Congratulations to Amanda Hernandez, one of our PGY-4 on her acceptance to the Eureka International Certificate Course in Siracusa, Italy! Eureka aims to develop a Network of multidisciplinary translational professionals who create a global community of Translational Medicine professionals to advance the application of biomedical innovation for the tangible benefit of patients. Read more about the conference here.
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PGY-1 Kathyrn Zuchowski makes appearance in the New York Times !
Kathyrn details the medical mystery of a patient with Transient Global Amnesia for The New York Times Magazine! You can read about it here.
Yale Neurology Residents present at this years International Parkinson and Movement Disorder conference in France!
The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) gathers thousands of the field’s clinicians, researchers, trainees and industry supporters on an annual basis at its International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders. This year the conference was held in Nice, France!
Chindhuri Selvadurai, our PGY-4 presented her abstract “Focal unilateral tensor veli palatini myoclonus causing objective tinnitus without palatal elevation” You can read Chindhuri’s abstract by clicking this link
Christian Amlang, our PGY-4 presented his abstract ” A Case of Donepezil-induced Myoclonus”. You can read Christian’s abstract by clicking this link
Amy Yu as the new Co-Chair for the Wellness Council !
Congrats to our PGY-3 Amy Yu, who was selected as the new Co-Chair for the Wellness Council of the YNHH Resident and Fellow Senate!
The Yale New Haven Hospital Wellness Council is committed to championing resident and fellow well being at the institution in order to foster a healthy working and learning community. The Mission of the Wellness Council is to encourage the personal and professional growth, the physical and mental well-being, and the individual and collective welfare of residents and fellows at the Yale New Haven Hospital.
Read more about the resident fellow senate and to see photos from the past Solidarity nights!
Teaching NeuroImages Publication in Neurology
Congratulations to our very own PGY-3, Teng and former resident turned NICU fellow Justine on their recent publication in the Neurology Journal about a case of frontal lobe streptococcus abscess!
Congrats on your publication guys!
Link to the Article: https://n.neurology.org/content/93/10/e1032
ED Consult Star
Congratulations are in order for our PGY-3 resident, Bogdan Patedakis Litinov! Each month the ED residents nominate one physician from many consulting services in the hospital as the ED Consult Star. Bogdan has been crushing the very busy consult service in the Yale Emergency Department for the month of July and was graciously nominated for this award. This is his second time earning this award. Way to go Bogdan!
Congratulations to the 2019 graduating Neurology class !
A huge congratulations to all of the amazing PGY4 residents! Thank you all for all of the support, laughs, and wisdom during these years. We are sad to see you go, but excited to see how you will change the landscape of Neurology in your respective fields going forward. Good luck in your jobs and fellowships this year!
| Idaira Aguilar Tejedor, MD | Neuromuscular Fellow, Yale University |
| Bryce Buchowicz, MD* | Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellow, Emory University |
| Rachel Calix, MBBS | Neuro-Ophthalmology Fellow, New York University |
| Justine Cormier, MD* | Neurocritical Care Fellow, Yale University |
| Peter Kim, MD | Neuro-Oncology Fellow, Yale University |
| Tara Kimbrough, MD | Neurocritical Care Fellow, Rush University |
| Richard Lane, MD | Neurovascular Fellow, University of California, San Diego |
| Paul Sanmartin, MD | Neuro-Hospitalist, Hartford Hospital |
| Zi Wang, MD | Neurovascular Fellow, University of California, San Francisco |
The 2019 Lewis Levy Award Recipients
A huge congratulations to Razaz Mageid and Tova Gardin, our 2019 Lewis Levy Award recipients. The Lewis Levy Award was established in 2003 to support the education and training of neurology residents in their first year (PGY-2) of training. This year the entire PGY-2 class prepared high-quality case submissions, which were judged anonymously by a 5-member faculty panel. The faculty were most impressed with the cases submitted by both Tova and Razaz. Their excellent cases were presented at a special clinical grand rounds in June.
Congrats again, Razaz and Tova, keep up the great work!
Yale Neurons Writing Textbook on Neurology, Literally!
A huge shout out to Amy Yu, one of our all star PGY2 residents for already publishing a book chapter before the end of her PGY2 year. Incredible! Amy worked with Dr. Kevin Sheth, Chief of Neurocritical Care at Yale, to publish a chapter (18) entitled Intra-Arterial Interventions for Acute Basilar Artery Occlusion in a 2 volume textbook on the Basilar Artery (full description and table of contents here). This is a huge deal, and we are super proud of her!
Yale Neurons Dropping Knowledge Bombs in the City of Lights!
Neuro-ophthalmology is becoming more popular than ever in our program, with two of our PGY4 residents, Rachel Calix and Bryce Buchowicz, pursuing neuro-ophthalmology fellowships next year. Bryce will be at Emory, and Rachel will be at NYU. They both were fortunate to be able to attend the 2019 NANOS conference in Neuro-ophthalmology in Las Vegas this past month, and Bryce was able to present two posters:
-Attitudes and Perceptions of Neurology Residents in the U.S. to Neuro-ophthalmology
Bryce surveyed neurology residents across the country to determine exposure to and attitudes towards neuro-ophthalmology as a subspecialty and found that the main contributing factor for not choosing this subspecialty is limited exposure early in training.
-Relative afferent pupillary defect with contralateral demyelinating midbrain lesion in a patient with Charcot’s Triad
Case report of a left relative afferent pupillary defect secondary to demyelinating lesions in the right optic tract and/or right dorsal midbrain.
Abstracts can be found here.