Emory Neurocritical Care Faculty
Owen Samuels, MD
Director, Division Neuroscience Critical Care & Stroke
Director, Emory University Hospital Neurocritical Care Units
Professor of Neurosurgery & Neurology
Co-Director, Neurocritical Fellowship
Chair, UCNS Neurocritical Care Fellowship
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital
Medical Interests: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, outcomes, vasospasm, disorders of consciousness & brain death
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Neurocritical Care outcome projects, SAH clinical trials, SAH vasospasm research projects, topic reviews in neurocritical care
David T. Pearce, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Neuroscience Critical Care Fellowship Director
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital -- Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Post Cardiac Arrest Care, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Medical Education, Quality Improvement
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Medical Education for Fellows, Quality Improvement Projects
Feras Akbik, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology, Divisions of Neurocritical Care and Neurointervention Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Sites: Emory University Hospital, Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital
Medical Interest: Neurointervention, subarachnoid hemorrhage, vasospasm, thrombectomy, carotid disease
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Neurointervention projects with particular interest in hemorrhagic disease, thrombectomy research, neuroICU patient outcome database projects, clinical trial enrollment, vasospasm research projects and topical reviews
Casey Albin, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Division of Neurocritical Care
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital—Midtown
Medical Interests: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, Delayed cerebral ischemia, Continuous EEG monitoring
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: social media-based medical education, curriculum development, medical simulation, cEEG for delayed cerebral ischemia detection, shared decision making, case reports
Jane Gilmore, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital – Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Epilepsy, status epilepticus, education
Casey Hall, MD
Director of Quality, Division of Neuroscience Critical Care
Medical Director, Neuroscience Critical Care Unit (31 ICU),
Emory University Hospital, Midtown
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital – Midtown
Medical Interests: Improving quality of care in the Neuro-ICU, data analytic approaches, business innovation strategies, novel technology applications, subarachnoid hemorrhage, early brain injury, delayed cerebral injury, outcomes, neuro-infectious disease and infections in neurologic patients
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Quality and Performance Improvement Projects, Variability analysis in subarachnoid hemorrhage
Prem Kandiah, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Co appt. in 5E Surgical/Transplant Critical Care
Medical Interests: Cerebral edema in acute liver failure, hepatic encephalopathy, subarachnoid hemorrhage, noninvasive neuromonitoring, airway management & training; resuscitation; medical simulation; medical device innovation
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Neuroimaging studies in acute liver failure & hepatic encephalopathy; neurocritical care device innovation; topical reviews on hepatic encephalopathy and acute liver failure; medical simulation and basic airway training; hepatic encephalopathy database research
Jacqueline Kraft, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital – Midtown
Medical Interests: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, hypothermia, ultrasound
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Quality improvement projects, bedside ultrasound
Eric C. Lawson, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Division of Neurocritical Care
Emory University School of Medicine | Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Post-Cardiac Arrest Neuroprognostication, brain death, subarachnoid hemorrhage, medical education, point-of-care ultrasound
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Post-Cardiac Arrest quality improvement, social media based medical education initiatives, neuroprognostication database development
Caroline Maness, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Division of Neurocritical Care
Emory University School of Medicine | Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Medical Education, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Mechanisms of Ischemic Stroke
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Case Reports
Vishal Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital -- Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Glycemic control in neurocritical care, clinical trials, hypothermia neuroprotection, education
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Clinical trials, ischemic stroke, status epilepticus, ICH
Cederic M. Pimental-Farias, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital – Midtown
Medical Interests: Microdialysis, SAH, brain death,
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Quality improvement projects
Jonathan Ratcliff, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology
Clinical Site: Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Traumatic brain injury, intracerebral hemorrhage, status epilepticus, neuroprotection in acute ischemic stroke, prevention of cerebral edema, sedation strategies, coagulopathy, and clinical trial design and conduct.
Academic Opportunities for Fellows: Evacuation of hematoma after ICH (ENRICH); Allopregnanolone for super-refractory status epilepticus (STATUS); Established status epilepticus treatment trial (ESETT); Glyburide for prevention of cerebral edema (CHARM); Blood pressure management after thrombectomy for AIS, ENLS; Device design with GA Tech students; Review topics in neurocritical care
Ofer Sadan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Division of Neurocritical Care
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interests: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, delayed cerebral ischemia detection and treatment, systemic complications of neurological injuries, autoimmune encephalitis, acute kidney injury
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Patient database research, involvement in clinical trials
Erika Sigman, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Medical Interests: Cerebral venous thrombosis, traumatic brain injury and post traumatic vasospasm, point-of-care ultrasound
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Ultrasound curriculum development, medical student engagement research projects, social media-based medical education
Tommy Thomas, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery
Emory University School of Medicine
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital, Emory University Hospital – Midtown, Grady Memorial Hospital
Medical Interest: Bioinformatics
Academic Opportunities for Fellows: Bioinformatics
Adam Webb, MD
Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, Neuroscience Critical Care
Chief Quality Officer, Emory University Hospital
Senior Faculty Fellow, Emory Center for Ethics
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital
Medical Interests: Hospital Administration, Risk Management, Brain Death, Medical Ethics, Medical Errors, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Academic Opportunities for Fellows: Invited publications in ethics, patient safety and quality improvement, administrative shadowing, quality improvement and patient safety projects related to Neurocritical Care
Wendy Wright, MD, JM, FCCM, FNCS
Associate Chief Medical Officer, Emory University Hospital Midtown
Associate Chief of Clinical Service, Emory University Hospital Midtown
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Neurology
Physician Director, Emory Healthcare Board of Directors (2015-2019)
Clinical Site: Emory University Hospital Midtown
Medical Interests: Osmotherapy, neuromonitoring, brain death, patient safety, workplace safety, medicolegal issues (health care compliance, regulation, payment programs, alternative dispute resolution, etc.) physician advocacy, leadership development
Academic Opportunities for Neurocritical Care Fellows: Invited publications, neurocritical care review topics, medicolegal topics, career development
Other Emory Faculty with Overlapping Clinical Research Interests at Emory
Gustavo Pradilla, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Chief of Neurosurgery, Grady Memorial Hospital
Director, Cerebrovascular Research Laboratory
Medical Interests: Subarachnoid hemorrhage, translational research, animal modeling, intracerebral hemorrhage, ENRICH clinical trial P.I.
Academic Opportunities for Fellows: team leader for outcomes research in cerebrovascular disease utilizing departmental SAH and ICH databases supervising medical students and residents
Andres Rodriguez Ruiz, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology (Division of Adult Epilepsy)
Director of Critical Care EEG
Emory University School of Medicine
Medical Interests: Critical care EEG, quantitative EEG and machine learning for seizure detection, EEG for delayed cerebral ischemia monitoring
Academic Opportunities for Fellows: Publications, research design and project participation
David Wright, MD
Professor, Vice Chair for Innovation and Discovery
Director, Emergency Neurosciences
Director, Injury Prevention Research Center, at Emory
Department of Emergency Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Medical Interests: Concussion & traumatic brain injury, stroke, emergency neurosciences, clinical trials
Academic Opportunities for Fellows: Publications, research design and project participation.