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Mangayarkarasi Thandampallayam Ajjeya, MBBS

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  • Assistant Professor

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Biography and Education

Learner Information

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

Biography

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