Rebecca N. Ichord
Professor of Neurology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Attending Neurologist, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Pediatric Stroke Fellowship Program, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Director, Pediatric Stroke Program , The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Section Chief, ICU Neurology Consultation Service, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Neurology
Contact information
Dept. of Neurology, Hub 10th Fl
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3501 Civic Ctr Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4318
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
3501 Civic Ctr Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4318
Office: 215-590-4142
Fax: 215-590-5120
Fax: 215-590-5120
Email:
ichord@chop.edu
ichord@chop.edu
Education:
B.S. (Biology, Magna cum laude)
University of Hawaii , 1975.
MD
George Washington University School of Medicine (with distinction), 1979.
B.S. (Biology, Magna cum laude)
University of Hawaii , 1975.
MD
George Washington University School of Medicine (with distinction), 1979.
Post-Graduate Training
Resident & Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. , 1979-1983.
Clinical Fellow in Developmental Pediatrics, J.F.Kennedy Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. , 1983-1985.
Resident and Chief Resident in Child Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md. , 1988-1991.
Permanent linkResident & Chief Resident in Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C. , 1979-1983.
Clinical Fellow in Developmental Pediatrics, J.F.Kennedy Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. , 1983-1985.
Resident and Chief Resident in Child Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md. , 1988-1991.
Description of Research Expertise
Clinical research is focused primarily on stroke in childhood, including arterial ischemic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, cerebral venous thrombosis, and related cerebral vascular disorders. Current active research activities include vascular effects of infection in pediatric stroke (VIPS-II); language and visual-spatial function in children after perinatal stroke; safety/effectiveness of constraint-induced therapy for infants following perinatal stroke.Related research activities through collaborations locally at CHOP/Penn and nationally include: hypothermia for pediatric cardiac arrest, cerebrovascular complications of device-support for cardiac failure, novel neuromonitoring strategies in pediatric intensive care.
Description of Itmat Expertise
Stroke in infants and children: assessment tools, outcome assessment, risk assessment, acute therapy, prevention, rehabilitation.Selected Publications
Karlin AR, Kumar NK, Vossough A, Abend NS, Ichord RN, Beslow LA.: “Pediatric Cerebral Sinovenous Thrombosis and Risk for Epilepsy.” Pediatr Neurol 146: 85-94, May 2023.Prosser LA, Atkinson HL, Alfano JM, Leff M, Kessler SK, Gouelle A, Ichord R : “Normalizing step-to-step variability to age in children and adolescents with hemiplegia.” Gait Posture 98: 6-8, Oct 2022
Prosser LA, Atkinson HL, Alfano JM, Kessler SK, Ichord R: “Walking speed influences spatiotemporal but not symmetry measures of gait in children and adolescents with hemiplegia.” Gait Posture 98: 233-236, Oct 2022.
Newport EL, Seydell-Greenwald A, Landau B, Turkeltaub PE, Chambers CE, Martin KC, Rennert R, Giannetti M, Dromerick AW, Ichord RN, Carpenter JL, Berl MM, Gaillard WD: “Language and developmental plasticity after perinatal stroke.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119(42): e2207293119, October 2022.
Hamner T, Shih E, Ichord R, Krivitzky L: Children with perinatal stroke are at increased risk for autism spectrum disorder: Prevalence and co-occurring conditions within a clinically followed sample. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 36(5): 981-992, July 2022.
Brosius SN, Vossough A, Fisher MJ, Lang SS, Beslow LA, George BJ, Ichord R. : “Characteristics of Moyamoya Syndrome in Pediatric Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1.“ Pediatr Neurol. 134: 85-92, June 2022.
Shih EK, Beslow LA, Natarajan SS, Falkensammer CB, Messé SR, Ichord RN. : “Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in a Cohort of Children With Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke.” Neurology. 97(21): e2096-e2102, Nov 2021.
Lang S-S, Tucker A, Schreiber C , Storm PB, Liu H , Li Y, Ichord R, Beslow LA, Sedora-Roman N, Cox M , Nasser H , Vossough A, Fisher MJ, Kilbaugh TJ , Huh JW : Arterial Spin Labeling as an Ancillary Assessment to Post-operative Conventional Angiogram in Pediatric Moyamoya Disease. Journal of Neurosurgery:Pediatrics 29(1): 40-47, Oct 2021.
Hutchinson ML, Beslow LA, Shih EK, Licht DJ, Kimmel AC, Granath C, Ichord R : “Endovascular and thrombolytic treatment eligibility in childhood arterial ischemic stroke” Eur J Paediatric Neurology 34: 99-104, Sept 2021.
Beslow LA, Vossough A, Ichord RN, Slavova N, Yau MLY, Gajera J, Stojanovski B, Adil M, Breimann J, Kimmel A, Mackay MT: Association of Pediatric ASPECTS and NIH Stroke Scale, Hemorrhagic Transformation, and 12-Month Outcome in Children With Acute Ischemic Stroke. Neurology online, August 2021.