Dr. Carlos A. Luciano Román

Professor

Contact Info

  • University District Hospital
    Neurology Section, 5th Floor
    School of Medicine
    San Juan, PR 00936
  • 787-754-0101, Ext. 2516

Education

Degree: M.D., UPR, School of Medicine, 1985

Degree: B.A., UPR, School of Medicine, 1981

INTERNSHIP: Internal Medicine Metropolitan Hospital Center, NY, 1985-96

RESIDENCY: Neurology, Boston City Hospital & Affiliated Institutions Lahey Clinic Medical Center, 1989

FELLOWSHIP: Electromyography & Clinical Neurophysiology, Bethesda Maryland, 1981

Neuromuscular Pathology & Clinical Neuromuscular Diseases, Bethesda Maryland, 1998

SPECIALTY: Neurology

SUBSPECIALTY: Neuromuscular

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, UPR, RP Campus, 2009-present

Professor, Department of Neurology Section, UPR, School of Medicine, 2007 -present

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology Section, UPR, School of Medicine, 1999-2007

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology Section, UPR, School of Medicine, 1992-99

Teaching Fellow, Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 1986-1989

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Project Leader, UPR, Northeast Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Consortium, (NEALS)

Principal Investigator, (with Dr. Marcia Cruz), Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium, by National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities National institute of Health, (U54MD007587)

Principal Investigator, International Guillain-Barre Outcome Study (IGOS): A Prospective Inflammatory Neuropathy Consortium Study on Clinical and Biological Predictors of Disease Course and Outcome in GBS, GBS-CIDP Foundation International

Principal Investigator, HIV Sensory Neuropathy: Age, Risk Factor, and Immunopathology

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK CHAPTERS:

Luciano CA. Other complementary studies: Brink reflex, masseter reflex, and silent periods.  In: Clinical Evaluation and Diagnostic Tests in Neuromuscular Diseases, Bertorini T (ed). Butterworth Heinneman, 2002.

Keswani S, Luciano C, Pardo CA, Cherry KL, Ahmet H, McArthur JC.  The spectrum of Peripheral Neuropathies in AIDS, in the “Neurology of AIDS”, Gendelman H, Grant I, Everall IP, Lipton SA, Swindells S (Eds), Oxford University Press, 2005, pp 423-443.

Melendez L, Mayo R, Luciano C, Wojna V. Ethnicity and Neuro-AIDS Conditions in the HAART Era, in “The Spectrum of Neuro-AIDS Disorders: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Treatment”, Goodkin K, Shapshak P and Verma A (Eds), American Society for Microbiology Press, Washington DC, 2008.

Luciano CA, Hernandez-Ramos N.  Treatment and Management of Infectious, Granulomatous and Toxic Neuromuscular Disorders. In Bertorini T (ed); Neuromuscular Disorders: Treatment and Management; Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA 2010

ABSTRACTS:

Gilliatt RW, Luciano CA, Conwit RA: Ascending nerve action potentials in demyelinating neuropathy.  Muscle Nerve 1990; 13:853.

Luciano CA, Gilliatt RW, Charnas L, Gahl WA: Distal myopathy in nephropathic cystinosis. Ann Neurol 1991; 30:261

Luciano CA, Gilliatt RW, Dang N: Turns analysis in advanced myopathy. Muscle Nerve 1991; 14:916

Luciano CA, Richardson P, Knox S, Dalakas M: Comparison of electrophysiologic studies in paraproteinemic demyelinating polyneuropathy and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. Muscle Nerve 1992; 15:1178

Luciano CA, Dang N: Turns analysis with reduced detection thresholds in myopathy.  Muscle  Nerve 1993; 16:1086-1087

Richardson PK, Luciano CA:  A digital subtraction technique for F wave analysis–comparison with collision technique.  XIII International Congress of EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology, Vancouver, Canada, 1993.

Otero C, Luciano CA, Cupler E, Dalakas MC:  Quantitative electromyography (QEMG) in zidovudine (AZT)-induced myopathy:  correlation with histological findings.  Neurology 1994; 44:A136.

Cupler E, Otero C, Hench K, Luciano CA, Dalakas M:  Acetylcholine receptor antibodies in HIV-infected individuals with fatigue.  Ann Neurol 1994; 36:285.

Luciano CA, Dalakas MC.  A macro-EMG study of inclusion body myositis: no evidence for a neurogenic component. Neurology 1995; 45:A227.

Russell JW, Luciano CA, Banerjee TK, Quirk JM, Scott LJC, Brady RO, Barton NW.  Clinical and electrophysiologic studies of myelinated and unmyelinated fiber function in Fabry disease.  Neurology 1995; 45:A227-A228.