Teena Shetty, MD

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

Special Expertise

Neuromuscular Diseases
Intraoperative Monitoring
Spine Disorders

Awards

Fulbright Scholarship, 1998-1999
Leah J. Dickstein Award, 2000
Election to Sigma Xi Honor Society

Affiliations

Member of American Academy of Neurology
Fellow of American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine
Consultant for Minor Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurologist for New York Giants Football Team

Languages

French

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

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  

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

2008, November: Lecture to myositis support group on diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory myopathies

2006, November: Lecture to HSS Alumni Association on Post operative Neurologic Symptoms following Upper Extremity Surgery

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

 

Research Interests

Post-op Neuropathies
Spine Disorders