Associate Professor
University of New Mexico
Andrew P Carlson, MD, MS-CR, FAANS, FAHA is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences at the University of New Mexico. He is a dual trained open and endovascular neurosurgeon with significant interest in neurocritical care and neurophysiology. His research focuses on "Brain Tsunamis": Huge waves of brain depolarization that ocurr after strokes and brain injuries and can have secondary damaging effects. These massive events were only recently discovered to ocurr in human brain injury due to the need for highly specialized brain monitoring techniques. Understanding this physiology and how it relates to brain injury may open the door to new efective treatments.
Dr Carlson serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Neurosurgery and is a Research Methodology Editor for Neurosurgery. He also serves on the ABPN neurocritical care examination comittee as an ABNS representative.
He is lucky to live in the most beautiful state in the country, in the shadow of the Sandia mountains of Albuquerque, NM with his wife and three daughters.