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Deema Fattal, MD

Clinical Professor of Neurology

Current Positions

  • Clinical Professor of Neurology
  • Director: Dizziness and Balance Disorders Clinic, Neurology
  • Chief of Neurology - VAMC, Neurology
  • Specialty: Balance Disorders

Education

  • MD, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  • BA in Physics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  • Resident in Behavioral Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
  • Resident in Neurology PGY2, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
  • Resident in Internal Medicine PGY1, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
  • Resident in Neuro-Otology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Research Interests

  • Objective gait analysis of balance and gait disorders including in Cervical myelopathy
  • Resident Wellness/Nutrition/Burnout
  • 1) Objective gait analysis of balance and gait disorders
    2) Improved documentation and diagnosis of dizziness and nystagmus
    3) Neurology Education: students, residents, non-neurologists
  • Current Projects

Selected Publications

  • Gastala, J., Fattal, D., Kirby, P., Capizzano, A., Sato, Y. & Moritiani, T. (2019). Brain Death: Radiologic Signs of a Non-radiologic Diagnosis. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. (105465), pp. 185.
  • Fattal, D. (In Press). Brain death. In the book by Springer, title: Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Brain, Head and Neck, and Spine.
  • Fattal, D., Hansen, M. & Fritzsch, B. (2018). Aging hearing loss and balance impairment.
    In: The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain. Rizzo M, Anderson, S, eds.
    Submitted. I wrote most of the chapter.
  • Eppsteiner, B., Fattal, D. & Hansen, M. (2016). Central vertigo. In et al & Sataloff, R. T. (Eds.) Sataloff's comprehensive textbook of otolaryngology : head and neck surgery. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers.
  • Fattal, D. & Lanska, D. J. (2014). Balance and gait disorders. (2014 updates) Medlink Neurology.
  • Fattal, D. (2013). Dizziness and nystagmus. In Syllabus to medical students. Iowa City, IA: Carver College of Medicine.
  • Hsu, S. W., Chaloupka, J. C. & Fattal, D. (2006). Rapidly progressive fatal bihemispheric infarction secondary to Moyamoya syndrome in association with Graves thyrotoxicosis. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 27 (3) 643-7. PMID: 16552009.
  • Fattal, D. (2005). Balance and Gait Disorders. (2005) Minneapolis, MN: American Academy of Neurology.
  • Karimi, M., Razavi, M. & Fattal, D. (2004). Rubral lateropulsion due to vertebral artery dissection in a patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome. Archives of neurology 61 (4) 583-5. PMID: 15096409.
  • Fattal, D. & Rizzo, M. (2004). The vestibular system and cognition. In Eslinger, P. J. & Rizzo, M. (Eds.) Principles and practice of behavioral neurology and neuropsychology. Philadelphia, Pa.: WBSaunders, Mosby, Churchill Livingstone.