Neurologic Findings Among Inpatients With COVID-19 at a Safety-net US Hospital
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- Received August 12, 2020
- Accepted November 2, 2020
- First Published December 9, 2020.
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Author Disclosures
- Pria Anand, MD,
- Lan Zhou, MD (lan.zhou{at}bmc.org),
- Nahid Bhadelia, MD (nbhadeli{at}bu.edu),
- Davidson H. Hamer, MD (dhamer{at}bu.edu),
- David M. Greer, MD (dgreer{at}bu.edu) and
- Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian, MD (anna.cervantes{at}bmc.org)
- Pria Anand, MD,
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- Lan Zhou, MD (lan.zhou{at}bmc.org),
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NIH 1R01AR074428
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- Nahid Bhadelia, MD (nbhadeli{at}bu.edu),
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NBC News
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NIAID, Fogarty International Center
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- Davidson H. Hamer, MD (dhamer{at}bu.edu),
DSMB member for DMID (NIH) funded malaria sporozoite vaccine trial and BMGF iron safety study DSMB Chair for DMID (NIH) funded auranofin trial
Former member of WorldAware health advisory board
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Associate editor, American Journal of Tropical Medicine in Hygiene since 2019 Associate editor, Journal of Travel Medicine since 2018 Associate editor, Pathogens and Global Health since 2010
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Travel-Related Illness: The ÂEmerging and Unpredictable Risk of Japanese Encephalitis - CME monograph published by Haymarket Medical Education
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Consultant to Xenophon Strategies, Inc. and Equinox (commercial entities) Consultant to Major League Soccer and the Professional Golf Association (commercial entities)
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1. CDC Parasitic Diseases Branch 1 NU2GGH002322-01-00 INSECT  Implementing Novel Strategies for Education and Chagas Testing Role: co-investigator 9/30/20  9/29/25 2. World Health Organization Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Department Systematic review of all aspects of childhood diarrhea 7/1/20  12/31/20 Role: Co-investigator 3. USAID/Zambia and Grand Challenges Canada (PI Ngoma) Subaward to Boston University (PI Scott) 3/1/2019-1/30/2022 Delivery of Community-Based Parenting Groups at Scale to Improve Early Childhood Development in Zambia (SUpErCDZ) Co-investigator 6. GeoSentinel  the global surveillance network of CDC and ISTM 5 NU50CK000478-02-00 Role: PI 9/1/16  8/31/21
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1. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant INV-005691 (PI Hamer) Sequencing of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from Zambia 7/1/20 Â 6/30/20 2. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant OPP1192472 Subcontract from Hospital for Sick Children Synbiotics for the Early Prevention of Severe Infections in Infants (SEPSIS) Trial Role: Co-investigator (PI Daniel Roth) 11/7/18 Â 8/31/22
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- David M. Greer, MD (dgreer{at}bu.edu) and
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Becton Dickenson, Inc., travel to an international conference to give a presentation.
Editor in chief for Seminars in Neurology
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Book: 50 Studies Every Neurologist should Know, 2016.
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Becton Dickenson, Inc., provides support to my institution for research that I'm involved with. I receive no direct compensation.
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Served as a consultant in medical legal cases 2012-2020
- Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian, MD (anna.cervantes{at}bmc.org)
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- Boston University Medical Center (PA); and Boston University School of Medicine (LZ, NB, DHH, DMG, AMC-A), MA.
- Correspondence
Dr. Anand pria2{at}bu.edu
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