RajeshPahwaMD

Neurology • Kansas City, KS

Movement Disorder

Professor, Neurology, University Kansas School of Medicine

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Office
3599 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160
Phone+1 913-588-6970

Fax+1 913-535-2103
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Summary

Dr. Rajesh Pahwa is a neurologist in Kansas City, KS and is affiliated with The University of Kansas Health System. He received his medical degree from Seth G.S. Medical College and has been in practice 34 years. He specializes in movement disorder and is experienced in parkinson's disease, deep brain stimulation and clinical trials.

Education & Training

University of Kansas School of MedicineResidency, Neurology, 1991 - 1992
Baylor College of MedicineResidency, Neurology, 1987 - 1991
Seth G.S. Medical CollegeClass of 1983

Certifications & Licensure

MO State Medical License 2021 - 2025
KS State Medical License 1991 - 2024
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com

Clinical Trials

Pramipexole Conversion to Ropinirole Controlled Release (CR) Start of enrollment: 2006 Jan 01
Completed
Phase 3
Efficacy of Orally Disintegrating Selegiline in Parkinson's Patients Experiencing Adverse Effects With Dopamine Agonists Start of enrollment: 2007 Mar 01
Completed
Phase 4
A Pilot Study of Oxaloacetate in Subjects With Treated PD Start of enrollment: 2012 Dec 01
Completed
Phase 2, Phase 3
Retrospective, Non-significant Risk, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Care Management Software Feasibility Study Start of enrollment: 2012 Nov 01
Completed
Connect.Parkinson: Connecting Individuals With Parkinson Disease to Specialists in Their Homes Start of enrollment: 2014 Mar 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Evaluation of Safety and Tolerability of ENT-01 for the Treatment of Parkinson's Disease Related Constipation Start of enrollment: 2017 May 11
Completed
Phase 1, Phase 2
Evaluation of the Personal KinetiGraph™ (PKG™) to Improve Insight Into Parkinson's Disease Status Start of enrollment: 2017 May 17
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Fixed-Dose Trial in Early Parkinson's Disease (PD) Start of enrollment: 2019 Dec 13
Active, not recruiting
Phase 3
Roles: Contact
Flexible-Dose, Adjunctive Therapy Trial in Adults With Parkinson's Disease With Motor Fluctuations Start of enrollment: 2020 Oct 27
Completed
Phase 3
Roles: Contact
A Study of AP-CD/LD in Fluctuating Parkinson's Disease Patients Who Completed IN 11 004 Start of enrollment: 2016 Jul 01
Unknown status
Phase 3
Roles: Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Predicting Depression in Parkinson's Disease Using Commonly Available PD Questionnaires.
Kelly E Lyons, Emanuele Camerucci, Rajesh Pahwa> ;Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024 Apr 3
1 citations
Safety and efficacy of continuous subcutaneous levodopa-carbidopa infusion (ND0612) for Parkinson's disease with motor fluctuations (BouNDless): a phase 3, randomised,...
Alberto J Espay, Fabrizio Stocchi, Rajesh Pahwa, Alberto Albanese, Aaron Ellenbogen, Joaquim J Ferreira, Nir Giladi, Tanya Gurevich, Sharon Hassin-Baer, Jorge Hernande...> ;The Lancet. Neurology. 2024 May 1
Updates in essential tremor.
Kelly E Lyons, Tyler Okelberry, Rajesh Pahwa> ;Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2024 Mar 12
Improved Sleep Correlates with Improved Quality of Life and Motor Symptoms with Foslevodopa/Foscarbidopa.
K Ray Chaudhuri, Maurizio F Facheris, Bruno Bergmans, Filip Bergquist, Susan R Criswell, Jia Jia, Pavnit Kukreja, Yohei Mukai, Amy M Spiegel, Resmi Gupta, Lars Bergman...> ;Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 2024 Mar 11
