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Bhooma Aravamuthan
aravamuthanb@wustl.edu
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Academic Pediatrics
Academic Pediatrics
phone:
Education
BS,
Valedictorian
,
Michigan State University
,
2005
BS,
Valedictorian
,
Michigan State University
,
2005
PhD,
(DPhil)
,
University of Oxford
,
2008
MD,
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society
,
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine
,
2012
Training
Resident in Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital / Washington University School of Medicine
,
2012
-
2014
Resident in Child Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
,
2014
-
2017
Fellow in Movement Disorders, Boston Children's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
,
2017
-
2018
Licensure and Board Certification
2018
-
Pres
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Child Neurology Specialization
2018
-
Pres
Missouri Medical License
Honors and Awards
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
,
2004
George C. Marshall Scholarship (funded graduate studies at the University of Oxford)
,
2005
NIH-Oxford Graduate Partnership Program Fellowship (fully funded enrollment in the Washington University Medical Scientist Training Program and funded additional graduate training at the NIH while completing my DPhil at Oxford)
,
2005
Washington University School of Medicine Outstanding Medical Scientist Trainee Scholarship
,
2005
Movement Disorders Society Young Investigator Grant
,
2006
Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society
,
2012
Washington University School of Medicine Irwin Levy Prize in Neurology and Neurological Surgery
,
2012
Washington University School of Medicine Richard S. Brookings Prize
,
2012
St. Louis Children's Hospital "High Five" Award for Clinical Excellence
,
2014
Boston Children's Hospital Von L. Meyer Travel Award
,
2015
Boston Children's Hospital Farley Award
,
2016
Boston Children's Hospital Neurology Resident Clinician of the Year
,
2017
Boston Children's Hospital Neurology Resident Teacher of the Year
,
2017
Boston Children's Hospital Honor for Great Care
,
2017
Child Neurology Society Outstanding Junior Member Postgraduate Award
,
2018
Neurobiology of Disease in Children Young Investigator Award
,
2018
American Academy of Neurology Emerging Leaders Program
,
2020
American Neurological Association Emerging Scholar Lecture
,
2020
Recent Publications
view all (25)
Smith AE, Aravamuthan B.
Optimizing Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy.
Pediatrics
.
2021.
PMID:
34649981
Aravamuthan BR, Ueda K, Miao H, Gilbert L, Smith SE, Pearson TS.
Gait features of dystonia in cerebral palsy.
Dev Med Child Neurol
.
2021;63
(6):
748-754.
PMID:
33411352
Chintalapati K, Miao H, Mathur A, Neil J, Aravamuthan BR.
Objective and Clinically Feasible Analysis of Diffusion MRI Data can Help Predict Dystonia After Neonatal Brain Injury.
Pediatr Neurol
.
2021;118:6-11.
PMID:
33677143
Smith SE, Gannotti M, Hurvitz EA, Jensen FE, Krach LE, Kruer MC, Msall ME, Noritz G, Rajan DS, Aravamuthan BR.
Adults with Cerebral Palsy Require Ongoing Neurologic Care: A Systematic Review.
Ann Neurol
.
2021;89
(5):
860-871.
PMID:
33550625
Sanders JS, Keller S, Aravamuthan BR.
Caring for Individuals With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the COVID-19 Crisis.
Neurol Clin Pract
.
2021;11
(2):
e174-e178.
PMCID:
PMC8032439
PMID:
33842088
Aravamuthan BR, Fehlings D, Shetty S, Fahey M, Gilbert L, Tilton A, Kruer MC.
Variability in Cerebral Palsy Diagnosis.
Pediatrics
.
2021;147
(2).
PMCID:
PMC7906070
PMID:
33402528
Aravamuthan B, Landsness EC, Silbermann E.
ANA Webinars: implementation of a conference-based virtual networking event.
Ann Clin Transl Neurol
.
2021;8
(2):
525-528.
PMCID:
PMC7886028
PMID:
33352002
Aravamuthan BR, Shevell M, Kim YM, Wilson JL, O'Malley JA, Pearson TS, Kruer MC, Fahey M, Waugh JL, Russman B, Shapiro B, Tilton A.
Role of child neurologists and neurodevelopmentalists in the diagnosis of cerebral palsy: A survey study.
Neurology
.
2020;95
(21):
962-972.
PMCID:
PMC7734737
PMID:
33046609
Weber DJ, Albert DVF, Aravamuthan BR, Bernson-Leung ME, Bhatti D, Milligan TA.
