Month: February 2019

Congratulations to all of the Yale Neurology Residents who had abstracts accepted for the upcoming American Academy of Neurology annual meeting in Philadelphia this coming May. Below are some of the awesome presentations we can look forward to from our awesome residents:

• Idaira Aguilar, PGY4
  • Neurological symptoms in a patient diagnosed with adrenal oncocytic cortical carcinoma (poster)
• Priyanka Chilakamarri, PGY3
  • Suicidal Behavior in Parkinson Disease (poster)
• Vanessa Cooper, PGY3
  • A Survey Comparing Neurology and Internal Medicine Residents’ Approaches to Headache Management (poster)
• Justine Cormier, PGY4
  • A Case of Paraneoplastic Myasthenia Gravis as the Initial Presentation in a Patient with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (poster)
  •  The Impact of a Novel Clinic Block System on Resident and Faculty Satisfaction, Work-Life Balance, and Subspecialty Exposure (Platform Presentation)
• Tara Kimbrough, PGY4
  • Psychological Attachment Styles of Surrogate Decision Makers and Neuro ICU Goals of Care Decisions (poster)
• Paul Sanmartin, PGY4
  • Brainstem Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (poster)
  • West Nile encephalitis in a patient with initially negative CSF serology (poster)
• Jens Witsch, PGY3
  • Validation of the original FRESH score in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (poster)
• Teng Peng Zhao, PGY2
  • Potassium Bromide: The First Successful Treatment of Epilepsy (poster)

A huge congratulations to Dr. Razaz Mageid for her acceptance as a Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar. Razaz will be carrying the torch of residents working to promote international Neurology by traveling to Uganda during the 2019-2020 academic year. As part of her training in the Yale Neurology Global Health Track, Razaz will spend 6 weeks at Mulago Hospital in Uganda rotating with physicians and medical staff there and learning about health care delivery in a resource limited setting.

She will be our third resident in recent years to travel to Uganda as part of the Global Health Track. Adeel Zubair, current PGY3, is finishing up his time in Uganda now (stay tuned for updates on his experiences there), and before him Monica Diaz (now a neuro-infectious disease fellow in San Diego) traveled there. See more about her experiences in this post. Congrats again, Razaz!

A huge congratulations to Dr. Adeel Zubair on his recent acceptance to the Master of Health Science Medical Education Program! Adeel is one of our PGY3 residents currently rotating in Uganda as a Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health School as part of his grander experience on the Yale Neurology Global Health Track (stay tuned for a post on his experiences once he gets back!). He is also a rising Scheduling Chief. In addition to his global health interests, Adeel has shown a clear dedication to medical education, and his acceptance to the two-year MHS Med-Ed program will be a huge stepping stone in his career. Before long, Adeel will be sculpting the future of Neurology both at Yale and abroad. We couldn’t be more proud!