A Randomized Phase 2 KINETIC Trial Evaluating SAGE-324/BIIB124 in Individuals with Essential Tremor.
Lyons, K., Qin, M., Garafola, S., Lieu, T., Chuang, R., Bankole, K., Elble, R., Ondo, W., Hersh, B., Arkilo, D., Pahwa, R.> ;Movement Disorders. 2024 Feb 15
2 citations
Safety, tolerability, and efficacy of NLY01 in early untreated Parkinson's disease: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
McGarry, A., Rosanbalm, S., Leinonen, M., Olanow, C., To, D., Bell, A., Lee, D., Chang, J., Dubow, J., Dhall, R., Burdick, D., Parashos, S., Feuerstein, J., Quinn, J.,...> ;The Lancet. Neurology. 2024 Jan 1
Continuous subcutaneous foslevodopa/foscarbidopa infusion for the treatment of motor fluctuations in Parkinson's disease: Considerations for initiation and maintenance.
Fung, V., Aldred, J., Arroyo, M., Bergquist, F., Boon, A., Bouchard, M., Bray, S., Dhanani, S., Facheris, M., Fisseha, N., Freire-Alvarez, E., Hauser, R., Jeong, A., J...> ;Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2024 Jan 1
Clinical benefit of transcutaneous afferent patterned stimulation (TAPS) in essential tremor patients with high unmet need: a secondary analysis of TAPS studies.
Stuart H Isaacson, Rajesh Pahwa, Salima Brillman, Chiahao Lu, Alexander R Kent> ;Expert Review of Medical Devices. 2023 Nov 24
Cost-Effectiveness of Carbidopa-Levodopa Enteral Suspension for Advanced Parkinson's Disease in the United States.
Rajesh Pahwa, Aristide Merola, Michael Soileau, Ali Alobaidi, A Simon Pickard, Prasanna L Kandukuri, Yanjun Bao, John Strezewski, Julia Oddsdottir, Weiwei Xu, David St...> ;Movement Disorders. 2023 Dec 1
2 citations
IPX203 vs Immediate-Release Carbidopa-Levodopa for the Treatment of Motor Fluctuations in Parkinson Disease: The RISE-PD Randomized Clinical Trial.
Robert A Hauser, Alberto J Espay, Aaron L Ellenbogen, Hubert H Fernandez, Stuart H Isaacson, Peter A LeWitt, William G Ondo, Rajesh Pahwa, Johannes Schwarz, Fabrizio S...> ;JAMA Neurology. 2023 Oct 1
5 citations
Ulotaront, a Trace Amine-Associated Receptor 1/Serotonin 5-HTAgonist, in Patients With Parkinson Disease Psychosis: A Pilot Study.
Stuart H Isaacson, Mark Goldstein, Rajesh Pahwa, Carlos Singer, Kevin Klos, Michael Pucci, Yi Zhang, David Crandall, Kenneth S Koblan, Bradford Navia> ;Neurology. Clinical Practice. 2023 Aug 1
Correction to: Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Parkinson's Disease Psychosis: Recommendations From an Expert Panel.
Rajesh Pahwa, Stuart H Isaacson, Gary W Small, Yasar Torres-Yaghi, Fernando Pagan, Marwan Sabbagh> ;Neurology and Therapy. 2023 Oct 1
4 citations
Safety review of current pharmacotherapies for levodopa-treated patients with Parkinson's disease.
Angela M Richmond, Kelly E Lyons, Rajesh Pahwa> ;Expert Opinion on Drug Safety. 2023 Jul 4
1 citations
Clinical Use of On-Demand Therapies for Patients with Parkinson's Disease and OFF Periods.
Rajesh Pahwa, Fernando L Pagan, Daniel E Kremens, Marie Saint-Hilaire> ;Neurology and Therapy. 2023 Aug 1
Creating the Pick's disease International Consortium: Association study ofH2 haplotype with risk of Pick's disease.
White, C. L., White, C. L., Rebecca R Valentino, William J Scotton, Shanu F Roemer, Tammaryn Lashley, Michael G Heckman, Maryam Shoai, Alejandro Martinez-Carrasco, Nic...> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Apr 24
Long-term results of carbidopa/levodopa enteral suspension across the day in advanced Parkinson's disease: Post-hoc analyses from a large 54-week trial.
