell death in huntington disease and excitotoxic animal models. j neurosci 15:3775-87

3. portera-cailliau c, dl price, lj martin (1996) n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor proteins nr2a and nr2b are differentially distributed in the developing rat central nervous system as revealed by subunit-specific antibodies. j neurochem 66:692-700

4. portera-cailliau c, dl price, lj martin (1997) excitotoxic neuronal death in the immature brain is an apoptosis-necrosis morphological continuum. j comp neurol 378:70-87

5. portera-cailliau c, dl price, lj martin (1997) nmda and non-nmda receptor mediated excitotoxic neuronal deaths in adult brain are morphologically distinct: further evidence for an apoptosis-necrosis continuum of neuronal death. j comp neurol 378:88-104

6. martin lj, na al-abdulla, am brambrink, jr kirsch, fe sieber, c portera-cailliau (1998) neurodegeneration in excitotoxicity, global ischemia, and target deprivation: a perspective on the contributions of apoptosis and necrosis. brain res bull 46:281-309

7. portera-cailliau c, and r yuste (2001) on the function of dendritic filopodia. rev. neurol., 22:1158-66

URL: http://www.twophoton.com
Residency: 1998 to 2001, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2001 to 2004, Columbia University, Postdoctoral Fellow
Position Now:

Name: Volney Sheen
Email: vsheen@caregroup.harvard.edu
Professional Interests: epilepsy, neurogenetics
Selected Publications:
1. sheen vl, dixon ph, fox jw, hong se, kinton l, sisodiya sm, duncan js, dubeau f, scheffer ie, schachter sc, wilner a, henchy r, crino p, kamuro k, dimario f, berg m, kuzniecky r, cole aj, bromfield e, biber m, schomer d, wheless j, silver k, mochida gh, berkovic sf, andermann f, andermann e, dobyns wb, wood nw, walsh ca. mutations in the x-linked filamin 1 gene cause periventricular nodular heterotopia in males as well as in females. hum mol genet 2001 aug 15;10(17):1775-83.

2. smith m, cros d, sheen vl. hyperperfusion with vasogenic leakage by fmri in migraine with prolonged aura. neurology. 2002 april; 58(8): 1308-1309.

3. nogueira r, sheen vl. herpes zoster opthalmicus followed by contralateral hemiparesis. new england journal of medicine, 2002 apr 11; 346(15):1127.

4. sheen vl, feng y, graham d, takafuta t, shapiro s, walsh ca. filamin a (filamin 1) and filamin b (filamin 3) are co-expressed within neurons during periods of neuronal migration and can physically interact. hum mol genet 2002 nov 1; 11(23):2845-2854.

5. sheen vl, asimakopoulos f, heyman e, henderson g, feske sk. hemichorea as a presentation of recurrent non-hodgkin's lymphoma. journal of neurology, in press.

6. sheen vl, wheless jw, bodell a, braverman e, cotter p, rauen ka, glenn o,weisiger k, packman s, walsh ca, sherr eh. periventricular heterotopia associated with chromosome 5p anomalies. neurology, in press.

7. sheen vl, topcu m, berkovic s, yalnizoglu d, blatt i, bodell a, hill rs, ganesh vs, cherry tj, shugart yy, walsh ca. autosomal recessive form of periventricular heterotopia. neurology, in press.

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Residency: 1998 to 2001, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2001 to 2003, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, instructor in neurology, epilepsy fellow
Position Now:

Name: Stelios Manolis Smirnakis

Name: Steven Tanabe

Name: Dileep R. Yavagal
Email: dyavagal@rocketmail.com & dyavagal@mednet.ucla.edu
Professional Interests: interventional neuroradiology and neurointensive care
Selected Publications:
1. yavagal d. r., perera g., legnelli, a., fitzsimmons bf., krieter, k., classen, j., mayer, s. a. detection of microvascular vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage with mri perfusion imaging. platform presentation at american academy of neurology annual meeting at denver, co in april 2003.

2. h. christian schumacher md, philip m. meyers md, dileep r. yavagal md, noam y. harel md, mitchell s.v. elkind md ms, j. p. mohr md ms, and john pile-spellman md. endovascular mechanical thrombectomy of an occluded superior division branch of the left mca for acute cardioembolic stroke. cardiovascular and interventional radiology. accepted for publication.

3. yavagal, d. r., oak, j. l., karnad, d.r..
role of metoclopramide in prevention of nosocomial pneumonia in critically ill patients with enteral tube feeding. critical care medicine. 2000 may;28(5):1408-11

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Residency: 1998 to 2001 , Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2001 to 2002, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY., fellow in critical care neurology
Position Now: 2002 to 2004, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA., fellow in interventional neuroradiology

1999-2002

Name: Wendy Rachel Galpern

Name: Carole Ho
Email: caroleho@stanford.edu
Professional Interests: neurodevelopment, neuromuscular disease
Selected Publications:

1. c ho, zhou, j., medina m., tomohide g., jacobson m., bhidi p., k kosik.?-catenin is a nervous system specific adherens junction protein which undergoes dynamic relocalization during development. journal of comparative neurology. 420: 261-276, 2000.

