Christine Fox, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 09/2021
• M.A.S. in Clinical Research Graduate Division (Advance Training in Clinical Research) University of California, San Francisco 2012
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2004

Websites

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• Clinical Profile at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital (ucsfbenioffchildrens.org)

Publications (72)

Top publication keywords:
SeizuresInfantAnemia, Sickle CellStrokeEpilepsyMoyamoya DiseaseVertebral ArteryChild, PreschoolIschemiaChildCerebral RevascularizationHeadache Disorders, PrimaryBrain IschemiaCerebral Arterial DiseasesVasoconstriction

• Risk factors associated with in-hospital complications for pediatric sickle-cell disease-associated moyamoya syndrome: a nationwide cross-sectional study.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2024 Osorio RC, Raygor KP, Rinaldo L, Fox CK, Bhasin N, Abla AA, Gupta N
• Abstract 112: Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke: An Unanticipated Natural Experiment.
  Stroke 2024 Heather J Fullerton, Clara Di Germanio, Nancy K Hills, Lauren A Beslow, Dana D Cummings, Nomazulu Dlamini, Christine K Fox, Lisa R Sun, Philip Norris
• Abstract TMP2: Longitudinal Risk of Seizures in Patients With Brain Arteriovenous Malformations.
  Stroke 2024 Samyami S Chowdhury, Jeffrey Nelson, Shantel Weinsheimer, Jonas Schollenberger, Heather J Fullerton, Christine K Fox, Helen Kim
• Abstract TMP60: Contralesional Brain Regions Mirror the Volume Changes of Their Homologous Counterparts in the Ipsilesional Hemisphere in Children During the First Year After Unilateral Intracerebral Hemorrhage.
  Stroke 2024 Hannah L Choi, Shivani Mahuvakar, Lanya T Cai, Helen Kim, David A Saloner, Christine K Fox, Jarod Roland, Heather J Fullerton, Pratik Mukherjee
• Abstract TP6: Identification of Circulating Epigenetic Biomarkers for Seizure in Brain Arteriovenous Malformation by Methylome Profiling.
  Stroke 2024 Peter Park, Jeffrey Nelson, Christine K Fox, Adam Numis, Nerissa Ko, Ethan Winkler, Charles McCulloch, Helen Kim, Shantel Weinsheimer

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• Abstract WP217: 4D Flow MRI Monitoring of Pediatric Brain Arteriovenous Malformations: A Feasibility Study.
  Stroke 2024 Jonas Schollenberger, Shivani Mahuvakar, Christine K Fox, Pratik Mukherjee, Heather J Fullerton, Helen Kim, David Saloner
• Multicenter Study of Long-Term Outcomes and Quality of Life in PHACE Syndrome after Age 10.
  The Journal of pediatrics 2024 Braun M, Frieden IJ, Siegel DH, George E, Hess CP, Fox CK, Chamlin SL, Drolet BA, Metry D, Pope E, Powell J, Holland K, Ulschmid C, Liang MG, Barry KK, Ho T, Cotter C, Baselga E, Bosquez D, Jain SN, …
• A quantitative EEG index for the recognition of arterial ischemic stroke in children.
  Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2023 Caffarelli M, Karukonda V, Aghaeeaval M, McQuillen PS, Numis AL, Mackay MT, Press CA, Wintermark M, Fox CK, Amorim E, SIPS Investigators
• 350 A Comparison of Incidental and Symptomatic Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations in Children.
  Neurosurgery 2023 Alex Y. Lu, Ethan A. Winkler, Joseph Garcia, Kunal P. Raygor, Heather Fullerton, Christine Fox, Helen Kim, Kurtis Ian Auguste, Peter P. Sun, Steven Hetts, Michael T. Lawton, Adib Adnan Abla, Nalin …
• A comparison of incidental and symptomatic unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations in children.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2023 Lu AY, Winkler EA, Garcia JH, Raygor KP, Fullerton HJ, Fox CK, Kim H, Auguste KI, Sun PP, Hetts SW, Lawton MT, Abla AA, Gupta N
• Abstract 52: Prevalence Of Somatic Activating Kras Mutations In Pediatric And Adult Sporadic Brain Arteriovenous Malformations.
