Stony Brook University | School of Medicine | Health Sciences Center
Roberta J. Seidman, M.D., Associate Professor.
Roberta J. Seidman, MD
Associate Professor
UH L2, Room 766
Stony Brook University Medical Center
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-7025
Tel: (631) 444-2222
Fax: (631) 444-3419
Email: Roberta.Seidman@stonybrook.edu
Education:
| 1979 - 1983 | M.D., School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY |
| 1976 - 1979 | M.S. in Neuroscience, School of Medicine, Center for Brain Research, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
| 1972 - 1976 | B.A. in Psychology and Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
Appointments:
| July, 1997 -present | Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology, Stony Brook University Medical Center and Stony Brook University Hospital |
| July, 1990 - June, 1997 |
Assistant Professor of Pathology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY |
| November, 2002 - present | Director of Neuropathology |
| July, 1990 - present | Director, Neuromuscular Pathology Unit |
| November, 2002 - 2003 | Director of Neuropathology Fellowship |
| 1991 - 2001 | Director of Neuroanatomy Instruction, Medical Neuroscience |
| October, 2002 - present | Director of Neuropathology instruction, lectures and laboratory, Neurosciences System, Stony Brook University School of Medicine |
| November 1989 - present | Consultant Neuropathologist, Suffolk County Medical Examiner |
| 1987 |
Attending Neurologist, V.A. Medical Center, Northport, NY |
Honors and Awards:
| 2004 | Distinguished service award, School of Medicine, Stony Brook University |
| 2000, 2003, 2004 | Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| 1997, 1998 | Selected to Award diplomas to medical school graduates |
| 1996 | Award for Excellence in Teaching |
| 1995 | Selected to call the names of the medical school graduates |
| 1994 | Aesculapius Award, School of Medicine, SUNY Stony Brook, in recognition of outstanding teaching |
| 1992 |
Alpha Omega Alpha, medical honor society |
Clinical Practice:
Dr. Seidman is Board Certified in Neurology (1988) and Neuropathology (1990).
Publications:
Eilbott DJ, Peress N, LaNeve D, Orenstein J, Gendelman HE, Seidman R, Weiser B. Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 in Spinal Cords of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Patients with Myelopathy: Expression and replication in macrophages. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86:3337-41, 1989
Burger H, Peress N, Eilbott DJ, LaNeve D, Orenstein J, Gendelman HE, Seidman R, Weiser B. HIV in Myelopathy. Cold Spring Harbor Labs. Proc of mtg entitled Modern Approaches to New Vaccines including prevention of AIDS. Sept. 14-18, 1988. In Ginsberg H, et al (ed), Vaccines 89, new chemical and genetic approaches to vaccination: prevention of AIDS and other viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases, Cold Spring Harbor, NY; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1989, 125-131
Kaufman LD, Finn Jr. AF, Seidman RJ, Pampati J, Peress NS, Miller F, Sokoloff L, Gruber BL. Fatal Eosinophilic Neuritis, Perimyositis and Vasculitis associated with Ingestion of L-Tryptophan. J. Rheumatol 17: 795-800, 1990
Iliya AR, Davis RP, Seidman RJ. Paraganglioma of the Cauda Equina: Clinical Histological, and MRI Description. Case Report. Surgical Neurology 35:366-7, 1990
Kaufman LD, Seidman RJ, Gruber BL. L-Tryptophan Associated eosinophilic perimyositis, neuritis and fasciitis: a clinopathological and laboratory study of 25 patients. Medicine 69: 187-199, 1990
Seidman RJ, Kaufman L, Sokoloff L, Miller F, Iliya A, Peress N.The neuromuscular pathology of the Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 50: 49-62, 1991
Weiser B, Peress N, LaNeve D, Eilbott D, Seidman R, Burger H. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Expression in the Central Nervous System correlates directly with extent of disease. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 878:3997-4001, 1990
Kaufman LD, Seidman RJ, Philips ME, Gruber BL. Cutaneous manifestations of the L-Tryptophan-associated eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome: A spectrum of sclerodermatous skin disease. J Amer Acad Dermatol 23: 1063-1069, 1990
Kaufman LD, Seidman RJ. L-Tryptophan-Associated Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome: Perspective of New Illness. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America 17(2):427-441, 1991
Kaufman LD, Kephart GM, Seidman RJ, Buhner D, Qvarfordt I, Nassberger L, Gleich GJ. The Spectrum of Idiopathic eosinophilic myositis: Clinical and immunopathologic studies of three patients with a review of the literature. Arthritis and Rheumatism 36(7):1014-24, 1993
Seidman R, Peress NP, Nuovo GJ. In situ detection of PCR-amplified HIV-1 nucleic acids in skeletal muscle in patients with myopathy. Modern Pathology 7:369-375, 1994
Garcia-Monco JC, Seidman RJ, Benach JL. Experimental immunization with Borrelia burgdorferi induces development of antibodies to gangliosides. Infection and Immunity 63(10):4130-7, 1995
Peress NS, Perillo E, Seidman RJ. Glial transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta isotypes in multiple sclerosis: differential glial expression of TGF- beta 1, 2 and 3 isotypes in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Neuroimmunology 71(12):115-23, 1996
Seidman RJ. Muscle biopsy and introduction to the pathology of skeletal muscle- chapter for eMedicine, Neurology, an online textbook, http://www.emedicine.com/, 2001, 2005, 2006
Saleh FG and Seidman RJ. Drug-induced myopathy and neuropathy. Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular disease 5(2):81-92, 2003
McKane AV, Haupt B, Seidman RJ. Diffuse Axonal Injury, ASCP Check Sample, April 2006
Bowers B, Patel A, Mirza N, Seidman RJ. Paediatric Contracturing Granulomatous Myositis, Letter. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology 2008; Scand J Rheumatol 37: 394-5, 2008
