Ken Tyler, MD
Neurology
Locations
Practice Locations
UCHealth Neurosciences Center - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct 4th Floor, Aurora, CO 80045720-848-2080
Provider Expertise
Specialties
- Internal Medicine ( 1983 )
- Neurology ( 1984 )
Conditions & Treatments
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Brain and Nervous System
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Infections
Education & Training
Medical Schools
MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1978)
Undergraduate Schools
AB, Harvard University (MA) (1974)
Internships
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program (1979)
Residency Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program (1980)
Massachusetts General Hospital Program (1983)
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Microbiology, Fellow
American Academy of Neurology, Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
American College of Physicians (ACP), Fellow
American Neurological Association, Fellow
American Society for Clinical Investigation, Member
American Society for Virology, Member
Association of American Physicians, Member
Infectious Disease Society of America, Fellow
Society for Neuroscience, Member
Research & Grants
Grants
Cellular genes and signaling pathways as therapeutic targets for viral CNS disease (2011)
Collaborative MS Research Center (2013)
Identification and evaluation of novel therapeutic targets for viruses-induced neurological disease (2014)
Mechanisms of viral induced injury in the brain and spinal cord (2016)
Identification and evaluation of novel therapeutic targets for virus-induced neurological disease (2018)
Referral Contact Phone
720-848-2080
Referral Contact Fax
720-848-2106
Clinical Interests for Referring Providers
My clinical interests include infections of the nervous system with a particular focus on viral infections including those causing encephalitis, meningitis or myelitis. Specific diseases include CNS infections caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV), West Nile virus (WNV), Enterovirus D-68, Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and acute flaccid myelitis (AFM).
Research Interest for Referring Providers
Pathogenesis of viral infections of the Central Nervous System. We have funding to study reoviruses, and flaviviruses including West Nile and Japanese encephalitis and are initiating studies on Enterovirus D-68 (which has recently been linked to cases of acute flaccid paralysis especially in children). We are involved in clinical collaborative studies of JC virus-associated PML and in the use of Next Generation Sequencing of human CSF and brain tissue to identify unknown or unsuspected pathogens causing human CNS infections.