Karina González Otárula received her MD in 2009 from the National University of Cuyo, Argentina. She completed her Neurology Residency training in 2014 at FLENI in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She developed a special interest in Epilepsy and in 2013 accomplished a 3-months course in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA. She then joined the Epilepsy Department at FLENI in 2014.
In July 2015 she was awarded with the Friederick Anderman Clinical/Research Fellowship in Epileptology and EEG.
In June 2016 she completed the first clinical year of her fellowship under the supervision of Dr. François Dubeau and Dr. Eliane Kobayashi, and obtained the Canadian Society of Clinical Neurophysiologists (CSCN) Diplomate in Electroencephalography.
In July 2016 she joined Dr. Gotman’s Lab to conduct a project that combines high frequency oscillations and EEG-fMRI.
Publications:
Peer-reviewed papers
González-Otárula KA, Álvarez BM, Dubeau F. Drug-resistant epilepsy after treatment for childhood acute lymphocytic leukaemia: from focal epilepsy to Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Epileptic Disord. 2016 Dec 1;18(4):447-453.
González-Otárula KA, Ugarnes G, Rossi M, Ballesteros D, D’Giano C. Phenytoin-induced chorea: drug interaction or genetic predisposition? Clin Neuropharmacol. 2016 Mar-Apr;39(2):120.
Gonzalez Otarula KA, Ugarnes G, Fernandez Suarez M, D'Giano C. [Faciobrachial dystonic seizures. Semiologic diagnosis in limbic encephalitis]. Medicina (B Aires) 2015;75:407-9.
González-Otárula KA, Bruno V, Pujol-Lereis VA, Ameriso SF. Cerebral varicella-zoster vasculopathy sine herpete: Atypical Ramsay-Hunt syndrome in an immunocompetent patient. Neurology: Clinical Practice 2014;4:260-2.
Gonzalez Otarula K, Barroso F. [Masseter inhibitory reflex abnormality and brainstem lesion]. Medicina (B Aires) 2013;73:451.
González Otárula KA, Arena J, Bruno V, Chaves H, Cammarota A. Síndrome de Lance-Adams secundario a paro cardiorrespiratorio. Neurología Argentina 2013;05:44-6.
Abstracts
González-Otárula K, Tan YL, Dubeau F, Chang E, Hall JA, Knowlton RC, Kobayashi E. Epilepsy surgery outcome in patients with non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy. American Epilepsy Society Meeting 2016. Houston, USA.
Tan YL, González-Otárula K, Kobayashi E, Dubeau F, Hall JA, Chang E, Soucy JP, Knowlton RC. Correlation of FDG-PET Patterns in MRI-negative TLE with seizure onset and surgical outcomes. American Epilepsy Society Meeting 2016. Houston, USA.
González-Otárula K, Tan YL, Dubeau F, Chang E, Hall JA, Knowlton RC, Kobayashi E. Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in patients with co-existent psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. Canadian League Against Epilepsy Meeting 2016. Quebec City, Canada.
Gonzalez Otarula K, Bruno V, Pujol-Lereis V, Ameriso S. Cerebral Varicella Zoster Vasculopathy Sine Herpete: Atypical Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome Presentation in an Immunocompetent Patient (P6.258). Neurology 2014;82:P6.258.
Bruno V, Negrotto L, Arena J, Gonzalez Otarula K, Goicochea M, Bonamico L, Leston J. Medication Overuse Headache: In-Patient Drug Withdrawal. Experience of a Derivation Centre in Argentina (P03.236) Neurology 2012; 78:P03.236.
Gonzalez Otarula K, Fernández Suárez M.C, Pujol Lereis V.A, Grondona V, Meli F, Allegri R.F, Ameriso S.F. Acute ischemic lesions of the fornix and splenium of the corpus callosum. Clinical analysis and correlation in tractography. In: XIII Panamerican Congress of Neurology; 2012 March 4-8; La Paz, Bolivia.
González Otárula, K.; Farez, M.; Bruno, V.; Pujol Lereis, VA.; Ameriso, SF. Evaluation of the neurological discapacity at the arrival and three months later and effect of the vascular risk factors in the severity of the ischemic stroke”.In: XLIX Argentine Congress of Neurology; 2012 November 7-10; Buenos Aires, Argentina.
González Otárula K.; Nagel, M. V.; Delorme, R.; Díaz, F.; Hlavnicka, A.; Wainsztein, N. Neurocysticercosis: a case report. In: XVIII National Congress of Medicine; 2010 November 9 -12; Buenos Aires, Argentina.