Rodrigo Orlando Kuljiš

Curriculum Vitae

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION:

NAME: Rodrigo Orlando Kuljiš

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH: Santiago, Chile 13 November1955.

MARITAL STATUS : Married to Rosanda Jadranka Magaš

DEGREE: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) University of Chile (1978) recognized by examination of credentrials and testing in the United States of America in 1983.

PRESENT ACADEMIC HIERARCHY: Professor Emeritus, University of Miami, from 13 September 2008 to date (for services as the endowed chair known as Esther Lichtenstein Chair in Neurology and Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

OFFICE: Founder and President, Neurociencia Clínica (Clinical Neuroscience) Zdrav Mozak (Healthy Brain) Limitada, Chesterton 7168, Oficina 72, Santiago, Chile.

PHONE: +56 9 6699 1386 (cellular).

FAX : None.

HOME ADDRESS: Oscar Tenhann 855, Depto. 31, Santiago, Chile.

E-MAIL: .

Other Occupations:

Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience (Switzerland).

Chief Editor, Neurology, StatPearls (United States of America).

Specialty Board Certification: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.

2. STUDIES:

2.1. SUPERIOR EDUCATION STUDIES LEADING TO DEGREES OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL DIPLOMAS:

1973-1978 Degree of Licenciado en Medicina (Licenced in Medicine, regarded as equivalent to MD in the United States of America at the time it was conferred, by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, ECFMG), summa cum laude, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile.

1973-1979 AcademicTitle of Médico Cirujano (given in the Chilean system after completing internship, in contrast to the M.D. required in the United States of America to qualify for internship), summa cum laude, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile.

1983 Diploma from Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, recognizing the above education as homologous to a Doctor of Medicine degree in the United States of America (that made possible all subsequent medical training in the U.S.)

2.2. PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITIES:

1979 Fellowship from United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) for International Course on: “Comparative Biology of the Nervous System,” LatinAmerican Center for Biological Sciences carried over at Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela (Director: Guillermo Whittembury).

1980 Organization of American States (OAS) Research Fellow at Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay (under program entitled: “Transmission and Storage of Information in Biological Systems.” Mentor: Oscar Vincent, M.D., trained by Clemente Estable, founder of the Instituto and a student of the greatest among the founders of Neuroscience, the 1906 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Santiago Ramón y Cajal.

1980-83 Physiology Specialization Fellowship (Neuroscience), Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Medicina (Mentor: Profesor Victor L. Fernández H., a neuroembryologist trained by Jerzy E. Rose en la University of Wisconsin, Madison, EE.UU. Rose was a student of Oskar Vogt, whose scientific lineage goes back to Paul Flechsig, Otto Binswanger, Korbinian Brodmann and Theodor Hermann Meynert).

1983 Diplomate by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, recognizing my medical education as equivalent to Doctor of Medicine in the U.S. That recognition was indispensable for the following postdoctoral training:

1981-82 John E. Fogarty International Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Neuroscience), S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook (presently Stony Brook University), Departments of Neurobiology and Behavior, and Psychiatry (Mentor: Harvey J. Karten, M.D., trained by the Neuroanatomist Walle H.J. Nauta, who was a student of the Dutch Neurocience school, and whose lineage therefore goes back to Arnoldus Johannes Petrus and Louis Bolk. Nauta was also trained in the U.S. by the pioneer of modern Neuropsichiatry David McKenzie Rioch).

1982-85 Neurology Residency, Departament of Neurology, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook (presently Stony Brook University), and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Northport, New York, EE.UU. (Mentor: Robert Y. Moore, M.D., Ph.D., trained by the Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod and the Swedish school that produced the first maps of the catecholaminergic system in the brain (including Ulf Stenevi and Anders Björklund), and, in addition a noted neuroanatomist and neurologist on his own.

1986-88 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience, Yale University School of

Medicine, Departments of Neurology and Neuroanatomy, United States of America (Mentor: Paško Rakić, M.D., Sc.D., Kavli Laureate trained at Harvard University by Paul Ivan Yakovlev, whose lineage goes back to the Nobel Laureate Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and “household names” in Neurology such as Joseph Babinsky, Pierre Marie, Jean-Martin Charcot, Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Guillaume Dupuytren and Francois Magendie).

2010 University of Texas Medical Branch (first Medical School in the State of Texas) Advanced Training Program on the Protection of Human Research Participants (a six-month long course), diploma granted 19 May 2014 in Galveston, Texas, U.S.A.

2011 Diplomate by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc., a member of the American Board of Medical Specialties, U.S.A.

2011 Certified as specialist in Neurology by Corporación Nacional Autónoma de Certificación de Especialidades Médicas (CONACEM), Chile (the authority that certifies competence in medical specialties).

2012 Certified as specialist in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsichiatry by United Council of Neurological Subspecialties, U.S.A.

