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Dean Albert Le MD, PhD

Neurology Consultant, Saddleback Memorial Care Center

Laguna Hills, California

Contact

Office Phone

949-837-1130

Education

Universities

Stanford University School of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine, Neurology
1992

Stanford University School of Medicine

Doctor of Philosophy, research doctorate, Neuroscience
1992

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor in Science, Chemistry
1982 to 1986

Postgraduate Training

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

1996 to 1999
Stroke Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

1993 to 1996
Residency in Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

1992 to 1993
Internship in Medicine

Licenses/Certifications

Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

2009
Recertified

Diplomate American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

1999

Mentors

Ferdinando Buonanno, MD

Michael A Moskowitz, MD

Stuart A Lipton, MD, PhD

Experience

Instructor of Neurology

Harvard Medical School
1999 to 2003

Consultant Neurologist

Saddleback Memorical Care Center, Laguna Hills, California
2004

Honors and Awards

NIH K08 Career Research Award

NINDS
1999

Memberships

Member

American Academy of Neurology
1996

Publications

Articles

"Aortic occlusion causing ischemic neuropathy and paraparesis."

Neurology
Vol. 63 - 2004;
PubMed ID: 15557539

"Caspase activation and neuroprotection in caspase-3- deficient mice after in vivo cerebral ischemia and in vitro oxygen glucose deprivation."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Vol. 99 - 2002;
PubMed ID: 12415117

"Lipid-sugar particles for intracranial drug delivery: safety and biocompatibility."

Brain research
Vol. 946 - 2002;
PubMed ID: 12137923

"Neurotrophin-3 promotes cell death induced in cerebral ischemia, oxygen-glucose deprivation, and oxidative stress: possible involvement of oxygen free radicals."

Neurobiology of disease
Vol. 9 - 2002;
PubMed ID: 11848682

"BID mediates neuronal cell death after oxygen/ glucose deprivation and focal cerebral ischemia."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Vol. 98 - 2001;
PubMed ID: 11742085

"Potential and current use of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists in diseases of aging."

Drugs & aging
Vol. 18 - 2001;
PubMed ID: 11735619

"Molecular basis of NMDA receptor-coupled ion channel modulation by S-nitrosylation."

Nature neuroscience
Vol. 3 - 2000;
PubMed ID: 10607390

"Neuroprotection by the NMDA receptor-associated open-channel blocker memantine in a photothrombotic model of cerebral focal ischemia in neonatal rat."

European journal of pharmacology
Vol. 375 - 1999;
PubMed ID: 10443569

"Posterior leukoencephalopathy without severe hypertension: utility of diffusion-weighted MRI."

Neurology
Vol. 51 - 1998;
PubMed ID: 9818862

"Sensory alien hand syndrome: case report and review of the literature."

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry
Vol. 65 - 1998;
PubMed ID: 9728952
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Books

International Neurology

Binswanger's disease (Chapter 5)
Wiley-Blackwell
2009

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