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Fellowship in HIV Peripheral Nerve Disease
The Department of Neurology's Fellowship in HIV Peripheral Nerve Disease will give you the opportunity to conduct the primary clinical assessment of more than 300 patients with various forms of HIV-associated peripheral nerve disease annually. You will have the responsibility for overseeing laboratory studies for these patients, including quantitative sensory testing, EMG/NCV's and skin biopsies.
You will participate in regular weekly peripheral nerve conferences and general neurology conferences. You will have close contact with the clinical neurology services and spend two months working on a primary clinical neurology service responsible for patients with neuromuscular disease. You will also have the opportunity to perform EMG and nerve conduction studies, skin biopsies, and quantitative sensory testing on patients. You will also attend the clinical neurophysiology and EMG conferences, as well as Neurology Grand Rounds and HIV research seminars.
Objectives
1.To acquire further training in mechanisms of human peripheral nerve regeneration.
2. To acquire skills in clinical research design, biostatistics, and epidemiology in order to perform well-designed, meaningful, patient-oriented research.
To expand knowledge of peripheral nerve regeneration, the fellow will attend the weekly peripheral nerve regeneration journal club, as well as the joint laboratory meetings of the peripheral nerve group. The fellow will also take the graduate level course series in cellular and molecular neural development that addresses themes of axonal regeneration. To gain addition clinical research training, the fellow will take advantage of the Graduate Training Program in Clinical Investigation. This is a joint program between the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Public Health that offers focused didactic education in the design of clinical studies, data analysis, good clinical practices, clinical trials, and biostatistical approaches. The program was created to address the growing concern over the shortage of academic clinical investigators. The program offers a cohesive series of courses aimed at developing needed skills to become an effective clinician-scientist. Specific course work is included in the table below.
| Competencies | Available Coursework |
| Peripehral Nerve Regeneration | Regeneration
Journal Club 440.711 The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development I: Neuronal Differentiation. 440.705 The Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Development II: Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis |
| Trial Design | 340.895.11
An Introduction to Design and Analysis The Science of Clinical Investigation year long course series: 390.614 Design of Clinical Studies 390.615 Quantitative Analysis of Clinical Data 390.616 Ethical and Regulatory Issues in Clinical Research 390.613 Modern Biomedical Measurement 340.655 Methods in Clinical Research 390.612 Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials 390.651 Topics in Clinical Investigation |
| Biostatistics | 140-662-2
Methods in Biostatistics 140-661-2 Statistical Reasoning I and II |
| Epidemiology | 340.601 Principals in Epidemiology |
| Ethics | 550.860 Research Ethics |
| Written Presentation Skills | 390.710-711 Biomedical Writing I and II. |
| Oral Presentation Skills | 390.703 Presentation Skills |
| Grant Writing | 390.701
Grant Writing I 390.702 Grant Writing II |
For application information contact:
Dr. Justin McArthur
Director, HIV Peripheral Nerve Disease Fellowship
Meyer 6-109, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287
tele: 410-955-3730
Fax: 410-955-0672
E-Mail: jm@jhmi.edu
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