Marcello Cherchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Physical Therapy/Human Movement Science, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago IL, USA.
OFFICE PHONE NUMBER: 312-274-0197
OFFICE LOCATION: Chicago Dizziness and Hearing , 645 N Michigan, Suite 410, Chicago 60611
EMAIL ADDRESS:mcherchi@dizziness-and-balance.com
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EDUCATION: PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago, and an MD from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Internship in internal medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and remained there for residency in general neurology.
In July 2007 he began a fellowship in neuro-otology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital under the mentorship of Dr. Timothy Hain. During his fellowship he is studying vestibular neurophysiology by conducting a project on vestibular evoked myogenic potentials.
Academic and Professional Honors
• Dean’s list, the College of The University of Chicago, 1989-1992
• Certificate for excellence in the German language, Goethe Institute of Chicago, April 1991
• Ph.D. dissertation defended with distinction, May 1996
• American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology, May 2003
Publications
Medical articles
1. “Gradual hearing loss with bilateral labyrinthine hemorrhage in chronic myelogenous leukemia” (with Eugene Huo, Nicole Nelson, Olga Frankfurt, Eric Russell and Jeffrey Raizer), Neurology 67(1):177-178, 2006.
2. “Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve syndrome (meralgia paresthetica, Bernhardt-Roth syndrome) secondary to ascites,” Resident and Staff Physician 2006;52(8):25-28.
3. “Provocative (special) maneuvers for vestibular disorders” (with Timothy Hain), chapter to appear in a forthcoming neuro-otology textbook edited by Scott Eggers and David Zee.
4. “An introduction to the neuroanatomy of language and its disorders,” chapter to appear in a forthcoming textbook by Bert Vaux (ed.), Contemporary Approaches to Linguistic Theory and Data.
5. “Pulse-synchronous pendular torsional nystagmus with unilateral superior canal dehiscence” (with Timothy Hain), under consideration for Neurology.
Books (non-medical)
6. Modern Georgian morphosyntax: A grammatico-categorial hierarchy-based analysis with special reference to ‘indirect verbs’ and ‘passives of state’, 350 pp. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997.
7. Georgian, in Ulrich J. Lüders (ed.), Languages of the World/Materials, no. 147, 62 pp. Munich and Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 1999.
8. Challenges in the investigation of cerebral function: Neuroanatomical substrates of language processing, 58 pp. Munich and Newcastle: Lincom Europa, 2000.
9. Disciplines and Nations: Niko Marr vs. his Georgian Students on Tbilisi State University and the ‘Japhetidology’/‘Caucasology’ Schism (with H.P. Manning), in William Chase, Bob Donnorummo and Ronald H. Linden (eds.), The Carl Beck Papers, no. 1603, 64 pp. University of Pittsburgh: Center for Russian and East European Studies, 2002.
Articles (non-medical)
10. “Yezidis” (with Stephanie Platz and Kevin Tuite) in Paul Friedrich and Norma Diamond (eds.), Encyclopedia of World Cultures, volume 6: Russia and Eurasia/China, pp. 407-11. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994.
11. “The feature geometry of modern Georgian harmonic clusters” in John Goldsmith, Salikoko Mufwene, Barbara Need and David Testen (eds.), Contemporary Linguistics, vol. 1, pp. 57-87. Chicago: The University of Chicago Linguistics Department, 1994.
12. “Verbal tmesis in Georgian” (Part I) in Domenico Silvestri (ed.), AION: Annali del Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico, Sezione Linguistica, vol. 16, pp. 33-115. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1994.
13. “‘Declensional paradigm’ transfer of appellatives with verbs of naming in Old Georgian: an instance of morphosyntactic analogy” in Howard Aronson (ed.), Non-Slavic Languages of the Soviet Union, vol. 8, pp. 45-66. Chicago: The University of Chicago Linguistics Department, 1996.
14. “Una contina logudorese-catalana” (with Paolo Cherchi) in Arrigo Castellani and Luca Serianni (eds.), Studi Linguistici Italiani, vol. 22 (1st of the 3rd series), fascicle 2, pp. 231-4. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1996.
15. “Verbal tmesis in Georgian” (Part II) in Domenico Silvestri (ed.), AION: Annali del Dipartimento di Studi del Mondo Classico e del Mediterraneo Antico, Sezione Linguistica, vol. 19, pp. 63-137. Naples: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 1997.
16. “Über das Nichtvorhandensein von Morphologisierung” in Heinz Fähnrich et al. (eds.), Georgica, vol. 20, pp. 70-82. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1997.
17. “La Divina Commedia in georgiano tradotta da Konstantine Gamsaxurdia e Konstantine Cicinadze” in L’Alighieri, vol. 10 (Nuova Serie), pp. 55-70. Ravenna: A. Longo Editore, 1997.
18. “Perché le gerarchie dovrebbero intersecarsi nell’analisi grammaticale” in Studi italiani di linguistica teorica e applicata, vol. 27, no. 2 (Nuova Serie), pp. 257-74. Pisa: Pacini Editore, 1998.
19. “An instance of Georgian verbal analogy in light of Manczak’s tendencies and Word-and-Paradigm generative formalism” in Helma van den Berg (ed.), Studies in Caucasian Linguistics, pp. 60-72. Leiden: Leiden Research School CNWS, 1999.
20. “The properties of certain classes of indirect verbs and passives of state in modern Georgian,” Languages of the World, vol. 21, 24 pp. Unterschleissheim and Munich: Lincom Europa, 2000.
21. “Variant order of surface segmentables on the border between morphology and syntax: The case of preradical verbal morphology in Kartvelian” in Rosanna Sornicola, Erich Poppe and Ariel Shisha-Halevy (eds.), Stability and Variation of Word Order Patterns over Time, in Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, pp. 187-202. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.
22. “A Note on Vico’s Typology of Language,” New Vico Studies, vol. 18, pp. 77-93. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 2001.
23. “Die ‘Divina Commedia’ in der georgischen Übersetzung von Konstantine Gamsaxurdia und Konstantine Cicinadze” in Heinz Fähnrich et al. (eds.), Georgica, vol. 24, pp. 84-100. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 2001.
24. “How many verb classes are there in Mingrelian?” in Dee Ann Holisky and Kevin Tuite (eds.), Current Trends in Caucasian, East European and Inner Asian Linuistics: Papers in honor of Howard I. Aronson, pp. 29-39. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003.
25. “Georgische Verbaltmesis und Wackernagels Gesetz” in Georgica, vol. 27, pp. 73-98. Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2004.