Dr. Jennifer Frontera joined the Mount Sinai faculty as an assistant professor of Neurosurgery and Neurology in 2006. She is board certified in Neurology, as well as subspecialty board certified in Vascular Neurology and Stroke and Neurocritical Care. She completed her neurology residency and stroke and Neurocritical care fellowships at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. Since arriving at Mount Sinai, she has introduced new technology to the neuro-intensive care unit, including Licox, Camino, arctic sun, innercool, microdialysis, EEG monitoring, multi-modality transcranial Doppler, non-invasive cardiac monitoring (Flotrak) and the bedmaster data collection system.

She has written and instituted a variety of clinical protocols including guidelines for management of subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage, status epilepticus, induced hypothermia, induced normothermia, management of elevated intracranial pressure, donation after cardiac death and management of potential organ donors. She is the author of a handbook of Neurocritical care, Decision Making in Neurocritical Care, to be released in April 2009 (Thieme) and has authored several peer reviewed articles as well as numerous book chapters (see Publications link). Dr. Frontera is an active member of the Neurocritical Care Society, an editor on the Neurocritical Care Society Web site and on the editorial board of the journal Neurocritical Care.

Dr. Frontera is the principal investigator on two ongoing local IRB approved projects, "Intracranial Hemorrhage Outcomes Project (IHOP)" (GCO# 07-1321) and "Prediction of Postoperative Recurrence of Subdural Hematoma using CT Perfusion" (GCO#08-1470) and is site principal investigator for the NIH funded ARUBA trial (A Randomized Study of Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous malformations) and the upcoming 4 BALANCE Beriplex trial (prothrombin complex concentrates for reversal of hemorrhage in coagulopathic patients, see our Research section). She is the leader of NYC Project Hypothermia at Mount Sinai, which is a Greater New York Hospital Association initiative in conjunction with FDNY for induced hypothermia after cardiac arrest. Dr. Frontera is also the chair of the Mount Sinai organ donation council and a member of the NY Jets spinal cord injury team led by Dr. Andrew Hecht of Mount Sinai Orthopedic surgery. Areas of research interest include subarachnoid hemorrhage, subdural hemorrhage and cerebrovascular autoregulation.

See Dr. Jennifer Frontera's Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Dr. Errol Gordon joined the Mount Sinai staff as an assistant professor of neurosurgery and neurology in July 2008. Dr. Gordon is board certified in neurology and internal medicine and subspecialty UCNS board certified in Neurocritical care. He completed his residency training at the Medical College of Wisconsin and his fellowship training in Neurocritical care at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York.

See Dr. Errol Gordon's Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

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