Vineet punia
Vineet punia
Research Associate
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Epilepsy Center
Cleveland Clinic
United States

Education

07/2014 – ongoing Fellowship, Clinical Neurophysiology, EEG and Epilepsy     Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
07/2011 – 06/2014 Neurology Residency Rutgers-­‐ New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
07/2010 – 06/2011 Internship in Internal Medicine Rutgers-­‐ New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
08/2008 -­‐ 05/2010 Master of Science (M.S.) in Neuroscience,
College of Staten Island (CUNY)/NY State Institute of Basic Research (IBR), NY.
Courses in Developmental Neurobiology, Statistics, Cognitive Neuroscience among others.
01/2006-­‐ 01/2007 Compulsory Rotatory Internship Guru Govind Singh Medical College, Punjab, India.
08/2001-­‐12/2005 M.B.B.S. (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) Guru Govind Singh Medical College, Punjab, India

 

Biography

 

Research Interest

  • Clinical Outcomes research
  • Critical Care EEG and Epilepsy
  • Social Epilepsy
  • Driving impairment in epilepsy patients
  • Medically refractory epilepsy
  • Imaging in Epilepsy

 

Professional Activities:

04/2009-­‐ 06/2010 Research Assistant, Department of Neuroscience
College of Staten Island, NY. Mentor: Probal Banerjee
Research in behavioral and cellular Neuroscience.
06/2008-­‐ 04/2009 Research Associate, Department of Neuroradiology,
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), NY. Mentor: Sasan Karimi. MD
Research in PCNSL Neuroimaging
08/2007-­‐05/2008

Research Associate, BECOME Trial,

Department of Neurology/Neuroradiology, UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey.

Committees and memberships

  1. Member, American Academy of Neurology epilepsy section, 2013 – on going
  2. Member, Institutional Planning and Development Committee, NJMS/ University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, NJ. 2010 – 2014
  3. Member, American Academy of Neurology (AAN). 2010 – on going
  4. Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 2009 – on going
  5. American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) 2009 – on going
  6. Organizing Committee Member plus Editorial board member of Annual Radiology Resident course, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ, 2009
  7. Member, Medical Council of India (MCI).
  8. Member, Punjab Medical Council (PMC), India.
  9. General Secretary, Medical Students Association (MSA), Guru Govind Singh Medical College, India. 2005-­‐ 2006

 

Publications

  1. Punia V, Chen W, Pue F, Berg A, Blumenfeld H. Epileptic auras and their role in driving safety in people with epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2015 Sep 22. doi: 10.1111/epi.13189
  2. Punia V, Garcia C, Hantus S. Incidence of recurrent seizures in patients with LPDs (PLEDs) and non-­‐convulsive seizures recorded on continuous EEG in the critical care setting. Epilepsy Behav. 2015 Aug;49:250-­‐4
  3. Wolansky LJ, Cadavid D, Punia V, Kim S, Cheriyan J, Haghighi M, Cook SD. Hypophosphatemia is Associated with the Serial Administration of Triple-­‐Dose Gadolinium to Patients for Brain MRI. J Neuroimaging. 2015 May;25(3):379-­‐83
  4. Punia V, Dagar A, Agarwal N, He W, Hillen M. Comparison of neurological healthcare oriented educational resources for patients on the internet. J Clin Neurosci. 2014 Dec;21(12):2179-­‐83.
  5. Punia V, Rayi A, Sivaraju A.. Stroke after Initiating IV Penicillin for Neurosyphilis: A Possible Jarisch-­‐Herxheimer Reaction. Case Rep Neurol Med. 2014;2014:548179. doi: 10.1155/2014/548179.
  6. Bhat A, Punia V, Lee HJ, Marks D. Corpus callosum fibre disruption in Marchiafava-­‐ Bignami disease. Pract Neurol. 2014 Jun;14(3):189-­‐90.
  7. Pinakin JR, Punia V, Patel T, Duffis E, Gandhi CD, Prestigiacomo C J (2013). Cost-­‐ Effectiveness of Digital Subtraction Angiography in the Setting of CT Angiography Negative Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Neurosurgery. 2013 Apr;72(4):511-­‐9
  8. Elenein RGA, Naik S, Kim S, Punia V, Jin K. Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), A Rare Adult Form. Neurology. 2013 Feb 5;80(6):e69-­‐70
  9. Karimi S, Hatzoglou V, Punia V, Partovi S, Abrey LE, DeAngelis LA. Post-­‐treatment T1 shortening in primary CNS lymphoma. J Neurooncol (2013) 111:25–31
  10. Levano K, Punia V, Raghunath M, Debata PR, Curcio GM, Mogha A, Purkayastha S, McCloskey D, Fata J, Banerjee P. Atp8a1 deficiency is associated with phosphatidylserine externalization in hippocampus and delayed hippocampus- dependent learning. J Neurochem. 2012 Jan;120(2):302-­‐313.
  11. Castellanos MR, Davidov A, Punia V, Szerszen A, Maiman M, Lazzaro B, Ahern K, Banerjee P. Endonuclease-­‐Resistant DNA: A Novel Histochemical Marker for Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cervical Carcinoma. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2012 Jan;31(1):1-­‐7. 1.
  12. When Is it Safe for People with Epilepsy to Drive? A New Study Challenges Conventional Wisdom. Talan, Jamie. Neurology Today. 14(23):4-­‐5, December 4, 2014.
  13. Gever, John. "Seizure Auras Fail to Prevent Driving Mishaps." MedpageToday. 10 Dec. 2014. Web. 03 Feb. 2015.
  14. Punia V, Opler D, Agarwal R. 8 tests rolled into a mnemonic to detect weakness in suspected conversion disorder. Current Psychiatry 2014 September;13(9):58-­‐59

 

 

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