Shane Shahrestani, PhD

MS4 MD/PhD Student
Keck School of Medicine of USC

Shane Shahrestani is a 4th year MD/PhD student in the USC-Caltech program. He has matched at Cedars-Sinai and is starting his neurological surgery residency in June 2023. He also co-founded StrokeDx, Inc., which is a seed-stage startup focused on developing novel, portable, stroke diagnostic technology. Sincer 2020, he has published more than 80-PubMed indexed manuscripts and presented more than 100 abstracts at conferences internationally.

Poster(s):

• Developing Mixed-effects Models to Compare the Predictive Capability of Various Comorbidity Indices on Short-term Patient Outcomes Following Lumbar Fusion Procedures
  Friday, April 21, 2023

• Developing Non-linear K-nearest Neighbors Classification Algorithms to Identify Patients at High Risk of Increased Length of Hospital Stay Following Spine Surgery
  Friday, April 21, 2023

• Noninvasive Transcranial Classification of Stroke Using a Portable Eddy Current Damping Sensor: A First-in-man Clinical Study with Computational Modeling
  Friday, April 21, 2023

• Novel Psychiatric Disorders Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI): A Retrospective Multivariable Analysis with Screening Recommendations
  Friday, April 21, 2023

• Utilizing Diffusion Machine Learning Models to Modify Neuroimaging: A Novel Tool for Neurosurgical Pedagogy and Operative Planning
  Friday, April 21, 2023