Roberta J Seidman, MD

Dr. Roberta Seidman serves as the Director of Neuropathology for the Department of Pathology at Stony Brook Medicine.  Dr. Seidman's neuropathology practice includes evaluation and diagnosis of a few hundred tumors of brain and spinal cord and other neurosurgical specimens each year, with a practice characterized by diagnostic excellence.  Dr. Seidman has major expertise in neuromuscular pathology, having evaluated nearly 10,000  muscle biopsies over a period exceeding 30 years and co-authoring many articles about neuromuscular disease during this period, authoring 3 Medscape/eMedicine chapters about muscle histology, pathology and neuromuscular disease, lecturing extensively on neuromuscular disease at multiple medical institutions and at national meetings and serving as a reviewer of neuromuscular disease articles for a prestigious medical journal.  Dr. Seidman has extensive experience performing brain autopsies and, in addition to performing neuropathological examinations on Stony Brook autopsy cases, previously served as the Neuropathology Consultant for the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner for almost 20 years (19 years and 8 months), evaluating a few thousand medical examiner cases, including cases of neurotrauma, neurodegenerative diseases, hereditary neurological disorders, central nervous system infection and stroke.   Dr. Seidman has been and continues to be a co-investigator on research projects aimed at developing improved treatments for brain tumors.  Dr. Seidman is extensively involved in teaching other medical professionals about the pathology of brain tumors and other neuropathological entities.

• Ectopic craniopharyngioma of the fourth ventricle in a patient with Gardner syndrome.
  
  Pena AH | Chaudhry A | Seidman RJ | Peyster R | Bangiyev L
  Clinical imaging
  2016 Mar-Apr
  
  
• Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Strokes due to Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis.
  
  Aly Z | Libman R | Seidman R | Arora R | Siller K | Salamon E | Katz JM
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
  2015 Sep
  
  
• Intraspinal psammomatous melanotic schwannoma not associated with Carney complex: case report.
  
  Shabani S | Fiore SM | Seidman R | Davis RP
  Journal of neurosurgery. Spine
  2015 Aug
  
  
• Dysphagia and Neck Swelling in a Case of Undiagnosed Lhermitte-Duclos Disease and Cowden Syndrome.
  
  Hu ZI | Bangiyev L | Seidman RJ | Cohen JA
  Case reports in oncological medicine
  2015
  
  
• Invasive aspergillosis in a renal transplant recipient successfully treated with interferon-gamma.
  
  Estrada C | Desai AG | Chirch LM | Suh H | Seidman R | Darras F | Nord EP
  Case reports in transplantation
  2012
  
  
• Annexin A2 promotes glioma cell invasion and tumor progression.
  
  Zhai H | Acharya S | Gravanis I | Mehmood S | Seidman RJ | Shroyer KR | Hajjar KA | Tsirka SE
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
  2011 Oct 5
  
  
• Glial transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta isotypes in multiple sclerosis: differential glial expression of TGF-beta 1, 2 and 3 isotypes in multiple sclerosis.
  
  Peress NS | Perillo E | Seidman RJ
  Journal of neuroimmunology
  1996 Dec
  
  
• In situ detection of polymerase chain reaction-amplified HIV-1 nucleic acids in skeletal muscle in patients with myopathy.
  
  Seidman R | Peress NS | Nuovo GJ
  Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc
  1994 Apr
  
  
• The spectrum of eosinophilic myositis. Clinical and immunopathogenic studies of three patients, and review of the literature.
  
  Kaufman LD | Kephart GM | Seidman RJ | Buhner D | Qvarfordt I | Nassberger L | Gleich GJ
  Arthritis and rheumatism
  1993 Jul
  
  
• Paraganglioma of the cauda equina: case report with magnetic resonance imaging description.
  
  Iliya AR | Davis RP | Seidman RJ
  Surgical neurology
  1991 May
  
  
• L-tryptophan-associated eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome: perspective of a new illness.
  
  Kaufman LD | Seidman RJ
  Rheumatic diseases clinics of North America
  1991 May
  
  
• The neuromuscular pathology of the Eosinophilia-Myalgia syndrome.
  
  Seidman RJ | Kaufman LD | Sokoloff L | Miller F | Iliya A | Peress NS
  Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology
  1991 Jan
  
  
• L-tryptophan-associated eosinophilic perimyositis, neuritis, and fasciitis. A clinicopathologic and laboratory study of 25 patients.
  
  Kaufman LD | Seidman RJ | Gruber BL
  Medicine
  1990 Jul
  
  
• Eosinophilic neuritis, perimyositis, and vasculitis associated with ingestion of L-tryptophan.
  
  Kaufman LD | Finn AF Jr | Seidman RJ | Pampati J | Peress NS | Miller F | Sokoloff L | Gruber BL
  The Journal of rheumatology
  1990 Jun
  
  
• Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 expression in the central nervous system correlates directly with extent of disease.
  
  Weiser B | Peress N | La Neve D | Eilbott DJ | Seidman R | Burger H
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  1990 May
  
  
• Cutaneous manifestations of the L-tryptophan-associated eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome: a spectrum of sclerodermatous skin disease.
  
  Kaufman LD | Seidman RJ | Phillips ME | Gruber BL
  Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
  1990 Dec
  
  
• Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in spinal cords of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients with myelopathy: expression and replication in macrophages.
  
  Eilbott DJ | Peress N | Burger H | LaNeve D | Orenstein J | Gendelman HE | Seidman R | Weiser B
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  1989 May