Research During Fellowship

Fellows are encouraged and expected to take part in research. They will be involved in major clinical trials in stroke, ICH, SAH, status epilepticus, TBI, and SCI. Datasets are available for analysis in multiple outcomes projects (SAH/ICH, ECMO, large hemispheric infarct, TBI).

Funded basic science labs in bioinformatics, translational neuroengineering, neuroinflammation/cerebral edema, and traumatic brain injury.

Current fellows have presented research at national conferences on the following topics:

• MFI-5 to Predict Outcomes in Patients with Large Hemisphere Infarction Syndrome
• Mono CT Predicts Malignant Cerebral Edema after Large Hemispheric Infarction
• Get Up, Stand Up: Pusing the Limits of Medical Management for ICP
• Glibenclamide Improves Neurological and Electrophysiological Recovery after CA
• Assessment of Trainees' Performance During AIS Simulation
• Heart Variability and Secondary Brain Injury in Large Hemispheric Infarct

Previous fellows have presented research at national conferences on the following topics:

• Hyperacute MRI after ICH
• Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity in non-traumatic brain injury
• Alarm fatigue in the neurocritical care unit
• Neuroimaging in ECMO patients
• Neurological complications and cognitive recovery in ECMO patients
• Optic nerve sheath ultrasound assessment of EVD weaning
• Utilization of continuous physiological monitoring to detect neuro-worsening in TBI and for determination of herniation in large hemispheric infarction
• Application of esophageal cooling for controlled normothermia after brain hemorrhage
• Use of albuterol for bradycardia in spinal cord injury
• Biomarkers of neuroinflammation in intracerebral hemorrhage