Vijayshree Yadav, M.D., M.C.R., FANA, FAAN

  • Professor of Neurology, School of Medicine
  • Director, OHSU Multiple Sclerosis Center, School of Medicine
  • Director, MS and Neuroimmunology Fellowship, OHSU Multiple Sclerosis Center, School of Medicine
  • Anne Middleton Foster Endowed Professorship in Neurology

Biography

Dr. Yadav is a board certified neurologist who received her medical degree in 1995 from SN Medical College in Agra, India. She completed her fellowship in neuroimmunology and multiple sclerosis at Oregon Health & Science University and Portland VA Medical Center in 2004. In 2004, she joined the OHSU Multiple Sclerosis Center and is a Professor in the Department of Neurology. She received her masters in clinical research in 2008 and in 2010 was appointed clinical medical director of the OHSU Multiple Sclerosis Center. She was appointed Director of the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Fellowship program in 2017. She was appointed as the Director of the OHSU Multiple Sclerosis Center in 2020.

Dr. Yadav's research interests include complementary and alternative treatment options for multiple sclerosis including dietary and life style changes as well as supplements such as lipoic acid and MitoQ. She has published several peer reviewed journal articles and presented her research at national and international meetings.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 1995, SN Medical College
    • M.C.R., 2008, OHSU
  • Residency

    • Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 2001
  • Fellowship

    • Neuroimmunology and multiple sclerosis, Oregon Health & Science University and Portland VA Medical Center, 2004
  • Certifications

    • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Memberships and associations:

  • American Academy of Neurology
  • American Neurological Association
  • Consortium of MS Centers

Areas of interest

  • wellness in MS
  • dietary factors and its role in MS
  • anti oxidants in MS
  • vascular risk factors in MS
  • provider education
  • patient education

Honors and awards

  • Fellow of American Academy of Neurology
  • Fellow of American Neurological Association

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Clinical and radiographic features of a cohort of adult and pediatric subjects in the Pacific Northwest with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD)

    Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
    1. Kayla Martin
    2. Priya Srikanth
    3. Anand Kanwar
    4. Julie Falardeau
    5. David Pettersson
    6. Vijayshree Yadav
  • A low-fat diet improves fatigue in multiple sclerosis

    Multiple Sclerosis Journal
    1. Emma Chase
    2. Vicky Chen
    3. Kayla Martin
    4. Michael Lane
    5. Lindsey Wooliscroft
    6. Claire Adams
    7. Jessica Rice
    8. Elizabeth Silbermann
    9. Christopher Hollen
    10. Allison Fryman
    11. Jonathan Q. Purnell
    12. Carly Vong
    13. Anna Orban
    14. Angela Horgan
    15. Akram Khan
    16. Priya Srikanth
    17. Vijayshree Yadav
  • Risk of new disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis who continue or discontinue disease-modifying therapies (DISCOMS)

    The Lancet Neurology
    1. John R. Corboy
    2. Robert J. Fox
    3. Ilya Kister
    4. Gary R. Cutter
    5. Charity J. Morgan
    6. Rebecca Seale
    7. Eric Engebretson
    8. Tarah Gustafson
    9. Aaron E. Miller
    10. Dennis Bourdette
    11. Vijayshree Yadav
    12. Andrew Goodman
    13. Michael Racke
    14. Robert Fallis
    15. Carlo Tornatore
    16. Myla Goldman
    17. Meena Kannan
    18. Subramaniam Sriram
    19. Joseph Berger
    20. Anne Cross
    21. Kottil Rammohan
    22. Zongqi Xia
    23. Thomas Leist
    24. Sharon Lynch
    25. Eric Klawiter
    26. Lilyana Amezcua
    27. James Bowen
  • Vascular disease risk factors in multiple sclerosis

    Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
    1. Manoj K. Sammi
    2. Allison Fryman
    3. Eric Baker
    4. Brendan Moloney
    5. Katherine Powers
    6. Randy West
    7. Frank Bittner
    8. Michael Lane
    9. Kayla Martin
    10. Yuliya Pepelyayeva
    11. Valerie C. Anderson
    12. William D. Rooney
    13. Vijayshree Yadav
  • Demyelinating Disease after Exposure to Tumor Necrosis Factor α Inhibitors

    Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
    1. Nicholas Stienstra
    2. Joel Horton
    3. Michael Lane
    4. Anand Kumthekar
    5. Nishad Sathe
    6. Christy Sunny
    7. Vijayshree Yadav
    8. Atul Deodhar
  • A cross-sectional survey of cannabis use by people with MS in Oregon and Southwest Washington

    Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
    1. Jessica Rice
    2. Andrea Hildebrand
    3. Rebecca Spain
    4. Angela Senders
    5. Elizabeth Silbermann
    6. Lindsey Wooliscroft
    7. Vijayshree Yadav
    8. Dennis Bourdette
    9. Michelle Cameron
  • Effects of Ibudilast on MRI Measures in the Phase 2 SPRINT-MS Study

    Neurology
    1. Robert T. Naismith
    2. Robert A. Bermel
    3. Christopher S. Coffey
    4. Andrew D. Goodman
    5. Janel Fedler
    6. Marianne Kearney
    7. Eric C. Klawiter
    8. Kunio Nakamura
    9. Sridar Narayanan
    10. Christopher Goebel
    11. Jon Yankey
    12. Elizabeth Klingner
    13. Robert J. Fox
    14. Shlomo Shinnar
    15. Daniel Ontaneda
    16. Claire S. Riley
    17. Jai Perumal
    18. Neil Lava
    19. Eric Klawiter
    20. Bruce Cohen
    21. Michael Racke
    22. Vijayshree Yadav
    23. Burk Jubelt
    24. Bianca Weinstockgutman
    25. Patricia Coyle
    26. Pavle Repovic
    27. Khurram Bashir
    28. Michelle Apperson
    29. Barbara Giesser
    30. Aram Zabeti
    31. Augusto Miravalle
    32. Sharon Lynch
    33. Silvia Delgado
    34. Valerie Suski
    35. Andrew Goodman
    36. Angela Flores
    37. Dana Dewitt
    38. Myla Goldman
    39. Harold Moses
    40. Qi Peng
    41. Ken Sakaie
    42. Sachin Jambawalikar
    43. Jonathan P. Dyke
    44. Hiroumi Kitajima
    45. Lawrence Panych
    46. Thomas Witzel
    47. Todd Parrish
    48. Rick Layman
    49. Xiangyu Yang
    50. Edward Kim
  • Rituximab for treatment of refractory multiple sclerosis relapses during pregnancy

    Multiple Sclerosis Journal
    1. Chris Hollen
    2. Jessica Rice
    3. Michelle Park
    4. Vijayshree Yadav
  • Cross-sectional survey of complementary and alternative medicine used in Oregon and Southwest Washington to treat multiple sclerosis

    Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
    1. Elizabeth Silbermann
    2. Angela Senders
    3. Lindsey Wooliscroft
    4. Jessica Rice
    5. Michelle Cameron
    6. Carin Waslo
    7. Anna Orban
    8. Emma Chase
    9. Vijayshree Yadav
    10. Dennis Bourdette
    11. Rebecca I. Spain
  • Spinal adhesive arachnoiditis mimicking sarcoid myelitis with nodular dural enhancement

    Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
    1. Grace Clark
    2. Elizabeth Silbermann
    3. Shannon Seals
    4. Jaclyn Thiessen
    5. Gary Nesbit
    6. Vijayshree Yadav
    7. Lindsey Wooliscroft
  • Oral lipoic acid as a treatment for acute optic neuritis

    Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical
    1. Julie Falardeau
    2. Allison Fryman
    3. Rohan Wanchu
    4. Gail H. Marracci
    5. Michele Mass
    6. Lindsey Wooliscroft
    7. Dennis N. Bourdette
    8. Charles F. Murchison
    9. William L. Hills
    10. Vijayshree Yadav
  • Effect of natalizumab on disease progression in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (ASCEND)

