Dr. Yelin Biography
Dr. Karina M. Yelin is a second year fellow in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina . She graduated from Medical School in 1995 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and where she completed her residency in pediatrics. Dr. Yelin then was a visiting researcher and did clinical rotations at the Miami Children's hospital in Florida and at the St. Christopher’s hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After moving to the United States Dr. Yelin completed a residency in pediatrics at Monmouth Medical Center in New Jersey and completed a year in Neurology at New York Presbyterian - Cornell University Medical Center. She joined the NFRD in 2006 to specialize in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics with a focus on Lysosomal Storage Disorders.
Dr. Yelin has been trained in neurodevelopmental care of children with rare diseases and has a special interest in Mucopolysaccharidosis. Since she started her work at the Center she has been part of the evaluation team of 250 patients with Lysosomal Storage Disorders and she has followed approximately 35 children with Hurler Syndrome. Her research is on the neurodevelopmental outcomes of children with Hurler Syndrome who have received umbilical cord blood transplants. She has also reviewed all the literature available in vision problems in MPS syndromes and other genetic disorders that affect the cornea and retina and has reviewed available therapeutic strategies that can be applied to children with Hurler syndrome. In the next year she will be writing a manuscript summarizing her findings.
After she completes her fellowship, Dr. Yelin will continue working on advancing the understanding of Mucopolysaccharidosis through training, clinical study and research. One of her goals is to educate the medical community, allied health professionals and teachers to promote and ensure the well-being of children with rare diseases in USA.
Dr. Yelin is fluent in Spanish and her mother owns a school for children with intellectual disabilities in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Publications during her fellowship:
Escolar, ML, Yelin, K, Poe, MD. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Children with Infantile Krabbe Disease Treated with Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation: 10 Years of Follow-up. Lysosomal Storage Disease J.2006 Sep.
Other Publications
Perea A, Meyer K, Paez J, Yelin K, Birchansky SB, Jayakar P, Alfonso I. Canavan Disease in a patient of African origin. International Pediatrics.1999 Feb;14(2): 111-3.
Ma Y, Yelin K, Perea A, Meyer K,Jayakar P, Altman NR, Soliz AF, Alfonso I. Germinolytic Cysts and Partial Albinism in Neonatal Generalized Glutathione Synthetase Deficiency. International Pediatrics. 1999 May; 14(2):22-4
Alfonso I, Alvarez L, Yelin K, Gilman JT, Estrada F. Doses of Intravenous Valproic Acid in a neonate. International Pediatrics. 1999 Jun; 14(14):52-3.
Yelin K, Alfonso I, Papazian O. Syndrome of Ohtahara. Rev Neurol. 1999. Aug 16-31; 29(4): 340-2.
Alfonso I, Alvarez LA, Gilman J, Dunoyer C, Yelin K, Papazian O. Intravenous valproate dosing in neonates. J Child Neurol.2000 Dec; 15(12): 827-9.
Alfonso I, Prieto G, Vasconcellos E, Aref K, Pacheco E, Yelin K. Internal carotid artery thrombus: an underdiagnosed source of brain emboli in neonates? J Child Neurol.2001 Jun; 16(6): 446-7.
Alfonso I, Jayakar P, Yelin K, Dunoyer C, Papazian O, Vasconcellos E, Valeron NM. Continuous-display four-channel electroencephalographic monitoring in the evaluation of neonates with paroxysmal motor events. J Child Neurol. 2001 Aug; 16(11):857.
Krolczyk S, Pacheco E, Valencia P, Papazian O, Yelin K, Alfonso I. Opsoclonus: an early sign of neonatal herpes encephalitis. J Child Neurol. 2003 May;18(5):356-8.
Katsetos CD, MD, PhD,MRCP,Reddy G, MS, Draberova E,PhD, Smejkalova B,PhD,Del Valle L,MD, Qazi A,MD,Tadevosyan A, MD, Yelin K, MD,Maraziotis T, MD,Mishra P, PhD,Mork S,MD,PhD, Legido MD, PhD, Nissanov,PhD, Baas, PhD,Chadarevain, MD,FRCPC, Draber P,PhD, Altered Cellular Distribution and Subcellular Sorting of gamma tubulin in diffuse astrocytic gliomas and human glioblastoma Cell Lines suggest centrosome protein amplification. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2006 May;65(5):465-77.
Valencia I, Legido A, Yelin K, Khurana D, Kothare SV, Katsetos CD. Anomalous inhibitory circuits in cortical tubers of human tuberous sclerosis complex associated with refractory epilepsy: aberrant expression of parvalbumin and calbindin-D28k in dysplastic cortex. J Child Neurol. 2006 Dec;21(12):1058-63.