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Department of Neurology

Resident Symposiums

Residents' Day Symposium - Friday, May 22, 2009

Farrell Learning and Teaching Center ~ Atrium

7:30a.m. - 9:15a.m.

Poster Presentations: 7:30a.m. - 9:00a.m.

Awards Presentations: 9:00a.m.

Resident
Poster Title
Enrique Alvarez, MD, PhD "Adipokine levels in Multiple Sclerosis patients"
Patrick Bushard, MD "Diabetes Mellitus Predicts Poor Outcome in Intravenous rTPA-treated Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients"
Rachel Darken, MD, PhD "A Man with anti-Yo Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration and Lung Cancer"
Olga Doroftei, MD
Nino Dgebuadze, MD
"Spinal Arteriovenous Malformation"
Adam Fisch, MD "Neuroanatomy: Draw it to Know it - the completed book (a follow-up from the 2008 symposium)"
Andrew Godbey, MD "Electrophysiologic evaluation of 135 patients with Critical Illness Myopathy"
Manu Goyal, MD "Size frequency distributions of compact and diffuse amyloid plaques as a function of age in APP/PS1 mice"
Yo-El Ju, MD "Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD): clinical and demographic characteristics in a large case series"
Amy Licis, MD "A Retrospective Analysis of Sleep Problems in Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorders Enrolled in a National Autism Registry"
Miranda Lim, MD, PhD "Sleep deprivation differentially affects dopamine subtype receptor density in mouse striatum"
Chris Smyser, MD "Longitudinal Analysis of Neural Network Development in Preterm Infants"
R. Brian Sommerville, MD "Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome (RCVS): 30 Confirmed or Probable Cases at a Single Institution Over 7 Years"
Suruchi Taneja, MD
Rebecca Bierden, MD
Deborah Park Kim, MD
"Response elaboration training in a chronic aphasic patient in the setting of evidence based aphasia
clinic"
Rawan Tarawneh, MD "The neuronal injury biomarker, VILIP-1, correlates with dementia severity and brain atrophy in Alzheimer's Disease"
"The Brain Injury Biomarker VILIP-1 is Increased in the Plasma of Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients"
Ford Vox, MD "Pop Science: Medical Journalism from Fall 2008 to Spring 2009"
Leo Wang, MD, PhD "Anti-NMDA receptor patient antibodies potentiate NMDA receptor currents in cultured hippocampal neurons
9:00a.m. Award Presentations:

• Berg Poster Award(s) will be presented by Dr. Snider.

• The Irwin Levy Resident Teaching Award (outstanding teaching by a Neurology resident) will be presented by Dr. Naismith.

• The Sven Eliasson Award for Teaching Excellence (outstanding teaching by aa adult Neurology attending) will be presented by Dr. Goyal and Dr. Bushard, Chief Residents, Adult Neurology.

• The Steven M Rothman Award (outstanding teaching by a Pediatric Neurology resident) will be presented by Dr. Schlaggar.

• The Arthur L Prensky Award (outstanding teaching by a Pediatric Neurology attending) will be presented by Dr. Smyser, Chief, Resident, Pediatric Neurology