IanMPurcellMDPh.D.

Otoneurology

M.D. Ph.D.

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Dr. Ian Purcell strives towards the development of a world class Vestibular and Balance Institute. He currently practices clinical Neurology with an additional focus in OtoNeurology and Headache management. Dr. Purcell started by enrolling in the combined M.D./Ph.D. program in Neuroscience at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston in September of 1989. In September 1991 he entered the Vestibular Neurophysiology Laboratory of Adrian A. Perachio, Ph.D. and received a total of six years of funding from the NASA Graduate Training Grant and The Texas Space Grant Consortium as a principal investigator. As a neurophysiologist, aviator, and Russian jet warbird enthusiast, he is very interested in providing insight as to how sensory information related to gravity is encoded and processed by the vestibular system to control oculomotor and postural reflexes as well as spatial orientation of the human body moving through a complex three-dimensional environment. Dr. Purcell is involved in the innovation of many new vestibular technologies and actively publishes research articles on the vestibular system. He continues to remain at the forefront of diagnosing and treating vestibular dysfunction.

University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterResidency, Neurology, 2001 - 2004
University of Texas Medical Branch HospitalsInternship, Internal Medicine, 2000 - 2001
University of Texas Medical Branch School of MedicineClass of 2000

The Golden Neuron Award-Best resident instructor UCSD UCSD, 2002
Scholarship and Travel Award – Most Outstanding Resident Publication 2000 Texas Neurological Society, 2000
Member of Sigma Xi Galveston Chapter 1995-1999
The James E. Beall II Memorial Award for Excellence in Anatomy And the Neurosciences 5/98 1998
Cover of Journal of Neurophysiology November and December Journal of Neurophysiology, 1997
Society for Neuroscience Travel Award: Third Place Poster Presentation Society for Neuroscience, 1996
Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellowship 1995-1996
ARO – Association for Research in Otolaryngology: Travel Award ARO, 1995
Sigma Xi Travel Award: First Place overall poster presentation Sigma Xi Travel, 1995
Principal Investigator NASA Graduate Training Grant NASA, 1991-1995
Sigma Xi Travel Award: First Place poster presentation Sigma Xi, 1994
President Local Chapter (1990) Phi Rho Sigma Medical Society Phi Rho Sigma Medical Society, 1990
Graduate Magna Cum Laude Southwestern University Georgetown Southwestern University Georgetown, 1985
Phi Delta Chi French Honor Society 1983-1985
Dean’s Honor list (Cum Laude-Summa Cum Laude-Magna et Ampla) Southwestern University Georgetown, 1982-1985
Alpha Chi Academic Honor Society Alpha Chi, 1982-1985
Premedical Scholarship Southwestern University 1981-1985
Brotherhood Status Order of the Arrow B.S.A. 1979
Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), 1978
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PubMed

8 citations
Responses of gerbil utricular afferents to translational motion
Ian M. Purcell, Shawn D. Newlands, Adrian A. Perachio
Experimental Brain Research. 2003-07-31

Journal Articles

The Dix-Hallpike test and the canalith repositioning maneuver
Erik Viirre, Ian Purcell, Robert W Baloh, Laryngoscope, 1/2005
Responses of gerbil utricular afferents to translational motion
Ian M Purcell, Shawn D Newlands, Adrian A Perachio, The Journal Of Comparative Neurology, 10/2003
Central projections of the saccular and utricular nerves in macaques
Shawn D Newlands 1, Jeffrey T Vrabec, Ian M Purcell, C Matthew Stewart, Brett E Zimmerman, Adrian A Perachio, The Journal Of Comparative Neurology, 2003
Central Projections of the Utricular Nerve in the Gerbil
Shawn D. Newlands, Ian M. Purcell, Golda Anne Kevetter, and Adrian A Perachio, The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2002
Peripheral patterns of terminal innervation of vestibular primary afferent neurons projecting to the vestibulocerebellum in the gerbil
Ian M. Purcell and Adrian A Perachio, The Journal of comparative Neurology, 4/2001
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9405542/
M E Shinder, I M Purcell, G D Kaufman, A A Perachio, Brain Research Interactive, 1/2001
Three-dimensional analysis of vestibular efferent neurons innervating semicircular canals of the gerbil
I M Purcell , A A Perachio, J Neurophysiol, 12/1997
Saccule contribution to immediate early gene induction in the gerbil brainstem with posterior canal galvanic or hypergravity stimulation
T H Marshburn, G D Kaufman, I M Purcell, A A Perachio, Brain Research, 6/1997
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Department of OtolaryngologyUniversity of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas Department of Otolaryngology Advisor: Adrian A. Perachio, Ph.D. Structural and Functional Studies of the Primary Vestibular Afferent and Efferent Neurons in the Gerbil. A: My research involves a continuing project1991 - 1997