Board certifications:
Neurology, neuromuscular medicine, headache medicine, and Neurosonology
Fellowship in Neurophysiology/EEG/EMG/Neuromuscular disorder/seizure/neuronal cell death
Dr. Du graduated from Hunan Medical University Medical School in Hunan, China, which was founded by the Yale-China Association in 1906. He graduated with honors and was ranked 1st of all medical students within the class of 1989.
After medical school, he attended graduate school in 1992 at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, which was founded by the Rockfeller Foundation in 1921.
Dr. Du completed his residency at St. Vincent's Medical Center Manhattan Program of New York Medical College, with rotations at Columbia University.
Dr. Du went on to finish 2 neurology fellowships, the first in neuronal cell death from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO, and the second in neurophysiology/EEG/EMG/sleep/neurosonology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama.
Du C, Hu R, Csernansky CA, Hsu CY, Choi DW.
Very delayed infarction after mild focal cerebral ischemia: a role for apoptosis? J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 1996 Mar;16(2):195-201.
Du C, Hu R, Csernansky CA, Liu XZ, Hsu CY, Choi DW.
Additive neuroprotective effects of dextrorphan and cycloheximide in rats subjected to transient focal cerebral ischemia.
Brain Res. 1996 Apr 29;718(1-2):233-6.
Cycloheximide reduces infarct volume when administered up to 6 h after mild focal ischemia in rats. Brain Res. 2001 Nov 2;917(2):147-57.
Dugan LL, Turetsky DM, Du C, Lobner D, Wheeler M, Almli CR, Shen CK, Luh TY, Choi DW, Lin TS.
Carboxyfullerenes as neuroprotective agents.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 Aug 19;94(17):9434-9. Erratum in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997 Oct 28;94(22):12241.
Neuronal and glial apoptosis after traumatic spinal cord injury. The Jo Neurosci. 1997 Jul 15;17(14):5395406.
Dextrorphan reduces infarct volume, vascular injury, and brain edema after ischemic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 1996 Apr;13(4):215-22.
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