Rajesh Pahwa, Jason Aldred, Aristide Merola, Niodita Gupta, Emi Terasawa, Viviana Garcia-Horton, David R Steffen, Prasanna L Kandukuri, Yanjun Bao, Omar Ladhani, Conni...> ;Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2023 Jan 1
Non-Invasive Transcutaneous Afferent Patterned Stimulation Therapy Offers Action Tremor Relief in Parkinson's Disease.
Salima Brillman, Pravin Khemani, Stuart H Isaacson, Rajesh Pahwa, Ruta Deshpande, Vivien Zraick, Apoorva Rajagopal, Dhira Khosla, Kathryn H Rosenbluth> ;Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements. 2023 Jan 1
1 citations
Feasibility of home dose optimization of apomorphine sublingual film in Parkinson's disease patients with OFF episodes: results from the dose-optimization phase of an ...
Jan Kassubek, Fabrizio Stocchi, Ernest Balaguer Martinez, Rajesh Pahwa, William Ondo, Yi Zhang, Alyssa Bowling, Eric Pappert, Stuart Isaacson, Stacy Wu> ;Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 2023 Jan 1
2 citations
How to manage the initiation of apomorphine therapy without antiemetic pretreatment: A review of the literature.
Stuart H Isaacson, Richard B Dewey Jr, Rajesh Pahwa, Daniel E Kremens> ;Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2023 Jan 1
3 citations
Dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease: Impact of D1-like or D2-like dopamine receptor subtype selectivity and avenues for future treatment.
Stuart H Isaacson, Robert A Hauser, Rajesh Pahwa, David Gray, Sridhar Duvvuri> ;Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 2023 Jan 1
11 citations
Comparative Effectiveness of Device-Aided Therapies on Quality of Life and Off-Time in Advanced Parkinson's Disease: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-anal...
Angelo Antonini, Rajesh Pahwa, Per Odin, Stuart H Isaacson, Aristide Merola, Lin Wang, Prasanna L Kandukuri, Ali Alobaidi, Connie H Yan, Yanjun Bao, Cindy Zadikoff, Ju...> ;CNS Drugs. 2022 Dec 1
6 citations
Effects of Levodopa-Carbidopa Intestinal Gel on Dyskinesia and Non-Motor Symptoms Including Sleep: Results from a Meta-Analysis with 24-Month Follow-Up.
K Ray Chaudhuri, Angelo Antonini, Rajesh Pahwa, Per Odin, Nataliya Titova, Sandeep Thakkar, Sonya J Snedecor, Saket Hegde, Ali Alobaidi, Juan Carlos Parra, Cindy Zadik...> ;Journal of Parkinson's Disease. 2022 Jan 1
2 citations
Screening, Diagnosis, and Management of Parkinson's Disease Psychosis: Recommendations From an Expert Panel.
Rajesh Pahwa, Stuart H Isaacson, Gary W Small, Yasar Torres-Yaghi, Fernando Pagan, Marwan Sabbagh> ;Neurology and Therapy. 2022 Dec 1
1 citations
Patterns of Daily Motor-Symptom Control with Carbidopa/Levodopa Enteral Suspension Versus Oral Carbidopa/Levodopa Therapy in Advanced Parkinson's Disease: Clinical Tri...
Rajesh Pahwa, Jason Aldred, Niodita Gupta, Emi Terasawa, Viviana Garcia-Horton, David R Steffen, Prasanna L Kandukuri, Vivek S Chaudhari, Yash J Jalundhwala, Yanjun Ba...> ;Neurology and Therapy. 2022 Jun 1
1 citations
Unmet needs in the diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson's disease psychosis and dementia-related psychosis.
Marwan Sabbagh, Gary W Small, Stuart H Isaacson, Yasar Torres-Yaghi, Fernando Pagan, Rajesh Pahwa> ;International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice. 2023 Mar 1
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Press Mentions

Wren Builds Out Scientific Advisory Board for Neurodegenerative DiseasesJanuary 4th, 2023
Dosing Begins in Phase 1 Trial of AP-472, for Dyskinesia with LevodopaOctober 7th, 2021
World Parkinson Coalition Welcomes Five New DirectorsJanuary 30th, 2020
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