Professor of Neurology, Oregon Health and Sci University
Neurology
Dr. Ruth H. Whitham, MD
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Ruth Whitham works in the field of Neurology. She went to University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine has a rank of 10 in research and a 19 in primary care She received 2 awards: "Portland Monthly Magazine" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Ruth H. Whitham, MD is also a published physician. She has 65 paper published. The most recent paper is: Comparing the ability of various compositive outcomes to discriminate treatment effects in MS clinical trials. The Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group (MSC... She accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Improving the Patient-Reported Outcome Experience for Participants and PI's: Feasibility and Validity of PROMIS.
- Dalfampridine improves walking speed, walking endurance, and community participation in veterans with Multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal cohort study.
- Access to Multiple Sclerosis Specialty Care.
- Targeting T cells responsive to the priming epitope prevent the relapsing phase of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
- Multiple sclerosis and vitamin D: a review and recommendations.
- Synthetic Peptide dendrimers block the development and expression of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
- Exploring educational needs of Multiple sclerosis care providers: Results of a care-provider survey.
- Correlations of Perceived Deficits Questionnaire of Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life Inventory with Beck Depression Inventory and neuropsychological tests.
- Functional assay for human CD4+CD25+ Treg cells reveals an age-dependent loss of suppressive activity.
- An outbreak of acute hepatitis C among recipients of intravenous immunoglobulin.
- Differential susceptibility of human T(h)1 versus T(h) 2 cells to induction of anergy and apoptosis by ECDI/antigen-coupled antigen-presenting cells.
- Relationship of the antispasticity effect of tizanidine to plasma concentration in patients with Multiple sclerosis.
- Ginkgo biloba for the improvement of cognitive performance in Multiple sclerosis: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial.
- MHC-restriction, cytokine profile, and immunoregulatory effects of human T cells specific for TCR V beta CDR2 peptides: comparison with myelin basic protein-specific T...
- TCR peptide therapy in human autoimmune Diseases.
- T cell receptor peptide therapy for autoimmune Disease.
- T-cell receptor peptide therapy in EAE and MS.
- Inter- and intrarater scoring agreement using grades 1.0 to 3.5 of the Kurtzke Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group.
- American ginseng does not improve fatigue in Multiple sclerosis: a single center randomized double-blind placebo-controlled crossover pilot study.
- Diminished frequency of interleukin-10-secreting, T-cell receptor peptide-reactive T cells in Multiple sclerosis patients might allow expansion of activated memory T c...
- Treatment of Multiple sclerosis with T-cell receptor peptides: results of a double-blind pilot trial.
- Effects of vaccination with T cell receptor peptides: epitope switching to a possible Disease-protective determinant of myelin basic protein that is cross-reactive wit...
- Epitope specificity and V gene expression of cerebrospinal fluid T cells specific for intact versus cryptic epitopes of myelin basic protein.
- Immunity to TCR peptides in Multiple sclerosis. II. T cell recognition of V beta 5.2 and V beta 6.1 CDR2 peptides.
- A highly immunogenic trivalent T cell receptor peptide vaccine for Multiple sclerosis.
- Memantine for cognitive impairment in Multiple sclerosis: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.
- Episodic changes in T-cell frequencies to myelin basic protein in patients with Multiple sclerosis.
- Frequency of T cells specific for myelin basic protein and myelin proteolipid protein in blood and cerebrospinal fluid in Multiple sclerosis.
- Transforming growth factor-beta enhances the in vivo effector function and memory phenotype of antigen-specific T helper cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyel...
- Specificity of human T cell clones reactive to immunodominant epitopes of myelin basic protein.
- Basic protein-specific T-cell lines that induce experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in SJL/J mice: comparison with Lewis rat lines.
- Response of human T lymphocyte lines to myelin basic protein: association of dominant epitopes with HLA class II restriction molecules.
- Human T lymphocyte response to myelin basic protein: selection of T lymphocyte lines from MBP-responsive donors.
- Human myelin basic protein (MBP) epitopes recognized by mouse MBP-selected T cell lines from Multiple sclerosis patients.
