James Triplett

James Triplett

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

Adelaide Medical School

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Dr James Triplett: James is a first year PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.  James' PhD studies focus on the pathophysiology and neurophysiological markers of diabetic neuropathy including the association of abnormal sphingolipid metabolism in the development of diabetic neuropathy. He has published previously in neurophysiological techniques and a variety of neuromuscular and neuro-immunological conditions.

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2024 - ongoing Consultant Neurologist Flinders Medical Centre
    2023 - 2024 Locum Consultant Neurologist Royal Adelaide Hospital
    2022 - 2023 Locum Consultant Neurologist Royal Adelaide Hospital
    2021 - 2022 Consultant Neurologist Gosford Hospital
    2020 - ongoing Senior Clinical Lecturer University of Sydney
    2020 - 2022 Consultant Neurologist Concord Repatriation General Hospital
    2018 - 2020 Advanced Neurology Fellow Mayo Clinic
    2018 - 2018 Neurophysiology Fellow Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
    2017 - 2018 Neuromuscular and Neuroimmunology Fellow Concord Repatriation General Hospital
    2015 - 2017 Neurology Advanced Trainee Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
    2012 - 2015 Basic Physician Trainee Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
    2011 - 2012 Intern Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2011 - 2014 University of Sydney Australia Masters of Medicine
    2006 - 2010 University of Newcastle Australia Australia Bachelor of Medicine (Distinction)
    2003 - 2005 University of Sydney Australia Bachelor of Medical Science