2. j zhou, m medina, u liyange, c ho, a lovett, m simmons, k kosik. presenilin 1 interacts with a novel member of the armadillo family. neuroreport. 8(8): 2085-2090, 1997.

3. jr wong, c ho, p mauch, n coleman, s berman, lb chen. removal of carcinoma cells from contaminated bone marrow using the lipophilic cation rhodamine 123. clinical cancer research, 1:621-630, 1995.

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Residency: 1999 to 2002: Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2002 to present, Stanford University, laboratory of Marc Tessier-Lavigne, postdoc
Position Now:

Name: David C. Mccarthy Jr
Email: dmccarthy2@partners.org
Professional Interests: seizuregenesis, computational neuroscience
Selected Publications:
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Residency: 1999 to 2002, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position, 2002 to present, partners eeg/neurophysiology fellowship, Fellow
Position Now:

Name: Mai N. Nguyen-Huynh
Email: mai_nguyenhuynh@post.harvard.edu
Professional Interests: neurovascular
Selected Publications:

1. nguyen-huynh m; lev m; rordorf g. spontaneous recanalization of internal carotid occlusion. stroke, to be published around march 2003.

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Residency: 1999 to 2002, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2002 to 2005, UCSF neurovascular, fellow
Position Now:

Name: Scott Plotkin
Email: splotkin@partners.org
Professional Interests: neuro-oncology, blood-brain barrier
Selected Publications:

1. w.a. banks, l. ortiz, s.r. plotkin, and a.j. kastin, "human interleukin (il) 1a, murine il-1a and murine il-1b are transported from blood to brain in the mouse by a shared saturable mechanism," journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, 259, 988-996, 1991.

2. w.a. banks, s.r. plotkin, and a.j. kastin, "permeability of the blood-brain barrier to soluble cytokine receptors," neuroimmunomodulation, 2, 161-165, 1995.

3. s.r. plotkin, w.a. banks, and a.j. kastin, "comparison of saturable transport and extracellular pathways in the passage of interleukin-1a across the blood-brain barrier," journal of neuroimmunology, 67, 41-47, 1996.

4. s.r. plotkin, w.a. banks, p.j. waguespack, and a.j. kastin, "ethanol alters the concentration of met-enkephalin in brain by affecting peptide transport system-1 independent of preproenkephalin mrna," journal of neuroscience research, 48, 273-280, 1997.

5. s.r. plotkin, w.a. banks, and a.j. kastin, "enkephalin, ppe mrna, and pts-1 in alcohol withdrawal seizure-prone and -resistant mice," alcohol, 15, 25-31, 1998.

6. s.r. plotkin, w.a. banks, l.m. maness, and a.j. kastin, "differential transport of rat and human interleukin-1a across the blood-brain barrier and blood-testis barrier in rats," brain research, 881, 57-61, 2000.

7. s.r. plotkin and t.t. batchelor, "advances in the therapy of primary central nervous system lymphoma," clinical lymphoma, 1, 263 - 275, 2001.

8. s. r. plotkin, w.a. banks, c.s. cohn, and a.j. kastin, "withdrawal from alcohol in withdrawal seizure-prone and -resistant mice: evidence for enkephalin resistance, "pharmacology biochemistry and behavior, 68, 379 - 387, 2001.

9. s.r. plotkin and t.t. batchelor, "primary nervous system lymphoma," the lancet oncology, 2, 354 - 365, 2001.

10. s.r. plotkin and p.y. wen, "neurologic complications of cancer therapy", neurologic clinics of north america (in press).

11. s.r. plotkin and t.t. batchelor, "primary nervous system lymphoma," current treatment options in oncology, 3(6), 525-535, 2002.

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Residency: 1998 to 2002 , Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2002 to 2003, MGH Brain Tumor Center, Fellow
Position Now:

Name: Eric Smith
Email: eesmith@partners.org
Professional Interests: stroke, amyloid angiopathy, small vessel ischemic diseases
Selected Publications:

1. smith ee, rosand j, knudsen ka, hylek em, greenberg sm. leukoaraiosis is associated with warfarin-related hemorrhage following ischemic stroke. neurology. 2002 jul 23;59(2):193-7.

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Residency: 1999 to 2002, Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2002 to present, Massachusetts General Hospital, stroke fellow
Position Now:

Name: Serena Susan Spudich

Name: Bryan J. Traynor
Email: btraynor@partners.org
Professional Interests: ALS, neurogenetics, neurodegeneration, neuroepidemiology, neuromuscular
Selected Publications:

1. BJ Traynor, O Hardiman. Status Epilepticus [letter]. N Engl J Med. 1998 Aug 6; 339(6): 410.

2. B Corr, E Frost, BJ Traynor, O Hardiman. Service provision for patients with ALS/MND: A cost-effective multidisciplinary approach. J Neurol Sci. 1998 (Suppl 1) S141 - 145.

