Education
The Mount Sinai Hospital - Fellowship
New York, NY
July, 2008 - July, 2010
Fellowship - NeuroAids
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Fellowship
New York, NY
October, 1990 - June, 1994
Fellowship - Neuorology/Pain Medicine
University of British Columbia - Residency
Vancouber, British Columbia
July, 1987 - June, 1990
Neurology Residency
Montreal General Hospital/McGill University - Internship
Montreal, Quebec
July, 1985 - June, 1987
Internship - Internal Medicine
UCL Institute of Neurology National Hospital - Master's Degree
London, England
September, 2006 - September, 2007
Masters of Science - Clinical Neurology
University of Washington - Master's Degree
Seattle, WA
September, 2003 - June, 2006
Juris Doctor
University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine - University
Calgary, Alberta
September, 1982 - June, 1985
Doctor of Medicine
University of British Columbia - Pre-Professional Education
Vancouver, British Columbia
June, 1976 - June, 1982
Bachelor of Arts
Awards/Honors
Junior Investigator Award, 2008
NeuroAIDS Research Consortium (NARC)
MSINAD Scholar Award, 2009-2019
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY.
Awarded for work studying health care disparities in the treatment of HIV neuropathy.
Clinical Scholars Award, 1991-1993
Memorial Sloan-Ketering Cancer Center, New York, NY.
Awarded for work in developing new models of opioid analgesic tolerance as well as studies to improve pain management in patients.
Certifications
American Board of Neurology, 1993
(First attempt)(Lifetime certification and voluntarily recertified 2005)
Publications
A pilot study of autonomic symptoms in HIV-associated distal symmetric polyneuropathy.
Journal of World AIDS
2012
Other contributors include Robinson-Papp, JR, Morgello, SM.
Opioid Administration for Sever Neuropathic Pain in a Patient with Depression and Prior Heroin Use.
Continuum: Lifelong Learning in Neurology-Peripheral Neuropathy
2012
Reliability of patterns of hippocampal sclerosis as predictor of postsurgical outcomes.
Epilepsia
2010
Other contributors include Thom M, Liagkouras I.
Bortezomib induced periphereal nerve vasculitis.
Journal of Peripheral Nervous System
2010
Other contributors include Saifee, TA, Rabin N.
Association of self-reported painful symptoms with clinical and neurophysiologic signs in HIV-associated sensory neuropathy.
Pain
2010
Other contributors include Robinson-Papp J, Morgello S, Vaida F.
HIV-related neurocognitive impairment in the HAART era.
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep
2009
Other contributors include Robinson-Papp, J, Simpson, DS.
Neurotoxic dideoxynucleoside antiretroviral therapy is not associated with progression of painful distal polyneuropathy.
HIV Ther
2009
Other contributors include Simpson, DM.
Commentary on Medical Malpractice in the age of technology: how specialty societies can make a difference (Anscher and Anscher)
Brachytherapy
2006
Other contributors include Wallner, KE, Merrick GS, Herstein, P.
Chronic pelvic pain following prostate brachytherapy: a case report.
Brachytherapy 3
2004
Other contributors include Wallner K, Merrick G, Ghaly M, Maki J.
Medical malpractice of prostate brachytherapy.
Brachytherapy 3
2004
Other contributors include Wallner K, Merrick G, Herstein P.