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Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
[email protected]
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health
Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Yonas B Keleta
Cell Phone1: 0944136184 (Ethiopia)
2213 St. Raymond Ave
Cell Phone2: (510) 452 7835 (USA)
Bronx, NY 10462
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://ainstein-africa.com/
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
 University of Texas at San Antonio, Doctor of philosophy in Neurobiology; Ph.D., Dec. of 2010
 University of Texas at San Antonio, Masters of Science in Biotechnology; MS, May of 2005
 University of Asmara, Eritrea, Bachelor of Science in Animal Science and Veterinary, BS, Sep.
of 1999
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CURRENT AND PAST PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
1- Advanced Researcher in Clinical, Biomedical, and Allied Health Sciences: Qualitative and
Quantitative Behavioral Research and clinical evidence Analyst: Clinical research on behavioral
intervention including for individuals and families who are impacted with autism and neurological
related developmental delays. My responsibilities primarily focused on qualitative and quantitative
data analysis and interpretations on the basis of data gathered from clients who are clinically
diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorders including autistic spectrum and Asperger’s
syndrome.
2- Doctoral Dissertation Mentor (chair and committee member): I teach doctoral dissertation
courses including: DOC/722, DOC/733, DOC/733A, DOC/733B, DOC/734, DOC/734A, and
DOC/734B.
These course works include comprehensive training and guiding the doctoral student with:
Dissertation Proposal for Quality Assurance, the Dissertation Project plan, Utilization of various
Procedures and Resources for dissertation thesis writing, the concept of Empirical Social Sciences
Research in accordance to the guidelines and standards of the American Educational Research
Association, The Quality Research Monitoring and the role of the Institutional Research Board.
3- Faculty/Lecturer: Qualitative and Quantitative Clinical Research and Statistics, Behavioral
Psychology, Evidence Based Research and Statistics in Business Administration, and Peer
Reviewed Research in Allied Health Sciences, University of Phoenix, Bay Area, CA, 2013; to present
(Contractual job):
 Psycholmetrics: This course is designed to train and educate students with the basic principles of
tests and measurements in psychology, utilization of several tools of psychological assessments,
and understanding the validity and reliability of various testing tools and test results with
respect to normative values. The course also trains the learner with various tests and
measurements that are specifically developed for cognitive, affective, and functional behaviors.
 Biopsychology, PSY-340: This course is designed to train and educate students with the basic
principles of biological systems, the structure and anatomy of the human brain,
neuropsychological diseases, and human behavior. The course also trains the students in finding
solutions for various neuropsychological and behavioral changes by utilizing case studies that
focus on damages or insults to the central, paraspinal, and peripheral nervous systems.
 Healthcare Research Utilization and Statistics, HCS-465: This course is designed to train and
educate students with the basic principles of peer reviewed scientific research and the underlying
statistical methodologies and experimental designs. Furthermore, students learn the basic
differences between qualitative vs. quantitative and descriptive vs. inferential approaches of
statistical analyses.
 Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Business Administration, RES-351 and QEN-351: These
courses are geared towards educating students in the field of business administration on the
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
[email protected]
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health
Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
basic principles of scientific research based decision making using the two major schools of
thoughts in research, qualitative (RES-351) and quantitative (QEN-351).
4- Surgical Neurophysiology Real-time Intraoperative neuromonitoring during several surgical
procedures. The technique is primarily geared towards patient safety and quality of surgery so that
surgical manipulations at the levels of the CNS and PNS would have no significant negative effect
on nerves, muscles, and other neural structures. Commonly, evoked or spontaneous potentials
including somatosensory, motor, electromyography, etc. … are obtained to test the integrity of the
neural pathways (both descending and ascending) during any given neurological procedure.
5- Peer Reviewer for Journal of Pharmacology, Chemistry, and Behavior. I have been
contributing as a peer reviewer for this journal for over 3 years now and I got the certificate of
recognition early in 2016.
6- Patient Care: consulting patients with chronic or acute pains that potentially emanate due to
several factors including nutrition, drug and alcohol abuse, peripheral nerve damage, and
paraspinal and spinal root damages
7- Neurodiagnostics (EMG and NCS): Assessed and studied various CNS and paraspinal related
diseases and disorders using some neurodiagnostic tools. My work primarily focused on
assessments of spinal and paraspinal nerve entrapments/damages and studying
neuropathological disorders using state of the art medical devices including Sierawave and
Neuromax.
