Laurence Kinsella, M.D, FAAN Professor Department of Neurology & Psychiatry 1438 S. Grand Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63104 (314) 768-3878 kinsellj@slu.edu

Dr Kinsella is a native St Louisan who completed an internal medicine residency at St John's Mercy in St Louis in 1998, a neurology residency at Brown University in Providence in 1991, and a neuromuscular/EMG fellowship at Columbia University in New York in 1992. He is board certified in internal medicine, neurology, and electromyography. After his formal training Dr. Kinsella pursued his interest in neuromuscular diseases as a staff physician at the Mt. Sinai Hospital and Assistant Professor of neurology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1998, he became chief of the neurology service at Mt Sinai.

Dr. Kinsella returned to Saint Louis in September 1999 and joined the Department of Neurology as Director of Clinical Neurophysiology at Forest Park Hospital. He was promoted to Professor of Neurology in July 2005 and has been elected to the Best Doctors in the US in 2005 and 2006. He won the Teacher of the Year Award from the neurology residents in 2006.

His specialty interests include autonomic disorders, Small Fiber Neuropathy, Autoimmune and Nutritional Neuropathies and drug interactions. He has published and presented at international meetings on the therapy of nutritional, drug induced, and toxic neuropathies.

Dr. Kinsella currently sees patients at the Des Peres and Forest Park facilities.

Dr. Kinsella can be reached by email at: laurence.kinsella@fphstl.com or kinsellj@slu.edu

Intra-epidermal nerve fiber density in the skin of a normal subject.

Recent Publications:

Gorson KC, Herrmann DH, Thiagarajan R, Brannagan TH, Chin RL, Kinsella LJ, Ropper AH. Sunburn Syndrome: Small Fiber Ganglionopathy. Neurology 2007;68:A (accepted JNNP 2007)

Kinsella LJ. Virus Hunting in the 1930’s: Ralph Kinsella and St Louis Encephalitis. Neurology 2005;64:A162.

Kinsella LJ, Ali A. Radiation Lumbosacral plexopathy: A warfarin-responsive neuropathy? Neurology 2006;66:A340.

Zimmerman D, Ong S, Acharya AB, Kinsella LJ. Well’s Criteria, but not D-Dimer, Is Useful in the Diagnosis of Deep Venous Thrombosis on a Stroke Rehabilitation Service. Neurology 2007;68:A