Christine Wijman

Clinical Focus

• Stroke
• Neurology
• Neurocritical Care

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Medical Director, Stanford Hospital and Clinics Intensive Care Unit, Neuroscience, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (2009 - present)
• Director of Neurocritical Care, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (2001 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Denise O’Leary award for clinical excellence, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (2009)
• Lysia Forno Award for Teaching Excellence, Stanford Neurology Residents (2007)
• National Scientist Development award, American Heart Association (2004)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Neurology and Neurol Sciences
• Neurosurgery

Internet Links

• Stanford Stroke Center

Current Research Interests

My overall career focus is on the advancement of knowledge, discovery of new treatments and improvement of quality of care for critically-ill neurological patients. My current research interests include: predicting outcome in patients who have suffered hypoxic-ischemic brain injury due to cardiac arrest using MR imaging and biochemical markers, studying the process of perihematomal edema and secondary injury in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage using biomarkers and MR imaging, determining the diagnostic utility of state-of the art MR imaging in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage, and predicting outcome in critically-ill neurologic patients.

Clinical Trials

• CLEAR III Clot Lysis: Evaluating Accelerated Resolution of Intraventricular Hemorrhage Phase III Recruiting
• Diagnostic Utility of MRI in Intracerebral Hemorrhage Recruiting
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Plus rt-PA for ICH Evacuation (MISTIE) Recruiting
• NeuroThera® Efficacy and Safety Trial - 3 (NEST-3) Recruiting
• Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke (POINT) Trial, a Randomized, Double-blind, Multicenter Clinical Trial Recruiting

Publications

• Clinical Assessment of Standard and Generalized Autocalibrating Partially Parallel Acquisition Diffusion Imaging: Effects of Reduction Factor and Spatial Resolution. Andre JB, Zaharchuk G, Fischbein NJ, Augustin M, Skare S, Straka M, Rosenberg J, Lansberg MG, Kemp S, Wijman CA, Albers GW, Schwartz NE, Bammer R. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2012
• Predicting outcome after acute basilar artery occlusion based on admission characteristics. Greving JP, Schonewille WJ, Wijman CA, Michel P, Kappelle LJ, Algra A. Neurology. 2012
• Research and Technology in Neurocritical Care. Wijman CA, Smirnakis SM, Vespa P, Szigeti K, Ziai WC, Ning MM, Rosand J, Hanley DF, Geocadin R, Hall C, Le Roux PD, Suarez JI, Zaidat OO. Neurocrit Care. 2012; 16 (1): 42-54
• A comparison of cooling techniques to treat cardiac arrest patients with hypothermia. Finley Caulfield A, Rachabattula S, Eyngorn I, Hamilton SA, Kalimuthu R, Hsia AW, Lansberg MG, Venkatasubramanian C, Baumann JJ, Buckwalter MS, Kumar MA, Castle JS, Wijman CA. Stroke Res Treat. 2011: 2011 690506
• Extent of hypoattenuation on CT angiography source images in basilar artery occlusion: prognostic value in the Basilar Artery International Cooperation Study. Puetz V, Khomenko A, Hill MD, Dzialowski I, Michel P, Weimar C, Wijman CA, Mattle HP, Engelter ST, Muir KW, Pfefferkorn T, Tanne D, Szabo K, Kappelle LJ, Algra A, von Kummer R, Demchuk AM, Schonewille WJ. Stroke. 2011; 42 (12): 3454-9