  • Research Interests
    Neurology and Neuromuscular Diseases

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2024 Rudaks, L. I., Triplett, J., Morris, K., Reddel, S., & Worgan, L. (2024). ACBD5-related retinal dystrophy with leukodystrophy due to novel mutations in ACBD5 and with additional features including ovarian insufficiency. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A, 194(2), 346-350.
    DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC2
    2024 El-Wahsh, S., Morris, K., Limaye, S., Riminton, S., Corbett, A., & Triplett, J. D. (2024). Hypogammaglobulinemia and infection risk in myotonic dystrophy type 1. Muscle and Nerve, 70(5), 1034-1039.
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    2024 Klein, C. J., Triplett, J. D., Murray, D. L., Gorsh, A. P., Shelly, S., Dubey, D., . . . Mills, J. R. (2024). Optimizing Anti-Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein and IgM-Gammopathy Testing for Neuropathy Treatment Evaluation. Neurology, 103(11), e210000.
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    2024 Goh, R., Bellinge, J., Gim, H., Howson, S., El-Masri, S., Triplett, J., . . . Bacchi, S. (2024). Statewide neurology inpatient whole body and brain 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography utilisation patterns demonstrate avenues for optimisation. Internal Medicine Journal, 4 pages.
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    2024 Calma, A. D., Triplett, J., Vucic, S., & Yiannikas, C. (2024). Somatosensory evoked potentials: technique, interpretation and clinical applications. Practical Neurology.
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    2023 El-Wahsh, S., Triplett, J., & Yiannikas, C. (2023). Progressive Camptocormia with Head Drop and Dysphagia. JAMA Neurology, 80(2), 209-210.
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    2023 Oishi, T., Triplett, J. D., Laughlin, R. S., Hocker, S. E., Berini, S. E., & Hoffman, E. M. (2023). Short-Acting Neuromuscular Blockade Improves Inter-rater Reliability of Median Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Post-cardiac arrest Prognostication. Neurocritical Care, 38(3), 600-611.
    DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC1
    2023 El-Wahsh, S., Triplett, J., Robertson, A., & Yiannikas, C. (2023). Post-traumatic myasthenia gravis with head drop: insights into pathogenesis. Neurological Sciences, 44(9), 3347-3349.
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    2023 Nagaratnam, S., Harinesan, N., Wijesinghe, R., Wong-Doo, N., Lyons, A., Morris, K., & Triplett, J. (2023). Painless progressive mononeuritis multiplex secondary to AML associated neuroleukemiosis. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 377, 4 pages.
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    2023 Triplett, J. D., Lawn, N., & Edis, R. (2023). Teaching Neuro Images: New-onset focal epilepsy: The curious case of the camel and the jawbone. Neurology, 100(16), S36-S37.
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    2023 Shelly, S., Beecher, G., Milone, M., Liewluck, T., Ernste, F., Triplett, J., . . . Klein, C. J. (2023). Cancer and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy: a longitudinal referral case-controlled outcomes evaluation. Rheumatology (United Kingdom), 62(1), 281-289.
    DOI Scopus9 Europe PMC4
    2022 Triplett, J. D., Kutlubaev, M. A., Kermode, A. G., & Hardy, T. (2022). Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES): Diagnosis and management. Practical Neurology, 22(3), 183-189.
    DOI Scopus50 Europe PMC44
    2022 Triplett, J. D., Qiu, J., O'Brien, B., Gopinath, S., Trewin, B., Spring, P. J., . . . Hardy, T. A. (2022). Diagnosis, differential diagnosis and misdiagnosis of Susac syndrome. European Journal of Neurology, 29(6), 1771-1781.
    DOI Scopus20 Europe PMC15
    2022 Harinesan, N., Wijesinghe, R., Hayes, M., & Triplett, J. D. (2022). Cryolipolysis-associated radial mononeuropathy. Muscle and Nerve, 66(2), E6-E8.
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    2022 Dubey, D., Beecher, G., Hammami, M. B., Knight, A. M., Liewluck, T., Triplett, J., . . . Milone, M. (2022). Identification of Caveolae-Associated Protein 4 Autoantibodies as a Biomarker of Immune-Mediated Rippling Muscle Disease in Adults. JAMA Neurology, 79(8), 808-816.
    DOI Scopus18 Europe PMC8
    2022 Verma, R., Kumar, N., Patil, A., Kurian, N. C., Rane, S., & Sethi, A. (2022). Author's Reply to 'MoNuSAC2020: A Multi-Organ Nuclei Segmentation and Classification Challenge'. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 41(4), 1000-1003.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC5
    2021 Klistorner, A., Triplett, J. D., Barnett, M. H., Yiannikas, C., Barton, J., Parratt, J., . . . Graham, S. L. (2021). Latency of Multifocal Visual Evoked Potential in Multiple Sclerosis: A Visual Pathway Biomarker for Clinical Trials of Remyelinating Therapies. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 38(3), 186-191.
    DOI Scopus10 Europe PMC6
    2021 Triplett, J. D., Simpson, H. D., Clemmons, R. S., & Cascino, G. D. (2021). The effect of weight reduction surgery on the efficacy and tolerability of epilepsy pharmacotherapy. Epilepsy and Behavior, 124, 4 pages.
    DOI Scopus7 Europe PMC2
    2021 Nicolau, S., Milone, M., Tracy, J. A., Mills, J. R., Triplett, J. D., & Liewluck, T. (2021). Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy: Unusual presentations of a treatable disease. Muscle and Nerve, 64(6), 734-739.
    DOI Scopus16 Europe PMC4
    2020 Shelly, S., Triplett, J. D., Pinto, M. V., Milone, M., Diehn, F. E., Zekeridou, A., & Liewluck, T. (2020). Immune checkpoint inhibitor-Associated myopathy: A clinicoseropathologically distinct myopathy. Brain Communications, 2(2), 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus67 Europe PMC29
    2020 Triplett, J. D., Shelly, S., Livne, G., Milone, M., Kassardjian, C. D., Liewluck, T., . . . Klein, C. J. (2020). Diagnostic modelling and therapeutic monitoring of immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy: Role of electrical myotonia. Brain Communications, 2(2), fcaa191.
    DOI Scopus11 Europe PMC5
    2020 Triplett, J. D., Vijayan, S., Rajanayagam, S., Tuch, P., & Kermode, A. G. (2020). Pregnancy outcomes amongst multiple sclerosis females with third trimester natalizumab use. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 40, 4 pages.
    DOI Scopus26 Europe PMC11
    2020 Triplett, J. D., Pinto, M. V., Hosfield, E. A., Milone, M., & Liewluck, T. (2020). Myopathies featuring early or prominent dysphagia. Muscle and Nerve, 62(3), 344-350.
    DOI Scopus8 Europe PMC4
    2020 Triplett, J., Kassardjian, C. D., Liewluck, T., Tahir, A., Lennon, V., Kopecky, S., & Milone, M. (2020). Cardiac and Respiratory Complications of Necrotizing Autoimmune Myopathy. Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 95(10), 2144-2149.
