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Hussein, Haitham M., MD, MSc
Former Medical Director, Regions Hospital Comprehensive Stroke Center
About

Joined the Institute: 2014

Education and training: Medical school, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; master’s degree in neuropsychiatry, Ain Shams University; neurology/psychiatry residency, Ain Shams University; neurology residency, University of Minnesota; vascular neurology fellowship, University of Minnesota.

Overview/research interests: Clinical research in the diagnosis, early treatment, and secondary prevention of cerebrovascular diseases including ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attach, intracerebral hemorrhage, and subarachnoid hemorrhage, with a special focus on quality improvement, disparity of care and minorities.

Current research activities and funding:

  • STROKE AF (Medtronic)
  • StrokeNet (NIH)
  • MOST (NIH)
  • SATURN (NIH)
  • ASPIRE (NIH)
  • CCR FAST (Regions Hospital)
  • Cross-cultural adaptation of stroke education material to Hmong (Regions Hospital)

Publications
Publications While At HealthPartners
selected publications
Journal Article
  • Describing racial disparity in hypertension control in a large Minnesota outpatient practice. 
    Health services research and managerial epidemiology. 2023
  • Potentially preventable readmissions after acute inpatient rehabilitation. 
    American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2023
  • Stroke characteristics in a cohort of Hmong American patients. 
    Journal of the American Heart Association. 2023
  • Patterns and predictors of extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation related cerebral microbleeds. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2022
  • Rate and predictors of acute care encounters in the first month after stroke. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2022
  • Readmission to an acute care hospital during inpatient rehabilitation after stroke. 
    American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2022
  • A 56-year-old woman with recurrent strokes: a clear case with a therapeutic dilemma. 
    Case Reports in Neurology. 2021
  • Barriers to achieving target door-to-needle time in patients treated with IV thrombolysis. 
    Healthc Res J. 2021
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 and stroke. 
    Air Medical Journal. 2021
  • Transient global amnesia as a possible first manifestation of COVID-19. 
    The Neurohospitalist. 2021
  • A successful quality improvement project for detection and management of acute stroke in hospitalized patients. 
    Journal of Neuroscience Nursing. 2020
  • Hmong cross-cultural adaptation of stroke educational material. 
    WMJ. 2020
  • Rates and predictors of futile recanalization in patients undergoing endovascular treatment in a multicenter clinical trial. 
    Neuroradiology. 2018
  • Statewide trends in utilization and outcomes of endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke: analysis of Minnesota Hospital Association data (2014 and 2015). 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2018
  • Support of new triage protocol among acute stroke care providers
    2018
  • Nivolumab-induced posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome. 
    Neurology. Clinical practice. 2017
  • Practice patterns after acute embolic retinal artery occlusion
    2017
  • Searching for the smoker's paradox in acute stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis. 
    Nicotine & tobacco research. 2017
  • Arabic cross cultural adaptation and validation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale. 
    Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2015
  • Recent US case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease-global implications. 
    Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2015
  • Stroke: part 2. 
    Air Medical Journal. 2015
  • Endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients: implications and interpretation of IMS III, MR RESCUE, and SYNTHESIS EXPANSION trials: a report from the Working Group of International Congress of Interventional Neurology. 
    Journal of Vascular and Interventional Neurology. 2014
  • Increased brain volume among good grade patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. Results from the Antihypertensive Treatment of Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage (ATACH) study. 
    Neurocritical Care. 2014
  • Intracranial vascular calcification is protective from vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
    Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. 2014
  • Comparison of acute nonthrombolytic and thrombolytic treatments in ischemic stroke patients 80 years or older. 
    American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2012
    • Editorial Article
  • Small vessel disease: perpetrator or predictor of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation [editorial]?. 
    Stroke.  52. 2021
    • Review
  • Stroke: part 1 [review]. 
    Air Medical Journal. 2015
    • Abstract
  • Correlation between evaluation and documentation of neurologic deficit by EMS and ED of patients with acute ischemic stroke [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2018
  • Analysis of run sheets of EMS serving a metropolitan comprehensive stroke center [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2017
  • Clinical characteristics and healthcare utilization of Hmong patients presenting with stroke [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2017
  • Clinical characteristics of Hmong patients presenting with acute ischemic stroke [abstract]. 
    Stroke. 2017
  • Statewide trends in endivascular utilization and outcomes: analysis of the Minnesota Hospital Association data, 2014-2015 [abstract]. 
    Stroke. 2017
  • Statewide trends in endovascular utilization and outcomes: analysis of the Minnesota Hospital Association data, 2014-2015 [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2017
  • Futile recanalization rate and predictors in subjects with anterior circulation occlusion in IMS-III trial [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2016
  • Futile recanalization rate and predictors in subjects with anterior circulation occlusion in IMS-III trial [abstract]. 
    Stroke. 2016
  • Pulmonary edema as an adverse effect in Albumin Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke Study (ALIAS) [abstract]. 
    Neurology. 2016
  • Effect of cigarette smoking on outcomes of acute ischemic stroke treated with intravenous rhrombolysis: is there any paradox in the brain [abstract]?. 
    Neurology. 2015
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    Publications
    Publications in the past 10 years based solely on publications while at HealthPartners. Publications in prior years appear in grey.
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