Boris Gimbarzevsky, Bsc, Msc, MD, A.B.I.M.
705-1160 Burrard St.
Vancouver, BC. V6Z 2E8
borisg@unixg.ubc.ca
(604)-687-6871

Cirriculum Vitae

Current practice
General practice in Vancouver BC since 1996. Areas of interest are general internal medicine, psychopharmacology, primary care management of neurological diseases and in medical applications of computers.

Clinical Appointments
St. Pauls Hospital department of family practice

Postgraduate medical Training
1996 - Board certification American Board of Internal Medicine

1991-1995 Internal medicine residency, Vancouver BC
        - additional rotations taken in ICU/CCU as well as neurology research

1990-1991 Rotating Internship, St. Pauls Hospital, Vancouver, BC
        - general medical licensure obtained with BC College of Physicians, 1991

Education
1987-1990 MD, University of Calgary
1975-1978 MSc in Neurophysiology, University of Ottawa
1971-1975 BSc (Honors) in Physiology, University of Ottawa with minor in organic chemistry.
1968-2002 Self taught programming, digital electronics.

Employment Experience
1987-2002 Computer consultant

  • - have worked as technical consultant for Revenue Canada (SRTC computer related contracts), programmer analyst at UofC developing Macintosh based bone-age determination system and advised on design of systems for neurophysiology data acquisition.

    - extensive experience navigating internet and in advising physicians in locating/accessing internet medical resources.

    • 1979-1987 Research Associate, Dept of Pharmacology at UBC

  • - investigation of drug actions (primarily general anesthetics) on neuron membranes utilizing frequency domain analysis of voltage responses to injected stimulus currents.

    - complete design and implementation of all software and hardware to perform necessary frequency domain analysis using a multiprocessor system of 2 PDP-11 computers for data acquisition/analysis and MSP-3000 array processor utilized for non-linear least squares fitting of equivalent circuits to transfer functions.

    1969-1979 Varied temporary jobs which included timber cruising and tree planing in Northern Alberta, botanical survey in Nahanni national park (NWT), organic chemistry technician, organic chemistry teaching assistant, computer operator, programmer, bouncer at university pubs and freelance researcher.

    • Research Interests/Experience

    1999 - onward - Investigation of circadian patterns of heartrate rhythmicity in the objective diagnosis and management of psychiatric disease. This is being done in conjunction with HeartLink Canada Ltd.

    1993-2002 Computer applications in clinical medicine (ongoing)

    1988-1993 Development and clinical validation of a computerized data acquisition system for obtaining quantitative data on alternating two-finger tapping in patients and controls. This simple test has shown itself usefull in diagnosing, and monitoring progress of, Parkinson's disease (work done with Dr. D. Calne, UBC).

    1987-1994 Medical image anlysis including quantitation of schizophrenic CT scans, use of scanned knee radiographs for bone-age estimation . Most recently served as consultant to Dr. P. Cooperberg regarding formatting of digital ultrasound data and html coding for initial SPH Radiology www site.

    Foreign Languages
    Fluent in both Ukrainian and Croatian

    Publications

    (a) Papers
    (1) DURST, T., GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Isolation and characterization of a stable 1,2-oxathietan 2-oxide (ß-sultine). J. Chem. Soc., Chemical Communications pp 724-725 (1975)

    (2) MARSHALL, K.C., HENDELMAN, W.J., GIMBARZEVSKY, B., WOJTOWITZ, J.M. Synaptic transmission in organized cultures of cerebellum. In: Iontophoresis and Transmitter Mechanisms in the Mammalian CNS. Ryall and Kelly, editors. Elsevier/North Holland, Amsterdam. pp 221-223 (1978)

    (3) GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Electrophysiological studies of mouse cerebellum neurons in culture. MSc thesis. University of Ottawa, 1979

    (4) GIMBARZEVSKY, B., MIURA, R.M., PUIL, E. Impedance profiles of peripheral and central neurons. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 62: 460-462 (1984)

