Dr. Christian E. Schenk Aldahondo

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

  • christian.schenk@upr.edu
  • University of Puerto Rico
    School of Medicine
    Section of Neurology
    Hospital UPR, Dr. Federico Trilla
    Carolina PR
  • 787-757-1800, Ext. 276

Education

Degree: M.D. Medicine, UPR, School of Medicine, 2008

Degree: B.S. (Biology), UPR, Río Piedras, PR, 2004

INTERNSHIP:  Internal Medicine, VA – Caribbean Healthcare Systems, San Juan, PR, 2008-09

RESIDENCY: Neurology. UPR, School of Medicine/Affiliated Hospitals: 2008-12

FELLOWSHIP: Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, University Hospitals at Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 2012-13

SPECIALTY: Internal Medicine

SUBSPECIALTY: Neurology

PUBLICATIONS

Schenk C (2014).  Movement Disorders and Dementia (Review).  Puerto    Rican     Journal of Neurosciences. Volume 9, Number 1, 2014. In Press

Schenk C, Wuerz T, Lerner AJ (2013).  Small vessel disease and memory loss: what the clinician needs to know to preserve patients’ brain health. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2013 Dec;15(12):427.

García-Arrarás, J. E., Schenk, C., Rodríguez-Ramírez, R., Torres, I., Valentín, G., & Candelaria, A. G. (2006). Spherulocytes in the echinoderm Holothuria glaberrima and their involvement in intestinal regeneration. Developmental Dynamics: An Official Publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 235(12), 3259–3267.