Elyse Singer
Professor of Neurology @UCLA Health
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WORK HISTORY
Professor of Neurology @UCLA Health
Program Director, Neuro Infectious DiseasesLecture on Neuro Infectious diseases to medical students, residents, faculty, and for our Department\'s yearly Neurology Review for physicians.Our neurology program had no specific approach to teaching residents and medical students about neurological infections. Diagnosis and treatment of brain infection is a component of the Neurology board certification. I consult on patients with HIV, transplants, immigrants from tropical areas, and other groups who commonly have neurological infections.I initiated lectures on neuroInfectious diseases. I found the topics which would be covered by national board exams and taught those, rather than my special research interests. I incorporated information that is pertinent to practicing physicians in our area. I opened up our clinics to medical students and residents. I developed a short reading list and contributed lectures and slides for our University’s board preparation and re-certification classes.Our University is one of the few that can offer a teaching and clinical experience in this important new specialty, and our expertise has attracted new grants and studies.
EDUCATION
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Fellowship, Pain Management
University at Buffalo
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biology, General
University of South Alabama Medical School
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Medicine
SKILLS
ABOUT ELYSE SINGER
I am a neurologist who has worked in the areas of neurological infections, HIV, PML, biobanking, and pain. I am fascinated by the connections between people and their internal and external environments. I am always aware of how the environment and social interactions drive serious medical, neurological, and psychological problems.I have extensive experience in clinical research, clinical trials, biomarkers, longitudinal cohort studies, teaching at all levels from lay person to post-doctoral students, and working with community advocacy groups. It is difficult to recruit ethnic and racial minorities into clinical research, especially those which require organ or tissue donation. We developed a brain bank for AIDS patients in Los Angeles, where many of the HIV+ patients are African American, Latino/a, or Native American.I recruited co-investigators of ethnic/racial minorities and staff who are bilingual in English and Spanish; located sites in public hospitals that cater to minorities; translated our recruitment and testing materials into Spanish and insured that the reading level for our brochures did not exceed 6th grade level. We made study visits easy for participants to attend. We also gave lectures and worked with community organizations to increase our public outreach.Our cohort is now over 60% minority. Current participants refer their friends to our study. NIH is very satisfied with our minority recruitment.I overcame: community distrust of research, of organ and tissue donation, AIDS stigma, and poor local resources. We also found that many of the commonly used assessment tools were not appropriate for evaluating our participants due to their low literacy level. We then had to educate the research community about this problem.I utilized my ability to reach out to people, to be friendly, patient, to listen to other’s needs, and to gather data from many diverse sources and then select the most practical solutions for our project.
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