Monisha Kumar - Faculty Biosketch

Monisha Kumar, MD

Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Neurocritical Care Liaison, HUP, Comprehensive Stroke Center Committee

Co-Chair, Intradepartmental Equity Subcommittee of Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism Efforts and Inequity (iDARE) Program Department of Neurology

Executive Lead, Clinical Effectiveness Team , Neurosciences Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Medical Director, Neuro ICU, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 2018-2021 on Rhoads 2, 2021-present on Pavilion 10 City

Vice Chair for Quality and Safety , Department of Neurology, Penn Medicine

Chair, Anna T. Meadows Society Office of the Dean, PSOM

Immediate Past Chair, Penn Forum for Women Faculty, Office of the Provost

Department: Neurology

Contact information

Department of Neurology
3 West Gates Building
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Office: 215-662-3396
Fax: 215-614-1927

Links
Interviewed on Brain Waves, A Neurology Podcast: Diffuse Axonal Injury
New offering at the 2022 NCS Meeting. This session entitled, "Promotions and the Pandemic: How to Navigate Academic Expectations, Critical Care Demands and 'Family' Responsibilities" was made available to all participants.

Education:
BA, Honors (Women's Health & Women's Studies)
University of Michigan, 1996.
MD (Doctor of Medicine)
MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, 2000.

Post-Graduate Training
Intern, Internal Medicine, MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, 2000-2001.
Residency, Neurology, MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, 2001-2004.
Fellowship, Neurocritical Care & Vascular Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2004-2006.
Certificate, Program in Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard School of Public Health, 2006-2006.

Certifications
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology - Vascular Neurology , 2017.
Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc. - General Neurology , 2017.
Dr. Edward S. Cooper Leadership Development Program, a Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) - Wharton collaboration funded by the PSOM Office of Inclusion and Diversity and the University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty, 2019.
Diplomate of the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties - Neurocritical Care C-Cert 2020, 2021.
American College of Surgeons - Advanced Trauma Life Support , 2022.
University of Pennsylvania Provost's Leadership Program Office of The Vice Provost for Faculty, 2022.
American Heart Association - Advanced Cardiac Life Support , 2022.
Fellow, Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA , 2024.

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Selected Publications

Fischer D, Reyes-Estevez S, Law C, Ford A, Schwab P, Abella BS, Schneider ALC, Kumar MA. : Implementation of Specialized Neuroprognostication Consultation Program and Associated Provider Attitudes: A survey-based study. Resuscitation Plus March 2025.

Kristen Nobles, Kyle Cunningham, Brianna Fecondo, Susan M. Closs, Kathleen Donovan & Monisha A. Kumar : Mobilization in Neurocritical Care: Challenges and Opportunities. Current Neurology & Neuroscience Reports Springer, 35(13), Jan 2025.

Monisha Kumar: NCS Podcast , "PERSPECTIVES: Dr Monisha Kumar, FNCS" neurocriticalcare.org June 2024 Notes: Jun 12, 2024.

Schneider ALC, Ginestra J, et al. : The Complete Inpatient Record Using Comprehensive Electronic Data (CIRCE) project: A team-based approach to clinically validated, research-ready electronic health record data. Learning Health Systems May 2024 Notes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/lrh2.10439.

Scott E. Kasner MD, Michael T. Mullen MD, Michael DeGeorgia MD, Spiros Blackburn MD, Donna K. George MD, Monisha Kumar MD, Steven Messe MD, Michael G. Abraham MD, Michael Chen MD, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez MD, Clark W. Sitton MD, Jan-Karl Burkhardt MD, Muhammad Shazam Hussain MD, Leonid Churilov PhD, Sophia Sundararajan MD, Yin C. Hu MD, Nabeel A. Herial MD, Pascal Jabbour MD, Daniel Gibson MD, Juan F. Arenillas MD, PhD, Jenny P. Tsai MD, Ronald F. Budzik MD, William J. Hicks MD, Osman Kozak MD, Bernard Yan MBBS, Dennis J. Cordato PhD, Nathan W. Manning MBBS, Mark W. Parsons PhD, Ricardo A. Hanel MD, Amin N. Aghaebrahim MD, Teddy Y. Wu PhD, Pere Cardona Portela MD, Natalia Pérez de la Ossa MD, PhD, Joanna D. Schaafsma MD, Jordi Blasco MD, PhD, Navdeep Sangha MD, Steven Warach MD, Chirag D. Gandhi MD, Timothy J. Kleinig PhD, Daniel Sahlein MD, Edgar A. Samaniego MD, Laith Maali MD, Mohammad A. Abdulrazzak MD, Krishna Amuluru MD, Deep K. Pujara MBBS, Faris Shaker MBChB, Hannah Johns PhD, Rami Moussa BS, Faisal Al-Shaibi MD, Kelsey R. Duncan MD, Stavropoula Tjoumakaris MD, Amanda Opaskar MD, Wei Xiong MD, Abhishek Ray MD, Sepideh Amin-Hanjani MD, Thanh N. Nguyen MD, Johanna T. Fifi MD, Stephen Davis MD, Lawrence Wechsler MD, Anthony Furlan MD, Cathy Sila MD, Nicholas Bambakidis MD, Michael D. Hill MD, Vitor Mendes Pereira MD, Maarten G. Lansberg MD, James C. Grotta MD, Marc Ribo MD, Greg W. Albers MD, Bruce C. Campbell PhD, Ameer E. Hassan DO, Amrou Sarraj MD, for the SELECT2 Investigators: Critical Care Decisions After Large Core Cerebral Infarctions: A Secondary Analysis From the SELECT2 Trial in Annals of Neurology has the following publication status: http://doi.org/10.1002/ana.27151 2024.

Young B, Merical B, Kumar MA, Ehntholt MS.: Curriculum Innovation: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of an Interdisciplinary Teamwork-Focused Neurocritical Care In Situ Simulation Training Program. NEUROLOGY: EDUCATION 2024 Notes: NXE-2023-000216.

Kumar MA, Editor: Textbook of Neurocritical Care, 3rd Ed. Springer Gabrielli A, Kumar MA, LeRoux P, Levine JM, Lyon AJ, Mahanna-Gabrielli E, O'Phelan K, (eds.). Springer 2024.

Matthew J. Cobler-Lichter, Hera A. Kamdar MD, Joanna Yang, BA, Elizabeth Woods, NP, Joseph J. Locascio, PhD, Bradford B. Thompson, MD, DaiWai M. Olson, PhD, RN, Sayona John, MD, Wazim Mohamed, MD, Monisha Kumar, MD, Christopher Stapleton, MD, Aman Patel, MD, Guy A. Rordorf, MD, David Chung MD, PhD: Association of Cerebrospinal Fluid Output and Drain Height on Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt Placement Neurocrit Care August 2023.

Gandee R, Choi RK, Darsie M, Mainali S, Malaiyandi D, Nobleza CH, Schober M, Kumar M.: The Neurocritical Care Society and its Path to Developing a Process for Releasing Position Statements. Published online at: https://currents.neurocriticalcare.org/Leading-Insights/Article/the-neurocritical-care- society-and-its-path-to-developing-a-process-for-releasing-position-statements 2023.

Aleksey Tadevosyan, Sanam Baghshomali, Francisco Gomez and Monisha A. Kumar: Neurological Complications of Platelet Disorders and Disorders of Coagulation Textbook of Neurohematology, 1st Ed. Tracy Batchelor, Josh Klein, Lisa DeAngelis and Andres Ferreri (eds.). Oxford University Press 2023 Notes: in-press.