Resident Physician, PGY-2

Department of Neurosurgery, Silverstein 3
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 662-3487
casey.halpern@uphs.upenn.edu

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Halpern is currently a PGY-2 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Education

• 5/2003 BA University of Pennsylvania
• 5/2007 MD University of Pennsylvania

Awards, Honors, and Membership in Honorary Societies

• Robert M. Toll Prize, best paper in the field of mental health, 2005
• College of Physicians of Philadelphia Edward Krumbhaar Award, best medical essay written by a medical student (honorable mention), 2005
• History of Medicine Prize, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
• Magna Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania, 2003
• Advanced Standing on Spanish Oral Proficiency Interview, 2001
• Dean's List, 2001

Original Papers

Halpern C, McMillan C, Moore P, Dennis K, Grossman M. Calculation impairment in neurodegenerative diseases. J Neurol Sci 2003;208(1-2):31-8.

Halpern CH, Glosser G, Clark R, Gee J, Moore P, Dennis K, McMillan C, Colcher A, Grossman M. Dissociation of numbers and objects in corticobasal degeneration and semantic dementia. Neurology 2004;62(7):1163-9.

Halpern C, Clark R, Moore P, Antani S, Colcher A, Grossman M. Verbal mediation of number knowledge: Evidence from semantic dementia and corticobasal degeneration. Brain and Cognition 2004;56(1):107-15.

Halpern C, Clark R, Moore P, Gee J, Grossman M. Too much to count on: Impaired very small numbers in corticobasal degeneration. Brain and Cognition 2007;64(2):144-9.

Halpern CH, Danish SF, Jaggi JL, Baltuch GH. Brain shift during deep brain stimulation surgery ' for Parkinson's disease. In press. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.

Nagpal S, Halpern C, Sims C, Gracias V, LeRoux P, Levine J. Decompressive laparotomy to treat intractable cerebral hypoxia. In press. Journal of Trauma.

Editorials, Reviews, Chapters

Halpern C, Hurtig H, Jaggi J, Grossman M, Won M, Baltuch G. Deep brain stimulation in neurologic disorders. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders 2007;13:1-16.

Halpern C, Hurtig H, Baltuch G. Deep brain stimulation for neurological diseases. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, January 2007.

Stein SC, Halpern C, Reilly PM. Upsetting the balance. Indian J Med Res 2007;125:186-187.

Halpern C and Hurtig H. Clinical Outcome. Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease - A Comprehensive Text. In press. Philadelphia: Taylor and France Publishing.

Abstracts (oral presentations and poster-presentations)

Halpern CH, McMillan CT, Moore PN, Dennis KE, Grossman M. Calculation impairment in neurodegenerative diseases. American Academy of Neurology and International Neuropsychological Society, 2003.

McMillan C, Clark R, Dennis K, Moore P, Halpern C, Grossman M. Generalized quantifier comprehension in focal neurodegenerative disease. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2003.

Halpern C, Glosser G, Moore P, Dennis K, McMillan C, Grossman M. Double dissociation of Corticobasal Degeneration and Semantic Dementia on number and object measures. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2003.

Halpern C, Clark R, McMillan C, Gee J, Grossman M. Dissociating object knowledge and number knowledge in semantic dementia and corticobasal degeneration: Correlation with high-resolution MRI. Brain and Language 2003;87(1):98. Academy of Aphasia, 2003.

Grossman M, Troiani V, Halpern C. The Neural Representation of Quantifiers in Healthy Young Adults. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2006.

Halpern C, Clark R, Work M, Antani S, McCawley G, Moore P, Gee J, Grossman M. Vanishing small numbers in corticobasal degeneration: Correlation with high-resolution MRI. International Neuropsychological Society, 2006

Halpern CH, Udoetuk J, Bribriesco A, Taylor S, Pellegrini C, Bloom S, Reilly P, Stein SC. Traumatic coagulopathy: The effect of brain injury. Select abstract, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2006

Danish SF, Halpern CH, Baltuch GH. The history of deep brain stimulation. American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2006

Halpern CH, Danish SF, Jaggi JL, Baltuch GH. Cerebrospinal fluid loss correlates with subcortical structure displacement during deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease, oral presentation, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2006.

Whitmore RG, Halpern CH, Kapoor GS, Wolf RL, Baccon J, Krejza J, Bailey R, Lopinto J, Melhem ER, O'Rourke DM. Perfusion-Weighted Imaging Utilized to Identify MR Surrogates of EGFRvIII Alterations in Glioblastoma Multiforme. Select Abstract for the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

Whitmore RG, Halpern CH, Kapoor GS, Wolf RL, Baccon J, Krejza J, Bailey R, Lopinto J, Melhem ER, O'Rourke DM. Perfusion-Weighted Imaging Utilized to Identify MR Surrogates of EGFRvIII Alterations in Glioblastoma Multiforme. Presented as a talk at the Pennsylvania Neurosurgical Society Annual Scientific Meeting, 2007.

Whitmore RG, Halpern CH, Kapoor GS, Wolf RL, Baccon J, Krejza J, Bailey R, Lopinto J, Melhem ER, O'Rourke DM. Perfusion-Weighted Imaging Utilized to Identify MR Surrogates of EGFRvIII Alterations in Glioblastoma Multiforme. Accepted as a talk at the Italian Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 2007.

Whitmore RG, Halpern CH, Kapoor GS, Wolf RL, Woo J, Baccon J, Chawla S, Oleaga L, Lopinto J, Plaum J, Melhem ER, O'Rourke DM. Perfusion-Weighted Imaging identifies MR Surrogates of Malignant Glioma Molecular Subtypes. Submitted to the Society of Neuro-Oncology, 2007.

Whitmore RG, Chawla S, Halpern CH, Kapoor GS, Wolf RL, Woo J, Oleaga L, Lopinto J, Plaum J, Melhem ER, O'Rourke DM. Proton MR Spectroscopy Identifies Surrogates of Malignant Glioma Molecular Subtypes. Submitted to the Society of Neuro-Oncology, 2007.