Ed Amorim, MD
Principal Investigator
Director Epilepsy & Clinical Neurophysiology Service Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF

 

Ed Amorim, MD is a neurologist caring for patients with coma and acute brain injuries at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Amorim has dedicated his career to understanding the mechanisms of coma and consciousness and how we might be able to accelerate patient recovery. His research focuses on decyphering the neural code of coma and consciousness using non-invasive and invasive brain monitoring technologies. Combining computational neuroscience tools and artificial intelligence (AI), his work integrates electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) with other multimodal physiology, neuroimaging, and Electronic Health Record data. His research team is using traditional statistics as well as novel machine learning and deep learning methods to bring context and interpretability to models that aim to advance precision medicine in traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, epilepsy, and stroke.

Dr. Amorim completed fellowship training in neurocritical care and epilepsy at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School) followed by postdoctoral training in machine learning and human neurophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

 

Faculty

Mauro Caffarelli, MD 
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics (UCSF)
 

 

 

 

 

Staff

Satomi Ito, BS (Cognitive Science)
 

 

Vishnu Karukonda, BA (Data Science)

 

Bo Zhou, MEng (Data Science, NLP)
Kate Peterson, BA (Neuroscience)
Kevin Bao, BA (Molecular Biology)

 

 

Postdoctoral

Rajanikant Panda, PhD (Neuroscience)
Postdoctoral Fellow (FNRS-Belgium fellowship; NIH/DoD funding)

 

Marina Marques, MD (Vascular Neurology)
Postdoctoral Fellow (AHA fellowship)

 

Britta Lindquist, MD, PhD (Neuroscience)
Neurocritical Care Fellow
Palmer Greene, MD
Neurocritical Care Fellow
Ori Lieberman, MD, PhD (Neuroscience)
Neurology Resident

 

 

Graduate (UCSF)

Gerardo Velasquez, BA (Neuroscience)
MD Candidate
Parker Houston, BSc (Biochemistry)
MD Candidate

 

 

 

Graduate (UC Berkeley and U Washington)

Bo-Yen (Danny) Chang, BSc
Master Candidate (Engineering, Berkeley)
Florian Kristof, BSc
Master Candidate (Engineering, Berkeley)
Sophie Furlow, BSc
Master Candidate (Engineering, Berkeley)

 

 

Kevin Chen, BSc
Master Candidate (BioE, University of Washington)

 

 

 

 

 


 

Alumni

  • Mauro Caffarelli, MD
  • Darya Khazanova, MD
  • Rachel Vassar, MD
  • Evan Calabrese, MD, PhD
  • Jeffrey Vitt, MD

Position at lab departure

  • UCSF, Assistant Professor of Neurology
  • Hofstra University, Assistant Professor of Neurology
  • UCSF, Assistant Professor of Neurology
  • Duke University, Assistant Professor of Radiology
  • UC Davis, Assistant Professor of Neurology

 

 

  • Mahsa Aghaeeaval, MBI
  • Sally Ahmed, MEng* 
  • Ghita Houir Alami, MEng* 
  • Josephine Daelemans, MEng* 
  • Brontë Kolar, MEng* 
  • Wassim Ben Salah, MSc, MEng* 
  • Rachel Muster, MD†
  • Matheus Otero, MD‡
  • Jon Schor, MD, PhD†
  • Jonathan Shih, BS†
  • University of British Columbia, Canada, Ph.D. Candidate
  • Apple, Engineering Intern
  • Clear Ventures, AI Engineer
  • UC Berkeley, Designing Emerging Technologies, Graduate Student
  • LatchBio, Bioinformatics Engineer
  • King's College, UK, Ph.D. Candidate
  • MGH/Brigham, Neurology Resident
  • Mount Sinai, Neurology Resident
  • Stanford, Child Neurology Resident
  • UCSF, Medical Student

 

*Master Student

† Medical Student

‡ Visiting Scholar

 

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