Leadership
- Program Director
- Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program
- Associate Program Director
- Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program
- Department of Neurology
For Program Information
909 Walnut Street
Suite 300
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Research Experience
Research opportunities are available throughout our hospital and university network.
Prospective applicants are encouraged to form mentored relationships with individual investigators with oversight by program leadership. Each fellow must complete both sections of the grid displayed below. Our fellows are guided through the research procress by an identified mentor from development of a research question all the way through to manuscript production. The fellows’ progress is reported at monthly research meetings and this is also a forum to obtain advice from the group of all attendings about specific questions that arise during the research process.
You must fulfill both sections to graduate:
Section 1
Complete ONE full research project.
This includes:
- Proposal
- Write and submit an IRB
- Analyze the results with/without statistician
- Write a manuscript
- Submission to a journal (acceptance is not a reimbursement to graduate).
Section 2
Complete ONE full research project OR Complete three (3) of the five (5) below:
Step | This includes: |
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Complete a Case Report |
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Complete one Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) |
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Perform a Quality Improvement Project (QI) |
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Complete a Book Chapter |
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Complete One Review Article |
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Recent Fellow Projects
- Early predictor for tracheostomy in subarachnoid hemorrhage
- Neurogenic stunned myocardium in status epilepticus
- Epidemiology of status epilepticus and cardiovascular shock
- Significance of circulatory shock in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage and impact on case-fatality
- Echocardiographic changes in intracerebral hemorrhage
- Status epilepticus following cardiac arrest, as an independent predictor of in-hospital case fatality
- A comparison of outcomes in primary intracerebral hemorrhage patients who require decompressive hemicraniectomy