Anusha K Yeshokumar, MD
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ASSISTANT CLINICAL PROFESSOR | Neurology
Autoimmune Encephalitis
Dr. Yeshokumar's research focuses on understanding outcomes after autoimmune encephalitis and identifying clinical and biologic factors associated with these outcomes. This work, involving numerous national and international collaborations, has been published in medical journals and presented at national and international medical conferences.

BA, Johns Hopkins University

2018

Excellence in Teaching Award of Appreciation

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2016

Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence: Frank L. Coulson, Jr. Award

2016

Scholarship to attend 2016 Master MS Fellowship

Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers

2016

Scholarship to attend 4th Annual ECTRIMS Summer School

European Committtee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis

2016

Jay Slotkin Research Award

2016

Scholarship to attend Clinical Fellowship Training Program

National MS Society

2012

Dr. Leonard J. Newman Resident Teaching Award

2012

Arnold J. Gold Foundation: Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award

Publications

Selected Publications

The distinctive psychopathology of NMDAR-antibody encephalitis compared with primary psychoses: an international, multicentre, retrospective phenotypic analysis. Adam Al-Diwani, Jakob Theorell, Tarek Zghoul, Aniruddha Voruganti, Leigh Townsend, Riccardo De Giorgi, Benjamin Griffin, Tomasz Bajorek, David Okai, Belinda Lennox, M. Isabel Leite, Carla Y. Kim, Arielle Coughlin, Kelsey Martin, Brittany Glassberg, Christian Lachner, Nicola Westerbeek, Veerle Bergink, Kiran T. Thakur, Anusha K. Yeshokumar, Harald Prüss, Gregory S. Day, Carsten Finke, Adam E. Handel, Sanjay G. Manohar, Dan W. Joyce, Sarosh R. Irani. The Lancet Psychiatry

Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors Associated With Clinical Outcome in Neuroinfectious Diseases: A Multicenter Retrospective Cohort Study. Alexandra Boubour, Carla Y. Kim, Sarah Torres, Dan T. Jia, Evan Hess, Sibei Liu, Yifei Sun, Kathryn Fong, Samantha Epstein, Helena Yan, Nicole Luche, Kerry Gao, Brittany Glassberg, Michael Harmon, Hai Hoang, Allison Navis, Emily Schorr, Jacqueline S. Gofshteyn, Anusha K. Yeshokumar, Kiran T. Thakur. Neurohospitalist

MRI Features and Their Association With Outcomes in Children With Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis. Grace Gombolay, J. Nicholas Brenton, Jennifer H. Yang, Coral M. Stredny, Ryan Kammeyer, Catherine E. Otten, Ngoc Hanh Vu, Jonathan D. Santoro, Karla Robles-Lopez, Andrew Christiana, Claude Steriade, Morgan Morris, Mark Gorman, Manikum Moodley, Duriel Hardy, Alexandra B. Kornbluh, Ilana Kahn, Leigh N. Sepeta, Anusha Yeshokumar. Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation

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