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Chairman, Division
of Neuro-ophthalmology
Professor, Neurology
Associate Professor,
Ophthalmology
Education
M.D. University of Oklahoma, College of Medicine, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, 1980
B.A. University
of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 1973
Postdoctoral
Training
Fellow, Neuro-ophthalmology,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia
campus, 1984-1985
Chief Resident,
Neurology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College
of Virginia campus, 1983-1984
Resident, Neurology,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia
campus, 1981-1984
Awards
Outstanding Teacher
Award, Neurology Residency, Virginia Commonwealth University,
2005
Instructor of
the Year, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of
Ophthalmology, 2003
African American
Antiplatelet Stroke Prevention Study Outstanding Recruitment
Award, 2000
Instructor of
the Year, Virginia Commonwealth University Department of
Ophthalmology, 1999
Outstanding Teacher
Award, Neurology Residency, Virginia Commonwealth University,
1994
Current
External Grants and Clinical Trials
Principal Investigator,
National Institute of Neurologic Disease and Stroke, National
Institutes of Health. Warfarin versus Aspirin Reduced
Cardiac Ejection Fraction study.
Principal Investigator,
Stroke and Multiple Sclerosis clinical trials sponsored
by industry
Recent
Publications
CHAMPS Study Group.
MRI predictors of early conversion to clinically definite
MS in the CHAMPS placebo group. Neurology 59: 998-1005,
2002
CHAMPS Study group.
Predictors of short-term disease activity following a first
clinical demyelinating event: analysis of the CHAMPS placebo
group. Multiple sclerosis, 8, 405-409, 2002
CHAMPS Study Group.
Baseline MRI characteristics of patients at high risk for
multiple sclerosis: results of the CHAMPS trial. Multiple
sclerosis 8, 330-338, 2002.
CHAMPS Study Group.
Interferon B-1a for optic neuritis patients at high risk
for multiple sclerosis. Am J Ophthalmol, 132: 463-471, 2001
(writing committee).
Sugarman HJ, Felton
III WL, Sismanis A, Saggi BH, Doty JM, Marmarou A, Makhoul
RG. Continuous negative abdominal pressure device to treat
pseudotumor cerebri. Inter J Obesity 25, 486-490, 2001.
Clinical
Specialization
Neuro-ophthalmology,
Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis
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