The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street
Phipps 446
Baltimore, MD 21287
Division of Cerebrovascular Neurology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Tel: 410-955-2228
Fax: 410-614-9807
News
Here you will find the latest events that our lab members have participated in including lectures, videos, interviews, podcasts, papers, and more!
Manasi has graduated from JHU with a B.S. in Neuroscience with Honors and a minor in the Writing Seminars.
Samantha has graduated from JHU with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Sociology and will be starting her masters in Medical Science at Brown University in the Fall.
Our newest Research Coordinator, Jing, has graduated with a Masters in Epidemiology from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
DREAMS 2023
Manasi's Neuroscience Honors Project
Lab member Manasi Prashant presented data on demographic differences between those who provided vs declined consent for the NOMINATE Study of atrial fibrillation and cognitive decline. DREAMS is JHU's annual undergraduate research day. Results from this project were also presented to the Clark Family Foundation!
Lab member Sandra Kong presented her research entitled "Determining the Association between Congestive Heart Failure Characteristics and Cognitive Performance" at a moderated poster session at the 2023 International Stroke Conference in Dallas, TX.
Lab members David Zhao & Emma Gootee present at American Neurological Association 2022 Meeting
Congratulations to David and Emma on their poster presentations at the 2022 ANA conference. David's project was entitled "Acute Brain Injury Due to Asymmetric Cerebral Desaturation is Time Dependent in Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Monitored by Near Infrared Spectroscopy." Emma projects were entitled "Risk of Recurrent Stroke is Increased When Incident Stroke Etiology is Unknown" and "Racial Differences in Left Atrial Structure Among Patients with Ischemic Stroke without Atrial Fibrillation." The former of Emma's projects was a recipient of a poster award! Follow the link below to learn more.
Dementia risk may be higher if an upper heart chamber is abnormal
A recent study led by our very own Dr. Johansen that was published on August 10, 2022 in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that structural or functional abnormalities within the heart’s left atrium, with or without symptoms, may increase a person’s risk of developing dementia later in life by 35%.
Johansen Lab Student wins the Inaugural Robert Raben Health Equity Innovation Competition at Morehouse School of Medicine
Sandra Kong, second year medical student and Johansen Lab student researcher, recently won the Robert Raben Health Equity Innovation Competition f0r her project entitled "Optimizing Care Coordination for Patients with Multimorbidity." She and fellow Johns Hopkins medical student Xindi Chen will use their $10,000 award to expand the Multidisciplinary Empowerment for Sustainable Health (MESH) program, which will help to streamline care for some of the most vulnerable patients in the healthcare system.
Johansen Lab student awarded scholarship in Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke
Congratulations to Johansen Lab member David Zhao for being awarded the AHA Student Scholarship in Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke! David received this award for his work on determining the association between atrial cardiopathy and cerebral microbleeds.
Videos
Embolic Stroke: A Primer
Johns Hopkins Medicine: A Woman's Journey Executive Women's Briefing 2021
Embolic Stroke: Future Directions
Neurology Spotlight on Junior Faculty and their Groundbreaking Research
Featured in the News
The Investigation of Cardiac Structure Pathology and Associations with Stroke Subtype and Clinical Outcome
In Stroke, Outcomes Differ for Men and Women
No Difference in Cognition After CABG vs PCI
ARCADIA: Predicting the Risk for Atrial Cardiopathy Poststroke
Asymptomatic Coronary Plaque Linked to White Matter Lesions
Podcasts
Neurology Podcast: March 24, 2015 Issue
Stroke in the setting of CNS vasculitis
03/24/2015
ANA Investigates ESUS
05/2020
ANA Investigates the ANA2020 Emerging Scholars Awardees
11/16/2020
ANA Investigates Tenecteplase in Stroke
03/19/2021
Faculty Factory: Habits and Hacks with Michelle C. Johansen, MD, PhD
09/03/2021
Focus on women's health at JHU
11/10/2021