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2023

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1799
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Overview

Stephen M. Davis is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to medical research, particularly in the field of stroke. Their scholarly output includes over 400 publications, predominantly within medicine and its related subfields.

Their main fields of study span Medicine with a distinct focus on Epidemiology, Neurology, Rehabilitation, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Internal Medicine. These areas outline a broad expertise in both neurological and systemic aspects of medical science.

The research topics most frequently addressed include acute ischemic stroke management, stroke rehabilitation and recovery, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, traumatic brain injury and neurovascular disturbances, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage research, and neurosurgical procedures and complications.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Stephen M. Davis are:

  • Trial of Endovascular Thrombectomy for Large Ischemic Strokes, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Effect of Intravenous Tenecteplase Dose on Cerebral Reperfusion Before Thrombectomy in Patients With Large Vessel Occlusion Ischemic Stroke, 2020, JAMA
  • Endovascular thrombectomy versus standard bridging thrombolytic with endovascular thrombectomy within 4·5 h of stroke onset: an open-label, blinded-endpoint, randomised non-inferiority trial, 2022, The Lancet
  • The state of stroke services across the globe: Report of World Stroke Organization-World Health Organization surveys, 2021, International Journal of Stroke
  • Intravenous alteplase for stroke with unknown time of onset guided by advanced imaging: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data, 2020, The Lancet

Stephen M. Davis frequently collaborates with a set of researchers, including Geoffrey A. Donnan, Bruce Campbell, Leonid Churilov, Mark Parsons, and Bernard Yan. These collaborations suggest a network centered on stroke and neurological research.

They have published their work predominantly in journals such as Stroke, International Journal of Stroke, Neurology, Frontiers in Neurology, and European Stroke Journal.

Stephen M. Davis has also contributed to book publications. These include the titles "What They Do With Your Money," published by Yale University Press in 2020, and "Ages and Stages: Glimpses into the Lives of Women in the Academy," available as a PDF e-book from Vernon Press eBooks, expected in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials

    Mayank Goyal;Bijoy K. Menon;Wim H. van Zwam;Diederik W. J. Dippel

  • Randomised trial of a perindopril-based blood-pressure-lowering regimen among 6105 individuals with previous stroke or transient ischaemic attack

    S. MacMahon;B. Neal;C. Tzourio;A. Rodgers

  • Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of thrombolytic therapy with intravenous alteplase in acute ischaemic stroke (ECASS II)

    Werner Hacke;Markku Kaste;Cesare Fieschi;Rüdiger von Kummer

  • Effect of treatment delay, age, and stroke severity on the effects of intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from randomised trials

    Jonathan Emberson;Kennedy R Lees;Patrick Lyden;Lisa Blackwell

  • Time to treatment with intravenous alteplase and outcome in stroke: an updated pooled analysis of ECASS, ATLANTIS, NINDS, and EPITHET trials.

    Kennedy R Lees;Erich Bluhmki;Rüdiger von Kummer;Thomas G Brott

  • Time to Treatment With Endovascular Thrombectomy and Outcomes From Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-analysis

    Jeffrey L. Saver;Mayank Goyal;Aad van der Lugt;Bijoy K. Menon

  • Rapid Blood-Pressure Lowering in Patients With Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

    Craig S. Anderson;Emma Heeley;Yining Huang;Jiguang Wang

  • Update on the Global Burden of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke in 1990-2013: The GBD 2013 Study

    Valery L. Feigin;Rita V. Krishnamurthi;Priya Parmar;Bo Norrving

  • Efficacy and Safety of Recombinant Activated Factor VII for Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

    Stephan A. Mayer;Nikolai C. Brun;Kamilla Begtrup;Joseph Broderick

  • Metal-Protein Attenuation With Iodochlorhydroxyquin (Clioquinol) Targeting Aβ Amyloid Deposition and Toxicity in Alzheimer Disease: A Pilot Phase 2 Clinical Trial

    Craig W Ritchie;Ashley I Bush;Andrew J Mackinnon;Steve Macfarlane

  • Effects of alteplase beyond 3 h after stroke in the Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET): a placebo-controlled randomised trial.

    Stephen M Davis;Geoffrey A Donnan;Mark W Parsons;Christopher Levi

  • Comparison of MRI and CT for Detection of Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage

    Chelsea S. Kidwell;Chelsea S. Kidwell;Julio A. Chalela;Jeffrey L. Saver;Sidney Starkman

  • Prevention of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis with low dose aspirin: Pulmonary Embolism Prevention (PEP) trial

    J O'Brien;H Duncan;G Kirsh;V Allen

  • Persistent Poststroke Hyperglycemia Is Independently Associated With Infarct Expansion and Worse Clinical Outcome

    Tracey A. Baird;Mark W. Parsons;Thanh Phan;Ken S. Butcher

  • NXY-059 for the Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke

    Ashfaq Shuaib;Kennedy R. Lees;Patrick Lyden;James Grotta

  • NXY-059 for acute ischemic stroke

    Kennedy R. Lees;Justin A. Zivin;Tim Ashwood;Antonio Davalos

  • Acute hyperglycemia adversely affects stroke outcome: a magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy study

    Mark W. Parsons;P. Alan Barber;Patricia M. Desmond;Tracey A. Baird;Tracey A. Baird

  • Prediction of stroke outcome with echoplanar perfusion- and diffusion-weighted MRI

    P. A. Barber;D. G. Darby;P. M. Desmond;Q. Yang

  • Tenecteplase versus Alteplase before Thrombectomy for Ischemic Stroke

    Bruce C.V. Campbell;Peter J. Mitchell;Leonid Churilov;Nawaf Yassi

  • Reply from the authors [4]

    S. M. Davis;J. Broderick;M. Hennerici;N. C. Brun

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey A. Donnan
Geoffrey A. Donnan University of Melbourne
Bruce C.V. Campbell
Bruce C.V. Campbell Royal Melbourne Hospital
Mark W. Parsons
Mark W. Parsons University of New South Wales
Patricia Desmond
Patricia Desmond University of Melbourne
Christopher R. Levi
Christopher R. Levi John Hunter Hospital
Gregory W. Albers
Gregory W. Albers Stanford University
Kennedy R. Lees
Kennedy R. Lees University of Glasgow
Atte Meretoja
Atte Meretoja Helsinki University Hospital
Graeme J. Hankey
Graeme J. Hankey University of Western Australia
Roland Bammer
Roland Bammer Monash University

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