Department of Neurology

Faculty - Boyd Moreau Koffman, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of NeurologyDr. Boyd Koffman

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Multiple sclerosis
Neuromuscular Disorders

EDUCATION  

M.D.: George Washington University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC 1990
Ph.D.: Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 1990
Internship: George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC 1990-1991
Neurology Residency: Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 1991-1994
Fellowship: Neuromuscular Diseases Section, National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 1994-1997

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Toledo (formerly Medical College of Ohio), Toledo, OH 7/1998-12/2006
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 1/2006-2014

Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 2014-present 

CERTIFICATIONS

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology)
Initial Certification - 1996
Maintenance of Certification - 2007 

MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

HONORS

Alpha Omega Alpha Induction, 2020
Listed in the Best Doctors in America 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019

Outstanding Neurology Attending, University of Toledo Department of Neurology Resident's Choice Award, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2009-10

EDITORIAL

 

AdHoc Reviewer

ACTA Neurologica Scandinavica 2006
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery 2004
Muscle & Nerve 1999, 2003-2005
Cephalgia 1999

selected PUBLICATIONS


Papers

 Lin B, Launder D, Bailey DY, Assifuah FK, Miller OA, Conti HR, Du J, Koffman BM. Targeting macrophages by an aza-anthrapyrazole to ameliorate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 2020 Aug;43:102190. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.102190. Epub 2020 May 16. PMID: 32447250; PMCID: PMC7363561.

Anandan C, Khuder SA, Koffman BM.  Prevalence of Autonomic Dysfunction in Hospitalized Patients with Guillain- Barre Syndrome.  Muscle Nerve. 2016 Dec 31.

Koffman BM, Hacker M, Gunning WT, Quinn A.  Something old, new, borrowed, blue:  Anthracenedione agents for treatment of mulitple sclerosis.  Clinical Neuropharmacology.  2016;39(2):102-111.

Bollineni A, Pirzada N, Elsamaloty H, Koffman BM.  West Nile virus polyradiculitis with good prognosis.  J. Neurovirol. 2013.  2013 Apr 30. 

Nicholas-Bublick S, Koffman BM.  Varying clinical presentations of a family afflicted by cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) and spinal cord cavernous malformations (SCCMs).  Radiology Case Reports.  2012;7:1-5.

Kiraly A, Koffman B, Hacker M, Gunning W, Rasche S, Quinn A.  A Novel Aza-Anthrapyrazole Blocks the Progression of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis After the Priming of Autoimmunity.  Clinical Immunology.  2011;141:304-316.

Book chapters
Koffman BM.  Inclusion body myositis.  In:  The 5-minute Neurology Consult.  Second edition.  Lynn DJ, Newton HB, Rae-Grant AD, eds.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD  2012.

Koffman BM.Polymyositis.  In:  The 5-minute Neurology Consult.  Second edition.  Lynn DJ, Newton HB, Rae-Grant AD, eds.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD  2012.

Koffman BM.  Toxic myopathies.  In:  The 5-minute Neurology Consult.  Second edition.  Lynn DJ, Newton HB, Rae-Grant AD, eds.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD  2012.

Koffman BM, Daboul I.  Bariatic Surgery.  In:  Neurology of Internal Medicine.  José Biller, MD, editor.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD  2007, pp  250-255.

Last Updated: 6/27/22