    The Lancet Neurology
    1. Raju Kapoor
    2. Pei Ran Ho
    3. Nolan Campbell
    4. Ih Chang
    5. Aaron Deykin
    6. Fiona Forrestal
    7. Nisha Lucas
    8. Bei Yu
    9. Douglas L. Arnold
    10. Mark S. Freedman
    11. Myla D. Goldman
    12. Hans Peter Hartung
    13. Eva Kubala Havrdová
    14. Douglas Jeffery
    15. Aaron Miller
    16. Finn Sellebjerg
    17. Diego Cadavid
    18. Dan Mikol
    19. Deborah Steiner
    20. Emmanuel Bartholomé
    21. Marie D'Hooghe
    22. Massimo Pandolfo
    23. Bart Van Wijmeersch
    24. Virender Bhan
    25. Gregg Blevins
    26. Donald Brunet
    27. Virginia Devonshire
    28. Pierre Duquette
    29. Mark Freedman
    30. François Grand'Maison
    31. François Jacques
    32. Yves Lapierre
    33. Liesly Lee
    34. Sarah Morrow
    35. Michael Yeung
    36. Michal Dufek
    37. Eva Kubala Havrdová
    38. Petr Kanovsky
    39. Ivana Stetkarova
    40. Marika Talabova
    41. Jette Frederiksen
    42. Matthias Kant
    43. Thor Petersen
    44. Mads Ravnborg
    45. Finn Sellebjerg
    46. Laura Airas
    47. Irina Elovaara
    48. Juha Pekka Eralinna
    49. Taneli Sarasoja
    50. Vijayshree Yadav
  • Lipoic Acid Stimulates cAMP Production in Healthy Control and Secondary Progressive MS Subjects

    Molecular Neurobiology
    1. Sarah E. Fiedler
    2. Vijayshree Yadav
    3. Amelia R. Kerns
    4. Catherine Tsang
    5. Sheila Markwardt
    6. Edward Kim
    7. Rebecca Spain
    8. Dennis Bourdette
    9. Sonemany Salinthone
  • Phase 2 trial of ibudilast in progressive multiple sclerosis

    New England Journal of Medicine
    1. R. J. Fox
    2. C. S. Coffey
    3. R. Conwit
    4. M. E. Cudkowicz
    5. T. Gleason
    6. A. Goodman
    7. E. C. Klawiter
    8. K. Matsuda
    9. M. McGovern
    10. R. T. Naismith
    11. A. Ashokkumar
    12. J. Barnes
    13. D. Ecklund
    14. E. Klingner
    15. M. Koepp
    16. J. D. Long
    17. S. Natarajan
    18. B. Thornell
    19. J. Yankey
    20. R. A. Bermel
    21. J. P. Debbins
    22. X. Huang
    23. P. Jagodnik
    24. M. J. Lowe
    25. K. Nakamura
    26. S. Narayanan
    27. K. E. Sakaie
    28. B. Thoomukuntla
    29. X. Zhou
    30. S. Krieger
    31. E. Alvarez
    32. M. Apperson
    33. K. Bashir
    34. B. A. Cohen
    35. P. K. Coyle
    36. S. Delgado
    37. L. D. Dewitt
    38. A. Flores
    39. B. S. Giesser
    40. M. D. Goldman
    41. B. Jubelt
    42. N. Lava
    43. S. G. Lynch
    44. H. Moses
    45. D. Ontaneda
    46. J. S. Perumal
    47. M. Racke
    48. P. Repovic
    49. C. S. Riley
    50. C. Severson
    51. S. Shinnar
    52. V. Suski
    53. B. Weinstock-Guttman
    54. V. Yadav
    55. A. Zabeti
  • Lipoic acid in secondary progressive MS

