Felicia Chow, MD

Assoc Prof of Clin Neurology
M_Neurology
[email protected]

Dr. Felicia Chow is a board-certified neurologist and neuro-infectious diseases physician who specializes in caring for patients with a wide range of neurological infections, including brain abscesses, neurocysticercosis, neurosyphilis, neurological complications of HIV and infectious causes of meningitis, encephalitis and myelitis. She directs the UCSF Neuro-Infectious Diseases Clinic on the Parnassus campus and also sees patients at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Chow has an active clinical research program focused on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of neurological complications of infections (e.g., cerebrovascular disease in HIV), with the goal of developing and implementing diagnostic tools and interventions to improve the outcomes of patients with neuro-infectious diseases worldwide. In addition, she is involved in global health education and mentorship for neurology trainees interested in the field of global health, coordinating international experiences for residents and supporting the development of their scholarly projects.

Passionately dedicated to vulnerable patients, Dr. Chow sees the imperative to commit to better understanding of health, worldwide. "There's such an opportunity to improve care, because so little has been done--in terms of health care and disease epidemiology. Something like the Coronavirus pandemic makes it clear that local and global health impact each other."

Dr. Chow earned her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed an internship in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital followed by a residency in neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was selected to serve as chief resident. She completed fellowship training in neuro-infectious diseases and HIV neurology and earned an MAS in clinical research from UCSF. Dr. Chow is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and has a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, Infectious Diseases Society of America and HIV Medicine Association.

Publications

A clinical practice guideline for tuberculous meningitis.

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Joseph Donovan, Fiona V Cresswell, Elizabeth W Tucker, Angharad G Davis, Ursula K Rohlwink, Julie Huynh, Regan Solomons, James A Seddon, Nathan C Bahr, Arjan van Laarhoven, Suzanne T Anderson, Sanjay K Jain, Felicia C Chow, Sophie Pattison, James E Scriven, Gabriela Singh, Rob E Aarnoutse, Jan-Willem C Alffenaar, Sofiati Dian, Abi Manesh, Robin Basu Roy, Varinder Singh, Ronald van Toorn, Caryn M Upton, Reinout van Crevel, Kelly E Dooley, Diana Gibb, David Meya, Robert J Wilkinson, Ewelina Rogozinska, Usha K Misra, Anthony Figaji, Guy E Thwaites

Global Equity in Neurological Practice.

Achieving Equity in Neurological Practice

Deanna Saylor, Rufus O. Akinyemi, Melody Asukile, Mashina Chomba, Mario Cornejo-Olivas, Caroline Crooms, Morenikeji A. Komolafe, Michelle Nichols, Adesola Ogunniyi, Nirali Vora, Felicia Chow

Advancing the chemotherapy of tuberculous meningitis: a consensus view.

The Lancet. Infectious diseases

Wasserman S, Donovan J, Kestelyn E, Watson JA, Aarnoutse RE, Barnacle JR, Boulware DR, Chow FC, Cresswell FV, Davis AG, Dooley KE, Figaji AA, Gibb DM, Huynh J, Imran D, Marais S, Meya DB, Misra UK, Modi M, Raberahona M, Ganiem AR, Rohlwink UK, Ruslami R, Seddon JA, Skolimowska KH, Solomons RS, Stek CJ, Thuong NTT, van Crevel R, Whitaker C, Thwaites GE, Wilkinson RJ

Consensus Competencies for Post-Graduate Fellowship Training in Global Neurology.

Neurology

Schiess N, Kulo V, Anand P, Bearden DR, Berkowitz AL, Birbeck GL, Cervantes-Arslanian A, Chan P, Chishimba LC, Chow FC, Elicer I, Fleury A, Kinikar A, Kvalsund M, Mateen FJ, Mbonde AA, Meyer AL, O'Carroll CB, Ogunniyi A, Patel AA, Rubenstein M, Siddiqi OK, Spudich S, Tackett SA, Thakur KT, Vora N, Zunt J, Saylor DR

Types of Stroke Among People Living With HIV in the United States.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Crane HM, Nance RM, Avoundjian T, Harding BN, Whitney BM, Chow FC, Becker KJ, Marra CM, Zunt JR, Ho EL, Kalani R, Huffer A, Burkholder GA, Willig AL, Moore RD, Mathews WC, Eron JJ, Napravnik S, Lober WB, Barnes GS, McReynolds J, Feinstein MJ, Heckbert SR, Saag MS, Kitahata MM, Delaney JAC, Tirschwell DL

Clinical Metagenomic Sequencing for Diagnosis of Meningitis and Encephalitis.

The New England journal of medicine

Wilson MR, Sample HA, Zorn KC, Arevalo S, Yu G, Neuhaus J, Federman S, Stryke D, Briggs B, Langelier C, Berger A, Douglas V, Josephson SA, Chow FC, Fulton BD, DeRisi JL, Gelfand JM, Naccache SN, Bender J, Dien Bard J, Murkey J, Carlson M, Vespa PM, Vijayan T, Allyn PR, Campeau S, Humphries RM, Klausner JD, Ganzon CD, Memar F, Ocampo NA, Zimmermann LL, Cohen SH, Polage CR, DeBiasi RL, Haller B, Dallas R, Maron G, Hayden R, Messacar K, Dominguez SR, Miller S, Chiu CY

Global Teleneurology Service: First Insights (P2.6-045).

Neurology

Riley Bove, Jalayne Arias, Andrew Barnecut, Linda Branagan, Felicia Chow, Jeffrey Gelfand, S. Andrew Josephson, Maya Katz, Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, Erica Schleimer, Nilika Singhal, Michael Wilson, Theodore Niyongabo, Aliza Norwood, Claudia Kaneza, Elizabeth Kohnen, Cathryn Christensen, Jon Van Leeuwen

Stroke in HIV.

The Canadian journal of cardiology

Bogorodskaya M, Chow FC, Triant VA

Chronic Meningitis Investigated via Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing.

JAMA neurology

Wilson MR, O'Donovan BD, Gelfand JM, Sample HA, Chow FC, Betjemann JP, Shah MP, Richie MB, Gorman MP, Hajj-Ali RA, Calabrese LH, Zorn KC, Chow ED, Greenlee JE, Blum JH, Green G, Khan LM, Banerji D, Langelier C, Bryson-Cahn C, Harrington W, Lingappa JR, Shanbhag NM, Green AJ, Brew BJ, Soldatos A, Strnad L, Doernberg SB, Jay CA, Douglas V, Josephson SA, DeRisi JL