  Stroke 2023 Ethan A Winkler, Joseph Garcia, Cynthia Tsang, Jeffrey Nelson, Charles McCulloch, Shantel Weinsheimer, Christine K Fox, Heather Fullerton, Nerissa Ko, Hua Su, Tomasz Nowakowski, Daniel L Cooke, Steven…
• Abstract TP157: Interleukin Plasma Levels And Risk Of Hemorrhage In Pediatric Brain Arteriovenous Malformation Patients.
  Stroke 2023 Shweta A Chawla, Shantel Weinsheimer, Jeffrey Nelson, Charles McCulloch, Adib Abla, Nalin Gupta, Daniel L Cooke, Steven Hetts, David Saloner, Yi Li, Christine K Fox, Heather J Fullerton, Helen Kim
• Hemorrhagic Stroke in Children and Adults With Sickle Cell Anemia: The Post-STOP Cohort.
  Stroke 2022 Fox CK, Leykina L, Hills NK, Kwiatkowski JL, Kanter J, Strouse JJ, Voeks JH, Fullerton HJ, Adams RJ, Post-STOP Study Group
• Socioeconomic factors associated with pediatric moyamoya disease hospitalizations: a nationwide cross-sectional study.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2022 Raygor KP, Phelps RRL, Rutledge C, Raper DMS, Molinaro A, Fox CK, Gupta N, Abla AA
• Validation of the Ruptured Arteriovenous Malformation Grading Scale in a pediatric cohort.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2022 Garcia JH, Rutledge C, Winkler EA, Carrete L, Morshed RA, Lu AY, Saggi S, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Kim H, Cooke DL, Hetts SW, Lawton MT, Gupta N, Abla AA
• Maximizing Brain Health After Hemorrhagic Stroke: Bugher Foundation Centers of Excellence.
  Stroke 2022 Sheth KN, Anderson CD, Biffi A, Dlamini N, Falcone GJ, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Greenberg SM, Hemphill JC, Kim A, Kim H, Ko NU, Roland JL, Sansing LH, van Veluw SJ, Rosand J
• Abstract TMP91: Healthcare Utilization For Headache And Anxiety After Surgical Revascularization In Children With Moyamoya Vasculopathy.
  Stroke 2022 Ariana J Andere, Jasmin Dao, Amy Gelfand, Heather J Fullerton, Christine K Fox
• Factors associated with seizures at initial presentation in pediatric patients with cerebral arteriovenous malformations.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2021 Garcia JH, Winkler EA, Morshed RA, Lu A, Ammanuel SG, Saggi S, Wang EJ, Braunstein S, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Kim H, Cooke DL, Hetts SW, Lawton MT, Abla AA, Gupta N
• Modified Pediatric ASPECTS: Building Tools for Future Pediatric Stroke Studies.
  Neurology 2021 Lee S, Fox CK
• Seizure Incidence Rates in Children and Adults With Familial Cerebral Cavernous Malformations.
  Neurology 2021 Fox CK, Nelson J, McCulloch CE, Weinsheimer S, Pawlikowska L, Hart B, Mabray MC, Zafar A, Morrison L, Zabramski JM, Akers A, Kim H
• Assessing the association of common genetic variants in EPHB4 and RASA1 with phenotype severity in familial cerebral cavernous malformation.
  Molecular genetics & genomic medicine 2021 Choksi F, Weinsheimer S, Nelson J, Pawlikowska L, Fox CK, Zafar A, Mabray MC, Zabramski J, Akers A, Hart BL, Morrison L, McCulloch CE, Kim H
• Long-Term Risk of Epilepsy After Pediatric Stroke and Potential Genetic Vulnerabilities.
  Stroke 2021 Beslow LA, Helbig I, Fox CK
• Pediatric moyamoya MRI score: an imaging-based scale to predict outcomes in surgically treated pediatric patients with moyamoya.
  Neurosurgical focus 2021 Garcia JH, Morshed RA, Winkler EA, Li Y, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Rutledge C, Beniwal AS, Lawton MT, Abla AA, Gupta N, Hetts SW
• Multiple Tumor-Associated Intracranial Aneurysms Adjacent to a Suprasellar Germ Cell Tumor: Case Report and Review of Literature.
