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Annual Highlights of the Resident & Fellow Section: 2016 Annual Highlights of the Resident & Fellow Section: 2016 A Representative Collection of Previously Published Articles Navigating Your Career: ALL ABOARD! Friday, April 15–Thursday, April 21, 2016 Vancouver Convention Centre, West Level 2 Learn about career development at every stage: from “choosing a track,” to “staying on track,” to “changing tracks” in your career. This area has something for everyone: medical students, residents, fellows, junior faculty, senior faculty, and advanced practice providers. • Learn from successful neurologists and advanced practice providers on how to establish and maintain effective partnerships • Hear from neurologists who chose careers outside of academia in areas such as teleneurology, government, and advocacy • Hone your skills in conflict resolution, giving and receiving feedback, and interviewing Faculty and Trainee Reception Saturday, April 16 Vancouver Convention Centre West, Level 1, Ballroom C&D Experience a unique place for undergraduate and graduate attendees to network with peers, find information about residency programs, on pursuing fellowships and/or careers in neurology academics, research, or practice, and get recognized for their scholarships/awards. Meet the Neurology Residents & Fellows Section editors and editorial team at the R&F booth. Table of Contents 1. RESIDENTS & FELLOWS SECTION EDITORIAL TEAM 34. MEDIA AND BOOK REVIEWS 35. Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary 3. THE NEUROLOGY® RESIDENT & FELLOW SECTION 2004–2015 Journeys into the Human Brain John J. Millichap, Roy E. Strowd, Kathleen Pieper P.A. Kempster | December 15, 2015 85: e193 4. TOP 10 WAYS FOR PROGRAM DIRECTORS TO USE THE 36. MYSTERY CASE NEUROLOGY RESIDENT & FELLOW SECTION 37. A 21-year-old man with visual loss following marijuana use Sara Stern-Nezer, John J. Millichap, Roy E. Strowd J.B. Whitlock, G.T. Robinson, J.P. Whitlock, B.K. Dredla, and K.M. Barrett | May 26, 2015 84: e165-e169 5. 2016 R&F WRITING AWARD WINNER 42. OPINION & SPECIAL ARTICLES 6. E-PEARLS OF THE WEEK 43. An interdisciplinary neuroinfectious diseases clinic A. Numis and J. Addington to improve patient care and training F.C. Chow, B.S. Schwartz, and S.A. Josephson | January 6, 2015 7. CHILD NEUROLOGY 84: e1-e4 8. Andersen-Tawil syndrome M. Almuqbil and M. Srour | March 17, 2015 84: e78-e80 47. PEARLS AND OY-STERS 48. Pisa syndrome: An unusual feature of adult-onset 11 CLINICAL REASONING fulminant SSPE 12. A 56-year-old man with cognitive impairment and difficulty H. Singh Malhotra and R.K. Garg | January 20, 2015 84: e12-e14 tying his necktie J.M. Baker, J. Salinas, and A.L. Berkowitz | October 13, 2015 85: 51. RESIDENCY TRAINING e116-e122 52. Determinants of burnout of neurology trainees in Attica, Greece 17. EDUCATION RESEARCH P. Zis, A. Artemiadis, M. Lykouri, S. Xirou, A. Roussopoulou, E. 18. A case-based bioethics curriculum for neurology residents Papageorgiou, E. Bakola, and F. Anagnostopoulos | September 15, B. Tolchin, J. Willey, and K. Prager | March 31, 2015 84: e91-e93. 2015 85: e81-e84 21. EMERGING SUBSPECIALTIES IN NEUROLOGY 56. TEACHING NEUROIMAGES 22. 2016 Award Winner! Telestroke and teleneurology 57. The lentiform fork sign: An MRI pattern of metformin- associated encephalopathy S. Mutgi, Alicia Zha, and R. Behrouz | June 2, 2015 84: e191-e193 G.C. Fernandes, T. Koltermann, L. Campos, L. Vedolin, and C.R.M. Rieder | January 20, 2015 84: e15 25. INTERNATIONAL ISSUES 26. An international survey of young neurologists’ perceptions 58. TEACHING VIDEO NEUROIMAGES of future health care and neurology 59. Feeding dystonia in chorea-acanthocytosis A. Macerollo, K. Róna-Vörös, W. Struhal, X. Kobeleva, and J. Sellner | January 27, 2015 84: e20-e23 M. Paucar, P-A Lindestad, R.H. Walker, and P. Svenningsson | November 10, 2015 85: e143-e144 30. JOURNAL CLUB 31. Randomized phase III study of whole-brain radiotherapy for primary CNS lymphoma I. Alnahhas and M. Malkin | December 15, 2015 85: e187-e189 About the Cover: FDG-PET shows right greater than left hypometabolism in the basal ganglia, temporal lobes, and parietal lobes. From the article: Clinical Reasoning: A 56-year- old man with cognitive impairment and difficulty tying his necktie by Jessica M. Baker, MD; Joel Salinas, MD, MBA; and Aaron L. Berkowitz, MD, PhD. See page 12. Neurology Resident & Fellow Section Editor Editorial Team Luca Bartolini, MD Jen Cialone, MD Michael Fara, MD, PhD Carla Francisco, MD Luca Bartolini is a child neurology Jen Cialone is a child neurology Michael Fara is a neurology resident Carla Francisco is a child neurology fellow at Children’s National resident at University of Rochester at New York University. He grew up fellow at Children’s Hospital Los Health System in Washington, DC. Medical Center in Rochester, NY. She in England, where he graduated from Angeles. She graduated from Pomona John J. Millichap, MD, FAAP He graduated from the School of obtained her bachelor’s degree in Oxford University before coming to College in Claremont, CA. She went John Millichap is a pediatric epileptologist in Medicine of the University of Padua, molecular and cellular biology