Experience
2016 - Present
Child Neurology Attending
Children's National Hospital
Washington, DC
Board certified in Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology. Responsibilities include:
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General Child Neurology Clinic
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Neuro-Hospitalist
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Medical Director - Annapolis & Howard County Regional Outpatient Clinics
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Medical Director - Neurology Infusion Center
2013 - 2016
Child Neurology Fellow
ACGME certified training program in Child Neurology
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
2010 - 2013
Pediatrics Resident
ACGME certified training program in Pediatrics
Yale New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
Education
2006 - 2010
Morehouse School of Medicine
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MD
Atlanta, GA
1999 - 2003
Yale University
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BS - Biomedical Engineering
New Haven, CT
Publications
Functional connectivity hemispheric contrast (FC-HC): A new metric for language mapping (NeuroImage: Clinical)
Using EHRs to advance epilepsy care (Neurology Clinical Practice)
Mbwana JS, Grinspan ZM, Bailey R, Berl M, Buchhalter J, Bumbut A, Danner Z, Glauser T, Glotstein A, Goodkin H, Jacobs B, Jones L, Kroner B, Lapham G, Loddenkemper T, Maraganore DM, Nordli D, Gaillard WD. Using EHRs to advance epilepsy care. Neurol Clin Pract. 2019 Feb;9(1):83-88. doi: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000575. PMID: 30859011; PMCID: PMC6382370.
Limitations to plasticity of language network reorganization in localization related epilepsy (Brain)
Mbwana J, Berl MM, Ritzl EK, Rosenberger L, Mayo J, Weinstein S, Conry JA, Pearl PL, Shamim S, Moore EN, Sato S, Vezina LG, Theodore WH, Gaillard WD. Limitations to plasticity of language network reorganization in localization related epilepsy. Brain. 2009 Feb;132(Pt 2):347-56. doi: 10.1093/brain/awn329. Epub 2008 Dec 5. PMID: 19059978; PMCID: PMC2640214.
Design and implementation of electronic health record common data elements for pediatric epilepsy (Epilepsia)
Grinspan ZM, Patel AD, Shellhaas RA, Berg AT, Axeen ET, Bolton J, Clarke DF, Coryell J, Gaillard WD, Goodkin HP, Koh S, Kukla A, Mbwana JS, Morgan LA, Singhal NS, Storey MM, Yozawitz EG, Abend NS, Fitzgerald MP, Fridinger SE, Helbig I, Massey SL, Prelack MS, Buchhalter J; Pediatric Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System. Design and implementation of electronic health record common data elements for pediatric epilepsy: Foundations for a learning health care system. Epilepsia. 2021 Jan;62(1):198-216. doi: 10.1111/epi.16733. Epub 2020 Dec 24. PMID: 33368200.
Dysmaturation of the default mode network in autism (Human Brain Mapping)
Washington SD, Gordon EM, Brar J, Warburton S, Sawyer AT, Wolfe A, Mease-Ference ER, Girton L, Hailu A, Mbwana J, Gaillard WD, Kalbfleisch ML, VanMeter JW. Dysmaturation of the default mode network in autism. Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Apr;35(4):1284-96. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22252. Epub 2013 Jan 18. PMID: 23334984; PMCID: PMC3651798.
Lying about facial recognition: an fMRI study (Brain Cognition)
Bhatt S, Mbwana J, Adeyemo A, Sawyer A, Hailu A, Vanmeter J. Lying about facial recognition: an fMRI study. Brain Cogn. 2009 Mar;69(2):382-90. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2008.08.033. Epub 2008 Oct 10. PMID: 18848742.
Differences in Response Conflict in Autism Spectrum Disorders (NeuroImage)
Brar, J. & Kalbfleisch, Layne & Chandrasekher, L. & Warburton, S.M. & Girton, L.E. & Hailyu, A. & Wolfe, A. & Mease, E. & Mbwana, J.S. & Gallaird, W.D. & Vanmeter, John. (2009). Differences in Response Conflict in Autism Spectrum Disorders. NeuroImage. 47. S68. 10.1016/S1053-8119(09)70384-2.