Faculty of Medical Sciences

Bio

Dr. Sean Marquez MBBS, FRCPC, FAANEM, FAAN.
Dr. Marquez is a Senior Associate Lecturer in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.  He is a consultant neurologist and is the medical director of The Diagnostic Clinic Neurology Center and runs a Neurophysiology Lab there. 
Dr. Marquez is a 1986 medical graduate of the University of the West Indies.  He completed a Neurology residency in 1992, followed by an Epilepsy/EEG fellowship in 1993, both at the University of Toronto.  He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (Neurology) in 1993.  He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN) in 2017.
Dr. Marquez is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and an active member of the Canadian Neurological Society. 
Dr. Marquez is also a Fellow of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ABEM), with board-certification in electromyography and electrodiagnostic testing in 1997 by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Qualifications

• MBBS, University of the West Indies, 1986.
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, FRCP(C), University of Toronto, 1993.
• Diplomate of the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine (ABEM) 1997.
• Fellow of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine, FAANEM, 1997.
• Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, FAAN, 2017.

Teaching Areas

Teaching Clinical Neurology to Final Year 5 Medical Students in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, UWI, Cave Hill.
Teaching Clinical Neurology to medical residents in the DM Internal Medicine program of the University of the West Indies.
Teaching Clinical Neurology to psychiatry residents in the DM Psychiatry program of the University of the West Indies.

Publications

1. Flower C, Hambleton I, Corbin D, Marquez S, Edghill R. The spectrum of neuropsychiatric lupus in a Black Caribbean population: a report of the Barbados National Lupus Registry. Lupus 2017, 26 (10): 1034-1041. https:// doi.org/ 10.1177/0961203317692431.
2. Flower C, Gaskin D, Marquez S. A case of recurrent rash and leg numbness mimicking systemic rheumatic disease: The occurrence of leprosy in a non-endemic area. J Clin Rheumatol. 2007 June; 13 (3): 143-5.
3. Marquez MS. Multiple brain gas embolism after injection of concentrated hydrogen peroxide.  Neurology 1997; 49(5): 1477-1478.
4. Marquez MS, Bruni J.  The Therapeutic Management of Epilepsy.  Can Jour of Diagnosis            1996; 13: 93-105.
5. Marquez MS, Turley J, Peters J.  Peripheral neuropathy in burn patients.  Brain 1993; 116: 471-483

Keywords

Neurology; Epilepsy; Neuromuscular medicine.