Melinda S . Burnett, MD

Clerkship Director, Neurology M3 Clerkship - Neurology Clerkship Site Director
Affiliate*

Associate Professor
Affiliate*

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Contact

MelindaBurnett@creighton.edu

Melinda S . Burnett, MD

Clerkship Director, Neurology M3 Clerkship - Neurology Clerkship Site Director
Affiliate*

Associate Professor
Affiliate*

Dr. Burnett is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska.   She is a movement disorders specialist, seeing patients with Parkinson’s disease, tremor, difficulty walking, ataxia, and other conditions that affect movement.  She also serves as Neurology Clerkship Director for the Creighton School of Medicine.
 
Dr. Burnett graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine.  During medical school, she spent an additional year completing a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship.  She then did her medical internship and neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where she served as chief resident.  After a movement disorders fellowship at Mayo, she did a movement disorders research fellowship at the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital in Brisbane, Australia.  After training, she worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and in the Mayo Clinic Health System in southern Minnesota before moving to Omaha and joining the Immanuel Neurological Institute in December 2017. 
 
Dr. Burnett is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society, the Association of University Professors of Neurology, and the American Neurological Association.  She has published research papers on Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders and is the recipient of a Melvin Yahr Early Career Award in Movement Disorders Research as well as the Creighton Medical School Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2019.

Teaching Interests

  • Neurology: Movement Disorders

Research Focus

Parkinson's disease, gait disorders, ataxia, dystonia, botulinum toxin injections, medical education

Department

Neurology

Position

Associate Professor

Publications

  • Neurology: Clinical Practice
    Paulus Jordan A., Burnett Melinda S., Three Adult-Onset Autosomal Recessive Ataxias: What Adult Neurologists Need to Know, p. 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000000947 - 10.1212/CPJ.00 2020
  • Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
    Kiefer Luke, Burnett Melinda S., Mudugal Dharani, Adam Daniel, Viral meningitis mimicking Benign Intracranial hypertension: A report of Two cases
    20, p. 100646 - 100646 2020
  • Parkinsonism & related disorders
    Matsumoto Joseph Y, Lee Kendall H, Stead Matt, Burnett Melinda, Adams Andrea C, Klassen Bryan T, Kim Minsoo, Duffy Joseph R, Strand Edythe, McKeon Andrew, Fossett Tepanta, Precise stimulation location optimizes speechoutcomes in essential tremor
    32, p. 60 - 65 2016
  • Parkinsonism & related disorders
    Cutsforth-Gregory Jeremy K, Ahlskog J Eric, McKeon Andrew, Burnett Melinda S, Hassan Anhar, Matsumoto Joseph Y, Bower James H, Repetitive exercise dystonia: A difficult totreat hazard of runner and non-runnerathletes
    27, p. 74 - 80 2016
  • JAMA neurology
    Burnett Melinda S., Witte Robert J., Ahlskog J. Eric, Swiss Cheese Striatum Clinical Implications
    71:6, p. 735 - 741 2014
  • Parkinsonism & related disorders
    Czarnecki K., Jones D.T., Burnett M.S., Mullan B., Matsumoto J.Y., SPECT perfusion patterns distinguish psychogenic from essential tremor
    17:5, p. 328 - 332 2011
  • Parkinsonism & related disorders
    Dickson Dennis W., Frigerio Roberta, Fujishiro Hiroshige, Orr Carolyn, DelleDonne Anthony, Josephs Keith A., Burnett Melinda, Parisi Joseph E., Klos Kevin J., Ahlskog J. Eric, Neuropathology of non-motor features of Parkinson disease
    15:3, p. S1 - S5 2009
  • Archives of neurology (Chicago)
    DelleDonne Anthony, Parisi Joseph E., Klos Kevin J., Fujishiro Hiroshige, Ahmed Zeshan, Josephs Keith A., Frigerio Roberta, Burnett Melinda, Wszolek Zbigniew K., Uitti Ryan J., Ahlskog J. Eric, Dickson Dennis W., Incidental Lewy body disease and preclinical Parkinson disease
    65:8, p. 1074 - 1080 2008
  • Movement disorders
    Fujishiro Hiroshige, Frigerio Roberta, Burnett Melinda, Klos Kevin J., Josephs Keith A., DelleDonne Anthony, Parisi Joseph E., Ahlskog J. Eric, Dickson Dennis W., Cardiac sympathetic denervation correlates with clinical and pathologic stages of Parkinson's disease
    23:8, p. 1085 - 1092 2008
  • Acta neuropathologica
    Dickson Dennis W., Josephs Keith A., Frigerio Roberta, Burnett Melinda, Parisi Joseph E., Klos Kevin J., Ahlskog J. Eric, Fujishiro Hiroshige, DelleDonne Anthony, Menke Joshua, Ahmed Zeshan, Evidence that incidental Lewy body disease is pre-symptomatic Parkinson's disease
    115:4, p. 437 - 444 2008
  • Neurocritical care
    Zubkov Alexander Y., Klassen Bryan T., Burnett Melinda S., Rabinstein Alejandro A., Bilateral internal carotid artery occlusions resulting in near total acute brain infraction
    7:3, p. 247 - 249 2007
  • American journal of epidemiology
    Burnett Melinda S., Strain Kari J., Lesnick Timothy G., de Andrade Mariza, Rocca Walter A., Maraganore Demetrius M., Reliability of Self-reported Ancestry among Siblings: Implications for Genetic Association Studies
    163:5, p. 486 - 492 2006

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