Steven Vernino, M.D., Ph.D.

Graduate School	Baylor College of Medicine (1992)
Medical School	Baylor College of Medicine (1994)
Internship	Mayo Clinic (1995), Internal Medicine
Residency	Mayo Clinic (1998), Neurology
Fellowship	Mayo Clinic (1999), Neurology

• Neurology
• Neuromuscular Disorders
• Neurosciences

• Primary Interests
• Acid Maltase Deficiency
• Adrenoleukodystrophy
• Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) (MDA)
• Autonomic Disorders
• Autonomic Neuropathy
• Becker Muscular Dystrophy
• Brachial Neuritis
• Bulbar Palsy
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)(MDA)
• Chronic Inflammatory Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome
• Congenital Myopathy
• Debrancher Enzyme Deficiency (MDA)
• Demyelinating Neuropathy
• Dermatomyositis (MDA)
• Diabetic Neuropathy
• Duchenne Disease (MDA)
• Dysarthria
• Dystrophy (MDA)
• Eaton Lambert Syndrome (MDA)
• Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (MDA)
• Fasciculations
• Friedreich's Ataxia (MDA)
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Inclusion Body Myositis(MDA)
• Inflammatory Myopathy (MDA)
• Isaac Syndrome
• Keams-Sayre Syndrome (MDA)
• Lambert Eaton Syndrome (MDA)
• Limb-Girdle Syndrome (MDA)
• Limbic Encephalitis
• Lou Gehrig's Disease (MDA)
• McArdles Disease (MDA)
• Metabolic Myopathy (MDA)
• Mitochondrial Myopathy (MDA)
• Mononeuritis
• Morvan's Syndrome
• Motor Neuron Disease (MDA)
• Muscular Atrophy
• Muscular Dystrophy (MDA)
• Myasthenia Gravis (MG) (MDA)
• Myoglobinuria
• Myopathy
• Myositis (MDA)
• Nemaline Myopathy (MDA)
• Neuropathy
• Paraneoplastic Syndrome
• Peripheral Neuropathy
• Peroneal Neuropathy
• Phosphofructokinase Deficiency (MDA)
• Polymyositis (ILD)(MDA)
• Polyneuropathy
• Post-Polio Syndromes
• Primary Lateral Sclerosis (MDA)
• Radiculopathy
• Rhabdomyolysis
• Sciatica
• Spastic Paraparesis
• Spinal Muscular Atrophy (MDA)
• Stiff Man Syndrome
• Thompsen's Disease (MDA)
• Thyroid Myopathy
• Ulnar Neuropathy

• Animal models of autoimmune autonomic neuropathy
• Autonomic effects of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
• Disorders of neuromuscular hyperexcitability
• Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
• Serologic evaluation of patients with dysautonomia

Featured Publications

Plasma Exchange for Primary Autoimmune Autonomic Failure

Schroeder C, Vernino S, Birkenfeld AL, Tank J, Heusser K, Lipp A., Benter T., Lindschau C., Kettritz R, Luft FC, Jordan J New Engl J Med 2005 353 1585-1590

Passive transfer of autoimmune autonomic neuropathy to mice

Vernino S, Ermilov L, Sha L, Szurszewski JF, Low PA, Lennon VA J Neurosci 2004 24(32) 7037-7042

Reversible autoimmune limbic encephalitis associated with potassium channel antibodies

Thieben MJ, Boeve BF, Aksamit AJ, Keegan BM, Lennon VA, Vernino S Neurology 2004 62 1177-1182

Immunomodulatory treatment trial for paraneoplastic neurological disorders

Vernino S, O’Neill BP, Marks RS, O’Fallon JR, Kimmel DW Neuro-Oncol 2004 6 55-62

Autoantibodies to ganglionic acetylcholine receptors in autoimmune autonomic neuropathies

Vernino S, Low PA, Fealey RD, Stewart JD, Farrugia G, Lennon VA N Engl J Med 2000 21;343(12) 847-55

Autoimmune and Paraneoplastic Channelopathies

Vernino S Neurotherapeutics 2007 4(2) 305-314

Autoimmune Autonomic Ganglionopathy: IgG effects on ganglionic acetylcholine receptor current

Wang Z, Low PA, Jordan J, Freeman R, Gibbons C, Schroeder C, Sandroni P, Vernino S. Neurology 2007 68 1917-1921

Autoimmune Encephalopathies

Vernino S, Geschwind M, Boeve B The Neurologist 2007 13(3) 140-147

• Fellow
  American Academy of Neurology and American Neurological Association (2007)
• Founders Award for Clinical Research
  American Academy of Neurology (1998)
• Woltman Award for Clinical Neurology
  Mayo Clinic (1998)
• DeBakey Scholar Award
  Baylor College of Medicine (1994)
• Rush Record Excellence in Neuroscience Award
  Baylor College of Medicine (1992)

• American Academy of Neurology
• American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine
• American Autonomic Society
• American Neurological Association
• Society for Neuroscience