8- Postdoctoral Research Fellow: University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX,
02/2011-06/2011: My postdoctoral research primarily focused on understanding the addictive
properties of drugs that are prescribed for pain medication. This was purely biomedical research on
therapeutic and addictive effects of canabinoids and opioids using animal model of reinforcement
learning and (non-human primates, monkeys).
9- Doctoral Research Fellow: Graduate research associate: University of Texas at San Antonio, San
Antonio, TX, 05/2004-2011: My doctoral biomedical research focused mainly on understanding
brain circuits of the acquisition of reinforcement learning and the addiction of psychostimulants
including METH and Cocaine using several animal models of operant conditioning (refer publications
page for details
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PUBLICATIONS
1. Keleta, Yonas B. and Joe L. Martinez, Jr. Brain Circuits of Methamphetamine Place
Reinforcement Learning: The role of the Hippocampus-VTA loop, Brain and Behavior, March
2012, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp 128-141.
2. Keleta, Yonas B., Augustus R Lumia, George M Anderson, Marilyn Y McGinnis: Behavioral
effects of pubertal anabolic androgenic steroid exposure in male rats with low serotonin, Brain
Res. 2007, Feb. 9; 1132 (1): 129-38
3. Keleta, YonasB. Neural Substrates of Methamphetamine Place Reinforcement Learning: The
Role of the Hippocampus-VTA Loop" presented to the graduate school of The University of
Texas at San Antonio for Doctor of Philosophy in Neurobiology, December 2010, published in
Proquest on 11/2010.
4. Keleta, Yonas B. "Depletion of brain serotonin in anabolic androgenic steroid treated pubertal
male rats: Behavioral and Neurochemical analyses" presented to the graduate school of The
University of Texas at San Antonio for Master's Thesis in Biotechnology, August 2005.
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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS
 Summer program in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Survival at the Marine Biological Laboratories
in Woods Hole, MA [2010]
 American Psychological Associations (APA), Diversity Program in neuroscience (DPN) predoctoral fellowship [2009-2010]
Yonas B. Keleta, PhD
[email protected]
Biomedical and Clinical Research Expert, Lecturer, Health
Science Educator, Neurobiologist, and Biotechnologist
 Med-associate sponsored award for attending a one-week workshop on Operant Conditioning
and Task Programming during the 2007 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Conference held in San
Diego, CA
 Minority Biomedical Research Support-Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (MBRSRISE), University of Texas at San Antonio, [2004-2009]
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INVITED GUEST SPEAKER AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
 Introduction to Intraoperative Monitoring Technology: Invited Guest Presenter, presented to the
Neurosurgery Unit of Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa University, (10/2016)
 Cerebral Palsy and its Impacts on the Society (Invited Guest for the Aaron Foundation, San
Jose, California, 5/2015)
 Brain Networks of Psychostimulant Reinforcement Learning: Drug abuse, Society, and Brain,
UOPx – Bay Area Campus (2013)
 The role of phosphoinositide coupled receptors on intravenous cocaine self-administration,
University of Texas at San Antonio MBRS-RISE & MARC-U*STAR fall 2008 research
Symposium.
 Chronic, Partial Depletion of Brain Serotonin on Anabolic Androgenic Steroids treated Pubertal
Male Rats Enhanced Aggressive Behavior, University of Texas at San Antonio MBRS-RISE &
MARC-U*STAR fall 2004 research Symposium
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 American Association of
Neurodiagnostics Technology [AAET]
 Society for Neuroscience [SfN]
 Society for Behavioral
Neuroendocrinology [SBN]
 American Physiological Society [APS]
 American Psychological Association
[APA]
 Biology, Behavior, and Chemistry [BBC]
society, Texas
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LIST OF REFERENCES
 Dr. Bhupinder N. Bhandari, MD. President and Owner of Mission Primary Care Medical Group
[[email protected]]
 Dr. Joe L. Martinez, Jr., Professor of Neurobiology at University of Texas at San Antonio, TX
[[email protected]]
 Dr. Musie, Ghezai; Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Texas at San Antonio, TX,
[[email protected]]
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