Board-certified neurologist · Neurocritical care fellow
Understanding the critically ill brain through physiology.
I am a neurologist and neurocritical care fellow with a background in biomedical engineering and medical imaging. My clinical and research interests center on a basic problem in neurocritical care: the brain is difficult to examine when a patient cannot interact with us.
I study ways of getting more information from the physiologic signals we can measure continuously—including EEG, cerebral blood flow, oxygenation, and autoregulation—and how those measurements can be interpreted alongside the clinical examination.
A connected practice
The clinical examination tells us a great deal about the brain. In the ICU, it is often incomplete.
Sedation, mechanical ventilation, impaired consciousness, and severe neurologic injury can all limit what we can learn from a conventional examination. At the same time, critically ill patients generate enormous amounts of physiologic data.
My clinical and research interests meet at that gap: understanding what EEG, cerebral blood flow, oxygenation, autoregulation, imaging, and other measurements can tell us about brain function when the examination alone is not enough.
Neurocritical care
Care for stroke, hemorrhage, status epilepticus, traumatic brain injury, neuromuscular respiratory failure, and post-cardiac arrest brain injury.
Clinical practice → 02Neuromonitoring
Quantitative EEG, diffuse optical methods, cerebral autoregulation, and multimodal physiologic monitoring in acute illness.
Research program → 03Medical education
Teaching across resident, medical student, advanced practice provider, and critical care transport curricula.
Teaching & leadership →Selected scholarship
Recent publications
Recent work examines inflammation after cardiac arrest and the relationship between brain electrical activity and cerebral blood flow during ECMO.
View publications- 2025 · Journal of Intensive Care MedicineInflammation and neurological outcomes in cardiac arrest
Narrative review of serum biomarkers · Co-first author
- 2024 · Journal of Clinical NeurophysiologyqEEG–cortical blood flow correlations in ECMO patients
Multimodal evaluation with and without encephalopathy
- 2022 · Frontiers in NeuroscienceCerebral blood flow hemispheric asymmetry in comatose ECMO patients
Translational neuromonitoring research
Collaboration