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Dushyant Purohit, MD, Pathology, New York, NY, The Mount Sinai Hospital

DushyantPurushottamPurohitMD

Pathology New York, NY

Neuropathology, Anatomic Pathology

Associate Professor, Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine

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  • Office

    Neuropathology Div, Box 1194
    Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gutave L. Levy Place
    New York, NY 10029
    Fax+1 212-426-5129
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Education & Training

  • B. J. Medical College Ahmedabad
    B. J. Medical College AhmedabadClass of 1969

Certifications & Licensure

  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 1993 - 2024
  • American Board of Pathology Anatomic Pathology
  • American Board of Pathology Neuropathology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Merit Award, Best Poster Presentation on Psychiatric Disease International Congress of Neuropathology, 2000
  • Fellow College of American Pathologists, 1999
  • Honorable Mention, Moore Award, Best Paper on Clinico-pathological Correlation American Association of Neuropathologists, 1997
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Cell cycle checkpoint abnormalities during dementia: A plausible association with the loss of protection against oxidative stress in Alzheimer's disease [corrected]  
    Katsel P, Tan W, Fam P, Purohit DP, Haroutunian V, PLoS One, 1/1/2013
  • Characterizing Cognitive Deficits and Dementia in an Aging Urban Population in India  
    Nair G, Van Dyk, U. Shah, D. P. Purohit, C. Pinto, A. B. Shah, H. Grossman, D. Perl, V. Ganwir, S. Shanker, and M. Sano, Int J Alzheimer's Dis, 1/1/2012
  • Less Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology in medicated hypertensive than normotensive persons  
    Hoffman LB, Schmeidler J, Lesser GT, Beeri MS, Purohit DP, Grossman HT, Haroutunian V, Neurology, 1/1/2009
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Books/Book Chapters

Abstracts/Posters

  • Age-Related Cognitive Loss in Mumbai, India, A Research Partnership 2004-2012.
    Purohit DP, Sano M, Batheja P, Pinto, Deshpande J, Shah AB and Jashnani J, 10th Anniversary Brain Disorders in Developing Countries Symposium, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD, 1/11/2014
  • A Clinicopathological Correlation Study of Cognitive Status and Senile Plaques and Neurofibrillary Tangles in Clinically Well- Characterized Individuals of Extreme old...
    Purohit DP, FASEB Journal; Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting of American Association of Neuropathologists, San Diego, CA, 1/1/2008
  • Clinical and neuropathologic studies of age-related cognitive loss in Mumbai, India.
    Purohit DP, Alzheimer’s and Dementia; 10th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and related Disorders, Madrid, Spain, 1/15/2006

Lectures

  • Type-2 Diabetes, Cognitive Impairment and Dementia 
    Sir HN Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center, Mumbai, India - 1/13/2015
  • Single Episode of Severe Axonal Injury in Humans Can Lead to Tau Pathology Resembling Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. 
    Portland, OR - 1/12/2014
  • Direct and Indirect Impacts of Research Collaborations in Developing Countries 
    NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD - 1/11/2014
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Grant Support

  • Mechanisms of Primary Age-Related TauopathyNIA/NIH2015–2020
  • Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Neuropathology CoreNIH/NIA2015–2020
  • Mount Sinai NIH Brain and Tissue Repository (NBTR)NIH/NIMH/NICHD/NINDS2013–2018
  • Age Related Cognitive Loss In Mumbai, IndiaNational Institute On Aging2010
  • Age Related Cognitive Loss In Mumbai, IndiaNational Institute On Aging2006–2009
  • Age-Related Cognitive Loss In Mumbai, IndiaNational Institute On Aging2004–2005

Hospital Affiliations