David Caldwell, MD, PhD
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MD Medicine University of Washington 06/2021
• PhD Bioengineering University of Washington 06/2019
• MSE Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan 12/2012
• BSE Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan 05/2012

Publications (27)

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Collagen Type IReaction TimeDrug Resistant EpilepsyElectrodes, ImplantedBiomimetic MaterialsBrain Injuries, TraumaticEvoked Potentials, SomatosensoryDecompressive CraniectomyElectroencephalographyTouch PerceptionTouchNonlinear DynamicsSomatosensory CortexChitosanElectrocorticography

• Spinal Cord Perfusion Pressure Monitoring after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Indications, Techniques, and Future Horizons.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2026 Tang-Tan A, Caldwell DJ, Aabedi AA, Velasco MC, Manley GT, Tarapore PE, Yue JK
• Primary and Secondary Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury: Indications and Timing.
  Neurosurgery clinics of North America 2026 Caldwell DJ, Wang MB, Baumgartner ME, Yue JK
• Neuroworsening from a normal Glasgow Coma Scale Motor Score in the emergency department is an early predictor of neurosurgical intervention, hospital outcomes, and longitudinal disability in traumatic brain injury: A TRACK-TBI Study.
  Injury 2026 Yue JK, Fu AY, Elguindy MM, van Essen TA, Eagle SR, Caldwell DJ, Vassar MJ, Belton PJ, Gotthardt CJ, Bhattacharyay S, Chung JE, Satris GG, Vreeburg RJG, Schneider ALC, Lui A, Madhok DY, Halabi C, …
• Distance of bipolar re-referencing imparts nonlinear frequency-specific influences on intracranial recording signal measurements.
  Journal of neural engineering 2025 Caldwell DJ, Krish D, Chang EF, Kleen JK
• Transient postoperative femoral neuropathy following prone positioning for posterior spine surgery: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2025 Caldwell DJ, Dalle Ore C, Semonche A, Bhat N, Collins D, Panza F, Lim DA, Garga NI, Wang DD

