Third-Year Ophthalmology Residents at UMDNJ-NJMS

The Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science

THIRD-YEAR OPHTHALMOLOGY RESIDENTS

COLLEGE:

M. E. S. College of Arts, Science and Commerce

Bangalore, Karnataka, India (1987-1989)

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

MD; Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore,

Karnataka, India (1989-1994)

INTERNSHIP:

Victoria Hospital and Bowring & Lady Curzon

Hospitals, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

(1994-1995)

Vamsi Gullapalli,

POSTDOCTORAL

Ocular Imunology; Doheny Eye Institute,

FELLOWSHIPS:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles,

Calif (1995-1997)

Retinal Transplantation; University of

Rochester, Rochester, NY (1997-1998)

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New

Jersey, Newark, NJ (2005)

GRADUATE SCHOOL:

PhD Neurosciences; University of Medicine and

Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

(1999-2005)

INTERNSHIP:

Surgery; Lennox Hill Hospital, New York,

NY (2005-2006)

RESIDENCY:

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Ophthalmology Residency; Newark, NJ

(July 2006)

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Gullapalli VK, Sugino IK, Zarbin MA. Chapter 118, Muller cells and retinal pigment epithelium. In: Albert DM, Jakobiec FA, editors. Principles and practice of ophthalmology. 3rd ed. Forthcoming.

2. Gullapalli VK, Khodair MA, Wang H, Sugino IK, Madreperla S, Zarbin MA. Chapter 153, Retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptor transplantation frontiers. In: Ryan SG, editor. Volume III, Surgical Retina. Retina. 4th ed. Elsevier-Mosby; 2006. p. 2597-613.

3. Gullapalli VK, Sugino IK, Van Patten Y, Sumit S, Zarbin MA. Impaired RPE survival on aged
submacular human Bruch’s membrane. Exp Eye Res 2005;80:235-48.

4. Gullapalli V. Retinal pigment epithelial transplantation. Karnataka J Ophthalmol 2005;22:2-10.

5. Itaya H, Gullapalli V, Sugino IK, Tamai M, Zarbin MA. Iris pigment epithelium attachment to aged submacular human Bruch’s membrane. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2004;45:4520-8.

6. Gullapalli VK, Sugino IK, Van Patten Y, Shah S, Zarbin MA. RPE resurfacing of aged submacular human Bruch’s membrane. Trans Amer Ophthalmol Soc 2004;102:123-38.

7. Hansen KA, Sugino IK, Yagi F, Wang H, Tsukahara I, Gullapalli V, Bennett J, Zarbin MA. Adeno-associated virus encoding green fluorescent protein as a label for retinal pigment epithelium. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2003;44:772-80.

8. Gullapalli VK, Wang H, Sugino IK, Ninomiya Y, Ninomiya S, Birge RA, Zarbin M. Trapianto dell'epitelio pigmentato retinico: studi compiuti sull'uomo e studi di laboratorio. In: Pece A, Lanzetta P, editors. La terapia della degenerazione maculare legata all'età. Savona: Dogma; 2003. p. 81-94.

9. Gullapalli VK. Confocal microscopy, a page from living history. J Microsc Hist Soc 2001;9.2:
57-66.

10. Gullapalli VK, Zhang J, Pararajasegaram G, Rao NA. Hematopoietically derived retinal perivascular microglia initiate uveoretinitis in experimental autoimmune uveitis. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2000;238:319-25.

11. Das T, del Cerro M, Jalali S, Rao VS, Gullapalli VK, Little C, Loreto DA, Sharma S, Sreedharan A, del Cerro C, Rao GN. The transplantation of human fetal neuroretinal cells in advanced retinitis pigmentosa patients: results of a long-term safety study. Exp Neurol 1999; 157:58- 68.

12. Gullapalli VK, del Cerro C, del Cerro M. Retinal transplantation. Optics and Photonics News. 1999.

13. Ishimoto S, Zhang J, Gullapalli VK, Pararajasegaram G, Rao NA. Antigen-presenting cells in experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis. Exp Eye Res 1998;67:539-48.

14. Gullapalli VK, Murthy PR, Murthy KR. Colour of the nucleus as a marker of nuclear hardness, diameter and central thickness. Indian J Ophthalmol 1995;43:181-4.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Gullapalli V, Sugino IK, Zarbin MA. Role of a1-3 integrin subunits in retinal pigment epithelial attachment. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005;46:ARVO e-abstract 4148.

2. Itaya H, Gullapalli V, Sugino IK, Zarbin MA. Attachment of human iris pigment epithelium on aged submacular Bruch’s membrane. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2004; 45:ARVO e-abstract 3107.

3. Zarbin MA, Gullapalli V, Wang H, Tsukahara I, Ninomiya S, Sugino I. Cell replacement studies using human Bruch’s membrane in organ culture. Vitreous and Retina Society combined meeting; 2002 Sept; San Francisco, Calif.

4. Gullapalli VK, Sugino IK, Birge R, and Zarbin MA. Integrin expression in human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE): A comparative, semi-quantitative RT-PCR study between fetal and adult cells in cultured and in situ states. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2002;42:ARVO e-abstract 3436.

