SUNY Downstate course leadership: Downstate Course Director, Unit 6 and
Neurology Clerkship; Director and Founder, the CNS Pathway
National service: Mentor in the American Academy of Neurology Director Mentorship
Leadership Program; Member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Faculty Innovation in Education Committee; Member of the American Neurological
Association Membership Committee; Councilor of the Association of University
Professors of Neurology (AUPN, elected position, 2023-2026); Organizer of the AUPN
Program Director’s Workshop and the AUPN Chair and PD Forum (September 2024);
Member of SUNY Distinguished Academy
Publications, 2023-2024 (all abstracts):
Onoichenco A, Dhallu T, Kabariti S, Harter D, Pillai C, Snyman C, Merlin L, Gustafson D.
Sociodemographic factors, neuropsychiatric symptoms, removal, and recovery in colloid
cyst patients. XXVI World Congress of Neurology annual meeting, October 2023.
Kelani H, Kay A, Lerner DP, Merlin LR. Oral vs. intraventricular nimodipine in patients with
aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. OBH 9 th Annual Research Day, November 2023.
Naeem A, Kelani H, Bakr AD, Eltaras MM, Lerner DP, Kay A, Greene-Chandos D, Merlin LR.
Alteplase vs. antiplatelets in minor ischemic stroke (NIHSS < 5): a network meta-
analysis. AAN abstract, April 2024 (Denver, CO).
Kelani H, Ibrahim N, Ibrahem ES, Al-Shafey NA, Naga FMF, Kay A, Lerner DP, Naeem A,
Greene-
Chandos D, Merlin LR. Intraventricular nimodipine vs. oral nimodipine in aneurysmal
sybarachnoid hemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis. AAN abstract, April
2024 (Denver, CO).
Abd Lezaim A, Kelani H, Desai M, Hatcher L, Wagrees W, Knauf M, Lerner DP, Kay A, Merlin
LR,
Greene-Chandos D. Inflammatory bowel disease: a risk factor for premature
atherosclerosis of internal carotid arteries and ischemic strokes. AAN abstract, April
2024 (Denver, CO).
