Published in UAB Insight, Winter 2007
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Neurology
Agnieszka Anna Ardelt, MD, PhD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of neurology. Ardelt received her MD and PhD degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and a 3-year residency in neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Ardelt then completed a 2-year neurosciences critical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins. A critical care and vascular neurologist with the UAB Stroke Center, Ardelt’s clinical interests focus on institution of evidence-based management paradigms for patients with cerebrovascular disease and brain injury.
Martina Bebin, MD, MPA, has accepted an appointment as associate professor of neurology. She has a secondary appointment with the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Neurology. She received her MD degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and completed an internship and residency at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and a fellowship at University of Virginia. Bebin’s research interests include pediatric clinical drug development for epilepsy and outcomes research of epilepsy patients. Her clinical interest focuses on the treatment of epilepsy in children.
David A. Brenner, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor in neurology, working in UAB’s Comprehensive Stroke Center. He received his MD degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla and completed an internship in medicine, a residency in neurology, and a 1-year stroke fellowship at the University of Arizona. He spent another year as a research fellow at Bichat University Hospital in Paris, France, studying stroke genetics and carotid atherosclerosis.
Jennifer L. DeWolfe, DO, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of neurology. She earned her DO degree from Midwestern University, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed an internship at Michigan State University, Bi-County and Henry Ford Hospitals, and a neurology residency at UAB, followed by a fellowship in clinical neurophysiology (epilepsy track). Her research and clinical interests include epilepsy, epilepsy neuroimaging and surgery, and sleep medicine.
John F. Rothrock, MD, has accepted an appointment as professor and vice chair of the Department of Neurology. He received his MD degree from the University of Virginia, completed neurology residency training at University of Arizona, subsequently serving on the faculty for 2 years. He then joined the Department of Neurosciences at University of California San Diego, where he directed the Stroke and Headache Centers. Rothrock then served as chair of neurology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine and as associate dean for clinical research. He is a national expert in the areas of stroke and headache, involved in numerous research studies examining new therapies for both disorders, and is editor in chief of Headache, the journal of the American Headache Society. He directs a new UAB program specializing in headache.
David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, has accepted an appointment as professor of neurology and was named to the John T. and Juanelle D. Strain Endowed Chair in Neurology. He received his MD
degree and PhD degree in pharmacology from Washington University in St. Louis. He completed
an internship in medicine at Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and a 3-year neurology residency at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a 3-year research and clinical fellowship in neurology (movement disorders) at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. Standaert now serves as director of the Movement Disorders Program in the Department of Neurology and director of the Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics. He sees patients in a weekly clinic and through the course of clinical trials of new therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease.
Angela M. Young, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor in general neurology and neuromuscular disorders. A native of Venezuela, Young received her MD degree from the University of Zulia, Venezuela. She completed her neurology residency training and a clinical neurophysiology fellowship at UAB. Her clinical focus is the treatment of muscle diseases and channelopathies. Her research targets amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, autoimmune neuropathies, and myasthenia gravis and on Huntington’s disease pathophysiology and prevention of comorbidities.
Dermatology
Corey L. Hartman, MD, has accepted an appointment as assistant professor of dermatology. A graduate of Emory University, Hartman completed his MD degree at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee. He completed postdoctoral training in internal medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and in dermatology at UAB. Hartman’s clinical interests center on disorders of pigmentation, follicular disorders of darker ethnic groups, and alopecia.