  Pediatric neurosurgery 2021 Yue JK, Chang D, Oh T, Winkler EA, Lu AY, Hetts SW, Young EP, Reddy AT, Fox CK, Abla AA, Roland JL
• Pediatric Ischemic Stroke: An Infrequent Complication of SARS-CoV-2.
  Annals of neurology 2021 Beslow LA, Linds AB, Fox CK, Kossorotoff M, Zuñiga Zambrano YC, Hernández-Chávez M, Hassanein SMA, Byrne S, Lim M, Maduaka N, Zafeiriou D, Dowling MM, Felling RJ, Rafay MF, Lehman LL, Noetzel MJ, …
• Asymptomatic rotational vertebral artery compression in a child due to head positioning for cranial surgery: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2021 Caton MT, Narsinh K, Baker A, Abla AA, Roland JL, Halbach VV, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Hetts SW
• Clinical outcomes after revascularization for pediatric moyamoya disease and syndrome: A single-center series.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2020 Morshed RA, Abla AA, Murph D, Dao JM, Winkler EA, Burkhardt JK, Colao K, Hetts SW, Fullerton HJ, Lawton MT, Gupta N, Fox CK
• Single-center series of boys with recurrent strokes and rotational vertebral arteriopathy.
  Neurology 2020 Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Hetts SW, Halbach VV, Auguste KI, Lawton MT, Gupta N
• Bringing high-grade arteriovenous malformations under control: clinical outcomes following multimodality treatment in children.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2020 Winkler EA, Lu A, Morshed RA, Yue JK, Rutledge WC, Burkhardt JK, Patel AB, Ammanuel SG, Braunstein S, Fox CK, Fullerton HJ, Kim H, Cooke D, Hetts SW, Lawton MT, Abla AA, Gupta N
• Validation of the pediatric stroke outcome measure for classifying overall neurological deficit.
  Pediatric research 2020 Slim M, Fox CK, Friefeld S, Dlamini N, Westmacott R, Moharir M, MacGregor D, deVeber G, SIPS Investigators
• Review on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.
  Seminars in neurology 2020 Qubty W, Irwin SL, Fox CK
• Abstract 89: Incidence and Characteristics of Hemorrhagic Stroke Among Post-STOP Participants.
  Stroke 2020 Liza A Leykina, Christine K Fox, Nancy K Hills, Julie Kanter, Janet L Kwiatkowski, Ariana Tinker, Jenifer H Voeks, Heather J Fullerton, Robert J Adams
• Endovascular Therapy for Childhood Stroke-Working Together to Reach Prime Time.
  JAMA neurology 2020 Fox C, Dlamini N
• Comparative study of posterior and anterior circulation stroke in childhood: Results from the International Pediatric Stroke Study.
  Neurology 2019 Goeggel Simonetti B, Rafay MF, Chung M, Lo WD, Beslow LA, Billinghurst LL, Fox CK, Pagnamenta A, Steinlin M, Mackay MT, IPSS Study Group
• Seizures and outcome one year after neonatal and childhood cerebral sinovenous thrombosis.
  Pediatric Neurology 2019 Aleksandra Mineyko, Adam Kirton, Lori Billinghurst, Nana Nino Tatishvili, Max Wintermark, Gabrielle deVeber, Christine Fox, SIPS Investigators
• Clinical and Imaging Outcomes After Combined Direct and Indirect Bypass for Pediatric Moyamoya Disease: A Single Center Retrospective Series.
  Neurosurgery 2019 Ramin A Morshed, Daniel Murph, Jasmin Dao, Kathleen Colao, Lauro Avalos, Steven Hetts, Adib A Abla, Christine Fox, Michael T Lawton, Nalin Gupta
• Arterial Ischemic Stroke Secondary to Cardiac Disease in Neonates and Children.
  Pediatric neurology 2019 Chung MG, Guilliams KP, Wilson JL, Beslow LA, Dowling MM, Friedman NR, Hassanein SMA, Ichord R, Jordan LC, Mackay MT, Rafay MF, Rivkin M, Torres M, Zafeiriou D, deVeber G, Fox CK, International …
• Arteriopathy Influences Pediatric Ischemic Stroke Presentation, but Sickle Cell Disease Influences Stroke Management.
