Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
CONTACT INFORMATION
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
Yonas B Keleta
2213 St. Raymond Ave
Bronx, NY 10462
Cell Phone1: 0944136184 (Ethiopia)
Cell Phone2: (510) 452 7835 (USA)
Email:
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
University of Texas at San Antonio, Doctor of philosophy in Neurobiology; Ph.D., Dec. of 2010
University of Texas at San Antonio, Masters of Science in Biotechnology; MS, May of 2005
University of Asmara, Eritrea, Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and Veterinary, BS, Sep. of 1999
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
Current and Past PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
1-Advanced Researcher in Clinical, Biomedical, and Allied Health Sciences: Qualitative and Quantitative Behavioral Research and clinical evidence Analyst: Clinical research on behavioral intervention including for individuals and families who are impacted with autism and neurological related developmental delays. My responsibilities primarily focused on qualitative and quantitative data analysis and interpretations on the basis of data gathered from clients who are clinically diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorders including autistic spectrum and Asperger’s syndrome.
2-Doctoral Dissertation Mentor (chair and committee member): I teach doctoral dissertation courses including: DOC/722, DOC/733, DOC/733A, DOC/733B, DOC/734, DOC/734A, and DOC/734B.
These course works include comprehensive training and guiding the doctoral student with: Dissertation Proposal for Quality Assurance, the Dissertation Project plan, Utilization of various Procedures and Resources for dissertation thesis writing, the concept of Empirical Social Sciences Research in accordance to the guidelines and standards of the American Educational Research Association, The Quality Research Monitoring and the role of the Institutional Research Board.
3-Faculty/Lecturer: Qualitative and Quantitative Clinical Research and Statistics, Behavioral Psychology, Evidence Based Research and Statistics in Business Administration, and Peer Reviewed Research in Allied Health Sciences, University of Phoenix, Bay Area, CA, 2013; to present (Contractual job):
- Psycholmetrics: This course is designed to train and educate students with the basic principles of tests and measurements in psychology, utilization of several tools of psychological assessments, and understanding the validity and reliability of various testing tools and test results with respect to normative values. The course also trains the learner with various tests and measurements that are specifically developed for cognitive, affective, and functional behaviors.
- Biopsychology, PSY-340: This course is designed to train and educate students with the basic principles of biological systems, the structure and anatomy of the human brain, neuropsychological diseases, and human behavior. The course also trains the students in finding solutions for various neuropsychological and behavioral changes by utilizing case studies that focus on damages or insults to the central, paraspinal, and peripheral nervous systems.
- Healthcare Research Utilization and Statistics, HCS-465: This course is designed to train and educate students with the basic principles of peer reviewed scientific research and the underlying statistical methodologies and experimental designs. Furthermore, students learn the basic differences between qualitative vs. quantitative and descriptive vs. inferential approaches of statistical analyses.
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Business Administration, RES-351 and QEN-351: These courses are geared towards educating students in the field of business administration on the basic principles of scientific research based decision making using the two major schools of thoughts in research, qualitative (RES-351) and quantitative (QEN-351).
4-Surgical Neurophysiology Real-time Intraoperative neuromonitoring during several surgical procedures. The technique is primarily geared towards patient safety and quality of surgery so that surgical manipulations at the levels of the CNS and PNS would have no significant negative effect on nerves, muscles, and other neural structures. Commonly, evoked or spontaneous potentials including somatosensory, motor, electromyography, etc. … are obtained to test the integrity of the neural pathways (both descending and ascending) during any given neurological procedure.
5-Peer Reviewer for Journal of Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Behavior. I have been contributing as a peer reviewer for this journal for over 3 years now and I got the certificate of recognition early in 2016.