5. Zarbin MA, Gullapalli V, Wang H, Tsukahara, Ninomiya S, and Sugino I. Cell replacement studies using a human Bruch’s membrane organ culture. Sixth Annual Vision Research Conference; 2002 May; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

COLLEGE:

BS; The College of New Jersey, NJ

(1997-1999)

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

MD; University of Medicine and Dentistry

of New Jersey, Newark, NJ (1999-2003)

INTERNSHIP:

Transitional Resident; University of

Pennsylvania-Presbyterian Medical Center,

Philadelphia, PA (2003-2004)

Archna Prasad,

RESIDENCY:

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Ophthalmology Residency; Newark, NJ

(July 2006)

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Prasad A , Wagner R, Bhagat N. Vitreous hemorrhage as the initial manifestation of X-linked retinoschisis in a 9-month-old infant. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2006;43:56-8.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Prasad A . PKC δ and/or ε ethanol-induced upregulation of L-type Ca2+ channel activity in L6 rat myoblasts. New Jersey Medical School Summer Research Symposium. 2000 Aug.

COLLEGE:

BA; Computer Science and Biology,

Columbia College, New York, NY (1999)

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

MD; New Jersey Medical School, Newark,

NJ (2005)

INTERNSHIP:

General Medicine; St Luke's Roosevelt

Hospital Center, New York, NY (2005-2006)

RESIDENCY:

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Ravindra Shah,

Ophthalmology Residency; Newark, NJ

(July 2006)

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Shah RA, Zarbin MA, Bhagat N. Retinal haemorrhages in a young patient with homocysteinuria [letter]. Br J Ophthalmol 2005:89(10):1381-2.

2. Adams MM, Fink SE, Janssen WG, Shah RA, Morrison JH. Estrogen modulates synaptic
N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit distribution in the aged hippocampus. J Comp Neurol 2004:474(3): 419-26.

3. Adams MM, Fink SE, Shah RA, Janssen WG, Hayashi S, Milner TA, McEwen BS, Morrison JH. Estrogen and aging affect the subcellular distribution of estrogen receptor-alpha in the hippocampus of female rats. J Neurosci 2002: 22(9):3608-14.

4. Adams MM, Shah RA, Janssen WG, Morrison JH. Different modes of hippocampal plasticity in response to estrogen in young and aged female rats. PNAS 2001:98(14):8071-6.

5. Nimchinsky EA, Young WG, Yeung G, Shah RA, Gordon JW, Bloom FE, Morrison JH, Hof PR. Differential vulnerability of oculomotor, facial, and hypoglossal nuclei in G86R SOD-1 transgenic mice. J Comp Neurol 2000:416(1):112-25.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Shah RA, Bhagat N. A Series of ruptured globe injuries sustained in motor vehicle accidents. Invest Ophthal Vis Sci 2007;ARVO abstract 714.

2. Shah RA, Szirth BC, Grant GE, Bennet HL, Heary RF, Fechtner RF, Frohman LP, Turbin RE. Pupillometry is feasible despite intravenous remifentanil-induced miosis during prone spinal surgery
(PSS) using modified Proneview helmet and Jackson spinal table. North American Neuro- Ophthalmology Society annual meeting. 2007.

3. Shah RA, Adams MM, He Y, Janssen WGM, Hof PR, Morrison JH. SYNBIN: A new tool for quantitative immunogold electron microscopy. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. 2001.

4. He Y, Shah RA, Farb CR, Janssen WGM, Hof PR, Rodrigues S, LeDoux JE, Morrison JH. Intrasynaptic organization of NMDA and AMPA receptors on identified synapses in the thalamo- amygdaloid circuit of rat. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. 2001.

5. Shah RA, He Y, Janssen WGM, Adams MM, Duan H, Hof PR, Morrison JH. Quantifying changes in receptor proteins within synapses and spines. Society for Neuroscience annual meeting. 2000.

COLLEGE:

BA; Hunter College; New York, NY

(1996-2001)

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

MD; SUNY Downstate College of Medicine;

Brooklyn, NY (2001-2005)

INTERNSHIP:

Staten Island University Hospital; Staten

Island, NY (2005-2006)

RESIDENCY:

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Anzhelica Vaccaro,

Ophthalmology Residency; Newark, NJ

(July 2006)

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Schultheiss TM, James RG, Listopadova A, Herzlinger D. Chapter 4, Formation of nephric duct. In: Vize PD, Woolf AS, Bard JBL, editors. The kidney from normal development to congenital disease. 2003.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Listopadova A, Obara-Ishihara, T, Herzlinger D. N-cadherin mediated cell adhesion is essential for nephric duct elongation. 33rd Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology and 2000 RenalWeek. 2000 Oct 10-16; Toronto, Canada.

COLLEGE:

BA; Rutgers College; New Brunswick, NJ

(1995-1999)

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

MD; Robert Wood Johnson Medical

School; New Brunswick, NJ (2001-2005)

INTERNSHIP:

Internal Medicine; UMDNJ-New Jersey

Medical School; Newark, NJ (2005-2006)

RESIDENCY:

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

Scott M. Walsman,

Ophthalmology Residency; Newark, NJ

(July 2006)

PUBLICATIONS:

1. Fitzgibbon JE, Gaur S, Walsman SM, Janahi M, Whitley-Williams P, John JF. 2001. Emergence of drug resistance mutations in a group of HIV-infected children taking nelfinavir-containing
regimens. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2001;17:1321-8.

PRESENTATIONS:

1. Lama PJ, Walsman S, Khouri AS, Fechtner RD, Thaker R. Atypical GDx/VCC scans: quantitative versus qualitative qssessment and correction with GDx/ ECC. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005;47:ARVO abstract 3642.

2. Capriotti JA, Narayana K, Walsman S, Latkany P, Schwartzman S, Samson C. Outcomes of immunomodulatory therapy with mycophenolate mofetil in patients with severe ocular inflammation. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005;46:ARVO abstract 2843.

3. Walsman SM, Lama JP. Frequency and characteristics of non-nerve fiber layer polarization artifact in African-American patients undergoing scanning laser polarimetry with the GDX/VCC. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005;46:ARVO abstract 4808.

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