  Stroke 2019 Guilliams KP, Kirkham FJ, Holzhauer S, Pavlakis S, Philbrook B, Amlie-Lefond C, Noetzel MJ, Dlamini N, Sharma M, Carpenter JL, Fox CK, Torres M, Ichord RN, Jordan LC, Dowling MM
• Abstract TMP51: Pre-existing Atherosclerotic Risk Factors Increase Short-Term Ischemic Stroke Risk After Traumatic Head or Neck Injury.
  Stroke 2019 Helayne R Feferman, Heather J Fullerton, Adam Numis, Nancy K Hills, David R Vinson, Stephen Sidney, Christine K Fox
• Socioeconomic determinants of outcome after childhood arterial ischemic stroke.
  Neurology 2018 Jordan LC, Hills NK, Fox CK, Ichord RN, Pergami P, deVeber GA, Fullerton HJ, Lo W, VIPS Investigators
• Children with post-stroke epilepsy have poorer outcomes one year after stroke.
  International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2018 Fox CK, Jordan LC, Beslow LA, Armstrong J, Mackay MT, deVeber G
• Abstract 18: Anticonvulsant Medication Practice Varies After Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke.
  Stroke 2018 Kristin P Guiliams, Michael M Dowling, Dimitrios I Zafeiriou, Neil Friedman, Gabrielle deVeber, Christine K Fox
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  Critical Care Medicine 2018 Helayne Feferman, Christine Fox, Heather Fullerton
• Population-based study of ischemic stroke risk after trauma in children and young adults.
  Neurology 2017 Fox CK, Hills NK, Vinson DR, Numis AL, Dicker RA, Sidney S, Fullerton HJ
• Abstract WMP111: Socioeconomic Determinants of Outcome After Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke.
  Stroke 2017 Lori C Jordan, Nancy K Hills, Warren Lo, Rebecca N Ichord, Christine K Fox, Paola Pergami, Jorina Elbers, Gabrielle A deVeber, Heather J Fullerton
• Inflammatory Biomarkers in Childhood Arterial Ischemic Stroke: Correlates of Stroke Cause and Recurrence.
  Stroke 2016 Fullerton HJ, deVeber GA, Hills NK, Dowling MM, Fox CK, Mackay MT, Kirton A, Yager JY, Bernard TJ, Hod EA, Wintermark M, Elkind MS, VIPS Investigators
• Prolonged or recurrent acute seizures after pediatric arterial ischemic stroke are associated with increasing epilepsy risk.
  Developmental medicine and child neurology 2016 Fox CK, Mackay MT, Dowling MM, Pergami P, Titomanlio L, Deveber G, SIPS Investigators
• Indirect and direct revascularization of ACTA2 cerebral arteriopathy: feasibility of the superficial temporal artery to anterior cerebral artery bypass with posterior auricular artery interposition graft: case report.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2016 Rutledge WC, Choudhri O, Walcott BP, Benet A, Fox CK, Gupta N, Lawton MT
• Neonatal seizures triple the risk of a remote seizure after perinatal ischemic stroke.
  Neurology 2016 Fox CK, Glass HC, Sidney S, Smith SE, Fullerton HJ
• Abstract WMP103: Epilepsy is Associated With Poorer Neurologic Outcome After Pediatric Arterial Ischemic Stroke.
  Stroke 2016 Christine K Fox, Lori C Jordan, Mark T Mackay, Gabrielle deVeber
• Abstract WP201: Ischemic Stroke Risk After Traumatic Head or Neck Injury.
  Stroke 2016 Christine K Fox, Nancy K Hills, Stephen Sidney, David R Vinson, Heather J Fullerton
• Community-based case-control study of childhood stroke risk associated with congenital heart disease.
  Stroke 2014 Fox CK, Sidney S, Fullerton HJ
• Stroke in children with cardiac disease: report from the International Pediatric Stroke Study Group Symposium.
  Pediatric neurology 2014 Sinclair AJ, Fox CK, Ichord RN, Almond CS, Bernard TJ, Beslow LA, Chan AK, Cheung M, deVeber G, Dowling MM, Friedman N, Giglia TM, Guilliams KP, Humpl T, Licht DJ, Mackay MT, Jordan LC
• Abstract T MP66: Injury to the Head or Neck Increases Risk of Ischemic Stroke Three-fold After Trauma.
