Faculty Profile

Lewis Morgenstern

Lewis Morgenstern, MD

  • Professor, Epidemiology
  • Professor, Neurology Emergency Medicine and Neurosurgery
  • Director, Stroke Program

  • MD, University of Michigan Medical School, 1990
  • BA, in Psychology, Pomona College, 1984

Brain Attach Surveillance in Courpus Christi (BASIC) project, an NIH funded surveillance project examining the social context of stroke in Mexican Americans.

Eden, S.V., Morgenstern, L.B., Sekar, P., Moomaw, C.J., Haverbusch, M., Flaherty, M.L., Broderick, J.P., Woo, D. (In Press). The role of race in time to treatment after subarachnoid hemorrhage. Neurosurgery.

Brown, D.L., Al-Senani, F., Lisabeth, L.D., Farnie, M.A., Colletti, L.A., Langa, K.M., Fendrick, A.M., Garcia, N.M., Smith, M.A., Morgenstern, L.B. (2006). Defining cause of death in stroke patients: the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi Project. American Journal of Epidemiology.

Lisabeth, L.D., Diex Roux, A.V., Escobar, J.D., Smith, M.A., Morgenstern, L.B. (). Neighborhood environment and risk of ischemic stroke. American Journal of Epidemiology.

Lisabeth, L.D., Smith, M.A., Brown, D.L., Moye, L.A., Risser, J.M.H., Morgenstern, L.B. (2006). Ethnic differences in stroke recurrence. Annals of Neurology 469-475.

Brown, D.L., Boden-Albala, B., Langa, K.M., Lisabeth, L.D., Fair, M., Smith, M.A., Sacco, R.L., Morgenstern, L.B. (2006). Projected costs of ischemic stroke: comparison of Hispanics, African-Americans,and whites. Neurology 1390-1395.

Lisabeth, L.D., Smith, M.A., Brown, D.L., Uchino, K., Morgenstern, L.B. (2005). Family history and stroke outcome in a bi-ethnic, population-based stroke surveillance study. BMC Neurology.

Lisabeth, L.D., Ireland, J.K., Risser, J.M.H., Brown, D.L., Smith, M.A, Garcia, N.M., Morgenstern, L.B. (2004). Stroke risk following transient ischemic attack in a population-based setting. Stroke 1842-1846.

Uchino, K., Risser, J.M.H., Smith, M.A., Moye, L.A., Morgenstern, L.B. (2004). Ischemic Stroke sub-types among Mexican Americans and non Hispanic whites: The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project. Neurology 574-576.

Morgenstern, L.B., Smith, M.A., Lisabeth, L.D., Risser, J.M.H., Uchino, K., Garcia, N., Longwell, P.J., McFarling, D.A., Akuwumi, O., Al-Wabil, A., Al-Senani, F., Brown, D.L., Moyé, L.A. (2004). Excess stroke in Mexican Americans compared with non-Hispanic whites: The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) Project. American Journal Epidemiology 376-383.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0316
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Email:  lmorgens@umich.edu

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