- T cell receptor V beta gene usage in the recognition of myelin basic protein by cerebrospinal fluid- and blood-derived T cells from patients with Multiple sclerosis.
- Magnetic resonance studies of intramuscular interferon beta-1a for relapsing Multiple sclerosis. The Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group.
- Impact of interferon beta-1a on neurologic disability in relapsing Multiple sclerosis. The Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group (MSCRG).
- Treatment of relapsing autoimmune encephalomyelitis with T cell receptor V beta-specific antibodies when proteolipid protein is the autoantigen.
- Intramuscular interferon beta-1a for disease progression in relapsing Multiple sclerosis. The Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group (MSCRG)
- Induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in severe combined immunodeficient mice reconstituted with allogeneic or xenogeneic hematopoietic cells.
- Neuroreality I. Dedicated demolition of the Decade of the Brain: the genuine threat to neurologic research from the animal radical right. The American Academy of Neuro...
- Treatment of relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis with T cell receptor peptides.
- Encephalitogenic T lymphocytes develop from SJL/J hematopoietic cells transplanted into severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice.
- Immunity to TCR peptides in Multiple sclerosis. I. Successful immunization of patients with synthetic V beta 5.2 and V beta 6.1 CDR2 peptides.
- Neuroreality. I. Dedicated demolition of the decade of the brain:the genuine threat to neurologic research from the animal radical right American Academy of Neurology ...
- Suppressor cell regulation of chronic relapsing experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
- Neuromyelitis Optica: two new cases and review of the literature.
- T cell lines selected with synthetic peptides are highly encephalitogenic in SJL/J mice.
- Serum anti-myelin antibodies in chronic relapsing experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
- Location of a new encephalitogenic epitope (residues 43 to 64) in proteolipid protein that induces relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in PL/J and (SJL...
- Lymphocytes from SJL/J mice immunized with spinal cord respond selectively to a peptide of proteolipid protein and transfer relapsing demyelinating experimental autoim...
- Suppressor cell regulation of encephalitogenic T cell lines: generation of suppressor macrophages with cyclosporin A and myelin basic protein.
- Distorted conceptions of infant nutrition among urban mothers. An illustration of the great need for well-baby health supervision.
- Impact of interferon beta-1a on neurologic disability in relapsing Multiple sclerosis. 1997.
- Cerebrospinal fluid abnormalities in a phase III trial of Avonex (IFNbeta-1a) for relapsing Multiple sclerosis. The Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group.
- IL-7 enhances Ag-specific human T cell response by increasing expression of IL-2R alpha and gamma chains.
- Comparing the ability of various compositive outcomes to discriminate treatment effects in MS clinical trials. The Multiple Sclerosis Collaborative Research Group (MSC...
- Blocking OX-40/OX-40 ligand interaction in vitro and in vivo leads to decreased T cell function and amelioration of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
- Immunity to T cell receptor peptides in Multiple sclerosis. III. Preferential immunogenicity of complementarity-determining region 2 peptides from disease-associated T...
- Specificity of regulatory CD4+CD25+ T cells for self-T cell receptor determinants.
- Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis presenting as myopathy: a case report with histopathologic correlation.
- Immunotherapy and Multiple sclerosis: The devil is in the details.
- Therapeutic vaccination with a trivalent T-cell receptor (TCR) peptide vaccine restores deficient FoxP3 expression and TCR recognition in subjects with Multiple sclero...
- Novel method for measurement of fatigue in Multiple sclerosis: Real-Time Digital Fatigue Score.
Schools
University Of ChicagoThe Pritzker School Of Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
Procedures Preformed
- EMG (Electromyography)
Conditions Treated
- Ataxia
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Convulsions
- Diplopia
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Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Neurology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Portland Monthly Magazine
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Oregon Health & Science University -
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1619982121 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | WHITHAM | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | RUTH | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 972393011 | |
| NPPES Provider State | OR | |
| Specialty Description | Neurology | |
| Total Claim Count | 401.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1619982121 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WHITHAM |
| First Name Of The Provider | RUTH |
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