Education and Training

University of California, San Diego, CA
Resident Psychiatrist (2020-2024)

University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Doctor of Medicine (2020)

Columbia University, NY
Neuroscience Researcher (2010-2014)

Haverford College, PA
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (2010)

Honors and Awards

Top 98th Percentile Psychiatry Boards Exam (2024)

Senior Resident Teaching Excellence Award, UCSD Psychiatry Residency (2024)

Intern Teaching Excellence Award, UCSD Psychiatry Residency (2021)

Intern Best Clinician Award, UCSD Psychiatry Residency (2021)

Teaching Fellowship, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2019)

Vital Signs Award for Fiction, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (2019)

National Research Service Award, DGSOM at UCLA (2014-2018)

Phi Beta Kappa (2010)

Publications

Amendolara, B., Gil, O., Lei, L., Ivkovic, S., Bruce, J., Canoll, P ., Rosenfeld, S. A Clinically Available Inhibitor of Rho Kinase Blocks Glioma Dispersion in Vitro and in Vivo. Neuro-Oncology. 2011.

Carminucci, A., Amendolara, B., Leung, R., Lei, L., Canoll, P ., Bruce, J.. Convection Enhanced Delivery of Topoisomerase Inhibitors in a Murine Glioma Model. Neuro-Oncology. 2012.

Shuman, T ., Amendolara, B., Golshani, P .. Theta Rhythmopathy as a Cause of Cognitive Disability in TLE. Epilepsy Currents. 2017, Mar; 17(2): 107-111. 

Sims, J.S., Grinshpun, B., Amendolara, B.I., Shen, Y ., Canoll, P .D., Sims, P .A., Bruce, J.N.. Tumor-associated T cell receptor repertoires in low- and high-grade gliomas. Journal for Immuno Therapy of Cancer. 2016, Jun; 113(25): E3529-37.

Sonabend, A., Carminucci, A.S., Amendolara, B., Bansal, M., Leung, R., Lei, L., Realubit, R., Li, H., Karan, C., Yun, J., Showers, C., Rothcock, R., O, J., Califano, A., Canoll, P ., Bruce, J.N.. Convection-enhanced delivery of etoposide is effective against murine proneural glioblastoma. Neuro-Oncology. 2014, Sep; 16(9): 1210-1219.

Sonabend, A.M., Carminucci, A.S., Amendolara, B., Bansal, M., Praver, M., Realubit, R., Li, H., Karan, C., Banu, M., Lei, L., Califano, A., Canoll, P ., Bruce, J.. Topoisomerase II in Proneural Gliomas, A Modulator of Transcription and a Therapeutic Target. Neuro-Oncology. 2014.

Sims, J., Grinshpun, B., Feng, Y ., Amendolara, B., Shen, Y ., Canoll, P ., Sims, P ., Bruce, J. High Throughput Sequencing of Tumor-Associated T Cell Receptors in Human and Murine Glioma. Neuro-Oncology. 2013.

Rosenfeld, S.S., Venere, M., Lammerding, J., Ivkovic, S., Amendolara, B., Crish, J., Picariello, H., Rich, J., Canoll, P . Molecular Motors as Novel Targets to Block Glioma Dispersion and Proliferation. Neuro-Oncology. 2014.

Gonzalez, C., Sims, J.S., Hornstein, N., Mela, A., Garcia, F ., Lei, L., Gass, D.A., Amendolara, B., Bruce, J.N., Canoll, P ., Sims, P .A.. Ribosome Profiling Reveals a Cell- Type-Specific Translational Landscape in Brain Tumors. Journal of Neuroscience. 2014.

Sims, J., Grinshpun, B., Feng, Y ., Neira, J., Samanamud, J., Amendolara, B., Canoll, P ., Sims, P ., Shen, Y ., Bruce, J. Divergence of Intratumoral and Systemic T Cell Repertoires Reflects Local Monocyte Profiles During Glioma Progressoin. Neuro-Oncology. 2014.

Sonabend, A.M., Bansal, M., Guarnieri, P ., Lei, L., Amendolara, B., Soderquist, C., Leung, R., Yun, J., Kennedy, B., Sisti, J., Bruce, S., Bruce, R., Shakya, R., Luwig, T ., Rosenfeld, S., Sims, P .A., Bruce, J.N., Califano, A., Canoll, P .. The Transcriptional Regulatory Network of Proneural Glioma Determines the Genetic Alterations Selected during Tumor Progression. Cancer Research. 2014.

Hopkins, B.D., Fine, B., Steinbach, N., Dendy, M., Rapp, Z., Shaw, J., Pappas, K., Yu, J.S., Hodakoski, C., Mense, S., Klein, J., Pegno, S., Sulis M-L., Goldstein, H., Amendolara, B., Lei, L., Maurer, M., Bruce, J., Canoll, P ., Hibshoosh, H., Parsons, R.. A Secreted PTEN Phosphatase That Enters Cells to Alter Signaling and Survival. Science. 2013.