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Robert David Stevens, M.D.
Specializes in: Children (1-11 years), Adolescents (12-18 years), Geriatrics (55+ years), Adults (18+ years)
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Languages: English, French
Expertise: Critical Care Medicine, Epilepsy, Neurological Critical Care, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury
Research Interests: Traumatic brain injury; Stroke; Brain Mapping; Consciousness disorders
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Dr. Stevens serves as an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with appointments in Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology. He is fellowship-trained and board-certified in critical care medicine, neurocritical care, and anesthesiology. Dr. Stevens’ areas of expertise are critical care medicine, neurologic and neurosurgical critical care, neuroanesthesiology and neuroimaging. He treats patients with trauma and traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular diseases and stroke, seizures and epilepsy, and infections and immunological disorders of the brain. Following medical studies, Dr. Stevens received postdoctoral research training in molecular neurobiology, cellular electrophysiology, advanced magnetic resonance imaging, and brain mapping. He holds faculty appointments in the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering, Institute for Computational Medicine and the FM Kirby Center for Functional Neuroimaging. Dr. Stevens is the North American Representative on the Council of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and was the inaugural Chair of the Research Section of Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Thorax, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Critical Care Medicine, Neurocritical Care, and Frontiers in Neurology.
Dr Stevens’ vision is to deploy Precision Medicine for the benefit of critically ill patients. His research aims to discover and validate patient-specific biological signatures associated with trauma, surgery and acute conditions such as stroke, cardiac arrest, and sepsis. To achieve this, he engages with an interdisciplinary group of basic and systems neuroscientists, biomedical and computer engineers, biostatisticians, data scientists, and neuroradiologists. Dr Stevens is the principal investigator of the Neuroimaging for Coma Emergence and Recovery (NICER) project, which examines MRI features of the brain connectome to enhance classification and prediction in patients recovering from severe brain injury. Other projects from Dr Stevens’ group analyze features captured through neurophysiologic monitoring, structural and functional MRI of the brain, serum biomarkers and wearable sensors, with the goal of enhancing classification and prediction in vulnerable, acutel ill patients. In the lab, Dr Stevens’ group studies molecular and cellular determinants of injury and recovery in experimental models of traumatic brain injury, stroke, and sepsis, with a special emphasis on neuro-immunological responses and cellular regeneration.
Lab Website: Peter van Zijl Laboratory
Sair HI, Hannawi Y, Li S, Kornbluth J, Vanhaudenhuyse A, Laureys S, Chabanne R, Jean B, Benali H, Perlbarg V, Luyt CE, Galanaud D, Velly L, Puybasset L, Pekar J, Caffo B, Stevens RD. Early functional connectome integrity and one-year recovery in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. Radiology 2017; 162161. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2017162161
Hannawi Y, Lindquist MA, Caffo BS, Sair HI, and Stevens RD. Resting brain activity in humans with consciousness disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurology 2015;84:1272-128
Hinson H, Puybasset L, Weiss N, Perlbarg V, Benali H, Galanaud D, Lasarev M, Stevens RD, for the Neuro Imaging for Coma Emergence and Recovery (NICER) Consortium. Neuroanatomical basis of paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity: a diffusion tensor imaging analysis. Brain Injury 2015;29:455-61
Salluh JIF, Wang H, Schneider E, Nagarajan N, Yenokyan G, Damluji A, Serafim RB, Stevens RD. The Outcome of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Br Med J. 2015;350:h253
Schneider EB, Sur S, Raymont V, Duckworth J, Kowalski R, Efron DT, Hui X, Selvarajah S, Hambridge HL, Stevens RD. Functional recovery after moderate/severe traumatic brain injury: a role for cognitive reserve? Neurology 2014; 82:1636-42
Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering
FM Kirby Center for Functional Brain Imaging
Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine
MRI May Predict Neurological Outcomes for Cardiac Arrest Survivors, Radiological Society of North America (October 18, 2017)
Women Athletes Have More Concussions Than Men, New Study Shows, New York Times (02/27/2015)
High School Football Tied to Brain Changes, Even Without Concussion, US News & World Report (12/01/2014)
Giving the hazards of football a closer look, Chicago Sun-Times, August 2013
Player's text: Send my brain to NFL research bank, CNN, Feb. 2011
Recovery from traumatic brain injury a long, uncertain road, The Baltimore Sun, January 2011
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