    Neurology: Neuroimmunology and NeuroInflammation
    1. Rebecca Spain
    2. Katherine Powers
    3. Charles Murchison
    4. Elizabeth Heriza
    5. Kimberly Winges
    6. Vijayshree Yadav
    7. Michelle Cameron
    8. Ed Kim
    9. Fay Horak
    10. Jack Simon
    11. Dennis Bourdette
  • MIF and D-DT are potential disease severity modifiers in male MS subjects

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    1. Gil Benedek
    2. Roberto Meza-Romero
    3. Kelley Jordan
    4. Ying Zhang
    5. Ha Nguyen
    6. Gail Kent
    7. Jia Li
    8. Edwin Siu
    9. Jenny Frazer
    10. Marta Piecychna
    11. Xin Du
    12. Antoine Sreih
    13. Lin Leng
    14. Jack Wiedrick
    15. Stacy J. Caillier
    16. Halina Offner
    17. Jorge R. Oksenberg
    18. Vijayshree Yadav
    19. Dennis Bourdette
    20. Richard Bucala
    21. Arthur A. Vandenbark
  • Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of the randomized double-blind phase II clinical trial of ibudilast in progressive multiple sclerosis

    Contemporary Clinical Trials
    1. Robert J. Fox
    2. Christopher S. Coffey
    3. Merit E. Cudkowicz
    4. Trevis Gleason
    5. Andrew Goodman
    6. Eric C. Klawiter
    7. Kazuko Matsuda
    8. Michelle McGovern
    9. Robin Conwit
    10. Robert Naismith
    11. Akshata Ashokkumar
    12. Robert Bermel
    13. Dixie Ecklund
    14. Maxine Koepp
    15. Jeffrey Long
    16. Sneha Natarajan
    17. Srividya Ramachandran
    18. Thomai Skaramagas
    19. Brenda Thornell
    20. Jon Yankey
    21. Mark Agius
    22. Khurram Bashir
    23. Bruce Cohen
    24. Patricia Coyle
    25. Silvia Delgado
    26. Dana Dewitt
    27. Angela Flores
    28. Barbara Giesser
    29. Myla Goldman
    30. Burk Jubelt
    31. Neil Lava
    32. Sharon Lynch
    33. Augusto Miravalle
    34. Harold Moses
    35. Daniel Ontaneda
    36. Jai Perumal
    37. Michael Racke
    38. Pavle Repovic
    39. Claire Riley
    40. Christopher Severson
    41. Shlomo Shinnar
    42. Valerie Suski
    43. Bianca Weinstock-Gutman
    44. Vijayshree Yadav
    45. Aram Zabeti
  • Low-fat, plant-based diet in multiple sclerosis

    Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
    1. Vijayshree Yadav
    2. Gail Marracci
    3. Edward Kim
    4. Rebecca Spain
    5. Michelle Cameron
    6. Shannon Overs
    7. Andrew Riddehough
    8. David K.B. Li
    9. John McDougall
    10. Jesus Lovera
    11. Charles Murchison
    12. Dennis Bourdette
  • The contemporary spectrum of multiple sclerosis misdiagnosis

    Neurology
    1. Andrew J. Solomon
    2. Dennis N. Bourdette
    3. Anne H. Cross
    4. Angela Applebee
    5. Philip M. Skidd
    6. Diantha B. Howard
    7. Rebecca I. Spain
    8. Michelle H. Cameron
    9. Edward Kim
    10. Michele K. Mass
    11. Vijayshree Yadav
    12. Ruth H. Whitham
    13. Erin E. Longbrake
    14. Robert T. Naismith
    15. Gregory F. Wu
    16. Becky J. Parks
    17. Dean M. Wingerchuk
    18. Brian L. Rabin
    19. Michel Toledano
    20. W. Oliver Tobin
    21. Orhun H. Kantarci
    22. Jonathan L. Carter
    23. B. Mark Keegan
    24. Brian G. Weinshenker
  • Complementary and alternative medical therapies in multiple sclerosis - The American Academy of Neurology Guidelines

    Clinical therapeutics
    1. Vijayshree Yadav
    2. Pushpa Narayanaswami