3. BJ Traynor, MB Codd, B Corr, C Forde, E Frost, O Hardiman. Incidence and prevalence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in Ireland, 1995-1997: A population-based study. Neurology 1999 Feb;52(3):504-9

4. BJ Traynor, MB Codd, B Corr, C Forde, E Frost, O Hardiman. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mimic syndromes: a population-based study. Arch Neurol. 2000 Jan;57(1):109-13.

5. BJ Traynor, MB Codd, B Corr, C Forde, E Frost, O Hardiman. Clinical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis according to the El Escorial and Airlie House diagnostic criteria: A population-based study. Arch Neurol. 2000 Aug;57(8):1171-6.

6. MD Alexander, BJ Traynor, N Miller, B Corr, E Frost, S McQuaid, FM Brett, A Green, O Hardiman."True" Sporadic ALS associated with a novel SOD1 mutation. Ann Neurol 2002;52:680-683.

7. BJ Traynor, M Alexander, B Corr, E Frost, O Hardiman. An outcome study of Riluzole in ALS: a population-based study in Ireland, 1996 - 2000. J Neurol In press.

8. BJ Traynor, M Alexander, B Corr, E Frost, O Hardiman. Effect of Multi-specialty ALS clinic on ALS survival: a population-based study, 1996 - 2000. JNNP In press.

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Residency: 1999 to 2002 , Partners Neurology Residency Program, Resident
Post-Residency Position: 2002 to Pres, Cecil B Day Lab for Neuromuscular Research, Massachusetts General Hospital - East, fellow
Position Now:

Name: Peter Warinner

Class of 2003

Name: Yvette M. Bordelon currently movement disorder fellow at Columbia University
Email: ybordelon@partners.org

Name: Philip DeJager currently Multiple Sclerosis Fellow at Partners involved in the study of MS genetics at the Whitehead Institute at MIT
Email: pdejager@partners.org

Name: Allitia DiBernardo- currently Neurophysiology fellow at Partners
Email: adibernardo@partners.org

Name: Bradford Dickerson currently Alzheimers and Memory Disorder Fellow at Partners
Email: bdickerson@partners.org

Name: Eli Heyman (Pediatric Neurology) -currently Epilepsy Fellow at Partners
Email: eheyman@partners.org

Name: Leigh R. Hochberg -currently NICU/Stroke Fellow at MGH
Email: lhochberg@partners.org
Selected Publications:

Name: Santosh Kesari-currently NeuroOncology Fellow at Dana Farber/Partners
Email: skesari@partners.org

Name: Tracey A. Milligan- currently epilepsy research fellow at BWH
Email: tmilligan@partners.org

Name: William Seeley- currently Neurobehaviour fellow at Univ of California at SF
Email: wseeley@partners.org

Name: Marsha Smith- currently movement disorder fellow at Emory University
Email: mssmith@partners.org

Name: Kellie Sweet (Pediatric Neurology)
Email: ksweet@partners.org

Name: Kristen Upchurch- currently Neurosurgery resident at UCLA
Email: kupchurch@partners.org

Name:Ronan Walsh- currently epilepsy fellow at BWH
Email: rjwalsh@partners.org

Class of 2004

Name: Sydney Cash (Chief Resident)
Email: scash@partners.org

Name: Thomas Cochrane
Email: tcochrane@partners.org

Name: Jan Drappatz
Email: jdrappatz@hms.harvard.edu

Name: Jacob A. Sloane
Email: jsloane@partners.org

Name: David B. Wheeler
Email: dbwheeler@partners.org

Name: Charles A. Zollinger (Chief Resident)
Email: czollinger@partners.org

Class of 2005

Name: Robert Baloh
Email: rbaloh@partners.org

Name: Milan G. Chheda
Email: mchheda@partners.org

Name: Sherry Chou
Email: schou1@partners.org

Name: Christine Doss
Email: cdoss@partners.org

Name: Florian Eichler (Pediatric Neurology)
Email: feichler@partners.org

Name: April Fitzsimmons
Email: afitzsimmons@partners.org

Name: Stephen Gomperts
Email: sgomperts@partners.org

Name: Thomas Holmes
Email: tholmes@partners.org

Name: Andrew Kayser
Email: akayser@partners.org

Name: Autumn Klein
Email: aklein1@partners.org

Name: Jong Woo Lee
Email: jlee38@partners.org

Name: Jeremiah M. Scharf
Email: jscharf@partners.org

Name: Anne-Marie A. Wills
Email: awills@partners.org

Name: Talene Yacoubian
Email: tyacoubian@partners.org

 

 

See this link for the MGH Neurology Alumni Reunion in 1997.