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Gustavo C. Roman, MD, DrHC

  • Houston Methodist neurologist
  • Professor of neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College
  • Jack S. Blanton Presidential Distinguished Chair for the Study of Neurological Disease at Houston Methodist Hospital
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Gustavo C. Roman, MD, DrHC

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Areas of Expertise

  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Cognitive impairment
  • Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Vascular dementia

Credentials

BOARD CERTIFICATION
Diplomate in Neurology, American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry
MEDICAL SCHOOL
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia | 1971
RESIDENCY
Neurology, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont
FELLOWSHIP
Electrodiagnosis (EEG/EMG) and Neuropathology, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont
Clinical Neurology and Neuropathology, Université de Paris VI Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France

Publications

A phase 1 open-label pilot study of low-dose interleukine-2 immunotherapy in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Faridar, A, Eid, AM, Thome, AD, Zhao, W, Beers, DR, Pascual, MB, Nakawah, MO, Roman, GC, Davis, CS, Grundman, M, Masdeu, JC & Appel, SH 2023, , Translational Neurodegeneration, vol. 12, no. 1, 54, pp. 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40035-023-00387-5

A phase 1 open-label pilot study of low-dose interleukine-2 immunotherapy in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Faridar, A, Eid, AM, Thome, AD, Zhao, W, Beers, DR, Pascual, MB, Nakawah, MO, Roman, GC, Davis, CS, Grundman, M, Masdeu, JC & Appel, SH 2023, , Translational Neurodegeneration, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40035-023-00387-5

Environmental neurology: Concepts and short history of an interdisciplinary approach to etiology, treatment and prevention
Reis, J, Buguet, A, Román, GC & Spencer, PS 2023, , Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 454, 120861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2023.120861

Tropical spastic paraparesis
Román, GC 2023, . in Handbook of Clinical Neurology. vol. 196, Handbook of clinical neurology, Elsevier B.V. pp. 149-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-98817-9.00026-0

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from genotoxins alone?
Spencer, PS, Lagrange, E, Palmer, VS, Reis, J, Steele, JC & Román, GC 2022, , The Lancet Neurology, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 771-772. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(22)00305-2

The COVID-19 pandemic, an environmental neurology perspective
Reis, J, Buguet, A, Román, GC & Spencer, PS 2022, , Revue Neurologique, vol. 178, no. 6, pp. 499-511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurol.2022.02.455


What does aducanumab treatment of Alzheimer's disease mean for research on vascular cognitive disorders?
Wallin, A, Alladi, S, Black, SE, Chen, C, Greenberg, SM, Gustafson, D, Isaacs, JD, Jokinen, H, Kalaria, R, Mok, V, Pantoni, L, Pasquier, F, Roman, GC, Rosenberg, GA, Schmidt, R, Smith, EE & Hainsworth, AH 2022, , Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior, vol. 3, 100044, pp. 100044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2022.100044

Patterns of amygdala region pathology in LATE-NC: subtypes that differ with regard to TDP-43 histopathology, genetic risk factors, and comorbid pathologies
Cykowski, MD, Arumanayagam, AS, Powell, SZ, Rivera, AL, Abner, EL, Roman, GC, Masdeu, JC & Nelson, PT 2022, , Acta Neuropathologica, vol. 143, no. 5, pp. 531-545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-022-02416-5


The Devastating Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Ethnic Minorities, Migrants, and Refugees
Navarro-Román, L & Román, GC 2022, . in Sustainable Development Goals Series. Sustainable Development Goals Series, vol. Part F2691, Springer, pp. 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81058-0_13

Neuroinflammation is highest in areas of disease progression in semantic dementia
Pascual, B, Funk, Q, Zanotti Fregonara, P, Cykowski, MD, Veronese, M, Rockers, E, Bradbury, K, Yu, M, Nakawah, MO, Román, GC, Schulz, PE, Arumanayagam, AS, Beers, D, Faridar, A, Fujita, M, Appel, SH & Masdeu, JC 2021, , Brain, vol. 144, no. 5, pp. 1565-1575. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab057


Approaches to Understanding COVID-19 and its Neurological Associations
on behalf of the Global COVID-19 Neuro Research Coalition 2021, , Annals of Neurology, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 1059-1067. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26076

Neuroinflammation is highest in areas of disease progression in semantic dementia
Pascual, B, Funk, Q, Zanotti-Fregonara, P, Cykowski, MD, Veronese, M, Rockers, E, Bradbury, K, Yu, M, Nakawah, MO, Román, GC, Schulz, PE, Arumanayagam, AS, Beers, D, Faridar, A, Fujita, M, Appel, SH & Masdeu, JC 2021, , Brain, vol. 144, no. 5, pp. 1565-1575. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab057

SARS-CoV-2 infection and sleep disturbances: Nitric oxide involvement and therapeutic opportunity
Cespuglio, R, Strekalova, T, Spencer, PS, Román, GC, Reis, J, Bouteille, B & Buguet, A 2021, , Sleep, vol. 44, no. 3, zsab009. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab009

Environmental neurology in the tropics
Reis, J, Spencer, PS, Román, GC & Buguet, A 2021, , Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 421, 117287, pp. 117287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117287

Homonymous hemianopsia as a reversible manifestation of normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Zehden, J, Raviskanthan, S, Bhat, N, Mortensen, PW, Román, GC & Lee, AG 2021, , Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. e182-e185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjo.2021.04.015

Clinical phenotype and mutation spectrum of alzheimer’s disease with causative genetic mutation in a chinese cohort
Mao, C, Li, J, Dong, L, Huang, X, Lei, D, Wang, J, Chu, S, Liu, C, Peng, B, Román, GC, Cui, L & Gao, J 2021, , Current Alzheimer Research, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 265-272. https://doi.org/10.2174/1567205018666210608120339

Covid-19: Neurological sequelae
Spencer, PS, Román, G, Buguet, A, Guekht, A & Reis, J 2021, , Health Risk Analysis, vol. 2021, no. 2, pp. 165-172. https://doi.org/10.21668/health.risk/2021.2.16.eng

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French