from the United States to study philosophy. on to the University of California, the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at Ann and Italy, and he completed his pediatric Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. After receiving his PhD from Princeton San Francisco before attending Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago training first at the University of Padua She obtained her MD from University University, he was an assistant medical school. She graduated from and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and then at Children’s National. He is of Rochester School of Medicine and professor of philosophy first at Cornell the Keck School of Medicine and and Neurology at Northwestern University currently investigating the role of viral Dentistry, where she also did research University and then at Princeton completed her pediatric training at Feinberg School of Medicine. His education and inflammatory mechanisms in the on Batten’s Disease. University, before discovering a new Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. includes a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern pathophysiology of epilepsy at the interest in medicine. He received She will begin a neuroimmunology University and a Medical Doctorate from NIH, where he will also complete an his MD from Weill Cornell Medical fellowship at UCSF in 2015. American University of the Caribbean School epilepsy fellowship starting in 2017. College in New York City, and now of Medicine. Millichap trained in pediatrics at Bartolini also serves as section editor plans to pursue a fellowship in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina for Neurology® Clinical Practice. vascular neurology. University prior to child neurology and clinical neurophysiology/pediatric epilepsy fellowships at Northwestern University. Current clinical practice utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy and comorbidities. As a member of the academic faculty, he is involved in the education of trainees and grant funded clinical research concerning epileptic encephalopathies. Millichap is an avid writer and enjoys encouraging resident and fellow contributions to the medical literature. Aravind Ganesh, MD Ilena George, MD Ingo Helbig, MD Jonathan T. Kleinman, MD Deputy Section Editor Aravind Ganesh is a senior neurology Ilena George is a neurology resident Ingo Helbig is a child neurology Jonathan Kleinman is chief neurology resident at the University of Calgary. at Yale University. Originally from resident at the Children’s Hospital of resident at University of California, Los He is currently pursuing a DPhil in New York City, she graduated from Philadelphia and has transitioned to Angeles. He obtained his bachelors clinical neurosciences on a Rhodes Stanford University with a degree the US after completing a German degree from The Johns Hopkins scholarship at Oxford's Centre for in English literature and completed pediatric and neuropediatric residency. University in cellular and molecular Prevention of Stroke and Dementia. her MD at New York University. He has attended the University of neuroscience, and his medical degree He serves as junior dean and clinical Prior to graduating medical school, Heidelberg Medical School and from Stanford University. He will begin teaching associate at St John’s she spent two years at the NIH University of Kentucky, Lexington. He fellowship in neurocritical care at College, Oxford, and has cofounded researching neuroimaging in multiple has a strong interest in neurogenetics, UCLA starting July 2016. SnapDx, a point-of-care mHealth sclerosis. She plans to pursue particularly epilepsy genetics, and venture. neuroimmunology fellowship after is an avid blogger on Beyond the Ion residency. Channel at Epilepsygenetics.net. Roy E. Strowd, MD Roy Strowd, assistant professor of neurology and oncology, is a neurologist and neuro-oncologist at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. He graduated magna cum laude from Duke Univer- sity in 2005 and from the Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2009. He completed his residency in neurology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in 2013, where he served as chief resident. He pursued fellowship training at Johns Hopkins, completing the clinical and research neuro-on- Samuel Lapalme-Remis, Matthew R. Lincoln, Kristen Lindgren, MD, PhD Emer McGrath, MD, PhD, cology fellowship program, as well as dedicated MD, MA, FRCPC MD, DPhil MRCP training in medical education research through Kristen Lindgren is a third-year with support from the American Academy of Samuel Lapalme-Remis is a first-year Matthew Lincoln is a third-year child neurology resident at Emer McGrath is an adult neurology Neurology’s Medical Education Research Training fellow in clinical neurophysiology/ neurology resident at the University Massachusetts General Hospital. resident at MGH and Brigham Fellowship. Strowd has clinical research interests EEG and epilepsy at Mayo Clinic in of Toronto. He is a graduate of She obtained her BA from Wesleyan and Women’s Hospital Partners in drug development and response assessment Rochester, MN.
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