James J Gugger, MD, PharmD
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Contact information
Penn Epilepsy Center
Department of Neurology
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Neurology
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email:
guggerj@seas.upenn.edu
guggerj@seas.upenn.edu
Education:
PharmD (Pharmacy)
Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, College of Medicine, 2015.
PharmD (Pharmacy)
Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, 2006.
MD (Medicine)
State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, College of Medicine, 2015.
Post-Graduate Training
Resident in Psychiatric Pharmacy, The Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT, 2006-2007.
Intern in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2015-2016.
Resident in Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, 2016-2019.
Fellow in Epilepsy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020.
Resident in Psychiatric Pharmacy, The Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT, 2006-2007.
Intern in Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 2015-2016.
Resident in Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, 2016-2019.
Fellow in Epilepsy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2019-2020.
Certifications
Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2019.
Epilepsy, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2020.
Permanent linkNeurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2019.
Epilepsy, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2020.
Selected Publications
Emmert BE, Xie K, Conrad EC, Ghosn NJ, Bauman K, Korzun J, Kulick-Soper CV, Naveed O, Hartmann N, LaRocque JJ, Mindy Ganguly T, Gugger JJ, Raghupathi R, Gelfand MA, Davis KA, Sinha SR, Litt B, Shinohara RT, Ellis CA: Alcohol for seizure induction in the epilepsy monitoring unit. Epilepsy Behav 2024.Schneider ALC, Law CA, Gottesman RF, Krauss G, Huang J, Kucharska-Newton A, Jensen FE, Gugger JJ, Diaz-Arrastia R, Johnson EL: Posttraumatic Epilepsy and Dementia Risk. JAMA Neurol 2024.
Sinha N, Gugger JJ.: Towards a Patient-Specific Readout of Neurodegeneration: The Case for Spatial Normative Modeling in Alzheimer Disease. Neurology May 2023.
Panahi S, Kennedy E, Roghani A, VegaYon G, VanCott A, Gugger JJ, Raquel Lopez M, Jo Pugh M.: Veteran perspectives of epilepsy care: Impact of Veteran satisfaction, knowledge, and proactivity. Epilepsy & Behavior May 2023.
Gugger JJ, Sinha N, Huang Y, Walter AE, Lynch C, Kalyani P, Smyk N, Sandsmark D, Diaz-Arrastia R, Davis KA.: Structural brain network deviations predict recovery after traumatic brain injury. Neuroimage Clin 38: 103392, Mar 2023.
Ghosn NJ, Xie K, Pattnaik AR, Gugger JJ, Ellis CA, Sweeney E, Fox E, Bernabei JM, Johnson J, Boccanfuso J, Litt B, Conrad EC.: A pharmacokinetic model of antiseizure medication load to guide care in the epilepsy monitoring unit. Epilepsia Feb 2023.
Gugger JJ, Walter AE, Parker D, Sinha N, Morrison J, Ware J, Schneider ALC, Petrov D, Sandsmark DK, Verma R, Diaz-Arrastia R: Longitudinal Abnormalities in White Matter Extracellular Free Water Volume Fraction and Neuropsychological Functioning in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury. J Neurotrauma Jan 2023.
Gugger JJ, Walter AE, Diaz-Arrastia R, Huang J, Jack CR, Reid R, Kucharska-Newton AM, Gottesman RF, Schneider ALC, Johnson EL: Association between structural brain MRI abnormalities and epilepsy in older adults. Ann Clin Transl Neurol 2023.
Brennan DJ, Duda J, Ware JB, Whyte J, Choi JY, Gugger J, Focht K, Walter AE, Bushnik T, Gee JC, Diaz-Arrastia R, Kim JJ: Spatiotemporal profile of atrophy in the first year following moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Human Brain Mapping 2023.
Sloka S. Iyengar, Laura S. Lubbers, Lauren Harte-Hargrove, CURE Epilepsy Post-Traumatic Initiative Advisors, and Investigators: A team science approach for the preclinical and clinical characterization and biomarker development for posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE). Epilepsia Open 2023.