Partha Sekhar Ghosh, MD

Neurologist, Department of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
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Partha Sekhar Ghosh, MD

Partha Sekhar Ghosh, MD

Neurologist, Department of Neurology
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Medical Services

Languages
Bengali
English
Hindi
Education
Medical School
Calcutta College
Kolkata
India
Internship
Calcutta Medical College
Kolkata
India
Residency
Pediatrics and Neurology
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
Chandigarh
India
Fellowship
Neurology
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
2006
Chandigarh
India
Residency
Pediatric Neurology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
OH
Fellowship
Pediatric Neurology
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland
OH
Fellowship
Neuromuscular
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
MN
Fellowship
Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG)
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
MN
Certifications
American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child and Adolescent Neurology)
Professional History

Dr. Ghosh is a pediatric neurologist specializing in neuromuscular disorders. Dr. Ghosh completed his medical education and initial training at Calcutta Medical College and the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), both of which are top-ranked medical schools in India. He then completed a pediatrics residency and child neurology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, followed by fellowships in neuromuscular (muscle) disorders and clinical neurophysiology at the Mayo Clinic. At Boston Children’s Hospital, Dr. Ghosh serves as Director of both the EMG laboratory and the Muscular Dystrophy Association Care Center. Dr. Ghosh uses his expertise to support the Neuromuscular Center, the EMG Laboratory, and the General Neurology Program at Waltham, and continue to be involved in clinical research in neuromuscular disorders in children.

Publications

Pediatric Neurology Trainee Award. View Abstract
Aphasia and Weakness in a Child Think Beyond Stroke. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A 10-year-old girl with muscle stiffness. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: Seven-year-old girl with progressive gait difficulties. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: Pes cavus and neuropathy: Think beyond Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: Young adult with dysphagia and severe weight loss. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A child with arthrogryposis: Congenital myasthenic syndrome-CHRNA1 mutation. View Abstract
Spectrum of Neuromuscular Disorders With HyperCKemia From a Tertiary Care Pediatric Neuromuscular Center. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A teenager with left arm weakness. View Abstract
Neuralgic amyotrophy in children. View Abstract
Brain involvement in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease due to ganglioside-induced differentiation associated-protein 1 mutation. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A child with delayed motor milestones and ptosis. View Abstract
Spectrum of Nondystrophic Skeletal Muscle Channelopathies in Children. View Abstract
Schwartz-Jampel Syndrome. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A 2-year-old child with acute flaccid paralysis. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A tale of a hypotonic infant. View Abstract
Teaching NeuroImages: Medullary lesions causing dysphagia in Leigh/MELAS overlap syndrome. View Abstract
Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1: A Neurological Cause of Dysphagia. View Abstract
Recurrent Right-Sided Ptosis in a Child. Recurrent Painful Ophthalmoplegic Neuropathy. View Abstract
Camptocormia as presenting manifestation of a spectrum of myopathic disorders. View Abstract
Use of Clinical and Electrical Myotonia to Differentiate Childhood Myopathies. View Abstract
Pearls & Oy-sters: HyperCKemia with limb-girdle weakness: Think beyond myopathies. View Abstract
Clinical Reasoning: A 38-year-old woman with childhood-onset weakness. View Abstract
Clinical and laboratory findings of 21 patients with radiation-induced myopathy. View Abstract
Diagnostic yield of electromyography in children with myopathic disorders. View Abstract
Inclusion-body myositis presenting with facial diplegia. View Abstract
Teaching neuroimages: dyspnea as a presenting manifestation of amyloid myopathy. View Abstract
Colchicine-induced myoneuropathy mimicking polyradiculoneuropathy. View Abstract
Neurologic complications following pediatric renal transplantation. View Abstract
Teaching neuroimages: hydroxychloroquine-induced vacuolar myopathy. View Abstract
Pearls & oy-sters: osteoid osteoma of the scapula masquerading as neuralgic amyotrophy. View Abstract
Teaching neuroimages: MRI "target sign" and neurofibromatosis type 1. View Abstract
Pearls & Oy-sters: Bifocal germinoma of the brain: review of systems is key to the diagnosis. View Abstract
Teaching video NeuroImages: shake Mom's hand to get the diagnosis. View Abstract
Teaching NeuroImages: platybasia and basilar invagination in osteogenesis imperfecta. View Abstract
Infantile intraspinal and extensive cutaneous hemangiomas: excellent response to propranolol. View Abstract