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165 New offering at the 2022 NCS Meeting. This session entitled, "Promotions and the Pandemic: How to Navigate Academic Expectations, Critical Care Demands and 'Family' Responsibilities" was made available to all participants.
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24 59 Intern, Internal Medicine, MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, 2000-2001.
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28 6a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Vascular Neurology , 2017.
28 6f Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. - General Neurology , 2017.
28 10d Dr. Edward S. Cooper Leadership Development Program, a Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) - Wharton collaboration funded by the PSOM Office of Inclusion and Diversity and the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, 2019.
28 59 Diplomate of the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties - Neurocritical Care 2 21 C-Cert 2020, 2021.
28 54 American Heart Association - Advanced Cardiac Life Support , 2022.
28 55 American College of Surgeons - Advanced Trauma Life Support , 2022.
28 3c University of Pennsylvania Provost's Leadership Program 3c Office of The Vice Provost for Faculty, 2022.
28 97 Fellow, Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA , 2024.
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28 10d Dr. Edward S. Cooper Leadership Development Program, a Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) - Wharton collaboration funded by the PSOM Office of Inclusion and Diversity and the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, 2019.
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28 55 American College of Surgeons - Advanced Trauma Life Support , 2022.
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fa Pargol Balali, Lamya Ibrahim, Monisha A Kumar, Brett Cucchiara, Steven Messe, Scott E Kasner: Liberal Versus Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Meta-Analysis 20 Stroke Vasc Interv Neurol 4a 15(5), Aug 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1161/SVIN.125.001915.
b7 Fischer D, Kumar MA, Levine JM, Mendlik MT, Narva AM.: The miracle dilemma: demystifying a common challenge in neuroprognostication. 2 28 Brain Jul 2025.
e5 Smith CJ, Howard SD, Arena JD, Ghenbot YG, Ali ZS, Petrov D, Kumar MA, Schuster JM.: A prediction model of adenosine diphosphate inhibition among traumatic brain injury patients. 2 5f Brain Inj 11: 1-7, May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1080/02699052.2025.2502425.
152 Fischer D, Reyes-Estevez S, Law C, Ford A, Schwab P, Abella BS, Schneider ALC, Kumar MA. : Implementation of Specialized Neuroprognostication Consultation Program and Associated Provider Attitudes: A survey-based study. Resuscitation Plus 23, March 2025 Notes:
dc Kumar, MA and Nobleza, COS: Considerations of Health Equity in Neurocritical care: Healthcare disparities in Hypertension, Stroke and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy 2 23 CNNR 2025.
175 Kristen Nobles, Kyle Cunningham, Brianna Fecondo, Susan M. Closs, Kathleen Donovan & Monisha A. Kumar : Mobilization in Neurocritical Care: Challenges and Opportunities. Current Neurology & Neuroscience Reports Springer, 35(13), Dec 2024 Notes: Mobilization in Neurocritical Care: Challenges and Opportunities. 43 Nobles K, Cunningham K, Fecondo B, Closs SM, Donovan K, Kumar MA. 65 Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2024 Dec 26;25(1):13. doi: 10.1007/s11910-024-01399-y.
7a Monisha Kumar: NCS Podcast , "PERSPECTIVES: Dr Monisha Kumar, FNCS" 49 neurocriticalcare.org June 2024 Notes: Jun 12, 2024.
183 Schneider ALC, Ginestra J, et al. : The Complete Inpatient Record Using Comprehensive Electronic Data (CIRCE) project: A team-based approach to clinically validated, research-ready electronic health record data. Learning Health Systems May 2024 Notes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lrh2.10439.
701 Scott E. Kasner MD, Michael T. Mullen MD, Michael DeGeorgia MD, Spiros Blackburn MD, Donna K. George MD, Monisha Kumar MD, Steven Messe MD, Michael G. Abraham MD, Michael Chen MD, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez MD, Clark W. Sitton MD, Jan-Karl Burkhardt MD, Muhammad Shazam Hussain MD, Leonid Churilov PhD, Sophia Sundararajan MD, Yin C. Hu MD, Nabeel A. Herial MD, Pascal Jabbour MD, Daniel Gibson MD, Juan F. Arenillas MD, PhD, Jenny P. Tsai MD, Ronald F. Budzik MD, William J. Hicks MD, Osman Kozak MD, Bernard Yan MBBS, Dennis J. Cordato PhD, Nathan W. Manning MBBS, Mark W. Parsons PhD, Ricardo A. Hanel MD, Amin N. Aghaebrahim MD, Teddy Y. Wu PhD, Pere Cardona Portela MD, Natalia Pérez de la Ossa MD, PhD, Joanna D. Schaafsma MD, Jordi Blasco MD, PhD, Navdeep Sangha MD, Steven Warach MD, Chirag D. Gandhi MD, Timothy J. Kleinig PhD, Daniel Sahlein MD, Edgar A. Samaniego MD, Laith Maali MD, Mohammad A. Abdulrazzak MD, Krishna Amuluru MD, Deep K. Pujara MBBS, Faris Shaker MBChB, Hannah Johns PhD, Rami Moussa BS, Faisal Al-Shaibi MD, Kelsey R. Duncan MD, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris MD, Amanda Opaskar MD, Wei Xiong MD, Abhishek Ray MD, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani MD, Thanh N. Nguyen MD, Johanna T. Fifi MD, Stephen Davis MD, Lawrence Wechsler MD, Anthony Furlan MD, Cathy Sila MD, Nicholas Bambakidis MD, Michael D. Hill MD, Vitor Mendes Pereira MD, Maarten G. Lansberg MD, James C. Grotta MD, Marc Ribo MD, Greg W. Albers MD, Bruce C. Campbell PhD, Ameer E. Hassan DO, Amrou Sarraj MD, for the SELECT2 Investigators: Critical Care Decisions After Large Core Cerebral Infarctions: A Secondary Analysis From the SELECT2 Trial in Annals of Neurology has the following publication status: http://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27151 2024.
