Omar Butt, MD

Omar Butt, MD

Neuro-Oncology Fellow

Hometown: Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania
Medical School: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Residency: Washington University in Saint Louis / Barnes Jewish Hospital
Research/Academic Interests: Neurologic Complications of Cellular and Immunotherapies, Neuroimaging, Neurodegeneration
Bio: When I am not at work, I enjoy exploring the vibrant food scene in St. Louis, restoring and modifying classic cars, a good movie or animation, or spending time with my family.

Selected Publications/Abstracts

  • Butt OH, Meeker KL,…, Ances BM. Network dysfunction in cognitively normal APOE ε4 carriers is related to subclinical tau. Alzheimers Dement. 2021 May 18. doi: 10.1002/alz.12375. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34002449.
  • Boerwinkle AH, Wisch JK, Chen CD, Gordon BA, Butt OH, …, Ances BM. Temporal Correlation of CSF and Neuroimaging in the Amyloid-Tau-Neurodegeneration Model of Alzheimer Disease. Neurology. 2021 Apr 30. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012123. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33931538.
  • Butt OH, Long JM, …, Ances BM, Schindler SE; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Cognitively normal APOE ε4 carriers have specific elevation of CSF SNAP-25. Neurobiol Aging. 2021 Jun;102:64-72.
  • Aguirre GK, Butt OH, …, Jacobson SG (2017) Postretinal Structure and Function in Severe Congenital Photoreceptor Blindness Caused by Mutations in the GUCY2D Gene. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 58(2):959-973.
  • Butt OH, Benson NC, Datta R, Aguirre GK (2015) Hierarchical and homotopic correlations of spontaneous neural activity within the visual cortex of the sighted and blind. Front Hum Neurosci. 9:25. PMID: 25713519
  • Benson NC, Butt OH, Brainard DH, Aguirre GK (2014) Correction of distortion in
    flattened representations of the cortical surface allows prediction of V1-V3 functional
    organization from anatomy. PLoS Comput Biol. 10(3):e1003538. PMID: 24676149
  • Butt OH, Benson NC, Datta R, Aguirre GK (2013) The fine-scale functional correlation
    of striate cortex in sighted and blind people. J Neurosci. 33(41):16209-19. PMID: 24107953
  • Benson NC, Butt OH, Datta R, Radoeva PD, Brainard DH, Aguirre GK (2012) The
    retinotopic organization of striate cortex is well predicted by surface topology. Curr Biol. 22(21):2081-5. PMID: 23041195