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Durham, NC

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September 30, 2017

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Rahul Prasad Sinha, M.D., M.P.H.

Address: *** ***** **** **, ******, NC 27705, USA

Email: ac2jer@r.postjobfree.com; ac2jer@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: +1-347-***-****

TRAINING

Fellow, Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA 2015- 2017 Resident, Department of Adult Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, NC, USA, 2014-2015 Resident, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Flushing, New York, USA, 2012-2014 Internship, Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Flushing, New York, USA, 2011-2012 Internship, Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital, B.R. Ambedkar University, Bihar, India, 2011 EDUCATION

Doctor of Medicine (MD) with distinction, Carol Davila University of Medicine & Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, E.U 2003-2009 Class Rank 1, GPA 9.77/10

Masters of Public Health (MPH) with distinction, Hofstra University, New York, USA, 2013-2014 All India Secondary school Examination (class XII), Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, India, 2000-2002 All India Secondary school Examination (class X), Carmel School of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait, 1998-2000 BOARD CERTIFICATION

Diplomat of American Board of Pediatrics, 2014-Present MEDICAL BOARD REGISTRATIONS

North Carolina Medical Board, North Carolina, USA - Active West Virginia Board of Medicine, West Virginia, USA- Active Educational Commission of Foreign Medical Graduate, Philadelphia, USA Medical Council of India, New Delhi, India

Delhi Medical Council, India

Bihar Medical Council, India

Romanian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bucharest, Romania, European Union MEMBERSHIP AND HONORARY/PROFESSIONAL SOCITEIS

American Medical Association, USA, 2017- Present

Child Neurology Society, USA, 2015- Present

American Academy of Neurology, USA, 2014- Present

American Academy of Pediatrics, USA, 2011- 2014

New York Academy of Medicine, NY, USA, 2014-2015

Committee of Interns and Resident, New York, USA, 2011-2014 2

HONORS AND AWARDS

“American Academy of Neurology” 2017 Resident Scholarship Meeting Award

“Certificate of Achievement” Awarded by Hofstra University, New York, USA, May 2014

“Pediatric Trainee’s Night” In recognition of your oral presentation. Awarded by New York Academy of Medicine, NY, USA April 2014

“Travel Award” Eastern Society of Pediatric Research, USA, March 2014

“Merit Scholarship” awarded by Hofstra University, New York, USA, February 2014

“Merit Scholarship” awarded by Hofstra University, New York, USA, August 2013

“Sef de Promotie”/ Rank 1, awarded for highest GPA (9.77/10) during entire 6 years of Medical School training; Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, E.U. Oct 2009

“Studentulanului”/Student of the year: Awarded by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals & V.I.P. Romania- Non Government Organization for academic and research excellence. March 2008

“Scholarship of Merit” awarded by Ministry of Education, Government of Romania for continued academic excellence. October 2008

“Scholarship of Merit” awarded by Ministry of Education, Government of Romania for continued academic excellence. October 2007

“Scholarship of Merit” awarded by Ministry of Education, Government of Romania for continued academic excellence. October 2006

“Scholarship of Merit” awarded by Ministry of Education, Government of Romania for continued academic excellence. January 2006

“Cum laude/Distinction” in Psychology of health and communication with patient, awarded by Department of Psychology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, E.U. 2003-2004

“Distinction” in Medical Semiology, awarded by Department of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, E.U. 2005-2006

Elected leader of the class, Carmel School of Kuwait, Kuwait, 1999-2000

“Excellence in Hockey” awarded by Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, India, February 2002

“Captain- Senior School Hockey team” Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi, India 2001-2002 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

“Do providers make different decision if ICP and arterial BP data given every 15 min as compared every 1min” Mentor: Bradley Kolls MD, PhD

Description: Chart review, extracting ICP/ART data, constructing graphs, conducting survey. Project ongoing since July 2017.

“Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM): 4 cases in 4 weeks” Mentor: Carolyn Pizoli, MD, PhD

Description: Case series, performed chart review, collected data and processed it. Constructed poster and presented it at American Academy of Neurology Conference, April 2017.

Flushing Hospital Medical Center, NY, USA

“Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Children and Adolescent with Seizure Disorder in Urban Community”. Mentor: Partha Chatterjee MD.