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132 Ehntholt, Daly, Mulvania, Kumar, Levine: A Novel Screen-Based Virtual Reality Tool for Teaching Brain Death Determination: A Pilot Study of The Virtual Reality Brain Death Determination Tool (VRBDDT). Critical Care Explorations 2026.fa Pargol Balali, Lamya Ibrahim, Monisha A Kumar, Brett Cucchiara, Steven Messe, Scott E Kasner: Liberal Versus Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: A Meta-Analysis 20 Stroke Vasc Interv Neurol 4a 15(5), Aug 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1161/SVIN.125.001915.
b7 Fischer D, Kumar MA, Levine JM, Mendlik MT, Narva AM.: The miracle dilemma: demystifying a common challenge in neuroprognostication. 2 28 Brain Jul 2025.
e5 Smith CJ, Howard SD, Arena JD, Ghenbot YG, Ali ZS, Petrov D, Kumar MA, Schuster JM.: A prediction model of adenosine diphosphate inhibition among traumatic brain injury patients. 2 5f Brain Inj 11: 1-7, May 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1080/02699052.2025.2502425.
152 Fischer D, Reyes-Estevez S, Law C, Ford A, Schwab P, Abella BS, Schneider ALC, Kumar MA. : Implementation of Specialized Neuroprognostication Consultation Program and Associated Provider Attitudes: A survey-based study. Resuscitation Plus 23, March 2025 Notes:
dc Kumar, MA and Nobleza, COS: Considerations of Health Equity in Neurocritical care: Healthcare disparities in Hypertension, Stroke and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy 2 23 CNNR 2025.
175 Kristen Nobles, Kyle Cunningham, Brianna Fecondo, Susan M. Closs, Kathleen Donovan & Monisha A. Kumar : Mobilization in Neurocritical Care: Challenges and Opportunities. Current Neurology & Neuroscience Reports Springer, 35(13), Dec 2024 Notes: Mobilization in Neurocritical Care: Challenges and Opportunities. 43 Nobles K, Cunningham K, Fecondo B, Closs SM, Donovan K, Kumar MA. 65 Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2024 Dec 26;25(1):13. doi: 10.1007/s11910-024-01399-y.
7a Monisha Kumar: NCS Podcast , "PERSPECTIVES: Dr Monisha Kumar, FNCS" 49 neurocriticalcare.org June 2024 Notes: Jun 12, 2024.
183 Schneider ALC, Ginestra J, et al. : The Complete Inpatient Record Using Comprehensive Electronic Data (CIRCE) project: A team-based approach to clinically validated, research-ready electronic health record data. Learning Health Systems May 2024 Notes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lrh2.10439.
701 Scott E. Kasner MD, Michael T. Mullen MD, Michael DeGeorgia MD, Spiros Blackburn MD, Donna K. George MD, Monisha Kumar MD, Steven Messe MD, Michael G. Abraham MD, Michael Chen MD, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez MD, Clark W. Sitton MD, Jan-Karl Burkhardt MD, Muhammad Shazam Hussain MD, Leonid Churilov PhD, Sophia Sundararajan MD, Yin C. Hu MD, Nabeel A. Herial MD, Pascal Jabbour MD, Daniel Gibson MD, Juan F. Arenillas MD, PhD, Jenny P. Tsai MD, Ronald F. Budzik MD, William J. Hicks MD, Osman Kozak MD, Bernard Yan MBBS, Dennis J. Cordato PhD, Nathan W. Manning MBBS, Mark W. Parsons PhD, Ricardo A. Hanel MD, Amin N. Aghaebrahim MD, Teddy Y. Wu PhD, Pere Cardona Portela MD, Natalia Pérez de la Ossa MD, PhD, Joanna D. Schaafsma MD, Jordi Blasco MD, PhD, Navdeep Sangha MD, Steven Warach MD, Chirag D. Gandhi MD, Timothy J. Kleinig PhD, Daniel Sahlein MD, Edgar A. Samaniego MD, Laith Maali MD, Mohammad A. Abdulrazzak MD, Krishna Amuluru MD, Deep K. Pujara MBBS, Faris Shaker MBChB, Hannah Johns PhD, Rami Moussa BS, Faisal Al-Shaibi MD, Kelsey R. Duncan MD, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris MD, Amanda Opaskar MD, Wei Xiong MD, Abhishek Ray MD, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani MD, Thanh N. Nguyen MD, Johanna T. Fifi MD, Stephen Davis MD, Lawrence Wechsler MD, Anthony Furlan MD, Cathy Sila MD, Nicholas Bambakidis MD, Michael D. Hill MD, Vitor Mendes Pereira MD, Maarten G. Lansberg MD, James C. Grotta MD, Marc Ribo MD, Greg W. Albers MD, Bruce C. Campbell PhD, Ameer E. Hassan DO, Amrou Sarraj MD, for the SELECT2 Investigators: Critical Care Decisions After Large Core Cerebral Infarctions: A Secondary Analysis From the SELECT2 Trial in Annals of Neurology has the following publication status: http://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27151 2024.
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