Appointments
Assistant Attending Neurologist, Hospital for Special Surgery
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Specialty
Neurology
Subspecialty
EMG/NCS (Electromyography/Nerve Conduction Studies), Intraoperative Monitoring, Neuromuscular Diseases, Spine Disorders
Certification
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Neurology), 2005
American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, 2007
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, additional subspecialty certification in Neuromuscular Medicine, 2008
State Licensure
New York
Education
MD, AB with Honors from Brown University
1993-1994, Oxford University, England
MPhil, 1999, University of Cambridge, England
Residency
Cornell - New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, 2001-2004
Fellowship
Harvard-Brigham and Womens Hospital, in Neuromuscular diseases, Neurophysiology and EMG, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004-2005
Hospital for Special Surgery, EMG and Intraoperative Monitoring Neurophysiology, New York, 2005-2006
Institute of Neurology, Visiting Research Fellow, Queen Square, London, 1996
Special Expertise
Neuromuscular Diseases
Intraoperative Monitoring
Spine Disorders
Research Interests
Post-op Neuropathies, Spine Disorders
Awards
Fulbright Scholarship, 1998-1999
Leah J. Dickstein Award, 2000
Election to Sigma Xi Honor Society
Affiliations
American Academy of Neurology
American Academy of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
Editorial Appointments
Columnist for the Providence Journal-Bulletin, 1994-1999
Selected Publications
Swainson R, Sengupta D, Shetty T, Watkins LHA, Summers BA, Sahakian BJ, Polkey CE, Barker RA, Robbins TW. Impaired dimensional selection but intact use of reward feedback during visual discrimination learning in Parkinson’s disease. Accepted to Neuropsychologia 2006.
Nyatsanza S, Shetty T, Gregory C, Lough S, Dawson K, Hodges JR. A study of stereotypic behaviours in Alzheimer’s disease, frontal and temporal variant frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 2003; 74: 1398 – 1402.
Katz J, Shetty T, Gobin YP, Segal A. Transient aphasia and reversible major depression due to a giant sagittal sinus dural AV fistula. Neurology, 2003; 61: 557-558.
Raizer J, Shetty T, Gutin P, Obbens E, Holodny A, Antonescu C, Rosenblum M. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Chordoid Glioma: Report of a case with unusual histologic features, ultrastructural study and review of the literature. Journal of Neurooncology, 2002; 63: 39-47.
Serra-Mestres J, Shetty T, Robertson MMR. Palicoprolalia: An Unusual Variant of Gilles de la Tourette’s Syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 1997.
Shetty, T and Trimble MR. The Bear-Fedio Inventory: Twenty Years On (A Study of Interictal Behavior in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy). The Journal of Epilepsy, 1997.
Shetty T. Cognitive Dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease. Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry. Cambridge. University of Cambridge Thesis. 1999.
Shetty T. From the Deccan Plateau. This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine. Edited by Eliza Lo Chin. Sage Publications 2002. Paperback by Oxford University Press 2003.
For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.
Selected Presentations
2006, May: Lecture on Mononeuropathies to American College Health Association, Marriot Marquis, NY
2006, March: Lecture at Physiatry Grand Rounds/ Physiatry & Neurology Neuromuscular Conference on Inflammatory Myopathies, Hospital for Special Surgery, NY
2006, November: Lecture to HSS Alumni Association on Post operative Neurologic Symptoms following Upper Extremity Surgery
Clinical Trials
