Joel Salinas

Joel Salinas (/səˈliːnəs/; born July 11, 1983) is an American-born Nicaraguan neurologist, writer, and researcher, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.[1] He practices general neurology, with subspecialty in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.[2] He is also a clinician-scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Framingham Study at the Boston University School of Medicine.[3][4]

Joel Salinas
Dr. Joel Salinas at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2015.
Dr. Salinas in 2015.
Born (1983-07-11) July 11, 1983
Miami Beach, Florida
OccupationNeurologist, writer, researcher
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materCornell University (B.A.)
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (M.D.)
University of Miami Business School (M.B.A.)
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (M.Sc.)
Website
joelsalinasmd.com

The subject of his 2017 book, Mirror Touch: A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain is a collection of patient case histories and his personal experience with multiple forms of synesthesia, including mirror-touch synesthesia.

Early life and education

Salinas was born in Miami Beach, Florida to Nicaraguan immigrants granted political asylum during the Contra War of the Nicaraguan Revolution.[5] He grew up in Miami, Florida with his younger brother and sister, though he spent a formative period in Managua, Nicaragua, after his parents declared bankruptcy under financial strain and temporarily returned to Nicaragua. He was recognized as the Miami-Dade County Student of the Year in 2000 and graduated valedictorian from Miami Southridge Senior High School in 2001.[6]

Salinas earned his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in biology and society[7] from Cornell University in 2005.[5] While an undergraduate, he performed research in the Amazon rainforest of Pará, Brazil, studying the methyl-mercury contamination and ethnography of the Gorotire Kayapo watershed, which he described in his honors thesis dissertation on the sociocultural influences that affect people’s response to health risks.[5]

Salinas graduated with a medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 2011. In 2006, while in medical school, a tumor over his right brain was discovered. When successfully resected, the tumor was discovered to be vascular. The tumor was fortunately also benign and its invasion was isolated to destroying the overlying skull bone.[8] From 2008 to 2009, he spent a year as a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow in neuropsychiatric imaging at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine,[9] where he suffered a devastating car accident.[5] He also completed a joint MD-MBA program, earning a Master of Business Administration in Health Sector Policy and Management at the University of Miami Business School and winning the University of Miami Annual Business Plan Competition’s Grand Prize.[10]

Salinas completed his neurology residency at Harvard Medical School from 2011 to 2015, training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He served as chief resident in neurology, followed by a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] He earned a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2016.[2]

Career

After completing his fellowship, Salinas joined the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Neurology Department,[18][2][19] serving as neurologist in the Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit[20] and the Institute for Brain Health.[21]

Research

Salinas’s research focuses on reducing the negative impact of stroke, dementia, and brain aging[22][23] by harnessing insights gained from integrating epidemiology,[3][4] social and behavioral sciences,[24][25] and digital phenotyping (i.e., the moment-by-moment quantification of the individual-level human phenotype in daily life using data from smartphones and other personal digital devices).[26][27]

Bibliography

Mirror Touch

Mirror Touch: A Memoir of Synesthesia and the Secret Life of the Brain (2017) ISBN 978-0-062-45866-7 is a blend of intimate memoir and scientific exploration about Salinas's experience living with various types of synesthesia (including mirror-touch synesthesia), while sharing lessons about the brain and what it means to be human through personal case histories in neurodiversity.

Honors and awards

Salinas’s awards include the American Academy of Neurology's Robert Katzman Research Training Fellowship Award in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research in 2017.[28]

Personal life

Salinas lives in Long Island City, New York.[29][30] His parents are Norma and Armando. His younger brother is Rainier and his younger sister is Scarlett.

References
  1. "Harvard Medical School Official Site". hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  2. "Massachusetts General Hospital Official Site". massgeneral.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  3. "Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Official Site". hsph.harvard.edu. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  4. Salinas, Joel; Beiser, Alexa; Himali, Jayandra J.; Rosand, Jonathan; Seshadri, Sudha; Dunn, Erin C. (Fall 2016). "Factors Associated With New-Onset Depression After Stroke". The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 28 (4): 286–291. doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.15110388. PMC 5474200. PMID 27056020.
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  6. "BUSCH: Students Grand Marshals for Miami 300 at Homestead". motorsport.com. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
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  8. Hayasaki, Erika (2015-07-13). "This Doctor Knows Exactly How You Feel". Pacific Standard. Santa Barbara, California: Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  9. Salinas, Joel; Mills, Elizabeth D.; Conrad, Amy L.; Koscik, Timothy; Andreasen, Nancy C.; Nopoulos, Peg (February 2012). "Sex Differences in Parietal Lobe Structure and Development". Gender Medicine. 9 (1): 44–55. doi:10.1016/j.genm.2012.01.003. PMC 3326392. PMID 22333522.
  10. "School of Business Awards $42,000 in Annual Business Plan Competition". bus.miami.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  11. "Harvard Neurology Residency Program Official 2015 Alumni Site". neuroeducation.massgeneral.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
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  20. "Massachusetts General Hospital Cognitive Behavioral Division Official Staff Site". massgeneral.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  21. "Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Brain Health Official Staff Site". massgeneral.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  22. Strong, Colby (14 February 2017). "Prestroke psychosocial factors linked to poststroke depression risk in women". Clinical Advisor. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  23. Grossman, Stan (16 April 2016). "Social Support Could Increase BDNF levels, Decrease Risk for Stroke and Dementia". Neurology Advisor. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  24. Salinas, Joel; Ray, Roberta M.; Nassir, Rami; Lakshminarayan, Kamakshi; Dording, Christina; Smoller, Jordan; Wassertheil‐Smoller, Sylvia; Rosand, Jonathan; Dunn, Erin C. (1 February 2017). "Factors Associated With New‐Onset Depression Following Ischemic Stroke: The Women's Health Initiative". Journal of the American Heart Association. 6 (2): e003828. doi:10.1161/JAHA.116.003828. PMC 5523739. PMID 28151400.
  25. Salinas, Joel; Beiser, Alexa; Himali, Jayandra J.; Satizabal, Claudia L.; Aparicio, Hugo J.; Weinstein, Galit; Mateen, Farrah J.; Berkman, Lisa F.; Rosand, Jonathan; Seshadri, Sudha (June 2017). "Associations between social relationship measures, serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and risk of stroke and dementia". Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions. 3 (2): 229–237. doi:10.1016/j.trci.2017.03.001. PMC 5651441. PMID 29067329.
  26. "Massachusetts General Hospital Salinas Lab Official Site". massgeneral.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  27. Torous, John; Onnela, JP; Keshavan, Matcheri (March 2017). "New dimensions and new tools to realize the potential of RDoC: Digital phenotyping via smartphones and connected devices". Translational Psychiatry. 7 (3): e1053. doi:10.1038/tp.2017.25. PMC 5416670. PMID 28267146.
  28. "American Academy of Neurology Katzman Research Training Fellowship Award Official Site". aan.com. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
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