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Thanh K. Dang, M.D.

 OBJECTIVE

Continue to excel and serve in the field of neurology with special interests in Neuromuscular Disease, Epilepsy and Sleep Medicine and interventional pain management.

Professional Employment

CentraCare Clinic, St.Cloud, MN                                                       

July 1998 to present (currently working part time)

§       Head of the Neuromuscular Disease & Electrodiagnostic Medicine Clinic, July1988 – June 2004.

§       Vice Chair of the Neuroscience Department of St. Cloud Hospital, June 2002 – May 2004.

§       An Active Teacher in Family Medicine, St.Cloud/Mayo Family Practice Residency Program.

Give yearly lectures and clinical precepts.

§       A Speaker for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Presentations include:  1) the clinical significance of stroke recurrence and prevention, and 2) ACCP guidelines and antiplatelet therapy for the prevention of stroke.

Minneapolis Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1996 to 1997

§       Compensation and Pension Examiner

EDUCATION

1997-1998, Neurophysiology Fellowship, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

§       Dang, T and McIntyre, H.B., Midline Epileptiform Discharges: A case report and Review of Literature.

The paper was presented in the Academy of Clinical Neurophysiology and the abstract was published in the EEG journals.

§       Research project involved drug trial for frontal lobe dementia patients with motor neuron disease.

§       Fellowship training emphasis: Neuromuscular Disease, EMG, EEG, Epilepsy, and Sleep Medicine.

§       Attending Physician, June 1988, at Harbor University of California Los Angeles Medical Center.

1994-1997, Residency in Neurology, University of Minnesota

§       Neurology research projects presented at the Science Symposium:

1)     Case Study and Literature Review on Cerebellar Paraneoplastic Syndrome

2)      A Retrospective Study to Assess the Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive Values of Cerebral Angiogram in Diagnosing CNS Vasculitis.

1993-1994, Internship in Internal Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center

1988-1993, Doctorate of Medicine, University of Minnesota

§       Department of Neurology:  Mary Bizal Peterson Memorial Award

§       Gerald P. Plaisance Scholarship

§       Honor:  Neurology research project:

Perform a thorough literature search for differential diagnosis of ALS, including compiling various tests to rule out diseases that may mimic ALS, and write and present the project.

§       Medical Volunteer for Medicine SansFrontiers Organization

§       Member of the Christian Medical Dental Society

1984-1988, Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Augsburg College

§       Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society

§       Organic Chemistry Award for the Kekule experiment

CERTIFICATIONS

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology

LICENSES

State of Minnesota

MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy of Electrodiagnostic Medicine                                    

American Academy of Sleep Medicine

American Headache Societies                                                                 

Phone = 763-295-3844 or Fax = 763-295-4526
or email tkdang22@earthlink.net if you have any comment