2012 Panelist and participant by invitation at the Mini Symposium on Alzheimer’s disease organizado by Professor Luis Colom, Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Brownsville (with support from Alzheimer’s Association, U.S.A.)

2013 Certified in: “Stress and the Relaxation Response: The Fundamentals of Mind Body Medicine”, course given in Boston, Massachussetts, EE.UU., from 04 February through 11 de March 2013 by Massachussetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy.

2013 Attended IV Simposio Internacional de Epilepsias sobre: “Epilepsias Frontales: Un desafío Pendiente en Niños y Adultos” 23 through 25 May 2013. Organized by Centro Avanzado de Epilepsias, Dirección Académica de Clínica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile.

2013 Attended VI Simposio Internacional de Neurología de Santiago, 24 through 26 July 2013, co-sponsored by Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de los Andes and Clínica Dávila.

2013 Participant and invited speaker in the International Simposium on Brain Imaging and Radiotracer Development (for neurodegenerative disorders), organized by PositronPharma and sponsored by Siemens and Fundación Arturo López Pérez, Santiago, Chile 04 and 05 Octuber 2013.

2013 Participant in Simposio on: “Fourty Years of Autopoiesis: A living concept”, Santiago de Chile, 25-29 November 2013, organized by Instituto de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Complejidad of Universitas Nueva Civilización.

2013 Participant in Latinoamerican Masterclass on Epilepsy, Santiago de Chile, 30 Noviembre de 2013.

2014 Participant in I Simposio Anual Sobre Memoria y Estrés (Symposium on Memory and Stress) conducted by Laboratorio de Neurobiología del Centro de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile, 30 Enero 2014.

2014 Participant in VII Simposio Internacional de Neurología de Santiago, co-sponsored by Facultad de Medicina Universidad de los Andes and Clínica Dávila, 21-22 August 2014.

2014 Participant in the Investigator Training Program Workshop based on principles of International Clinical Trials Harmonization-Good Clinical Practice (compulsory training to conduct clinical trials), 29 August 2014, Santiago, Chile.

2014 Organizer and lecturer (together with Dr. Paulina Arriagada, by assignment from Dementia Work Group) at minisimposium on biomarkers for neurodegenerative disorders at Sociedad de Neurología, Psiquiatría y Neurocirugía de Chile, Puerto Varas, Chile, 10 October 2014.

2014 Participant in course about: “Studies of Effective Connectivity with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging” by Profesor Roberto Limongi, Ph.D., Universidad Diego Portales 5 December 2014.

2015 Participant in Third International Conference on Molecular Imaging (ICMI 2015) sponsored by Centro Uruguayo de Imagenología Molecular, Montevideo, Uruguay 11-13 March 2015.

2015 Training in the interpretation of imaging studies for brain deposits of amyloid protein in vivo (a marker for neurodegenerative disorders that includes Alzheimer´s disease). Centro Uruguayo de Imagenología Molecular, Montevideo, Uruguay, 14-20 March 2015.

2015 Invited speaker (“Sleep Disorders in Neurodegenerative Diseases”) at the annual meeting of Sociedad Chilena de Medicina del Sueño, Coquimbo, Chile, 28-30 May 2015.

2015 Invited speaker (“Alzheimer Disease, what to expect by 2020?”) at Primer Curso de Psiquiatría y Neurología Integramédica, Marbella, Chile 16 and 17 October 2015, a continuing medical education activity recognized by CONACEM (Chile).

2016 Invited speaker ( “Molecular Imaging in Dementia”) in III Congreso de la Sociedad Chilena de Neuroradiología, Santiago, Chile 25-27 April 2016.

2017 Attended “Confronting Multiple Sclerosis Day-to-day.” Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 31 March through 01 April. Santiago de Chile.

2017 Invited speaker on: “Psyshopharmacology for Sleep Disorders” in Online Course on “Psychopharmacology for Physicians Specialized in Mental Health” directed by Dr. Katherina Llanos Parra, under the auspices of the Sociedad Chilena de Salud Mental 08 May 2017 through 04 September 2017.

2017 World Congress on Brain, Behavior & Emotions, Porto Alegre, Brasil 14-17 de June.

2017 Attendant to the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, Viña del Mar, Chile 27-29 October 2017.

3. DISTINCTIONS

3.1. FELLOWSHIPS:

1979 Fellowship granted by United Nations Education Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO) to attend International Course on: “Comparative Biology of the Nervous System,” LatinAmerican Center for Biological Sciences en el Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela (Director: Guillermo Whittembury).

1980 Organization of American States (OAS) Research Fellow at Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay (Program: “Transmission and Storage of Information in Biological Systems.” Mentor: Oscar Vincent, M.D., trained by Clemente Estable, Institute´s founder and a student of the greatest among the founders of Neuroscience, the 1906 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Santiago Ramón y Cajal).

