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Vijay Johnson, MD, MS

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Vijay Johnson, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

Locations

Neurology

Education

Doctor of Medicine, KIMS, India, 2001

Biography

Training

Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, 2005-2008

Chief Resident, Akron General Medical Center, Akron, 2008-2009

Fellow, Critical Care Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2009-2011

Fellow, Neurocritical Care, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta 2011-2013

Societies

Society of Critical Care Medicine
Neurocritical Care Society

Clinical Interests

Traumatic Brain Injury
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes
Targeted temperature management
Mechanical ventilation in neurological injury
Sepsis management
Sodium disorders
Bedside Percutaneous Tracheostomies
Limited bedside Ultrasound
Hemodynamic monitoring
Brain Death

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Honors and Awards

Outstanding Clinical Faculty, Medical College Of Wisconsin, Department of Emergency Medicine, Class of 2016 and 2017

Research Interests

BP management in ICH, Medical management of IPH and IVH, Intraventricular Nicardipine for vasospasm associated with SAH, Respiratory variation of IVC and predicting intravascular volume status

Immune mediated neurologic dysfunction as a paraneoplastic syndrome in renal cell carcinoma.

(Johnson V, Friedman N, Haller NA, Hagel C.) J Neurooncol. 2008 Dec;90(3):279-81 PMID: 18726185 08/30/2008