Description: We developed questionnaire, collected date, processed it and wrote abstract and made poster. Hofstra University/ Flushing Hospital Medical Center, NY, USA

“Pediatric Staff Perceptions of Patient-Centered Medical Home at Multi Ethnic Urban Community Hospital” Mentor: Lily Q. Lew MD, Corinne Kyriacou PhD MPH

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE- Continued

Description: Identified the challenges in implementation of PCMH with aim to develop intervention to solve. We developed questionnaire, collected date, processed it and presented to the hospital administration and Leadership seminar on graduation night of MPH at Hofstra University. Year: May 2014

Department of Physiology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania Research Experience in Neuroscience – Cell Culture Lab: Learned basic techniques of cell culture. Mentor: Leon Zagrean MD,PhD and Ana Maria Zagrean MD, PhD. Year: 02/2004- 07/2004

ABSTRACTS

Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM): 4 cases in 4 weeks

Author: Rahul Prasad Sinha MD, MPH; Carolyn Pizoli, MD, PhD Published: Presented at American Academy of Neurology Conference, 26th April, 2017; Link: http://www.neurology.org/content/88/16_Supplement/P4.166 Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Children and Adolescent with Seizure Disorder in Urban Community Author: Rahul Prasad Sinha MD, Jose Serruya MD, Rami Grossmann MD, Michael Jungman Suh MD, Asri Yulati MD, Fernanda Kupferman MD, Kelly Cervellione MPhil, Susana Rapaport MD, Partha Chatterjee MD. Published: Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: March 2014. Publication # 270, link: https://www.aps-spr.org/espr/abstracts/Saturday.pdf PUBLICATIONS

Helping to heal in Muzaffarpur, India

Author: Rahul Sinha MD. Published: Hofstra University “The Bridge”; Public Health Newsletter, Fall 2013, Vol 3 Link: http://issuu.com/hofstra/docs/45766_mph_newsletter_b/12 POSTER

Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM): 4 cases in 4 weeks

Author: Rahul Prasad Sinha MD, MPH; Carolyn Pizoli, MD, PhD Presented at American Academy of Neurology Conference, 26th April, 2017 Publication: http://www.neurology.org/content/88/16_Supplement/P4.166 Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Children and Adolescent with Seizure Disorder in Urban Community Author: Rahul Prasad Sinha MD, Jose Serruya MD, Rami Grossmann MD, Michael Jungman Suh MD, Asri Yulati MD, Fernanda Kupferman MD, Kelly Cervellione MPhil, Susana Rapaport MD, Partha Chatterjee MD Presented at the annual Academic Pediatric Association Regions 2 and 3 Joint meeting at Weill Cornell Medical Center in NYC, NY, USA; Year: March 2014.

Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada; Year: May 2014 Wilson Disease Clinical Manifestation

Author: Daniela Enache, Rahul Prasad Sinha

Presented at: 4th Baltic Sea Region Conference in Medical Science; Warsaw, Poland. Year: Apr 2009 4

PLATFORM PRESENTATION/TALKS

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Children and Adolescent with Seizure Disorder in Urban Community. Presented: New York Academy of Medicine, NY; Year April 2014. Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Children and Adolescent with Seizure Disorder in Urban Community. Presented: Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: March 2014.

Community talk: “Improving Memory in Elderly- Nutritional aspect” at Angelo Petromelis Senior Center, College Point, NY on 12.18.14 with aim of increasing awareness among elderly about importance of healthy diet. QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

Pediatric Staff Perceptions of Patient-Centered Medical Home at Multi Ethnic Urban Community Hospital Author: Rahul Prasad Sinha MD MPH, Lily Lew MD, K. Cervellione MPhil, Corinne Kyriacou PhD MPH, Susana Rapaport MD Location: Flushing Hospital Medical Center, NY, USA; Year 2014 TEACHING EXPERIENCES

Duke University Medical Center: Teaching responsibility of medical students, interns and resident during rounds, morning report, interesting case conference, journal club, Evidence based Neurology conference. Duration: July 2014- Present Journal Club: Use of Disease Modifying therapy in Pediatric MS patient. August 2016. Morning report: Case report, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. September 2016 Morning Report: Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension. July 2016 Noon conference: Epileptic Encephalopathy in Infancy and Childhood. June 2016 Morning report: CN 3,4,6. Jan 2016

Journal Club: Sports and Epilepsy. Jan 2016.

