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Tanya Bhayana

Person: OD student
Optometry student at the New England College of Optometry, pursuing the 4 year OD program.

Carlos Dos Santos

Person: LAHMS Co-Chair
Program: MD PathwaysHometown: Caracas, Venezuela/Miami, FLUndergrad: University of PennsylvaniaDegrees: BA in Comparative Literature & Cultural Theory, BA in BiologyInterests: Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Palliative Care, narrative medicine theory, critical theory philosophyIRL: reading...

What is Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension?

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IIH (also known as pseudotumor cerebri) is a disorder of idiopathic raised intracranial pressure primarily affecting overweight women of childbearing age, with an incidence of 3-4 per 100,000. Patients typically present with headaches (90%) that have nonspecific features of migraine or tension-type...

How is a Patient Diagnosed?

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A recent update to the modified Dandy Criteria for IIH is used for diagnosis. Diagnosis relies on accurately identifying papilledema and excluding secondary forms of intracranial hypertension with neuroimaging. A lumbar puncture to ensure normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) constituents and confirm an...

Talks and posters from our group at ASHG 2019

News: October 16, 2019
At ASHG this year, Max Sherman will be speaking about his work on mosaic CNVs in autism (Thu 10/17 at 9:45am, #105) and Po-Ru Loh will be speaking about his work on clonal hematopoiesis in UK Biobank (Sat 10/19 at 10:45am, #343). Ronen Mukamel and Alison Barton will be presenting posters exploring...

Nida Haider

Person: Research Fellow
Dr. Haider received her Bachelor's degree in Biopharmaceutical Sciences with a specialization in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Ottawa in 2014. Nida explored various research fields of study during that time through participating in the co-op program at Ottawa, Canada. Nida then moved to...