1980-83 Physiology Specialization Fellowship (Neuroscience), Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Medicina (Mentor: Profesor Victor L. Fernández H., a neuroembryologist trained by Jerzy E. Rose en la University of Wisconsin, Madison, EE.UU. Rose was a student of Oskar Vogt, whose scientific lineage goes back to Paul Flechsig, Otto Binswanger, Korbinian Brodmann and Theodor Hermann Meynert).

1981-82 John E. Fogarty International Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Neuroscience), S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook (presently Stony Brook University), Departments of Neurobiology and Behavior, and Psychiatry (Mentor: Harvey J. Karten, M.D., trained by the Neuroanatomist Walle H.J. Nauta, who was a student of the Dutch Neurocience school, and whose lineage therefore goes back to Arnoldus Johannes Petrus and Louis Bolk. Nauta was also trained in the U.S. by the pioneer of modern Neuropsichiatry David McKenzie Rioch).

1982-85 Neurology Residency, Departament of Neurology, S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook (presently Stony Brook University), and Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Northport, New York, EE.UU. (Mentor: Robert Y. Moore, M.D., Ph.D., trained by the Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod and the Swedish school that produced the first maps of the catecholaminergic system in the brain (including Ulf Stenevi and Anders Björklund), and, in addition a noted neuroanatomist and neurologist on his own.

1986-88 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Neuroscience, Yale University School of

Medicine, Departments of Neurology and Neuroanatomy, United States of America (Mentor: Paško Rakić, M.D., Sc.D., Kavli Laureate trained at Harvard University by Paul Ivan Yakovlev, whose lineage goes back to the Nobel Laureate Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and “household names” in Neurology such as Joseph Babinsky, Pierre Marie, Jean-Martin Charcot, Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Guillaume Dupuytren and Francois Magendie).

3.2. AWARDS AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS:

  1. Student Fellowship (Student Assistant), Departmento de Fisiología y Biofísica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, January 1, 1977 through February 29, 1980.
  1. Student Research Fellowshio, Neurology and Neurosurgery Fellowship, Hospital Clínico de la Universidad de Chile, May 1, 1979 through February 29, 1980.
  1. Prize to the best presentation in Neurophysiology in the First Scientific Congress of Medical Students in Chile, Santiago, August 2-4, 1978.
  1. Prize to the best report presented to the II Scientific Congress of Medical Students of Chile, Valparaíso, August 204, 1979.
  1. Neuroanatomy trainee. Proyecto financiado por National Iinstitutes of Health (EE.UU.) entre el Department of Physiology de University of Wisconsin at Madison y el Departmento de Fisiología y Biofísica de la Universidad de Chile, 1975-1978.
  1. Recognition for distinguished participation in scientific research by the Vice Dean for Sudent Affairs at the University of Chile December 1979.
  1. John E. Fogarty International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (NIH) 1-F05-TW02947-01-02 January1981 through August 1982.
  1. Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience, Septiembre de 1986 a Agosto de 1988.
  1. Basil O'Connor Research Starter Grant: "Organization of chemically labeled local circuits in primate neocortex." March of Dimes for Birth Defects Foundation, September 1986 through June 1989.
  1. Nelson Urban Research Award for research on Alzheimer´s Disease, Mental Health Association of Iowa, October 24, 1991.
  1. Esther Lichtenstein Chair in Neurology (for research on Dementia), endowed chair with tenure, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1994.
  1. Special Recognition from the Greater Miami Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association 1998.
  1. Appointmente to the Professional Advisory Committee, Greater Miami Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association 1998.
  1. Special Guest Speaker, 8th. Annual Educational Conference, Greater Miami Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, 2002.
  1. Principal Speaker on Mild Cognitive Impairment, University of Missouri Annual Psychogeriatrics Course, 2003.
  1. Elected among “America’s Top Physicians” 2004-2017 by the Consumer’s Research Council of America, U.S.A.
  1. Nominated for CARSO Prize on Health Research by the International Center for Biomedicine, Chile, 2008.
  1. John Sealy Distinguished Chair in Alzheimer´s Disease Clinical Research, endowed chair with tenure, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (the first medical school in the State of Texas), 2008.
  1. Nominted in 2012 for the best paper published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Kuljiš, R.O. and Šalković-Petrišić, M. (2011) Dementia, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and insulin resistance in the brain: Progress, dilemmas, new opportunities and a hypothesis to tackle intersecting epidemics. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease 25: 29-41).

4. BRIEF WORK HISTORY:

September 2012-present: Founder and President, Zdrav Mozak Limitada, Chile y Centro de Neurociciencia Clínica (the first in its kind in the country), Santiago, Chile.

March 2015-present: Consultant in Neuroscience and collaborator in research, PositronPharma and PositronMed, the main provider of radiopharmaceuticals to study the brain and a leading center for Translational Research in Molecular Neuroimaging in Chile.