Eroboghene E. Ubogu
Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Eroboghene E. Ubogu has graduated from the Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom in 1998, completed a General Internal Medicine internship at the Cleveland Clinic and residency in Adult Neurology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, both in Cleveland, Ohio. Eroboghene E. Ubogu has completed a clinical fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuromuscular Disorders at Emory University School of Medicine and a post-doctoral research fellowship in Neurosciences/Neuroimmunology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute. He previously worked at the Louis Stokes Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center/ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio (2004-2007) and Baylor College of Medicine (2007-2013). I moved to UAB in September 2013.
He is Board certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Electrodiagnostic Medicine and Neuromuscular Medicine and has clinical interests in all aspects of neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic medicine, with special interest in autoimmune neuromuscular disorders. He is a tenured Professor of Neurology and the Director of the Division of Neuromuscular Disease at UAB. He also direct the EMG and Evoked Potentials Laboratory at UAB Hospital, the Shin J Oh Muscle and Nerve Histopathology Laboratory and serve as Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship. He is licensed to practice medicine in Ohio, Georgia, Texas and Alabama.
Eroboghene E. Ubogu also direct a translational basic science laboratory located in the Shelby Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building (the Neuromuscular Immunopathology Research Laboratory), relocated from Baylor College of Medicine in September 2013. Eroboghene E. Ubogu‘s laboratory in Houston, TX was the first in the world to isolate and characterize human peripheral nerve endoneurial endothelial cells that form the restrictive blood-nerve barrier. Eroboghene E. Ubogu has developed a flow-dependent in vitro blood-nerve barrier model to study pathogenic leukocyte trafficking in real time. Eroboghene E. Ubogu also work with animal models of acute and chronic demyelinating neuritis, severe murine experimental autoimmune neuritis and spontaneous autoimmune peripheral polyneuropathy respectively.
Eroboghene E. Ubogu is recent recipient of three National Institutes of Health Independent Investigator Awards (2011-2017), a 2012 Creative and Novel Ideas in HIV Research grant from the International AIDS Society (2012-2014) and a collaborative Department of Defense award (2013-2016) to study the vascular biology of the blood-nerve barrier in normal and pathologic states, peripheral nerve inflammation and aberrant peripheral nerve remodeling using in vitro and in vivo approaches. Eroboghene E. Ubogu had previously received research grant support from the Guillain-Barre syndrome/ Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (GBS/CIDP) Foundation International (2008-2008, 2010-2012) to study leukocyte trafficking in peripheral nerves.
Eroboghene E. Ubogu has received several awards/honors for academic performance in medical school (1994-1998), Resident Travel scholarships to attend the American Academy of Neurology and American Neurological Association meetings in 2002, The 1st International Society of Neuroimmunology Dale E. McFarlin Award for Basic Neuroimmunology in 2006, Recognition by Who’s Who in Black Cleveland in 2007, an Ohio Bioscience 30 in Their 30s award in 2007 and a Faculty Teaching Award from the Department of Neurology Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas in 2012.
Eroboghene E. Ubogu has authored or edited 2 books: Ubogu EE. Neurology Oral Boards Review: A Concise and Systematic Approach to Clinical Practice, Humana Press, Totowa, August 2005. ISBN: 1-58829-654-7 (paperback version), ISBN: 1-59259-984-2 (e-Book version); and Cardona AE, Ubogu EE (eds.) Chemokines: Methods and Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer Science + Business Media, New York 2013. ISBN: 978-1-62703-425-8 (hardback version), ISBN: 978-1-62703-426-5 (eBook), DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-426-5. Eroboghene E. Ubogu has written over 50 book chapters since 2002 and presented his research national and international meetings in the United States and abroad (e.g. Singapore, Australia, India, Malaysia). Eroboghene E. Ubogu has formally mentored or advised over 30 individuals in support of their career development, or provided specialized clinical and basic laboratory research training since 2006.
Neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic medicine , Vascular Biology of the Blood-Nerve Barrier, Molecular Biology and Physiology of Peripheral Neuroinflammation
