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Current Residents - Kareem Zaghloul, MD, PhD

Resident Physician, PGY-6

Kareem Zaghloul, MD, PhD

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

 
Biographical Sketch

Dr. Zaghloul received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 1995. He received his MD/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his thesis in the Department of Neuroscience. He completed his internship in the Department of Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a PGY-6 in the Department of Neurosurgery.

In The Press
Publications

Zaghloul, K.A, Manookin, M.B., Boahen, K.A., and Demb, J.B. Functional circuitry for peripheral suppression in mammalian Y-type retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neurophysiology (in press).

Heuer, G.G., Zaghloul, K.A., Jaggi, J.L., Baltuch, G.H. Use of an Integrated Platform System in the Placement of Deep Brain Stimulators. Operative Neurosurgery (in press)

Heuer, G.G., Zaghloul, K.A., Roberts, R, Stiefel, M.F., Storm, P.B. Successful Microsurgical Extraction of a Migrated Coil After Failed Endovascular Closure of a Blalock-Taussig Shunt. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics 106(2): 136-138, 2007.

Zaghloul, K.A. and Boahen, K.A. Circuit designs that model the properties of the outer and inner retina. Visual Prosthesis: New Hope In Sight. ed. Tombran-Tink, J. and Barnstable, C., Humana Press, 2006

Zaghloul, K.A. and Boahen, K.A. A silicon retina that reproduces signals in the optic nerve. Journal of Neural Engineering 3: 257-267, 2006.

Zaghloul, K.A., Boahen, K.A., and Demb, J.B. Contrast adaptation in subthreshold and spiking responses of mammalian Y-type retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neuroscience 25(4): 860-8, 2005.

Zaghloul, K.A. and Boahen, K.A. An On-Off log-domain filter circuit. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 52(1): 99-107, 2005.

Zaghloul, K.A. and Boahen, K.A. Optic nerve signals in a neuromorphic chip I: Outer and inner retina model. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 51(4): 657-666, 2004.

Zaghloul, K.A. and Boahen, K.A. Optic nerve signals in a neuromorphic chip II: Testing and results. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 51(4): 667-675, 2004.

Huang, J.H., Zaghloul, K.A., and Zager, E.L. Surgical management of brachial plexus region tumors. Surgical Neurology 61(4): 372-378, 2004.

Zaghloul, K.A., Boahen, K.A., and Demb, J.B. Different circuits for On and Off ganglion cells cause different contrast sensitivities. Journal of Neuroscience 23: 2645-2654, 2003

Zaghloul, K.A. A Silicon Implementation of a Novel Model for Retinal Processing. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, December 2001.

Demb, J.B., Zaghloul, K.A., Haarsma, L., and Sterling, P. Bipolar cells contribute to nonlinear spatial summation in the brisk-transient (Y) ganglion cell in mammalian retina. Journal of Neuroscience 21(19): 7447-7454, 2001.

Demb, J.B., Zaghloul, K.A., and Sterling, P. Cellular basis for the response to second-order motion cues in Y retinal ganglion cells. Neuron 32: 711-721, 2001.

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