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Maria Luisa Escolar, MD, MS

Maria Escolar, MD
Job Title Director, Program for the Study of Neurodevelopment in Rare Disorders
Job Title Associate Professor, Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Neurodevelopment in Rare Disorders
One Children's Hospital Drive
4401 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
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Email maria.escolar@chp.edu
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Education and Training

Medical School:

1988 MS, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Institute of Human Nutrition, New York, NY
1986 MD, Escuela Colombiana de Medicina, Bogota, Colombia
 

Residency:

1993 Pediatrics, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
 

Fellowship:

1995 Child Development and Behavioral Pediatrics, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

Memberships

  • American College of Medical Genetics, Newborn Screening Translational Network Workgroup
  • Advisory Committee for the Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center
  • New York State Krabbe Newborn screening Consortium
  • MLD Foundation, Medical and Scientific Advisory Board

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Diplomate
  • Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates

Awards

  •  2005 Translational Science Scholar, UNC School of Medicine Dean's Office, Program in Translational Science
  • 1993 Supplement grant award for Minority Individuals in Postdoctoral training, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development

Publications

  • Fan Z, Styner M, Muenzer J, Poe MD, Escolar, ML. Correlation of Automated Volumetric Analysis of Brain MR Imaging with Cognitive Impairment in a Natural History Study of Mucopolysaccharidosis II. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2010 Mar 4.
  • Mahmood A, Berry J, Wenger DA, Escolar ML, Sobeih M, Raymond G, Eichler F. Metachromatic leukodystrophy: a Case of Triplets with Late Infantile Variant and a Systematic Review of the Literature.  J Child Neurol. 2009 Dec 28.
  • Escolar ML, Poe MD, Smith JK, Gilmore JH, Kurtzberg J, Lin W, Styner M. Diffusion tensor imaging detercts abnormalitites in the corticospinal tracts of neonates with infantile Krabbe disease. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2009 May;30(5):1017-21. Epub 2009 Apr 22.

    View Dr. Escolar's full list of publications from PubMed.

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • Research in Krabbe disease
  • Natural History Study of Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy (Krabbe Disease)
  • DTI as a Tool to Identify Infants with Krabbe Disease in Need of Urgent Treatment
 
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October 11, 2012
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