Traumatic Brain Injury Intracerebral Hemorrhage Coma Seizures Brain Imaging (PET and MRI) Stroke
Additional Information
Associate Professor In Residence of Neurosurgery and Neurology and Director of the Neurocritical Care Program. As a neurointensive care specialist, Dr. Vespa focuses on critical care for the treatment of neurosurgical and stroke patients. Dr. Vespa is a Diplomate of the UCNS in Neurocritical Care and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pyschiatry and Neurology.
HOSPITAL POSITION
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine
Director of Neurocritical Care
MEMBERSHIP, MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS
University of California Brain Injury Association
National Stroke Association
American Heart Association - Section on Stroke
NACABI Founding Member, North American Consortium of Acute Brain Injury
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
AAN Section of Emergency and Critical Care Neurology
AAN Section on Clinical Neurophysiology
AAN Section on Stroke
Society of Critical Care Medicine
California Chapter of The Society of Critical Care Medicine
Board of Directors of Unified Council of Neurologic Subspecialities
SCCM Neuroscience Award Winner
Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine
Publications
Vespa, PM, Miller, C, McArthur, D, Eliseo, M, Etchepare, M, Hirt, D, Glenn, TC, Martin, N, Hovda, DA. Nonconvulsive electrographic seizures after traumatic brain injury result in a delayed, prolonged increase in intracranial pressure and metabolic crisis. Crit Care Medicine 35:1-7, 2007.
Miller, C, Vespa, P, Saver, J, Kidwell, C, Carmichael, ST, Alger, JR, Frazee, J, Starkman, S, Martin, NA. Image Guided Endoscopic Evacuation of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Surgical Neurology 2008 69:5 (E pub ahead) Marcoux, J, McArthur, J, Miller, C, Glenn, TC, Villablanca , JP, Martin, NA, Hovda, DA, Alger, JR, Vespa, PM. Persistent metabolic crisis as measured by elevated cerebral microdialysis lactate-pyruvate ratio predicts chronic frontal lobe brain atrophy after traumatic brain injury. Crit Care Medicine (in press 2008)
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