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Rohit Bakshi, MD Associate Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School |
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Rohit Bakshi, MD, FAAN, is an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, a neurologist and associate radiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, director of clinical MRI/MS imaging at the Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center, and researcher at the Center for Neurological Imaging. A Buffalo native and graduate of Cornell University, Dr. Bakshi received his MD degree from the University at Buffalo-SUNY. As an Alpha Omega Alpha scholar, he completed a one-year neuroscience research fellowship with Dr. Alan Faden at the University of California, San Francisco. He served a one-year internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School followed by a neurology residency at UCLA, where he performed neuroimaging research with Dr. John Mazziotta. He then completed a one-year MRI/CT neuroimaging fellowship in at the Dent Neurologic Institute followed by continuing training in functional imaging and brain mapping, including PET and SPECT. Dr. Bakshi is board-certified in neurology and certified in MRI-CT by the American Society of Neuroimaging. From 1996 to 2003 he served on the faculty at the University at Buffalo-SUNY, where he rose to the rank of associate professor of neurology with tenure in 2001 and became residency program director. He was the founding director of the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC), neurologist and neuroimager, and multiples (MS) specialist at the Dent Neurologic Institute, the Jacobs Neurological Institute, and Physicians Imaging Centers. In building his research program at the BNAC, he pursued studies of quantitative MRI in MS, funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and National MS Society. He received the 1998 William H. Oldendorf Award for neuroimaging research in MS. In 1999, Dr. Bakshi was appointed to the board of directors of the American Society of Neuroimaging and he joined the faculty of Medscape. In 2000, he was appointed to the editorial board of The Journal of Neuroimaging. He has first-authored a comprehensive 200-page book chapter on brain MRI for Baker and Joynt's Clinical Neurology textbook that was updated for 2004. Dr. Bakshi is the vice president and program chair of the American Society of Neuroimaging . He is a member of the American Neurological Association and a fellow in the American Academy of Neurology. He has authored more than 250 publications, including print and online articles and abstracts, more than 100 of which are peer reviewed articles. His work has appeared in a variety of journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Neuroscience, Neurology, NeuroImage, AJNR: American Journal of Neuroadiology, The Annals of Neurology, The Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, NeuroReport, Multiple Sclerosis, Archives of Neurology, Brain Research, The Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and Medscape. |