    (5) GIMBARZEVSKY, B., MIURA, R.M., PUIL, E. Membrane properties of trigeminal ganglion neurons in guinea pigs: frequency-domain analysis. The Institute of Applied Mathematics and Statistics: Technical Report no. 85-3, April 1985. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

    (6) PUIL, E., GIMBARZEVSKY, B., MIURA, R.M. Quantification of membrane properties of trigeminal root ganglion neurons in guinea pigs. J. Neurophysiol 55: 995-1016 (1986)

    (7) PUIL, E., GIMBARZEVSKY, B., MIURA, R.M. Voltage dependence of membrane properties of trigeminal root ganglion neurons. J. Neurophysiol 58: 66-85 (1987)

    (8) PUIL, E., GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Modifications in membrane properties of trigeminal sensory neurons during general anesthesia. J. Neurophysiol 58: 87-103 (1987)

    (9) PUIL, E., GIMBARZEVSKY, B., SPIGELMAN, I. Primary involvement of K+ conductance in membrane resonance of trigeminal root ganglion neurons. J. Neurophysiol 59: 77-89 (1988)

    (10) REMICK, R., GIMBARZEVSKY B. Manic reaction to lidocaine anesthesia [letter] J. Clinical Psychopharmacology 10: 442-443 (1990)

    (10) REMICK, R. A., SADOVNICK, A. D., GIMBARZEVSKY, B,. HUGGINS, M. J., LAM, R. W., ZIS A. P., BAIRD, P. A., Obtaining a family psychiatric history - is it worth the effort? Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 38(9):590-594 (1993)

    (b) Abstracts

    (1) MARSHALL, K.C., HENDELMAN, W.J., GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Characterization of brain stem neurons in culture. Soc. Neurosci. Abst. 3: 516, (1977)

    (2) MARSHALL, K.C., HENDELMAN, W.J., GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Electrical activity of brain stem neurons in organized cultures of cerebellum. Canada Physiology 10: 42, (1979)

    (3) PUIL, E., GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Complex impedance of trigeminal ganglion neurons. Proc. Xth Annual Banff Biomembrane Conference, Cowichan Bay, BC. November 12-14, 1982

    (4) GIMBARZEVSKY, B., PUIL, E. Complex impedance of trigeminal ganglion neurons. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol 61: Ax, 1983

    (5) GIMBARZEVSKY, B., MIURA, R.M., PUIL, E. Measurement of complex impedance by sine-wave analysis in trigeminal ganglion neurons. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 9: 233, (1983)

    (6) PUIL, E. GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Alterations in membrane electrical properties of trigeminal ganglion neurons during general anesthesia. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 10: 561, (1984)

    (7) PUIL, E. GIMBARZEVSKY, B. Voltage dependencies of membrane properies of trigeminal ganglion neurons. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol 64: Ax, 1986

    (8) PUIL, E. GIMBARZEVSKY, B., MIURA R. M. Frequency domain analysis of K+ channels in neuromembranes. ACEMB Proceedings (1987)

    (9) GIMBARZEVSKY B., PARTON D. Quantitation of two finger tapping: Clinical usefulness and validation of a simple bedside test. Presented at XXVI meeting of Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences, Halifax, June 1991

    (c) In preparation
    GIMBARZEVSKY, B., CALNE, D., PARTON, D. Decreased speed of alternating two finger tapping (AFT) in Parkinson's Disease (PD): Quantitation and potential clinical utility [to be either submitted for journal publication shortly or published online as a peer-reviewed online publication of NIH]

    (d) Online publications
    These are not peer -reviewed publications, but represent significant drafts of papers which would be submitted to medical journals if I would ever get around to doing so. Many of these publications have been presented at conferences or various medical rounds. List to come shortly as need to put them at a URL where they will be available for a while and also assign each a unique identifier so that the "original" can be distinguished from altered copies.
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