Gustavo C. Roman, MD, DrHC

Jack S. Blanton Presidential Distinguished Chair for the Study of Neurological Disease, Stanley H. Appel Department of Neurology
Professor of Neurology, Academic Institute
Full Member, Research Institute
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College


Areas Of Expertise

Dementia Alzheimer Disease
Education & Training

Residency, Fletcher Allen Health Care
Internship, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Bogota
MD, Facultad De Medicina, Bogota
Publications

A phase 1 open-label pilot study of low-dose interleukine-2 immunotherapy in patients with Alzheimer’s disease
Faridar, A, Eid, AM, Thome, AD, Zhao, W, Beers, DR, Pascual, MB, Nakawah, MO, Roman, GC, Davis, CS, Grundman, M, Masdeu, JC & Appel, SH 2023, , Translational Neurodegeneration, vol. 12, no. 1, 54, pp. 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40035-023-00387-5

A phase 1 open-label pilot study of low-dose interleukine-2 immunotherapy in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Faridar, A, Eid, AM, Thome, AD, Zhao, W, Beers, DR, Pascual, MB, Nakawah, MO, Roman, GC, Davis, CS, Grundman, M, Masdeu, JC & Appel, SH 2023, , Translational Neurodegeneration, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40035-023-00387-5

Environmental neurology: Concepts and short history of an interdisciplinary approach to etiology, treatment and prevention
Reis, J, Buguet, A, Román, GC & Spencer, PS 2023, , Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 454, 120861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2023.120861

Tropical spastic paraparesis
Román, GC 2023, . in Handbook of Clinical Neurology. vol. 196, Handbook of clinical neurology, Elsevier B.V. pp. 149-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-98817-9.00026-0

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis from genotoxins alone?
Spencer, PS, Lagrange, E, Palmer, VS, Reis, J, Steele, JC & Román, GC 2022, , The Lancet Neurology, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 771-772. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(22)00305-2

The COVID-19 pandemic, an environmental neurology perspective
Reis, J, Buguet, A, Román, GC & Spencer, PS 2022, , Revue Neurologique, vol. 178, no. 6, pp. 499-511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurol.2022.02.455

Association of Lower Extremity Peripheral Nerve Impairment and the Risk of Dementia: Bringing the Peripheral Nervous System Closer to Center
Shuman Paretsky, M & Roman, GC 2022, , Neurology, vol. 98, no. 18, pp. 741-742. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000200300

What does aducanumab treatment of Alzheimer's disease mean for research on vascular cognitive disorders?
Wallin, A, Alladi, S, Black, SE, Chen, C, Greenberg, SM, Gustafson, D, Isaacs, JD, Jokinen, H, Kalaria, R, Mok, V, Pantoni, L, Pasquier, F, Roman, GC, Rosenberg, GA, Schmidt, R, Smith, EE & Hainsworth, AH 2022, , Cerebral Circulation - Cognition and Behavior, vol. 3, 100044, pp. 100044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cccb.2022.100044

Patterns of amygdala region pathology in LATE-NC: subtypes that differ with regard to TDP-43 histopathology, genetic risk factors, and comorbid pathologies
Cykowski, MD, Arumanayagam, AS, Powell, SZ, Rivera, AL, Abner, EL, Roman, GC, Masdeu, JC & Nelson, PT 2022, , Acta Neuropathologica, vol. 143, no. 5, pp. 531-545. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-022-02416-5

Pleural effusion and respiratory compromise from spontaneous migration of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt catheter in a patient with normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Walker, RW, Roman, GC, Zhang, YJ & Acres, O 2022, , Surgical Neurology International, vol. 13, 393, pp. 393. https://doi.org/10.25259/SNI_486_2022

Neuroinflammation is highest in areas of disease progression in semantic dementia
Pascual, B, Funk, Q, Zanotti Fregonara, P, Cykowski, MD, Veronese, M, Rockers, E, Bradbury, K, Yu, M, Nakawah, MO, Román, GC, Schulz, PE, Arumanayagam, AS, Beers, D, Faridar, A, Fujita, M, Appel, SH & Masdeu, JC 2021, , Brain, vol. 144, no. 5, pp. 1565-1575. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab057

Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM):Clinical Review of 43 Patients With COVID-19-Associated ATM and 3 Post-Vaccination ATM Serious Adverse Events With the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 Vaccine (AZD1222)
Román, GC, Gracia, F, Torres, A, Palacios, A, Gracia, K & Harris, D 2021, , Frontiers in immunology, vol. 12, 653786, pp. 653786. https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.653786

Approaches to Understanding COVID-19 and its Neurological Associations
on behalf of the Global COVID-19 Neuro Research Coalition 2021, , Annals of Neurology, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 1059-1067. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.26076

Neuroinflammation is highest in areas of disease progression in semantic dementia
Pascual, B, Funk, Q, Zanotti-Fregonara, P, Cykowski, MD, Veronese, M, Rockers, E, Bradbury, K, Yu, M, Nakawah, MO, Román, GC, Schulz, PE, Arumanayagam, AS, Beers, D, Faridar, A, Fujita, M, Appel, SH & Masdeu, JC 2021, , Brain, vol. 144, no. 5, pp. 1565-1575. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awab057

SARS-CoV-2 infection and sleep disturbances: Nitric oxide involvement and therapeutic opportunity
Cespuglio, R, Strekalova, T, Spencer, PS, Román, GC, Reis, J, Bouteille, B & Buguet, A 2021, , Sleep, vol. 44, no. 3, zsab009. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab009

Environmental neurology in the tropics
Reis, J, Spencer, PS, Román, GC & Buguet, A 2021, , Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 421, 117287, pp. 117287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117287

Homonymous hemianopsia as a reversible manifestation of normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Zehden, J, Raviskanthan, S, Bhat, N, Mortensen, PW, Román, GC & Lee, AG 2021, , Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. e182-e185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjo.2021.04.015

Clinical phenotype and mutation spectrum of alzheimer’s disease with causative genetic mutation in a chinese cohort
Mao, C, Li, J, Dong, L, Huang, X, Lei, D, Wang, J, Chu, S, Liu, C, Peng, B, Román, GC, Cui, L & Gao, J 2021, , Current Alzheimer Research, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 265-272. https://doi.org/10.2174/1567205018666210608120339

Covid-19: Neurological sequelae
Spencer, PS, Román, G, Buguet, A, Guekht, A & Reis, J 2021, , Health Risk Analysis, vol. 2021, no. 2, pp. 165-172. https://doi.org/10.21668/health.risk/2021.2.16.eng

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Reis, J, Frutos, R, Buguet, A, Faou, AL, Sandner, G, Román, GC & Spencer, PS 2021, , Health Risk Analysis, no. 4, pp. 4-16. https://doi.org/10.21668/HEALTH.RISK/2021.4.01