Chris Delos Reyes Arca, MD

EDUCATION

  • Fellowship: Pediatric Epilepsy, Stanford University Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
  • Residency: Child Neurology, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
  • Internship: Pediatrics, Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
  • Medical School: Rush Medical College
  • Undergraduate: University of Hawaii (BS, Biology)

 

CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Epilepsy Surgery
  • Genetic Epilepsies
  • Epidemiology of Epilepsy in the South Pacific

 

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

Chris Arca, Adina Achiliroaie, Joshua Loeb, Firas Bannout. Chronological MRI Changes, Location, Pathology
and Surgical Outcomes in Focal Cortical Dysplasia: Clinical Case Review Study [abstract]. In: AES 2019 Annual
Meeting; 2019 December 6- December 10; Baltimore, Maryland. (Poster Presentation)

Pilar Pichon Zentil, Joy Nichols, Joshua Loeb, Chris Arca, Jamie Pivonka-Jones, Warren Boling. Visual
Memory is Improved in Children 1 year After Epilepsy Surgery on the Right Hemisphere [abstract]. In: AES 2019
Annual Meeting; 2019 December 6- December 10; Baltimore, Maryland. (Poster Presentation)

Arca C, Kazlauskaite R. Neuroplasticity and its Implications in Medicine. Poster presented at Rush Medical
College Capstone Forum; May 2015; Chicago, IL.

Joanna E. Gawecka, Chris Arca, Jordi Ribas-Maynou, W. Steven Ward. External Factors in the Fluid
Surrounding Spermatozoa Can Stimulate Sperm Chromatin Fragmentation (SCF) [abstract]. In: 46th Annual
Meeting of the Society for the Study of Reproduction; 2013 July 19- July 23; Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Platform
presentation)

Dominguez, Kenneth, Chris DR Arca, and W. Steven Ward. "The Relationship Between Chromatin Structure
and DNA." Sperm Chromatin: Biological and Clinical Applications in Male Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
(2011): 61.

Chris Arca, Graham Johnson, Frédéric Leduc, Guylain Boissonneault, Stephen A. Krawetz, and W. Steven
Ward. Sperm Chromatin Fragmentation Occurs at Specific Chromatin Sites [abstract]. In: 44th Annual Meeting
of the Society for the Study of Reproduction; 2011 July 31- August 4; Portland, Oregon. (Platform presentation)

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

  • Healing Hands Award
  • Golden Key International Honour Society

 

HOBBIES

Writing food reviews, Trail running, Spearfishing