Dr. Gravil Joseph

Professional experience:

10/19- to current: Locum Tenens

• Outpatient
• Provider for Children/Adolescent/Adult/Geriatrics
• Inpatient, crisis unit and Detox 

10/18- to current: Faspsych

• Telepsychiatry
• Provider for Children/Adolescent/Adult
• Inpatient, crisis unit and Detox

01/18- to 10/19: Coastal Mental Health

• Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Psychiatry
• Provider for Children/Adolescent/Adult

04/17-to 5/14/18: Staff Care/Centers @ Ocala, FL

• Locum Tenens Division, Advanced Nurse Practitioner – Psychiatry
• Provider for both Children/Adolescent

07/17-to current: Royal Life Centers @ Lacey, WA

• Drug & Alcohol Detox
• Telepsychiatry

03/17-to 7/17:  FCS, Inc. The First Choice in Psychiatric, West Palm Beach, FL

• Locum Tenens Division, Psychiatry nurse practitioner

02/14-to 4/17: Villa Maria Nursing Center, North Miami, FL

• Nurse Supervisor

12/14-to 4/17: South Florida State Hospital, Pembroke Pines, FL

• Psych nurse

06/13-to 01/16: Matrix , Miami, FL

• Home Health Care

08-2005-to 08/17:  Miami Dade College, Miami, FL

• Adjunct Professor in Science

08/13 to 3/14: Jackson South Community Hospital, Miami, FL

• ER Nurse

05/10 -09/11: City College, Fort Lauderdale, FL

• Adjunct Professor in Allied Health Science

2008 to 2010: State University Hospital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

• Psychiatry & Family Physician.

06/05-07/08: University of Miami, Miami, FL

• Post doctorate, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Spinal Cord Injury and Clinical Research in Skin Diseases

Research Internship and Clinical Clerkships

• Nursing at Jackson Memorial Hospital and Memorial West Hospital Miami and Broward, Miami & Broward, FL
• Advanced Nurse Practitioner Psychiatry at Jackson Memorial Behavioral Health Miami, South Florida State Hospital Pembroke Pines, Chrysalis Health Miami & Broward, Archway Health Broward, FL
• Medicine at Cook County Hospital, Jackson Park Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, IL and University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL

PAPERS:

Regular article Journal of Comparative Neurology

Combining Neurotrophin Transduced Schwann Cells and Rolipram to Promote Functional Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury: Gravil Joseph M.D.1+ , Govinder Flora Ph.D.1+ , Samik Patel B.S.1, Amanpreet Singh Ph.D.1, Drew Bleicher B.S.1, David J. Barakat B.S.1, Jack Louro M.D.1, Stephanie Fenton B.S.1, Maneesh Garg M.D., J.D.1, Mary Bartlett Bunge Ph.D.1,2,3, & Damien D. Pearse Ph.D.1,2,3*

Regular article Journal of Comparative Neurology

Implantation of Neurotrophin-Secreting Schwann Cells and Rolipram Administration for Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Repair: Govinder Flora Ph.D.1+ , Gravil Joseph M.D.1+ , Samik Patel B.S. 1, Gijo Alex B.S.1, Amit Patel B.S.1, Dominic Maggio B.S.1, David J. Barakat B.S.1, Jack Louro B.S1, Shantanu Neravetla B.S.1, Mary Bartlett Bunge Ph.D.1,2,3, & Damien D. Pearse Ph.D.1,2,3*

Regular article Journal of Neurotrauma

Suspension matrices for improved Schwann cell survival following implantation into the injured rat spinal cord: Vivek Patel, Gravil Joseph, Amit Patel, Samik Patel, Devin Bustin, David Mawson, Luis M. Tuesta, Rocio Puentes, Mousumi Ghosh, Damien D. Pearse1-2#.

Regular article Science

MEK-ERK activation facilitates supraspinal axon regeneration within the injured spinal cord: Gravil Joseph*, Bas Blits*#, Devin Bustin, Douglas Benson3, David J. Barakat, Jack Louro, Mario I. Romero3, Fred H. Gage4, Luis Parada3, Mary Bartlett Bunge1,2 and Damien D. Pearse1†.

Regular article Journal of Experimental Medicine

Fas-induced cell death as a major mechanism for transplanted cell loss within the CNS: Gravil Joseph*, Vivek Patel*, Daniela Garcia-Castillo, Andre Sanchez, Christian Andrade, David J Barakat, Samik Patel, Devin Bustin, David Mawson, Pantelis Tsoulfas, Damien D. Pearse.

ABSTRACTS:

1. Patel, V., Joseph, G., Patel, A., Patel, S., Bustin, D., Mawson, D., Tuesta, L.M., Puentes, R., Ghosh, M., Pearse, D.D. Suspension matrices for improved Schwann cell survival following implantation into the injured rat spinal cord. Journal of Neurotrauma, in press, 2009.
2. Pearse, D.D., Flora, G., Joseph, G., Fenton, S., Singh, A., Bleicher, D., Barakat, D.J., Louro, J., Garg, M.S. and Bunge, M.B., Combining transduced Schwann cells and cAMP elevation for the promotion of functional recovery after subacute spinal cord injury, International Society for Cellular Therapy, Miami, USA, 2008.
3. Flora, G., Joseph, G., Patel, A., Alex, G., Maggio, D.,  Barakat, D.J., Louro, J., Neravetla, S., Bunge, M.B. and Pearse, D.D., The implantation of neurotrophin-secreting Schwann cells and Rolipram administration for chronic spinal cord injury repair, International Society for Cellular Therapy, Miami, USA, 2008.
4. Pearse, D.D., Blits, B., Joseph, G., Mawson, D.H., Louro, J., Bustin, D., Benson, D., Parada, L.F. and Bunge, M.B., Constitutive activation of the MAPK pathway promotes regeneration after complete spinal cord transection, The 36th Annual Meeting for the Society of Neuroscience, Atlanta, USA, 2006.
5. Joseph, G., Blits, B., Mawson, D.H., Louro, J., Matheny, S., Benson, D., Lin, L., Parada, L.F., Bunge, M.B. and Pearse, D.D., Gene transfer of constitutively-activated MEK or ERK at the neuronal soma by adeno-associated viral vectors to induce axonal regrowth across Schwann cell bridges implanted into the completely transected rat thoracic spinal cord, Speaker at the 11th International Symposium on Neural Regeneration, Pacific Grove, USA, 2005.