Alberto E. Musto
MD
Eastern Virginia Medical School
USA
Biography
Alberto E. Musto, M.D. Ph.D. FAES, is a physician-scientist and medical educator of the Department of Pathology and Anatomy and Department of Neurolgoy of the Eastern Virginia Medical School, Virginia, USA. Dr. Musto’s scientific goal is to identify a potential biomarker and preventive therapies for epilepsy. Currently, his research is focusing in the cellular and molecular mechanisms of inmune-inflammatory process that contribute to the development of aberrant neuronal networks after brain injuries. He has been studied the role of pro-inflammatory mediators in experimental models of epilepsy using in vivo recordings of neural activities from chronically implanted microelectrodes in the brain and its correlations with neural damage, microglia cells and dendritic spines modifications using histological and biochemical approaches. He has been involved actively in medical education and neuroscience research in Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Austral, Argentina and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA supported by CONICET, Argentina and NIH, USA. Dr. Musto received board certifications in both neurology and radiology, completed postgraduate studies in medical education, and management in health systems in Argentina. He completed a doctoral thesis in neurobiology and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroprotection in USA
Research Interest
Epilepsy, Neurology, Neuroradiology, Epidemiology