Expert Details
Adult Inpatient Neurology
ID: 737132
Washington, USA
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year: 2020 | Degree: MS | Subject: Cognitive Neuroscience | Institution: City University of New York |
| Year: 2017 | Degree: MS | Subject: Health Science for PAs | Institution: Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2019 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Neurohospitalist Physician Assistant | Department: Neurosciences Institute - Neurohospitalist Group |
Responsibilities:Formulating initial assessment, plan, and orders for new consults, then staffing with attending and discussing the plan with the consulting team. Significant exposure to general adult neurology includes stroke, epilepsy/status epilepticus, myasthenia gravis, and other neuromuscular disorders, peripheral nerve disorders, spinal cord disorders, neuroimmunology, and toxic/metabolic disorders, encephalopathies, encephalitis, headaches, movement disorders, infectious diseases of the CNS, neuro-oncology. Moderate neurocritical care exposure, including cerebral hemorrhages, refractory status epilepticus, post-cardiac arrest/neuroprognostication/brain death exam. Running stroke codes, reviewing neuroimaging and EEGs, performing lumbar punctures, and performing indirect ophthalmoscopy (using 20D double aspheric lens) to evaluate optic neuritis, central retinal artery occlusions, and educating patients and family members and taking part in goals-of-care and palliative care discussions. Occasional teaching of rotating medical students. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2017 to 2019 | Employer: The Mount Sinai Hospital | Title: Physician Assistant, Vascular Neurology | Department: Vascular Neurology |
Responsibilities:Primary coverage of stroke unit with cross-coverage of general neurology unit. Overlap with junior resident responsibilities, including managing patient care from admission to discharge, prescribing, ordering and interpreting diagnostic imaging, presenting patients on morning rounds, calling consults, independently running stroke codes and deciding on tPA vs endovascular intervention (staffing with stroke fellow), assessing patients in neurosurgical ICU, seeing new inpatient and emergency room consults (both stroke and general neurology), managing admissions to the epilepsy monitoring unit (including patients in status epilepticus), performing lumbar punctures, teaching neuroimaging to medical students, training newly hired PAs, and attending academic activities such as neuroradiology rounds, morning report, grand rounds, noon conference (and gave three talks during noon conference, one on NMDA receptors, and two on neuroanatomy) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2012 to 2015 | Employer: City University of New York | Title: Graduate Research Assistant | Department: Cognitive Neuroscience |
Responsibilities:Cognitive neurosciences lab. Designed behavioral tasks, reviewing scientific articles, presenting research to other researchers in the lab and at conferences, submission of manuscript to academic journal, analysis of experimental data, computer programming with Matlab software, peer-review of lab members’ work, reviewing manuscripts of outside researchers |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2011 to 2012 | Employer: Brooklyn College, CUNY | Title: Research Assitant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Biological anthropology lab. Maintaining an extensive computer database of museum fossil specimens, generating 3D models of primate bones and teeth from CT scans, handling museum specimens, data analysis, managing lab resources, and computer troubleshooting. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| 2016 - present, American Academy of Neurology |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| 2017 - present, Certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants 2016 - present, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) 2015 - present, Basic Cardiovascular Life Support (BCLS) |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Award of Appreciation, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Neurology Resident Class Induction into Phi Beta Kappa, Rho of New York (junior year of undergraduate studies) |
| Medical / Professional |
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| Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences MSHS Physician Assistant Program, New York, NY M.S., Health Sciences for Physician Assistants, June 2017 Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY PhD coursework, Cognitive Neuroscience M.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience Courses in: Neuroanatomy, Neurophysiology & Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience, Systems/Developmental Neuroscience, Cognitive/Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Statistics Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Summa Cum Laude |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Publications: 2 Lectures: 3 |
Additional Experience
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Computer skills: Computer charting with Epic software (electronic medical record); Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint |