Karina M.

Yelin

,

MD

Education

Dr. Yelin earned her medical degree from the University of Medicine, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed a 4-year residency in pediatrics at a public inner-city hospital in Buenos Aires. She has always been interested in child development and neurology. After spending an observership in neonatal neurology at Miami’s Children Hospital during her residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she made the decision to pursue further training in the USA. She worked as a research assistant at the Neuropathology Department at St Christopher’s Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; she completed a second residency in Pediatrics at Monmouth Medical Center in New Jersey and a fellowship in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina.

She practiced pediatrics and developmental behavioral pediatrics for 3 years in rural Maryland. She joined CASSI in 2013.

Research Publications

• Perea A, Meyer K, Paez J, Yelin K, Birchansky SB, Jayakar P, Alfonso I.Canavan Disease in a patient of African origin. International Pediatrics.1999 Feb;14(2): 111-3.
• Ma Y, Yelin K, Perea A, Meyer K,Jayakar P, Altman NR, Soliz AF, Alfonso I. Germinolytic Cysts and Partial Albinism in Neonatal Generalized Glutathione Synthetase Deficiency. International Pediatrics. 1999 May; 14(2):22-4
• Yelin K, Alfonso I, Papazian O. Syndrome of  Ohtahara. Rev Neurol. 1999. Aug 16-31; 29(4): 340-2.
• Alfonso I, Alvarez LA, Gilman J, Dunoyer C, Yelin K, Papazian O. Intravenous valproate dosing in neonates. J Child Neurol.2000 Dec; 15(12): 827-9.
• Alfonso I, Prieto G, Vasconcellos E, Aref K, Pacheco E, Yelin K. Internal carotid artery thrombus: an underdiagnosed source of brain emboli in neonates? J Child Neurol.2001 Jun; 16(6): 446-7.
• Alfonso I, Jayakar P, Yelin K, Dunoyer C, Papazian O, Vasconcellos E, Valeron NM. Continuous-display four-channel electroencephalographic monitoring in the evaluation of neonates with paroxysmal motor events. J Child Neurol. 2001 Aug; 16(11):857.
• Krolczyk S, Pacheco E, Valencia P, Papazian O, Yelin K, Alfonso I. Opsoclonus: an early sign of neonatal herpes encephalitis. J Child Neurol. 2003 May;18(5):356-8.
• Katsetos CD, MD, PhD,MRCP, Reddy G, MS, Draberova E, PhD, Smejkalova B, PhD, Del Valle L,MD, Qazi A, MD, Tadevosyan A, MD, Yelin K, MD,Maraziotis T, MD, Mishra P, PhD, Mork S, MD, PhD, Legido MD, PhD, Nissanov,PhD, Baas, PhD, Chadarevain, MD,FRCPC, Draber P, PhD, Altered Cellular Distribution and Subcellular Sorting of gamma tubulin in diffuse astrocytic gliomas and human glioblastoma Cell Lines suggest centrosome protein amplification. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2006 May;65(5):465-77.
• Valencia I, Legido A, Yelin K, Khurana D, Kothare SV, Katsetos CD. Anomalous inhibitory circuits in cortical tubers of human tuberous sclerosis complex associated with refractory epilepsy: aberrant expression of parvalbumin and calbindin-D28k in dysplastic cortex. J Child Neurol. 2006 Dec;21(12):1058-63.
• Maria L. Escolar, MD, Karina Yelin, MD, Michele D. Poe, PhD. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Children with Infantile Krabbe Disease Treated with Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation: 10 Years of Follow-up. Lysosomal Storage Disease J.2006 Sep.
• Coletti HY, Aldenhoven M, Yelin K, Poe MD, Kurtzberg J, Escolar ML. Long-term Functional Outcomes of Children with Hurler Syndrome treated with Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Diseases.2015 Jan;20:77-86.