Neurology Residency Scholarly Activity and Awards

Publications and presentation of our faculty, residents and students are listed below.

Journal Articles

• Babici D, Hindi F, Hanafy KA. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome due to unilateral renal artery stenosis: A case report. Brain Circ. 2022 Jun 30;8(2):108-111. doi: 10.4103/bc.bc_14_22. PMID: 35909707; PMCID: PMC9336591.
• Phillip M. Johansen, BS; Denis Babici, MD; Karan Rajalingam, BS; Marc A. Swerdloff, MD. Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: Formulating a Differential Diagnosis. Society of General Internal Medicine - SGIM Forum - Vol. 45 - Number 9 - Sep 22
• Islam R, Choudhary H, Rajan R, Vrionis F, Hanafy KA. An overview on microglial origin, distribution, and phenotype in Alzheimer's disease. J Cell Physiol. 2022 Jul 13. doi: 10.1002/jcp.30829. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35822939.
• Islam R, Vrionis F, Hanafy KA. Microglial TLR4 is Critical for Neuronal Injury and Cognitive Dysfunction in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurocrit Care. 2022 Jul 1. doi: 10.1007/s12028-022-01552-w. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35778649.
• Babici D, Bayas A, Johansen P, Waheed S, Sharma P, Carranza-Renteria O, Hanafy KA. Multiple watershed and cardioembolic strokes in 84-year-old male after cardiac ablation procedure: Case report. Brain Circ. 2022 Mar 21;8(1):61-63. doi: 10.4103/bc.bc_71_21. PMID: 35372725; PMCID: PMC8973443.
• Adrian Rodriguez-Hernandez, Javier Ortiz-Orendain, Lucia E. Alvarez-Palazuelos, Laura Gonzalez-Lopez, Jorge Ivan Gamez-Nava, Maria G. Zavala-Cerna. Seizures in systemic lupus erythematosus: A scoping review. Seizure. Volume 86. 2021. Pages 161-167. ISSN 1059-1311. doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2021.02.021.
• Ignatova TN, Chaitin HJ, Kukekov NV, Suslov ON, Dulatova GI, Hanafy KA, Vrionis FD. Gliomagenesis is orchestrated by the Oct3/4 regulatory network. J Neurosurg Sci. 2021 Aug 3. doi: 10.23736/S0390-5616.21.05437-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34342203.
• Babici D, Kudej RK, McNulty T, Zhang J, Oydanich M, Berkman T, Nishimura K, Bishop SP, Vatner DE, Vatner SF. Mechanisms of increased vascular stiffness down the aortic tree in aging, premenopausal female monkeys. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2020 Jul 1;319(1):H222-H234. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00153.2020. Epub 2020 Jun 12. PMID: 32530752; PMCID: PMC7474445.

Poster - Abstract Presentations

• Dragomir R, Babici D, Carranza-Rentria O, Centenarians with Cerebrovascular Disease: 38 Patients from a Single Center. How much do we know? What can we improve? Poster presentation at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting; April 2023; Boston, MA
• Caranza-Renteria O, Rodriguez-Hernandez A, Mattner O, Sial N, Hammond T Triple M Syndrome with Triple Seronegative Myasthenia Gravis presenting as a Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction.  Poster presentation at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting; April 2023; Boston, MA
• Rodriguez-Hernandez A,Babici D, Campbell M, Carranza-Renteria O, Hammond T Hypoglycemic Hemineglect. A case study. Poster presentation at the American Neurological Association Annual Meeting; October 2022; Chicago, IL.
• Carranza-Renteria O, Waheed S, Babici D, and Yousuf F. Neurologic Sequela of COVID-19. Guillain Barré Syndrome Following Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 Vaccination; A Case report. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting; April 2022; Seattle, Washington.
• Waheed S, Bayas A, Hindi F, Rizvi Z, Espinosa P. Neurological Complications of COVID-19: Guillain-Barre Syndrome Following Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine. Poster presentation at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting; April 2022; Seattle, Washington.

Awards

• 2023 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society – Dr. Roxana Dragomir
• 2023 Gold Foundation Humanism & Excellence in Teaching Award – Dr. Denis Babici and Dr. Adrian Hernandez-Rodriguez
• 2022 Gold Foundation Humanism & Excellence in Teaching Award – Dr. Octavio Carranza Renteria
• 2022 Society for Hospital Medicine Florida Chapter Summit Meeting Poster Presentation – First Place – Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures – Formulating a Differential Diagnosis. – Denis Babici, MD PGY1; Phillip M. Johansen, MS3; Karan Rajalingam, MS2; Marc Swerdloff, MD
• 2022 FAU Neurology Residency Professionalism Award – Dr. Pamraj Sharma
• 2021 FAU Neurology Residency Performance Award – 94^th Percentile on the RITE – Dr. Sadia Waheed and Dr. Fawzi Hindi

2022 Teaching Awards

• Dr. Thomas Hammond
• Dr. Khalid Hanafy
• Dr. Marc Swerdloff