Rezania, Kourosh, MD

Assistant Professor
Director, Autonomic Lab

Address: 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 2030
Chicago, IL 60637-1470
Telephone: 773-834-1724
Secretary: Michelle Record-Protho
Patient Calls: 773-702-6222
Fax: 773-702-9076
Education & Training
  • M.D., Tehran University, Iran
  • Internship, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn
  • Residency, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
  • Fellowship, University of Chicago Hospitals
  • Board Certified in Neurology, Psychiatry and Electromyography
Clinical Interests
  • Dr. Kourosh Rezania sees and treats patients with different kinds of peripheral nervous system diseases including diabetic and idiopathic peripheral neuropathy in the neurology clinic at the University of Chicago and the Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy. Dr. Rezania performs electromyography and also other procedures to diagnose and characterize peripheral neuropathies including quantitative sensory test (QST) and quantitative sweat test (Qsweat). The instruments for the latter two tests have been provided by the Jack Miller Neuropathy Center. His educational activities include supervising neurophysiology fellows and teaching neurology residents and medical students rotating through the neurology clerkship.
Research Interests
  • Dr. Rezania’s research interests include diabetic and idiopathic peripheral neuropathy. He is currently working on a study regarding neuropathy associated with impaired glucose tolerance and is involved in multicenter clinical trials of Lamotrigine and ruboxistaurin mesylate for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Teaching
  • Supervision of neurology residents
  • Supervision of neurophysiology fellows
Society Memberships
  • American Academy of Neurology
  • American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
  • American Medical Association
Selected Publications
  1. Rezania K, Gundogdu B, Soliven B. Pathogenesis of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropa¬thy. Front Biosci. 2004 Jan 1;9:939-45.
  2. Pytel P, Rezania K, Soliven B, Frank J, Wollmann R. Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropa¬thy (CIDP) with hypertrophic spinal radiculopathy mimicking neurofibromatosis. Acta Neuropathol (Berl). 2003 Feb;105(2):185-8.
  3. Rezania K. Peripheral neuropathy: How to uncover the cause. Practical Neurology March 2003;2(3):49-53.
  4. Rezania K, Yan J, Dellefave L, Deng HX, Siddique N, Pascuzzi RT, Siddique T, Roos RP. A rare Cu/Zn superox¬ide dismutase mutation causing familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with variable age of onset, incomplete pen¬etrance and a sensory neuropathy. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Other Motor Neuron Disord. 2003 Sep;4(3):162-6.
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