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Selected Publications

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2021 The Importance and Opportunity for Healthy Aging Through Lifestyle, Behavior Medicine Among Older Adults With Multiple Sclerosis: the Case Based on Physical Activity.  Current Treatment Options in Neurology.  23. 2021
2021 Neurology Electives: A Neurologist’s Guide for Excelling During Medical Student Away Rotations 2021
2020 Feasibility of improving dietary quality using a telehealth lifestyle intervention for adults with multiple sclerosis.  Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.  46. 2020
2020 Randomized feasibility trial to assess tolerance and clinical effects of lithium in progressive multiple sclerosis.  Heliyon.  6. 2020
2020 The Future of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis Therapies..  Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS.  37:S43-S49. 2020
2019 Protocol for a systematically-developed, phase I/II, single-blind randomized controlled trial of treadmill walking exercise training effects on cognition and brain function in persons with multiple sclerosis.  Contemporary Clinical Trials.  87. 2019
2018 Rationale and design of a single-blind, randomised controlled trial of exercise training for managing learning and memory impairment in persons with multiple sclerosis.  BMJ Open.  8. 2018
2017 Effect of Template Reporting of Brain MRIs for Multiple Sclerosis on Report Thoroughness and Neurologist-Rated Quality: Results of a Prospective Quality Improvement Project.  Journal of the American College of Radiology.  14:371-379.e1. 2017
2016 Symptomatic management of multiple sclerosis-associated tremor among participants in the NARCOMS registry.  International Journal of Ms Care.  18:147-153. 2016
2015 Prevalence and characteristics of tremor in the NARCOMS multiple sclerosis registry: A cross-sectional survey.  BMJ Open.  5. 2015
2014 Improvement of multiple sclerosis-associated tremor as a treatment effect of natalizumab.  Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.  3:505-512. 2014
2013 A retrospective review of lithium usage in veterans with multiple sclerosis.  Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders.  2:327-333. 2013
2011 Multiple sclerosis therapies in pediatric patients with refractory multiple sclerosis.  Archives of Neurology.  68:437-444. 2011
2010 Neurocognitive sequelae in African American and Caucasian children with multiple sclerosis.  Neurology.  75:2097-2102. 2010
2009 Candidate gene analysis of selectin cluster in patients with multiple sclerosis.  Journal of Neurology.  256:832-833. 2009
2008 Identification of soluble TREM-2 in the cerebrospinal fluid and its association with multiple sclerosis and CNS inflammation 2008
2007 Diagnosis and differential diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.  CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology.  13:13-34. 2007
2007 Higher IgG index found in African Americans versus Caucasians with multiple sclerosis.  Neurology.  69:68-72. 2007
2006 Elevated CSF free kappa light chains correlate with disability prognosis in multiple sclerosis.  Neurology.  67:1288-1290. 2006

Chapter

Year Title Altmetric
2017 Deimination in multiple sclerosis: The bad, the good, and the ugly.  317-336. 2017
2017 Women and neurological disability: End-of-life care and mortality in women with MS.  113-126. 2017
2006 Multiple sclerosis: An autoimmune disease of the central nervous system?.  95-112. 2006

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  • A Pragmatic Trial to Evaluate the Intermediate-Term Effects of Early, Aggressive Versus Escalation Therapy in People with Multiple Sclerosis (Traditional versus Early Agressive Therapy for Multiple Sclerosis (TREAT-MS) Trial  awarded by Johns Hopkins University
  • Comparative Effectiveness of an Exercise Intervention Delivered via Telerehabilitation and Conventional Mode of Delivery  awarded by SHEPHERD CENTER
  • Internet-Delivered Lifestyle Physical Activity Intervention for Cognitive Processing Speed in Multiple Sclerosis  awarded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH/DHHS
  • MS Clinical Care Physician Fellowship  awarded by National Multiple Sclerosis Society ^
  • Pilot and Feasibility Trial of a Telehealth Dietary Intervention for MS  awarded by National Multiple Sclerosis Society ^
  • Private Grant  awarded by BIOGEN IDEC, INC.
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  • Private Grant  awarded by NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION
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  • Private Grant  awarded by EMD SERONO
  • Private Grant  awarded by ABBVIE INC
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  • Private Grant  awarded by ALEXION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
  • Private Grant  awarded by Sanofi US Services Inc
  • Private Grant  awarded by Sanofi US Services Inc
  • SPRINT-MS: A Randomized Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability and Activity of Ibudilast (MN-166) in Subjects with Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (NN 102)  awarded by MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
  • Treadmill Walking Exercise Training Effects on Cognition and Brain Function in Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematically-Developed Randomized Controlled Trial  awarded by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH/DHHS

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    • Education And Training

  • Washington University School of Medicine, Internship
  • Washington University School of Medicine, Residency
  • Washington University School of Medicine, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Doctor of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia 2001

    • Full Name

  • John Rinker