Global Health Elective Experience- India. November 2015 Neuro ICU lecture series: “Traumatic Intracranial Hypertension”. May 2015 Neuro-anatomy lecture series: “Cerebral Hemispheres and Vascular Supply”. March 2015 Evidence Based Medicine Conference: “Use and In-Hospital Outcomes of Recombinant Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke Patients”. December 2014

Journal Club presentation series: “Mortality Associated with Epilepsy”. April 2015 Flushing Hospital Medical Center: Teaching responsibility of medical students, interns and co-resident during residency training in morning report, noon conference and board review course. Duration: July 2011- June 2014 Morning report: Botulism and Tetanus. August, 2012 Morning report: Diabetic ketoacidosis. October, 2012 Morning report: Intraventricular hemorrhage and Periventricular Leukomalacia. November 2012 Noon conference: Vomiting. August 2013

Noon conference: Practical approach to management of respiratory complications in neurological disorders. January 2014 Grand rounds at Duke University Medical Center

Adult Neurology Grand round: Acute Flaccid Myelitis. June 2017 Adult Neurology Grand round: Methotrexate toxicity causing stroke. June 2016 Joint ED-Neurology conference: Emergency Management of Myasthenia Gravis Exacerbation. Presented at Duke University Medical center, Durham, NC. Date: 2/19/15

TEACHING EXPERIENCES – Continued

AAN Grand rounds: Given jointly by group of residents who had gone for the AAN conference to discus their experience. Presented at Duke University Medical center, Durham, NC. Date: 4/29/15. MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Worked with medical student during residency to assist them in making residency choice and help them identify their areas of interest particularly related to pediatrics.

Assisted Interns and junior residents with identifying areas of research during residency. Mentoring MPH students at Hofstra University, who are aiming for entry into medical school. Mentored multiple foreign medical graduates in preparing for USMLE, residency application, finding electives, Sub-Internship, research opportunity and observership.

ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pediatric Epilepsy Program, J.Kiffin Penry Epilepsy Education Program, The Wake Forest School of Medicine, NC, USA; 3 day course, April 2017

Sub-Internship in Emergency Medicine:

Location: New York-Presbyterian hospital, University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, NY Year: April 2009

Mentor: Rahul Sharma MD, MBA

Additional electives coursed taken during medical school: Neuroscience and Biostatistics Location: Department of Physiology and Biostatistics, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania, E.U Year: 10/2004- 07/2005

Course director: Leon Zagrean MD, PhD

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Alternate Delegate: Committee of Interns and Resident, New York, USA Elected by residents from all residency programs of Flushing Hospital Medical Center, NY to represent them to the hospital administration and improve quality of training, promote projects, which would improve quality of care, obtain additional funding for education materials/devices and contract negotiations along with other elected representatives. Year 2011-2014 Member, Resident Wellness Committee; Flushing Hospital Medical Center, NY: We worked with program directors, administrators and GME office to bring up issues pertaining to resident wellness and worked together to solve challenges. Year 2012-2014 VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Transporting sick patient from remote villages to the regional referral center of Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India. Jan 2011-June 2011. Organizing blood donation camp by Red Cross society at Modern School Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. Year 2002. Assisted in Pulse Polio program, Sundar Lal Memorial Hospital, New Delhi, India.Year 2010 6

CONFERENCE ATTENDED

American Academy of Neurology, Annual meeting, Boston. April 2017 North Carolina Neurological Society Meeting, North Carolina, 2017 North Carolina Neurological Society Meeting, North Carolina, 2016 Child Neurology Society annual meeting, Washington DC. October 2015 Pediatric Academic Societies and Asian Society for Pediatric Research Joint Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 2014 American Academy of Neurology Washington DC. April 2015 Academic Pediatric Association Regions 2 and 3 Joint meeting at Weill Cornell Medical Center NY, USA. March 2014. Eastern Society for Pediatric Research Annual Meeting at the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 2014. American Academy of Pediatric, Annual meeting, Louisiana. October 2012 INTEREST

Playing field hockey, Passionate about improving life’s of people, reading self development books, Practicing Meditation, Yoga, listening to soft Indian music

LANGUAGES

English, Hindi, Bhojpuri and Romanian

VISA STATUS

Currently on H1B visa

REFERENCES

William Gallentine D.O

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Child Neurology Program Director, Duke University Medical Center Address: DUMC 3936, Durham, NC 27710

Office: +1-919-***-****

Fax: +1-919-***-****

Email: ac2jer@r.postjobfree.com

Saurabh R. Sinha M.D, PhD