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  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Walter J. Koroshetz is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with a particular focus on Neurology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Koroshetz's research covers several main topics, including Health and Medical Research Impacts, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Health, Environment, and Cognitive Aging, as well as Long-Term Effects of COVID-19.

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent publications, such as:

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990-2019 (2020) in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Burden of Neurological Disorders Across the US From 1990-2017 (2020) in JAMA Neurology
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome (2021) in Neurology
  • The Second NINDS/NIBIB Consensus Meeting to Define Neuropathological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (2021) in Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology
  • Deep learning-based detection and segmentation of diffusion abnormalities in acute ischemic stroke (2021) in Communications Medicine

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Valery L. Feigin, Amy P. Abernethy, Nancy Kass, Nora D. Volkow, and Gregory A. Roth.

Koroshetz has published extensively in venues such as JAMA, UNC Libraries, Annals of Neurology, Communications Medicine, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Among professional recognitions, Walter J. Koroshetz was made a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2015.

Best Publications

  • The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer’s Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    Guy M. McKhann;Guy M. McKhann;David S. Knopman;Howard Chertkow;Bradley T. Hyman

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study

    Gregory A. Roth;George A. Mensah;Catherine O. Johnson;Giovanni Addolorato

  • The diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging-Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

    G.M. McKhann;D.S. Knopman;H. Chertkow;B.T. Hyman

  • Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Final Results of the Multi MERCI Trial

    Wade S. Smith;Gene Sung;Jeffrey Saver;Ronald Budzik

  • Trinucleotide repeat length instability and age of onset in Huntington's disease

    M Duyao;C Ambrose;R Myers;A Novelletto

  • A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system

    Michael T. Ullman;Suzanne Corkin;Marie Coppola;Gregory Hickok

  • A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research

    Story C. Landis;Susan G. Amara;Khusru Asadullah;Chris P. Austin

  • Hyperacute stroke: evaluation with combined multisection diffusion-weighted and hemodynamically weighted echo-planar MR imaging.

    A G Sorensen;F S Buonanno;R G Gonzalez;L H Schwamm

  • The conception of the ABCD study: From substance use to a broad NIH collaboration

    Nora D. Volkow;George F. Koob;Robert T. Croyle;Diana W. Bianchi

  • Do defects in mitochondrial energy metabolism underlie the pathology of neurodegenerative diseases

    M F Beal;B T Hyman;W Koroshetz

  • An evidence-based causative classification system for acute ischemic stroke

    Hakan Ay;Karen L. Furie;Aneesh Singhal;Wade S. Smith

  • Diffusion-weighted MR imaging: diagnostic accuracy in patients imaged within 6 hours of stroke symptom onset.

    R. G. Gonzalez;P. W. Schaefer;F. S. Buonanno;L. H. Schwamm

  • Recommendations for comprehensive stroke centers: a consensus statement from the Brain Attack Coalition.

    Mark J. Alberts;Richard E. Latchaw;Warren R. Selman;Timothy Shephard

  • Evidence for irnnairment of energy metabofism in vivo in Huntington's disease using localized 1H NMR spectroscopy

    B. G. Jenkins;W. J. Koroshetz;M. F. Beal;B. R. Rosen

  • Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia including Alzheimer's disease

    Heather M. Snyder;Roderick A. Corriveau;Suzanne Craft;James E. Faber

  • Posterior leukoencephalopathy without severe hypertension: Utility of diffusion-weighted MRI

    H. Ay;Ferdinando S. Buonanno;P. W. Schaefer;D. A. Le

  • Diffusion tensor imaging as potential biomarker of white matter injury in diffuse axonal injury.

    Thierry A.G.M. Huisman;Lee H. Schwamm;Pamela W. Schaefer;Walter J. Koroshetz

  • A Computerized Algorithm for Etiologic Classification of Ischemic Stroke: The Causative Classification of Stroke System

    Hakan Ay;Thomas Benner;E. Murat Arsava;Karen L. Furie

  • Evidence for more widespread cerebral pathology in early HD: An MRI-based morphometric analysis

    H. D. Rosas;W. J. Koroshetz;Y. I. Chen;C. Skeuse

  • Transcranial Low-Frequency Ultrasound-Mediated Thrombolysis in Brain Ischemia Increased Risk of Hemorrhage With Combined Ultrasound and Tissue Plasminogen Activator: Results of a Phase II Clinical Trial

    Michael Daffertshofer;Achim Gass;Peter Ringleb;Matthias Sitzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael H. Lev
Michael H. Lev Harvard University
Lee H. Schwamm
Lee H. Schwamm Harvard University
Karen L. Furie
Karen L. Furie Brown University
R. Gilberto Gonzalez
R. Gilberto Gonzalez Harvard University
Pamela W. Schaefer
Pamela W. Schaefer Harvard University
A. Gregory Sorensen
A. Gregory Sorensen Harvard University
Aneesh B. Singhal
Aneesh B. Singhal Massachusetts General Hospital
Wade S. Smith
Wade S. Smith University of California, San Francisco
Ona Wu
Ona Wu Harvard University
Elkan F. Halpern
Elkan F. Halpern Harvard University

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