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CONTACT INFORMATION:
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HOSPITAL AFFILIATION
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
10833 Le Conte Avenue, CHS 74-145
Box 956901
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6901

EDUCATION:
M.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, 2009
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis, 2008
B.A. Mathematics, College of Idaho, 2008

HRESEARCH AREA:
Combination of overnight ICP monitoring with CSF flow study to better predict patient response to shunt.

PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Papers

  • N. Gonzalez, R. Hamilton, A. Bilgin-Freiert, J. Dusick, P Vespa, X. Hu, S. Asgari. "Cerebral Hemodynamic and Metabolic Effects of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning in Patients with Subarachnoid Hemorrhage". Acta Neurochirurgica.
  • R. Hamilton, J. Dye, A. Frew, K. Baldwin, X. Hu, and M. Bergsneider, "Quantification of Pulsatile, Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow within in the Prepontine Cistern," Acta Neurochir Suppl, vol. 114, 2011.
  • F. Scalzo, R. Hamilton, S. Asgari, S. Kim, X. Hu. "Intracranial Hypertension Prediction using Extremely Randomized Decision Trees". Medical Engineering and Physics. in press, 2011.
  • X. Hu, R. Hamilton, K. Baldwin, P. Vespa, M. Bergsneider. "Automated Extraction of Decision Rules for Predicting Lumbar Drain Outcome by Analyzing Overnight Intracranial Pressure". Acta Neurochir Suppl, vol. 114, In press, 2011.
  • S. Kim, X. Hu, D. McArthur, R. Hamilton, M. Bergsneider, T. Glenn, N. Martin, and P. Vespa, "Inter-Subject Correlation Exists Between Morphological Metrics of Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity and Intracranial Pressure Pulses," Neurocrit Care, Dec 7 2010.
  • S. Asgari, M. Bergsneider, R. Hamilton, P. Vespa, and X. Hu, "Consistent Changes in Intracranial Pressure Waveform Morphology Induced by Acute Hypercapnic Cerebral Vasodilatation," Neurocrit Care, Oct 2010
  • M. Kasprowicz, S. Asgari, M. Bergsneider, M. Czosnyka, R. Hamilton, and X. Hu, "Pattern recognition of overnight intracranial pressure slow waves using morphological features of intracranial pressure pulse," J Neurosci Methods, vol. 190, pp. 310-8, Jul 2010.

Conference and Workshop Papers

  • R. Hamilton. P. Xu, S. Asgari, M. Kasprowicz, P. Vespa, M. Bergsneider, X Hu. "Forecasting Plateau Waves Based on Prescient Changes of Intracranial Pressure Waveform Morphology". IEEE Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2009.

Book Chapters

  • F. Scalzo, R. Hamilton, and X. Hu. "Real-time analysis of intracranial pressure waveform morphology", in Neurological Disorders:I-Tech Education and Publishing, 2011, ISBN978-953-307-799-4

Posters

  • R. Hamilton, J. Dye, F. Scalzo, X. Hu, M. Bergsneider. "Imoact of Shunt Treatment on CSF Dynamics within Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Population: a Phase Contrast MRI Study". European Association of Neurosurgical Societies, 2011, Italy
  • R. Hamilton, J. Dye, A. Frew, K. Baldwin, X. Hu, M. Bergsneider. "Comparison of Pre- and Post-operative intervention on CSF Pulsatile Dynamics in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus". ICP Conference, 2010, Tubingen, Germany
  • X. Hu, R. Hamilton, D. McArthur, P. Vespa, M. Bergsneider. "Predicting Gait Responses of NPH Patients to Extended CSF Lumbar Drainage Using Pre-Drain Overnight ICP Recording". ICP Conference, 2010, Tubingen, Germany.

Presentations

  • Hamilton R, "Quantification of Pulsatile CSF Dynamics in Patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus", ICP Conference, 2010, Tubingen, Germany.
  • Hamilton R, "Quantification of Pulsatile, Prepontine Cisternal Cerebrospinal Fluid Volumetric Flow ", ICP Conference, 2010, Tubingen, Germany.

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