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Mangayarkarasi Thandampallayam Ajjeya, MBBS

(Mahn-guy-kah-RAY-see Tan-dam-PAL-ee-yuhm Ah-JAY-uh)

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University of Kentucky Department of Neurology

Positions

  • Assistant Professor

College Unit(s)

Biography and Education

Learner Information

What are your hobbies?

In her free time, she likes to do yoga, meditation, baking and gardening.

Biography

She did her fellowship training in Neuro-Ophthalmology at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Professional Memberships: American Academy of Neurology

Awards: AAN - Travel Grant for AAN 2022

Fellowship Information:  Neuro-Ophthalmology ( Michigan State University and Henry Ford Hospital , MI)

Education

Certifications

  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
  • CITI Human Subject Research Certification
  • UK Neurology Handover Certification
  • NIH Stroke Scale Certification

Summary:

Current Year: PGY-4
Madras Med. College, Reg. Inst. of Govt. Ophthalmic Institute, UK
Hometown: Chennai, India

Research

Clinical and Research Interests: IIH, optic neuritis, myasthenia gravis

Selected Publications

Publications

Stiff Person Syndrome in a patient with atypical carcinoid syndrome of the lung secondary to Anti-amphiphysin antibodies : a case report and literature review :  Neuroimmunology Journal 7/2022 Authors: Abusamra, Thandampallayam, Sudhakar
NeuCase of the Quarter 1st Quarter 2021, Commonwealth Neurological Society Residents and Fellows Section, Diagnostic dilemma: Anti-GAD chorea versus Late onset Huntington’s disease
Authors: Mangayarkarasi Ajjeya Thandampallayam, MD1; Tarek Ali, MD, MEd2; Zain Guduru, MD3. 1PGY2 Adult Neurology Resident; 2Movement Disorders Fellow; 3Assistant Professor of Neurology Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky.
2. Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology, 9/2021; Misdiagnosis of Third Nerve Palsy
Authors: Richard Shroeder, Leanne Stunker, Emerson Kendall
DOI:10.1097/WNO.0000000000001010
Review Article, European Ophthalmic Review, Non-Organic Vision Loss: 
Ashwini Kini, Mangayarkarasi Thandampallayam Ajjeya, Padmaja Sudhakar 
DOI:10.17925/EOR.2020.14.1.26
Journal: Nutrition and Metabolism Journal (Jan 2014): Beneficial effects of the
nutritional supplements on the development of diabetic retinopathy.
Kowluru RA1, Zhong Q, Santos JM, Thandampallayam M, Putt D, Gierhart DL.
 

Presentations

  • Poster Presentation: American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 4/2022, Seattle. Title: “A case report on Central Nervous System Cryptococcosis mimicking as stroke”.
  • Poster Presentation: North American Neuro Ophthalmology Society (NANOS) 3/2022, Austin. Title: “Taken by Surprise”
  • Case Presentation:  Upper Midwest Neuro-Ophthalmology Group (UMNOG) 7/2021, Virtual. Title: “Taken by Surprise”
  • Poster Presentation: American Neurological Association (ANA) 10/2021, Virtual. Title: “Central Nervous System Cryptococcosis mimicking Stroke”
  • Poster Presentation: NANOS  3/2021, Virtual.  Title: “Vertebral Artery Dissection”
  • Poster Presentation: NANOS  3/2021, Virtual.  Title: “A stich in time saves nine”.
  • Interesting Case Conference: University of Kentucky, 6/2021: Perineural Spread of Head and Neck Cancer
  • Poster Presentation: Stroke Summit, September 2020. A case report on Central Nervous System Cryptococcosis mimicking Stroke
  • Poster Presentation: NANOS  3/2020, Jacksonville, Florida.  Title: “All that Glitters are not Gold”.
  • Case Presentation: Ocular manifestation of systemic disease – Nyctalopia in a patient with Crohn’s disease after bowel resection: UMNOG, Chicago, 7/2018.
  • Case Presentation: Perineural spread of head and neck cancer: Great Lakes Neuro-Ophthalmology Meeting, Michigan State University, 3/23/2018.
  • Poster Presentation: NANOS 2018, Hawaii. “Rituximab use in Neurosarcoidosis” – Mangayarkarasi Thandampallayam, David Kaufman, Lina Nagia
  • Case Presentation – Abducent nerve palsy post basilar aneurysm coiling -Great Lakes Neuro-Ophthalmology Meeting, University of Michigan, 12/2017
  • Poster: Effect of Hyperlipidemia on retinal function in Type 2 diabetes. The 3rd Annual Kresge Eye Institute Clinical Translational Lectureship– 10/2015 Mangayarkarasi Thandampallayam Ajjeya, Renu.A. Kowluru.
  • Poster: Beneficial effects of Carotenoids in Diabetic retinopathy- ARVO, Seattle- 2013, Kowluru RA1, Zhong Q, Santos JM, Thandampallayam M, Putt D, Gierhart DL.

 

Peer Reviewer

Peer reviewer for Resident and Fellow section : AAN

 

Book Chapters

Non-Organic Vision Loss ( Dr.Kini, Dr.Thandampallayam, Dr.Sudhakar)