6-Patient Care: consulting patients with chronic or acute pains that potentially emanate due to several factors including nutrition, drug and alcohol abuse, peripheral nerve damage, and paraspinal and spinal root damages
7-Neurodiagnostics (EMG and NCS): Assessed and studied various CNS and paraspinal related diseases and disorders using some neurodiagnostic tools. My work primarily focused on assessments of spinal and paraspinal nerve entrapments/damages and studying neuropathological disorders using state of the art medical devices including Sierawave and Neuromax.
8-Postdoctoral Research Fellow: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 02/2011-06/2011: My postdoctoral research primarily focused on understanding the addictive properties of drugs that are prescribed for pain medication. This was purely biomedical research on therapeutic and addictive effects of canabinoids and opioids using animal model of reinforcement learning and (non-human primates, monkeys).
9-Doctoral Research Fellow: Graduate research associate: University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 05/2004-2011:My doctoral biomedical research focused mainly on understanding brain circuits of the acquisition of reinforcement learning and the addiction of psychostimulants including METH and Cocaine using several animal models of operant conditioning (refer publications page for details
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
PUBLICATIONS
- Keleta, Yonas B. and Joe L. Martinez, Jr. Brain Circuits of Methamphetamine Place Reinforcement Learning: The role of the Hippocampus-VTA loop, Brain and Behavior, March 2012, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp 128-141.
- Keleta, Yonas B., Augustus R Lumia, George M Anderson, Marilyn Y McGinnis: Behavioral effects of pubertal anabolic androgenic steroid exposure in male rats with low serotonin, Brain Res. 2007, Feb. 9; 1132 (1): 129-38
- Keleta, YonasB.Neural Substrates of Methamphetamine Place Reinforcement Learning: The Role of the Hippocampus-VTA Loop" presented to the graduate school of The University of Texas at San Antonio for Doctor of Philosophy in Neurobiology, December 2010, published in Proquest on 11/2010.
- Keleta, Yonas B. "Depletion of brain serotonin in anabolic androgenic steroid treated pubertal male rats: Behavioral and Neurochemical analyses" presented to the graduate school of The University of Texas at San Antonio for Master's Thesis in Biotechnology, August 2005.
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS
Summer program in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Survival at the Marine Biological Laboratories in Woods Hole, MA [2010]
American Psychological Associations (APA), Diversity Program in neuroscience (DPN) pre-doctoral fellowship [2009-2010]
Med-associate sponsored award for attending a one-week workshop on Operant Conditioning and Task Programming during the 2007 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Conference held in San Diego, CA
Minority Biomedical Research Support-Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (MBRS-RISE), University of Texas at San Antonio, [2004-2009]
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
INVITED GUEST SPEAKER AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Introduction to Intraoperative Monitoring Technology: Invited Guest Presenter, presented to the Neurosurgery Unit of Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa University, (10/2016)
Cerebral Palsy and its Impacts on the Society (Invited Guest for the Aaron Foundation, San Jose, California, 5/2015)
Brain Networks of Psychostimulant Reinforcement Learning: Drug abuse, Society, and Brain, UOPx – Bay Area Campus (2013)
The role of phosphoinositide coupled receptors on intravenous cocaine self-administration, University of Texas at San Antonio MBRS-RISE & MARC-U*STAR fall 2008 research Symposium.
Chronic, Partial Depletion of Brain Serotonin on Anabolic Androgenic Steroids treated Pubertal Male Rats Enhanced Aggressive Behavior, University of Texas at San Antonio MBRS-RISE & MARC-U*STAR fall 2004 research Symposium
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
American Association of Neurodiagnostics Technology [AAET]
Society for Neuroscience [SfN]
Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology [SBN]
American Physiological Society [APS]
American Psychological Association [APA]
Biology, Behavior, and Chemistry [BBC] society, Texas
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
LIST OF REFERENCES
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
Dr. Bhupinder N. Bhandari, MD. President and Owner of Mission Primary Care Medical Group [
Dr. Joe L. Martinez, Jr., Professor of Neurobiology at University of Texas at San Antonio, TX [
Dr. Musie, Ghezai; Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Texas at San Antonio, TX, [
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