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Lilyana Amezcua, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Co-Director, USC MS Comprehensive Care Center and Research Group
Keck School of Medicine at USC
Dr. Amezcua is a board certified neurologist and multiple sclerosis specialist. She joined the USC Department of Neurology as a resident physician in 2003, after having completed her medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and an internal medicine internship at Hahnemann Hospital of Drexel University. She completed a residency in Neurology at USC and served as Chief Resident. In 2006, she received support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) as a Clinical MS Fellow to develop her expertise in the study and treatment of MS. She was appointed as Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology in 2008 and Medical Director of the MS Comprehensive Care Center in 2011.
The primary focus of Dr. Amezcua’s research involves defining genetic and ethnic contributions in MS, with an emphasis on defining differences in disease expression and progression in individuals of Hispanic descent. Her studies are designed to identify high-risk subgroups of patients who may be at risk for disease progression and could benefit from earlier, aggressive treatments, such as those with opticospinal forms of MS that are more commonly observed in individuals of Asian ancestry. In addition, she plans to address the influence of migration, environmental factors, such as Vitamin D, and genetic factors on responses to treatment MS in this population. Recently, Dr. Amezcua has expanded her studies to include genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify the association of ancestral genes that are differently distributed in human populations with clinical and radiological manifestations of MS and response to treatment.
Dr. Amezcua is a recipient of the Nancy Davis Junior Investigator Award, and was recently awarded an NIH KL2 award through the USC Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). She serves on the Clinical Advisory Committee for the California and Nevada Chapter of the NMSS and is a council member of the NMSS Hispanic MS Advisory Board. She is also collaborating with the NMSS and Los Angeles County officials to develop a Wellness Center for MS at the historic Los Angeles County Hospital.
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CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROLOGYno. 3 (2024): 245-251
Allison Z Orechwa,Anshu Abhat,Lilyana Amezcua,Bernadette Boden-Albala, Thomas A Buchanan, Steve Chen, Lauren P Daskivich,Brett Feldman,Michael K Gould, Wei-An Lee, Christopher Lynch, Carolyn C Meltzer,Brian S Mittman, Margarita Pereyda, Evan Raff,Jehni Robinson, Sonali Saluja,Barbara J Turner, Breena R Taira,Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr, Linda Williams, Shinyi Wu, Hal Yee,Amytis Towfighi
Learning health systemsno. 3 (2024): e10442-e10442
Nature Reviews Neurologyno. 1 (2024): 5-6
Lilyana Amezcua,Nancy Monson,Mitzi Williams,Timothy Vartanian,Anthony Reder,Krupa Pandey,Kottil Rammohan,Barry Hendin,Gregory Wu, Rikisha Parekh,Jinglan Pei, Ibraheem Abioye,Juan Acosta,Evanthia Bernitsas
Lilyana Amezcua,Nancy Monson,Mitzi Williams,Timothy Vartanian,Anthony T. Reder,Krupa Pandey,Kottil Rammohan,Barry Hendin, Gregory F. Wu, RH Parekh,Jinglan Pei, Ibraheem Abioye,Juan José Tamayo Acosta,Evanthia Bernitsas
Neurologyno. 17_supplement_1 (2024)
Neurologic clinicsno. 1 (2024): 295-317
Anne Marie Radzik,Lilyana Amezcua,Annika Anderson, Serena Gilmore, Sophie Ahmad,Rachel Brandstadter,Michelle T Fabian,Edith L Graham, Sophia Hodgkinson,Lindsay Horton,Dina A Jacobs,Ilana B Katz Sand,Amit Kohli,Libby Levine,Monica McLemore,Annette F Okai,Jasmin Patel,Shane Poole,Claire Riley,Sammita Satyanarayan,Lauren Tardo, Elizabeth Verter, Veronica Villacorta,Vanessa Zimmerman,Leah Zuroff,Mitzi J Williams,Maria K Houtchens,Riley Bove
Neurologyno. 4 (2024): e208100-e208100
Mitzi J Williams,Lilyana Amezcua,Stanley L Cohan, Jeffrey A Cohen,Silvia R Delgado,Le H Hua,Elisabeth B Lucassen,Rebecca S Piccolo, Chloe R Koulouris,James Stankiewicz
Neurologyno. 3 (2024): e209610-e209610
Neurology and therapyno. 3 (2023): 883-897
Andrew J Solomon,Georgina Arrambide,Wallace J Brownlee,Eoin P Flanagan,Maria Pia Amato,Lilyana Amezcua,Brenda L Banwell,Frederik Barkhof,John R Corboy,Jorge Correale,Kazuo Fujihara,Jennifer Graves,Mary Pat Harnegie,Bernhard Hemmer,Jeannette Lechner-Scott,Ruth Ann Marrie,Scott D Newsome,Maria A Rocca,Walter Royal,Emmanuelle L Waubant, Bassem Yamout, Jeffrey A Cohen
The Lancet Neurologyno. 8 (2023): 750-768
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#Papers: 152
#Citation: 2707
H-Index: 22
G-Index: 51
Sociability: 7
Diversity: 0
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