    DOI Scopus18 Europe PMC7
    2020 Triplett, J. D., Khor, T. S., & Kermode, A. G. (2020). Recurrent upper limb neuropathies secondary to an epithelioid haemangioendothelioma – A rare mimic of nerve tumours. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 73, 326-328.
    DOI Scopus2 Europe PMC2
    2019 Triplett, J., Kermode, A. G., Corbett, A., & Reddel, S. W. (2019). Warts and all: Fingolimod and unusual HPV-associated lesions. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 25(11), 1547-1550.
    DOI Scopus36 Europe PMC14
    2019 Triplett, J. D., Pamphlett, R., Wang, M. X., & Yiannikas, C. (2019). Anti-SRP associated necrotizing autoimmune myopathy presenting with asymptomatically elevated creatine kinase. Muscle and Nerve, 59(3), E17-E19.
    DOI Scopus8 Europe PMC5
    2019 Triplett, J. D., Buzzard, K. A., Lubomski, M., Riminton, D. S., Barnett, M. H., Welgampola, M. S., . . . Hardy, T. A. (2019). Immune-mediated conditions affecting the brain, eye and ear (BEE syndromes). Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 90(8), 882-894.
    DOI Scopus26 Europe PMC9
    2019 Triplett, J., Vijayan, S., Prince, R., & Kermode, A. (2019). Dimethyl fumarate–associated transient bone marrow oedema syndrome. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 25(6), 876-879.
    DOI Scopus1
    2019 Triplett, J., Rigney, L., Hardy, T. A., Barnett, Y., Hayes, M. W., Barnett, M., & Reddel, S. W. (2019). Forearm-predominant parainfectious myositis. Muscle and Nerve, 59(2), E7-E10.
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    2019 Triplett, J. D., & Yiannikas, C. (2019). Multifocal neuropathy and treatment-induced neuropathy of diabetes following diabetic ketoacidosis. Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, 7(6), 357-360.
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    2019 Triplett, J. D., Lawn, N. D., & Dunne, J. W. (2019). Baclofen Neurotoxicity: A Metabolic Encephalopathy Susceptible to Exacerbation by Benzodiazepine Therapy. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 36(3), 209-212.
    DOI Scopus15 Europe PMC5
    2019 Triplett, J., Nicholson, G., Sue, C., Hornemann, T., & Yiannikas, C. (2019). Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IC accompanied by upper motor neuron abnormalities and type II juxtafoveal retinal telangiectasias. Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 24(2), 224-229.
    DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC3
    2019 Triplett, J. D., Robertson, A., & Yiannikas, C. (2019). Compressive Lateral Femoral Cutaneous Neuropathy Secondary to Sartorius Muscle Fibrosis. JAMA Neurology, 76(1), 109-110.
    DOI Scopus5 Europe PMC1
    2019 Triplett, J. D., Benarroch, E. E., & Cutsforth-Gregory, J. K. (2019). Pure autonomic failure presenting as Harlequin syndrome. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 220, 3 pages.
    DOI Scopus3 Europe PMC2
    2019 Shelly, S., Mills, J. R., Martinez-Thompson, J. M., Rofforth, M. M., Pittock, S. J., Mandrekar, J., . . . Klein, C. J. (2019). IgM-gammopathy strongly favours immune treatable MMN and MADSAM over ALS. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 91(3), 324-326.
    DOI Scopus8 Europe PMC3
    2019 Triplett, J. D., Hardy, T. A., Riminton, D. S., Chu, S. Y. K., & Reddel, S. W. (2019). Association between musk antibody concentrations and the myasthenia gravis composite score in 3 patients: A marker of relapse?. Muscle and Nerve, 60(3), 307-311.
    DOI Scopus7 Europe PMC4
    2019 Triplett, J. D., Lawn, N. D., Chan, J., & Dunne, J. W. (2019). Cephalosporin-related neurotoxicity: Metabolic encephalopathy or non-convulsive status epilepticus?. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 67, 163-166.
    DOI Scopus21 Europe PMC17
    2018 Triplett, J., Vijayan, S., MacDonald, A., Lawn, N., McLean-Tooke, A., Bynevelt, M., . . . Chemmanam, T. (2018). Fulminant Anti-GAD antibody encephalitis presenting with status epilepticus requiring aggressive immunosuppression. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 323, 119-124.
    DOI Scopus24 Europe PMC11
    2018 Triplett, J., Hee, G., McLean-Tooke, A., & Lucas, M. (2018). Long-term control of laryngeal plasma cell mucositis with systemic immunosuppression. BMJ Case Reports, 2018, bcr-2017-221333.
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    2018 Triplett, J. D., Yiannikas, C., Barnett, M. H., Parratt, J., Barton, J., Graham, S. L., . . . Klistorner, A. (2018). Pathophysiological basis of low contrast visual acuity loss in multiple sclerosis. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, 5(12), 1505-1512.
    DOI Scopus7 Europe PMC4
    2017 Triplett, J. D., Lawn, N., & Edis, R. (2017). Teaching Neuro Images: New-onset focal epilepsy: The curious case of the camel and the jawbone. Neurology, 89(17), e216-e217.
    DOI Scopus1
    2017 Carroll, G. J., Makin, K., Garnsey, M., Bulsara, M., Carroll, B. V., Curtin, S. M., . . . Lucas, M. (2017). Undetectable Mannose Binding Lectin and Corticosteroids Increase Serious Infection Risk in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, 5(6), 1609-1616.
    DOI Scopus8 Europe PMC3
    2012 Barraclough, A., Triplett, J., & Tuch, P. (2012). Brachial neuritis with phrenic nerve involvement. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 19(9), 1301-1302.
    DOI Scopus10 Europe PMC3

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2022 Varsha, S., Nasser, S. A., Bala, G., Kurian, N. C., & Sethi, A. (2022). Multi-Modal Information Fusion for Classification of Kidney Abnormalities. In ISBIC 2022 - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging Challenges, Proceedings Vol. 103 (pp. e210000). Kolkata, India: IEEE.
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2024. Royal Australasian College of Physicians Research Entry Scholarship recipient

2018. Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists overseas training fellowship – Mayo Clinic Rochester, 2018-2019

  • Committee Memberships
    Date Role Committee Institution Country
    2024 - ongoing Member ANZAN Neurophysiology committee Australian and New Zealand Association of N eurologists Australia
    2024 - ongoing Member Neuromuscular Society of Australia and New Zealand Education Commitee Neuromuscular Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia

  • Memberships
    Date Role Membership Country
    2018 - ongoing Member Royal Australasian College of Physicians Australia
    2018 - ongoing Member Australia and New Zealand Association of Neurologists Australia
    2018 - ongoing Member Neuromuscular Society of Australia and New Zealand Australia
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