Julia Bassell, MD

EDUCATION

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Emory University, Undergrad

 

CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Neuromuscular medicine
  • Movement disorders

 

PUBLICATIONS

Bassell-Hawkins J, Suresh NE, Mahoney D, Van Hentenryck M, Csortan A, Pena D, Cornfield DN. Fat Embolism Syndrome After Knee Arthroscopy in a Pediatric Patient. Chest. 2023 Mar;163(3):e107-e110. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.10.018. PMID: 36894263; PMCID: PMC10154858.

Lob K, Bassell-Hawkins J, Patil R, Nie D, Bartolini L. Vitamin B6 decreases the risk of levetiracetam discontinuation in children with epilepsy: A retrospective study. Epilepsy Behav. 2022 Sep;134:108839. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2022.108839. Epub 2022 Jul 12. PMID: 35839645.

Cerebral oedema and dural sinus thrombosis in an adolescent with diabetic ketoacidosis. Julia L Bassell, David W Swenson, Monica Serrano-Gonzalez, Lisa Swartz Topor. BMJ Case Reports CP 2021;14:e241690.

Diffusion Tensor Imaging Abnormalities in the Uncinate Fasciculus and Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome. Julia Bassell, Siddharth Srivastava, Simon K. Warfield and Mustafa Sahin et al. Pediatric Neurology. Feb 2020.

Mitochondrial Proteostasis Requires Genes Encoded in a Neurodevelopmental Syndrome Locus that are Necessary for Synapse Function. Avanti Gokhale, Chelsea E. Lee, Stephanie A. Zlatic, Amanda A. H. Freeman, Nicole Shearing, Cortnie Hartwig, Oluwaseun Ogunbona, Julia L. Bassell, Meghan Wynne, Erica Werner, ChonChong, Zhexing Wen, Carrie E. Bearden, Jill Gausier, David A. Lewis, Victor Faundez. 2021. Journal Neuroscience.

Systems Analysis of the 22q11.2 Microdeletion Syndrome Converges on a Mitochondrial Interactome Necessary for Synapse Function and Behavior. Gokhale A, Hartwig C, Freeman AAH, Bassell JL, Zlatic SA, Sapp Savas C, Vadlamudi T, Abudulai F, Pham TT, Crocker A, Werner E, Wen Z, Repetto GM, Gogos JA, Claypool SM, Forsyth JK, Bearden CE, Glausier J, Lewis DA, Seyfried NT, Kwong JQ, Faundez V. J Neurosci. 2019 May 1;39(18):3561-3581. Doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1983-18.2019.

Fragile X Fred  by Julia Bassell, Jayne Dixon Weber, Jeannie Visootsak, MD. Copyright 2015 by Jayne Dixon Weber. Print.

Sleep Profiles of Children with Down Syndrome Julia L. Bassell, Han Phan, Roberta Leu, Rebecca Kronk, Jeannie Visootsak.. Am J Med Genet A. 2015 Aug; 167A (8):1830-5.

Importance of a Specialty Clinic for Individuals with Fragile X Syndrome.  Visootsak J, Kidd SA, Anderson T, Bassell JL, Sherman SL, Berry-Kravis EM. 2016 Am J Med Genet Part A 9999A:1–6.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • New England Pediatric Society Prize 2021
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society 2021
  • Gold Humanism Honor Society 2021
  • Phi Beta Kappa 2021
  • Omicron Delta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society 2017
  • Alpha Epsilon Delta, Pre-Health Honor Society 2017
  • Nu Rho Psi, National Honor Society of Neuroscience 2017
  • UAA All Academic Award- Emory Women’s Soccer 2016
  • Zell Miller Scholarship 2013-2017
  • Lou Ann Caldwell Science Scholarship 2014
  • National Irish Step Dance Association Scholarship 2014

 

HOBBIES

  • Long distance trail running
  • Skiing
  • Hiking
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