Associate Professor Chris Levi

Christopher Levi is conjoint Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle, Director of Acute Stroke Services, John Hunter Hospital and Medical Director, National Stroke Foundation. An academic stroke neurologist (full-time senior staff specialist) his research work is in the fields of acute stroke imaging, stroke therapy trials, genetic epidemology and implementation and evaluation of improved systems of care for stroke. He sat on the writing committee for 2007 National Stategic Improvement Framework for Heart Stroke and Vascular Disease and the Writing Committee for 2007 National Stroke Foundation, Acute Stroke Care Guidelines. He is a member of the NSW Department of Health Physicians taskforce, lead clinician in the NSW Rural Stroke Unit Project evaluating the implementation and impact of new rural models of organsied stroke care.

Top 4 Publications:
Davis S, Donnan G, Parsons M, Levi C et al for the EPITHET Study Group.  Echoplanar Imaging Thrombolytic Evaluation Trial (EPITHET): Effects of tPA on Stroke Evolution Beyond 3 Hours.  The Lancet Neurology. 2008;7:299-309.

Parsons, M.W., Pepper, E.M., Chan, V., Siddique, S., Rajaratnam, S., Bateman, G.A., Levi, C.R.  Perfusion computed tomography: prediction of final infarct extent and stroke outcome.  Ann Neurol 2006;59(4):726.

Levi, C., Stork, J.L., Chambers, B.R., Abbott, A.L., Cameron, H.M., Peters, A., Royle, J.P., Roberts, A.K., Fell, G., Hoare, M.C., Chan, A.T.W., Donnan, G.A. Dextran reduces embolic signals after carotid endarterectomy. Annals of Neurology 2001;50:544-547.

Levi, C.R., O’Malley, H.M., Fell, G., Roberts, A.K., Hoare, M.C., Royle, J.P., Chan, A., Beiles, B.C., Chambers, B.R., Bladin, C.F., Donnan, G.A. Transcranial Doppler detected cerebral microembolism following carotid endarterectomy: high microembolic signal loads predict postoperative cerebral ischaemia. Brain 1997;120:621-629.