  Stroke 2014 Christine K Fox, Adam L Numis, Steve Sidney, Heather J Fullerton
• Arterial ischemic stroke in children: risk factors and etiologies.
  Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2014 Numis AL, Fox CK
• Acute seizures predict epilepsy after childhood stroke.
  Annals of neurology 2013 Fox CK, Glass HC, Sidney S, Lowenstein DH, Fullerton HJ
• Abstract 77: Posterior Circulation Stroke in Children Due to Cervical Spine Abnormalities.
  Stroke 2013 Christine K Fox, Charles E Stout, Nalin Gupta, Michael T Lawton, Christopher F Dowd, Heather J Fullerton
• High critical care usage due to pediatric stroke: results of a population-based study.
  Neurology 2012 Fox CK, Johnston SC, Sidney S, Fullerton HJ
• Abstract 41: Acute Seizures and Neurologic Deficits Predict Epilepsy After Pediatric Stroke.
  Stroke 2012 Christine K Fox, Hannah C Glass, S. Claiborne Johnston, Stephen Sidney, Mai N Nguyen-Huynh, Heather J Fullerton
• Recent advances in childhood arterial ischemic stroke.
  Current atherosclerosis reports 2010 Fox CK, Fullerton HJ
• Minocycline Confers Early but Transient Protection in the Immature Brain following Focal Cerebral Ischemiareperfusion.
  Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 2006 Christine Fox, Andra Dingman, Nikita Derugin, Michael F Wendland, Catherine Manabat, Shaoquan Ji, Donna M Ferriero, Zinaida S Vexler
• Magnetic resonance imaging as a surrogate measure for histological sub-chronic endpoint in a neonatal rat stroke model.
  Brain research 2005 Derugin N, Dingman A, Wendland MF, Fox C, Bollen A, Vexler ZS
• Minocycline confers early but transient protection in the immature brain following focal cerebral ischemia-reperfusion.
  Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2005 Fox C, Dingman A, Derugin N, Wendland MF, Manabat C, Ji S, Ferriero DM, Vexler ZS
• Infant botulism, type F, presenting at 54 hours of life.
  Pediatric neurology 2005 Keet CA, Fox CK, Margeta M, Marco E, Shane AL, Dearmond SJ, Strober JB, Miller SP
• Recent advances in infant botulism.
  Pediatric neurology 2005 Fox CK, Keet CA, Strober JB
• Regulation of hypoxia-inducible factor 1alpha and induction of vascular endothelial growth factor in a rat neonatal stroke model.
  Neurobiology of disease 2003 Mu D, Jiang X, Sheldon RA, Fox CK, Hamrick SE, Vexler ZS, Ferriero DM
• Reperfusion differentially induces caspase-3 activation in ischemic core and penumbra after stroke in immature brain.
  Stroke 2003 Manabat C, Han BH, Wendland M, Derugin N, Fox CK, Choi J, Holtzman DM, Ferriero DM, Vexler ZS
• Apoptotic pathways in primary biliary cirrhosis and autoimmune hepatitis.
  Liver 2001 Fox CK, Furtwaengler A, Nepomuceno RR, Martinez OM, Krams SM
• DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF CD4 AND CD8 CELLS ON APOPTOSIS IN SMALL INTESTINAL TRANSPLANTATION.
  Transplantation Journal 1998 Sheri M. Krams, Karen J. Whitmer, Michihiro Hayashi, Christine Fox, Carlos O. Esquivel, Olivia M. Martinez
• DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF CD4 AND CD8 CELLS ON APOPTOSIS IN SMALL INTESTINAL TRANSPLANTATION.
  Transplantation Journal 1998 Sheri M. Krams, Karen J. Whitmer, Michihiro Hayashi, Christine Fox, Carlos O. Esquivel, Olivia M. Martinez
• CD8+ cells are not necessary for allograft rejection or the induction of apoptosis in an experimental model of small intestinal transplantation.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 1998 Krams SM, Hayashi M, Fox CK, Villanueva JC, Whitmer KJ, Burns W, Esquivel CO, Martinez OM
• Human hepatocytes produce an isoform of FAS that inhibits apoptosis.
  Transplantation 1998 Krams SM, Fox CK, Beatty PR, Cao S, Villanueva JC, Esquivel CO, Martinez OM