Wendy C. Ziai, MD
Neurocritical Care
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Wendy C. Ziai
Professional Titles
- Medical Director, Neurovascular Laboratory
- Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Bayview Neurocritical Care Unit
Primary Academic Title
Professor of Neurology
Background
As Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anesthesia/Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Wendy Ziai is a member of the Neurological Critical Care team. She manages critically ill patients with neurologic and neurosurgical diseases.
Dr. Ziai is Co-Chair of the Grants Committee of Neurocritical Care Research Central (NCRC) in the Neurocritical Care Society. She is an Associate Editor for the journal Neurocritical Care.
Centers and Institutes
Additional Academic Titles
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Professor of Neurological Surgery
Research Interests
Intraventricular rt-PA for intraventricular hemorrhage, Markers of vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage, Platelet dysfunction in intracerebral hemorrhage
Lab Website
Neurovascular Laboratory - Lab Website
Research Summary
Dr. Ziai's research is focused on mechanisms of injury and recovery in intracerebral hemorrhage with focus on multicenter clinical trials of minimally invasive surgery to treat hemorrhagic stroke. She was safety event committee chair for the CLEAR III and MISTIE III clinical trials, currently for the ASPIRE trial, and is a coPI on the ongoing NIH funded BEACH trial. She was co-Chair for the 2022 AHA guideline on management of acute intracerebral hemorrhage. She is also PI of the NIH-funded REASSESS ICH study which is looking at cognitive function in patients treated with minimally invasive surgery for ICH.
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Fellowship, Neurology, 2001University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
Residency, Neurological Surgery, 1999Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences
Medical Education, MD, 1993Insurance
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- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)