Ann K. Helms, MD, MS

Professor

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Locations

Froedtert Hospital
Neuroscience Center – Specialty Clinics

Specialties

Hyperbaric Medicine
Neurology
Neurocritical Care

Languages

English

Established Patient Appointments

(414) 805-9236

Education

MD - Doctor of Medicine
MS

Biography

Appointments

Chair

Specialty

Adult Neurology

Subspecialties

Stroke
Cerebrovascular Disease
Neurocritical Care
Hyperbaric Medicine

Training

Internship, Internal Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, DC, 1999-2000

Residency, Neurology, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, 2000-2003

Fellowship, Vascular Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Milwaukee, 2003-2005

Fellowship, Neurocritical Care, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2008

Societies

American Academy of Neurology
American Stroke Association
American Heart Association
Neurocritical Care Society
Wisconsin Neurologic Society
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society
Society for Critical Care Medicine

Clinical Interests

Ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke
Acute and hyperacute stroke treatment
Stroke prevention
Cerebrovascular disease
Traumatic brain injury

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Honors and Awards

Phi Beta Kappa, 1988
Baxter Fellowship for Graduate Research, 1993
Resident research presentation award, University of Maryland, Department of Neurology, 2003
Daniel M. Soref Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2003

Clinical Expertise

Hyperbaric Oxygenation
Neurocritical Care

Research Interests

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy of acute ischemic stroke, Stroke outcomes research, Stroke prevention trials, Medical Education

A national survey of Neurology Vice Chairs For Education

(Milligan T, Cho T, Helms A, Khan J, Safdieh JE.) Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. January 2022;212 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85121463735 01/01/2022
You never forget your first? Impact of interview timing on institutional rank order.

(Hanrahan B, Lee C, Jozefowicz R, Schloemer F, Helms A, Bradshaw D, Ojha A, Biswas S, Carlson C.) Med Educ. 2021 Jul;55(7):850-856 PMID: 33794035 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85104285677 04/02/2021
Anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) associated disease masquerading as prolonged intractable nausea and vomiting.

(Block A, Champeau D, Carlson C, Helms A, Obeidat AZ.) Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2020 Sep;44:102308 PMID: 32575025 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85086658271 06/24/2020
Conversion of aldimines to secondary amines using iron-catalysed hydrosilylation.

(Saini A, Smith CR, Wekesa FS, Helms AK, Findlater M.) Org Biomol Chem. 2018 Dec 12;16(48):9368-9372 PMID: 30516772 12/06/2018
Treat the Patient, Not the Test When a Hospitalized Patient in Status Epilepticus Transitions to Comfort-Focused Goals of Care.

(Marks S, Williams A, Peltier W, Helms A, Carlson C.) J Palliat Med. 2018 Aug;21(8):1195-1198 PMID: 29958033 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85052309159 06/30/2018
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for post-radiation central nervous system injury: a retrospective case series.

(Valadão J, Pearl J, Verma S, Helms A, Whelan H.) Undersea Hyperb Med. 2014;41(2):87-96 PMID: 24851545 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84899426331 05/24/2014
Stroke on OB/gyn wards

(Helms AK.) The Stroke Book, Second Edition. 1 January 2013:269-284 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85011357465 01/01/2013
Hyperbaric oxygen for neurologic indications. Action plan for multicenter trials in: Stroke, traumatic brain injury, radiation encephalopathy and status migrainosus

(Whelan HT, Helms AK.) Pediatria Polska. September 2012;87(5):429-437 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84867573618 09/01/2012
Hyperbaric oxygen for neurologic indications--action plan for multicenter trials in: stroke, traumatic brain injury, radiation encephalopathy & status migrainosus.

(Helms A, Evans AW, Chu J, Sahgal A, Ostrowski R, Sosiak T, Wolf G, Gillett J, Whelan H.) Undersea Hyperb Med. 2011;38(5):309-19 PMID: 22013758 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-80055084660 10/22/2011
One specialty at a time: achieving competency in geriatrics through an e-learning neurology clerkship module.

(Helms A, Denson K, Brown D, Simpson D.) Acad Med. 2009 Oct;84(10 Suppl):S67-9 PMID: 19907390 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-70350629739 01/27/2010
First trimester stroke prophylaxis in pregnant women with a history of stroke.

(Helms AK, Drogan O, Kittner SJ.) Stroke. 2009 Apr;40(4):1158-61 PMID: 19211492 PMCID: PMC3561670 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-65249091366 02/13/2009
A successful failure.

(Helms AK.) Acad Med. 2008 Oct;83(10):961 PMID: 18820529 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-54449088632 09/30/2008