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• Outcome comparison between interposition and "contactless" transposition microvascular decompression approaches for trigeminal neuralgia.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2025 Lee AT, Morshed RA, Kondapavulur S, Caldwell DJ, Nichols N, Smith G, Wang A, Ward M, Waung MW, Winkler E, Chang EF
• Timing of diffusion tensor imaging in the management of a ruptured pediatric arteriovenous malformation: illustrative case.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons 2024 Chen JS, Caldwell DJ, Falcone JA, Dalle Ore C, Sankaranarayanan V, Liu F, Hetts SW, Ho WS, Gupta N
• Acute hyponatremia post craniotomy resulting in a unilateral fixed and dilated pupil: A case study on diagnosis and management.
  Surgical neurology international 2024 Caldwell DJ, Scheer JK, Umbach G, Aghi MK
• Update on Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Rural and Underserved Regions: A Global Perspective.
  Journal of clinical medicine 2023 Yue JK, Krishnan N, Andrews JP, Semonche AM, Deng H, Aabedi AA, Wang AS, Caldwell DJ, Park C, Hirschhorn M, Ghoussaini KT, Oh T, Sun PP
• Predictors of Extreme Hospital Length of Stay After Traumatic Brain Injury.
  World neurosurgery 2022 Yue JK, Krishnan N, Chyall L, Haddad AF, Vega P, Caldwell DJ, Umbach G, Tantry E, Tarapore PE, Huang MC, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM
• Evacuation of a multi-loculated acute-on-chronic subdural hematoma using tandem bedside subdural evacuation port systems.
  Trauma case reports 2022 Yue JK, Haddad AF, Wang AS, Caldwell DJ, Umbach G, Digiorgio AM, Tarapore PE, Huang MC, Manley GT
• Complications associated with early cranioplasty for patients with traumatic brain injury: a 25-year single-center analysis.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2022 Eaton JC, Greil ME, Nistal D, Caldwell DJ, Robinson E, Aljuboori Z, Temkin N, Bonow RH, Chesnut RM
• Virtual Interviews in Neurosurgery Resident Selection-A Work in Progress.
  World neurosurgery 2021 Mohanty A, Caldwell DJ, Hadley CC, Gibson A, Ravanpay A, Patel AJ
• Validating Patient-Specific Finite Element Models of Direct Electrocortical Stimulation.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2021 Charlebois CM, Caldwell DJ, Rampersad SM, Janson AP, Ojemann JG, Brooks DH, MacLeod RS, Butson CR, Dorval AD
• The Kempe incision for decompressive craniectomy, craniotomy, and cranioplasty in traumatic brain injury and stroke.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2021 Abecassis IJ, Young CC, Caldwell DJ, Feroze AH, Williams JR, Meyer RM, Kellogg RT, Bonow RH, Chesnut RM
• Intraoperative Characterization of Subthalamic Nucleus-to-Cortex Evoked Potentials in Parkinson's Disease Deep Brain Stimulation.
  Frontiers in human neuroscience 2021 Levinson LH, Caldwell DJ, Cronin JA, Houston B, Perlmutter SI, Weaver KE, Herron JA, Ojemann JG, Ko AL
• Prevalence of control groups in cardiovascular clinical trials: An analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov from 2009 through 2019.
  American heart journal 2021 Zheutlin AR, Caldwell DJ, Al Danaf J, Shah RU
• Trends in Hypertension Clinical Trials Focused on Interventions Specific for Black Adults: An Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2020 Zheutlin AR, Caldwell D, Anstey DE, Conroy MB, Ogedegbe O, Bress AP
• Risk of hospital admission with coronavirus disease 2019 in healthcare workers and their households: nationwide linkage cohort study.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2020 Shah ASV, Wood R, Gribben C, Caldwell D, Bishop J, Weir A, Kennedy S, Reid M, Smith-Palmer A, Goldberg D, McMenamin J, Fischbacher C, Robertson C, Hutchinson S, McKeigue P, Colhoun H, McAllister DA
• Concurrent Deep Brain Stimulation Reduces the Direct Cortical Stimulation Necessary for Motor Output.
  Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society 2020 Weaver KE, Caldwell DJ, Cronin JA, Kuo CH, Kogan M, Houston B, Sanchez V, Martinez V, Ojemann JG, Rane S, Ko AL
• Publisher Correction: Direct stimulation of somatosensory cortex results in slower reaction times compared to peripheral touch in humans.
  Scientific reports 2019 Caldwell DJ, Cronin JA, Wu J, Weaver KE, Ko AL, Rao RPN, Ojemann JG
• Direct Electrical Stimulation in Electrocorticographic Brain-Computer Interfaces: Enabling Technologies for Input to Cortex.
  Frontiers in neuroscience 2019 Caldwell DJ, Ojemann JG, Rao RPN
• Differentiation of epileptic regions from voluntary high-gamma activation via interictal cross-frequency windowed power-power correlation.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2019 Kogan M, Caldwell DJ, Hakimian S, Weaver KE, Ko AL, Ojemann JG
• Direct stimulation of somatosensory cortex results in slower reaction times compared to peripheral touch in humans.
  Scientific reports 2019 Caldwell DJ, Cronin JA, Wu J, Weaver KE, Ko AL, Rao RPN, Ojemann JG
• Dual-phase osteogenic and vasculogenic engineered tissue for bone formation.
  Tissue engineering. Part A 2014 Rao RR, Vigen ML, Peterson AW, Caldwell DJ, Putnam AJ, Stegemann JP
• Noninvasive quantification of in vitro osteoblastic differentiation in 3D engineered tissue constructs using spectral ultrasound imaging.
  PloS one 2014 Gudur MS, Rao RR, Peterson AW, Caldwell DJ, Stegemann JP, Deng CX
• Assembly of discrete collagen-chitosan microenvironments into multiphase tissue constructs.
  Advanced healthcare materials 2012 Caldwell DJ, Rao RR, Stegemann JP