Advanced in Traumatic Brain Injury
Advanced in Traumatic Brain Injury
1800 Orleans Street, 
Baltimore, MD 

Overview

Geoffrey S. F. Ling, M.D., Ph.D., is a medical doctor who retired from the United States Army as a colonel. He served as the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office and is an expert in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Prominent in his research portfolio are neuroscience, specifically, preventing violent explosive neurologic trauma (PREVENT); prevention of traumatic brain injury; and development of responsive, brain-controlled, artificial arms. He also serves as the deputy director of the Defense Sciences Office. Ling is a recipient of the Humanitarian Award from the Brain Mapping Foundation. Ling earned his bachelor's degree with honors from Washington University, and earned his doctorate in pharmacology from Cornell University School of Medicine. He completed postdoctoral training in neuropharmacology at the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. Ling earned an M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Both his neurology internship and later residency were completed at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Ling also completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, in the neurosciences critical care unit (NCCU). Recent News Articles and Media Coverage Degrees of Freedom, A scientist's work linking minds and machines helps a paralyzed woman escape her body. The New Yorker (Nov, 2018).

Dr. Ling is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. His top areas of expertise are Ear Barotrauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Concussion, and Increased Intracranial Pressure.

His clinical research consists of co-authoring 75 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 25 articles in the study of Traumatic Brain Injury.

Graduate Institution
Weill Cornell Medical College, PhD, 1982
Residency
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Neurology, 1993
Specialties
Neurology
Anesthesiology
Licenses
Anesthesiology in MD
Board Certifications
American Board Of Psychiatry And Neurology
Fellowships
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Neurology, 1995
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1984
Hospital Affiliations
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Languages Spoken
English
Gender
Male

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Locations

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

Clinical Research

Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.


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Neurologist Susanne Muehlschlegel is an internationally known clinician-researcher who specializes in critically ill patients as well as understanding and improving shared decision-making and the ways physicians derive and convey health care recommendations and prognostication to families of neuro-critically ill patients. Her empirical family- and patient-centered research intersects with decision-science, qualitative and mixed-methods research, neurology, neurosurgery, and critical care medicine. She strongly believes that involving families and other stakeholders in her research will positively impact the clinical care of neurocritically ill patients. More about her research: Muehlschlegel Lab Dr. Muehlschlegel earned her medical degree at Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany. She completed an internship in internal medicine followed by residency training at Shands Hospital and Malcolm Randall Veteran Affairs Medical Center at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She finished her fellowship training in neurocritical care at the Harvard Combined Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and she obtained her master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the co-chair of a large international guideline on neuroprognostication, a joint guideline between the Neurocritical Care Society and the German Society for Neuro-Intensive Care Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurointensivmedizin). She served as the leader of the “Curing Coma” Common Data Elements subgroup for “Goals of Care Decisions / Family Data” with national and international group members. She also served as co-chair of the NIH/NINDS-funded Family Experience Workshop after Cardiac Arrest and Severe Neurotrauma. Dr. Muehlschlegel is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury. Her top areas of expertise are Traumatic Brain Injury, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Stroke, Craniectomy, and Gastrostomy.

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