Donald Easton, MD
Professor Emeritus
Neurology
School of Medicine
J. Donald Easton, MD, was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He graduated with honors from the University of Washington School of Medicine and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha.
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Dr. Easton completed his internship in medicine and residency in neurology at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and assumed his first academic appointment at the University of California at San Diego. In 1986 he was appointed Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In January 2010 Dr. Easton joined our faculty in the Department of Neurology at UCSF to work with Dr. Clay Johnston on his NIH-funded POINT (Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and minor ischemic stroke) trial.
Dr. Easton has been a Director of the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, a Councilor of the American Neurological Association, an officer of the Association of University Professors of Neurology, Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Neurology, Chairman of the American Heart Association Stroke Council, Chairman of the Neurological Disorders Program, Project Review Committee-A at the NIH, and a member of the NIH Advisory Council for the Neurological Institute.
Dr. Easton has served on numerous Steering, Advisory, Organizing and Monitoring Committees for many clinical trials and congresses. He also has served on the editorial boards of many journals. He has published more than 300 journal articles, books, chapters & miscellaneous publications.
He is an honorary member of the Stroke Society of Australasia, the Austrian Society for Stroke Research, the Belgian Stroke Society, the Brazilian Society of Cerebrovascular Diseases and the Mexican Association of Cerebral Vascular Disease.
Education & Training
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- Residency Neurology New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center 1968
- Intern Medicine New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center 1965
- MD School of Medicine University of Washington 1964
- BS Zoology Washington State University 1960
Websites
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- Department of Neurology (neurology.ucsf.edu)
Grants and Projects
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Publications (4)
Top publication keywords:
AdenosineIschemic Attack, TransientHemorrhageStrokeRiskProtein Kinase InhibitorsPrecursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaGenomicsGlioblastomaTranscriptomeSingle-Cell AnalysisNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalMedulloblastomaPurinergic P2Y Receptor AntagonistsAspirin
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Resolving medulloblastoma cellular architecture by single-cell genomics.
Nature 2019 Hovestadt V, Smith KS, Bihannic L, Filbin MG, Shaw ML, Baumgartner A, DeWitt JC, Groves A, Mayr L, Weisman HR, Richman AR, Shore ME, Goumnerova L, Rosencrance C, Carter RA, Phoenix TN, Hadley JL, Tong… -
Structure and evolution of double minutes in diagnosis and relapse brain tumors.
Acta neuropathologica 2018 Xu K, Ding L, Chang TC, Shao Y, Chiang J, Mulder H, Wang S, Shaw TI, Wen J, Hover L, McLeod C, Wang YD, Easton J, Rusch M, Dalton J, Downing JR, Ellison DW, Zhang J, Baker SJ, Wu G -
Risk for Major Bleeding in Patients Receiving Ticagrelor Compared With Aspirin After Transient Ischemic Attack or Acute Ischemic Stroke in the SOCRATES Study (Acute Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack Treated With Aspirin or Ticagrelor and Patient Outcomes).
Circulation 2017 Easton JD, Aunes M, Albers GW, Amarenco P, Bokelund-Singh S, Denison H, Evans SR, Held P, Jahreskog M, Jonasson J, Minematsu K, Molina CA, Wang Y, Wong KSL, Johnston SC, SOCRATES Steering Committee … -
Targetable kinase-activating lesions in Ph-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The New England journal of medicine 2014 Roberts KG, Li Y, Payne-Turner D, Harvey RC, Yang YL, Pei D, McCastlain K, Ding L, Lu C, Song G, Ma J, Becksfort J, Rusch M, Chen SC, Easton J, Cheng J, Boggs K, Santiago-Morales N, Iacobucci I, …