Training in Neurology: Rapid implementation of cross-institutional neurology resident education in the time of COVID-19.
Neurology
.
2020;95
(19):
883-886.
PMCID:
PMC7713733
PMID:
32887772
Gandham S, Tak Y, Aravamuthan BR.
Striatal cholinergic interneuron numbers are increased in a rodent model of dystonic cerebral palsy.
Neurobiol Dis
.
2020;144:105045.
PMID:
32800997
Aravamuthan BR, Pearson TS.
Treatable Movement Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood.
Semin Neurol
.
2020;40
(2):
177-191.
PMID:
32079029
Aravamuthan BR, Gandham S, Young AB, Rutkove SB.
Sex may influence motor phenotype in a novel rodent model of cerebral palsy.
Neurobiol Dis
.
2020;134:104711.
PMID:
31841677
Aravamuthan BR, Waugh JL, Stone SS.
Deep brain stimulation for monogenic dystonia.
Curr Opin Pediatr
.
2017;29
(6):
691-696.
PMID:
28906342
Aravamuthan BR, Mar SS, Williams KG.
Factors Associated With Discharge After Initial Emergency Treatment of Pediatric Migraine.
Pediatr Emerg Care
.
2017;33
(9):
620-629.
PMID:
26359825
Aravamuthan BR, Nath AR, Ghosh PS.
Teaching NeuroImages: Medullary lesions causing dysphagia in Leigh/MELAS overlap syndrome.
Neurology
.
2016;87
(2):
e18-9.
PMID:
27402949
Aravamuthan BR, Waugh JL.
Localization of Basal Ganglia and Thalamic Damage in Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy.
Pediatr Neurol
.
2016;54:11-21.
PMID:
26706479
Aravamuthan BR, Sánchez Fernández I, Zurawski J, Olson H, Gorman M, Takeoka M.
Pediatric anti-Hu-associated encephalitis with clinical features of Rasmussen encephalitis.
Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm
.
2015;2
(5):
e150.
PMCID:
PMC4582902
PMID:
26445726
Aravamuthan BR, Shoykhet M.
Long-term increase in coherence between the basal ganglia and motor cortex after asphyxial cardiac arrest and resuscitation in developing rats.
Pediatr Res
.
2015;78
(4):
371-9.
PMCID:
PMC4791178
PMID:
26083760
Aravamuthan BR, Angelaki DE.
Vestibular responses in the macaque pedunculopontine nucleus and central mesencephalic reticular formation.
Neuroscience
.
2012;223:183-99.
PMCID:
PMC3484682
PMID:
22864184
Aravamuthan BR, McNab JA, Miller KL, Rushworth M, Jenkinson N, Stein JF, Aziz TZ.
Cortical and subcortical connections within the pedunculopontine nucleus of the primate Macaca mulatta determined using probabilistic diffusion tractography.
J Clin Neurosci
.
2009;16
(3):
413-20.
PMID:
19167229
Aravamuthan BR, Bergstrom DA, French RA, Taylor JJ, Parr-Brownlie LC, Walters JR.
Altered neuronal activity relationships between the pedunculopontine nucleus and motor cortex in a rodent model of Parkinson's disease.
Exp Neurol
.
2008;213
(2):
268-80.
PMCID:
PMC4318559
PMID:
18601924
Aravamuthan BR, Stein JF, Aziz TZ.
The anatomy and localization of the pedunculopontine nucleus determined using probabilistic diffusion tractography [corrected].
Br J Neurosurg
.
2008;22 Suppl 1:S25-32.
PMID:
19085350
Muthusamy KA, Aravamuthan BR, Kringelbach ML, Jenkinson N, Voets NL, Johansen-Berg H, Stein JF, Aziz TZ.
Connectivity of the human pedunculopontine nucleus region and diffusion tensor imaging in surgical targeting.
J Neurosurg
.
2007;107
(4):
814-20.
PMID:
17937229
Aravamuthan BR, Muthusamy KA, Stein JF, Aziz TZ, Johansen-Berg H.
Topography of cortical and subcortical connections of the human pedunculopontine and subthalamic nuclei.
Neuroimage
.
2007;37
(3):
694-705.
PMID:
17644361
Gupta V, Aravamuthan BR, Baskerville S, Smith SK, Gupta V, Lauer MA, Fischell TA.
Reduction of subacute stent thrombosis (SAT) using heparin-coated stents in a large-scale, real world registry.
J Invasive Cardiol
.
2004;16
(6):
304-10.
PMID:
15155999
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