Why do research as a Neurology resident?
- Contribute to innovating treatments and patient care.
- Authorship on publications
- Funding for travel to conferences
- Research award presented at annual resident graduation dinner which includes money and certificate you can proudly hang on office wall
What is Neurology Resident Research? Could include:
- Chart reviews and data analyses
- Computational analyses
- Examining relationship of biomarkers to clinical phenotypes
- Lab research in biochemistry, cellular, animal models or human tissue
When would I do research? Research can be performed PGY2-PGY4
- Will have five 4 week blocks of time for electives:
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- PGY2 – 1 block
PGY3 – 2 blocks
PGY4 – 2 blocks
- PGY2 – 1 block
- Can create a schedule for 3-6 blocks for dedicated 80% time for research and 20% time clinical duties (two half-day per week continuity clinics)
How can I start doing research?
- Contact Laura Volpicelli-Daley, PhD, Department of Neurology volpicel@uab.edu
- Examine list of potential mentors in the table below within each Neurology division below and think of the type of research you might want to do. Dr. Volpicelli-Daley will help you contact mentors
Mentor List
| Topic | Faculty Mentor | Department | Research Focus | Type of Research |
Cognition |
Adam Gerstenecker | Neurology | Hippocampal subfield atrophy, systemic inflammation, and cognition in multiple sclerosis and how exercise can improve these phenotypes | Clinical/data analyses |
| David Geldmacher and Marissa Natelson Love | Neurology | Chart reviews of clinical and/or neuropathologic reports for pakinsonism and dementia patients and help with differential diagnosis | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Erik Roberson | Neurology | Clinical research in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders through the ADRC | Biomarkers, data analyses | |
| Laura Volpicelli-Daley | Neurology | Pathology related to Dementia with Lewy Bodies | Bench science | |
Epilepsy |
Benjamin Cox | Neurology | Predictors of epilepsy surgery outcomes | Clinical/data analyses |
| Rachel Smith | Engineering | Correlating computational EEG features to clinical characteristics to improve outcomes of treatment | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Jane Allendorfer | Neurology | Impact of social determinants of health on metabolic and heart health status in epilepsy | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Erin Ahn | Pathology | Gene expression data and neurologic features associated with human ZTTK syndrome which causes brain abnormalities and seizures | Clinical/data analyses | |
Movement |
Marissa Dean | Neurology | Huntington's and Parkinson's disease | Clinical/data analyses |
| Victor Sung | Neurology | Huntington's | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Harrison Walker | Neurology | Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease | Clinical/data analyses/computational | |
| Talene Yacoubian and David Standaert | Neurology | Biomarkers and cognition in Parkinson's disease | Clinical/data analyses | |
Neuroimmunology |
John Rinker | Neurology | Multiple Sclerosis, research on Medical Education | Case reports, chart reviews |
Neuromuscular |
Peter King | Neurology | Investigating novel drug that is neuroprotective in stroke, spinal cord injury, pain, epilepsy, Parkinson's, ALS. Biomarkers in ALS. | Clinical and bench science |
| Mohamed Kazamel | Neurology | Porphyrias as autonomic neuropathies and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis biomarkers | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Ken Nozaki | Neurology | Clinical/electrophysiologica/pathological correlation with hisopathology in neuromusclar disorders | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Rocio Vazquez Do Campo | Neurology | Clinical/electrophysiological/pathological correlation with hisopathology in neuromusclar disorders | Clinical/data analyses | |
Neuropathology |
Shu Chen | Pathology | Chart reviews of clinical and/or neuropathologic reports for pakinsonism and dementia patients and help with differential diagnosis . | Clinical/bench science |
Neuro-oncology |
Sorryanarayana Varambally | Pathology | Cancer Bioinformatics | Data analyses |
| Stan Han | Neurology | Modeling IDH1 mutated in gliomas using IPSC cells | Clinical, Bench science | |
| Burt Nabors | Neurology | Discovering therapeutic targets for newly diagnosed and recurrent gliomas | Clinical, bench science | |
Stroke |
Chen Lin | Neurology | Stroke, stroke recovery, neuromodulation and exercise, mental health after stroke, vascular dementia | Clinical/data analyses |
| Ekaterina Bakradze | Neurology | Stroke and patent foramen ovale, relationship between stroke and atrial fibrillation | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Toby Gropen | Neurology | Working with EMS early recognition of large vessel occlusion to improve acute stroke treatment | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Ronald Lazar, Ph.D. | Neurology | Aging and vascular disease, with emphases on reversible causes of cognitive decline, risk-factor modification to promote brain health, and recovery after stroke | Clinical/data analyses | |
| Angela Hays Shapshak | Neurology | Hemorrhagic stroke subtypes, statins in stroke with AFIB, analyzing data from stroke simulation course, coma and EEG monitoring | Clinical/data analyses |