Edilberto Amorim, MD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

He has expertise in neurological intensive care, telemedicine, and multimodal brain monitoring with EEG. Dr. Amorim completed fellowship training in neurocritical care and epilepsy at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital (Harvard Medical School), followed by a postdoctoral training fellowship in neuroscience and machine learning at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (CSAIL: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT).

Dr. Amorim’s research focuses on coma neuroscience. He has a particular interest in non-invasive and invasive EEG time series modeling in coma and EEG data integration to other multimodal bio-signals, neuroimaging, and electronic health care data. He is a board certified neurocritical care physician and directs the Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology Service at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Prior to joining UCSF, he was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, and he remains a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Computational Neuroimaging Group at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

• Geometric and Morphologic Features of Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysms Associated with Methamphetamine Use.
  World neurosurgery 2022 Caton MT, Vitt J, Smith ER, Cooke D, Meisel K, Ko N, Amorim E
• High incidence of epileptiform activity in adults undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
  Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2022 Amorim E, Firme MS, Zheng WL, Shelton KT, Akeju O, Cudemus G, Yuval R, Westover MB
• Predicting Neurological Outcome From Electroencephalogram Dynamics in Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest With Deep Learning.
  IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering 2022 Zheng WL, Amorim E, Jing J, Wu O, Ghassemi M, Lee JW, Sivaraju A, Pang T, Herman ST, Gaspard N, Ruijter BJ, Tjepkema-Cloostermans MC, Hofmeijer J, van Putten MJAM, Westover MB
• Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome.
  PloS one 2022 Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Kyritsis N, Huie JR, Khatry S, Funk J, Hay J, Lofgreen A, Shah R, McCann C, Pascual LU, Amorim E, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Pan JZ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Whetstone…
• Perceptions of Critical Care Shortages, Resource Use, and Provider Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of 1,985 Health Care Providers in Brazil.
  Chest 2022 Lobo SM, Creutzfeldt CJ, Maia IS, Town JA, Amorim E, Kross EK, Çoruh B, Patel PV, Jannotta GE, Lewis A, Greer DM, Curtis JR, Sharma M, Wahlster S
• Severe cerebral edema in substance-related cardiac arrest patients.
  Resuscitation 2022 Kulpanowski AM, Copen WA, Hancock BL, Rosenthal ES, Schoenfeld DA, Dodelson JA, Edlow BL, Kimberly WT, Amorim E, Westover MB, Ning MM, Schaefer PW, Malhotra R, Giacino JT, Greer DM, Wu O
• Regional Distribution of Brain Injury After Cardiac Arrest: Clinical and Electrographic Correlates.
  Neurology 2022 Snider SB, Fischer D, McKeown ME, Cohen AL, Schaper FLWVJ, Amorim E, Fox MD, Scirica B, Bevers MB, Lee JW
• Predicting neurological outcome in comatose patients after cardiac arrest with multiscale deep neural networks.
  Resuscitation 2021 Zheng WL, Amorim E, Jing J, Ge W, Hong S, Wu O, Ghassemi M, Lee JW, Sivaraju A, Pang T, Herman ST, Gaspard N, Ruijter BJ, Sun J, Tjepkema-Cloostermans MC, Hofmeijer J, van Putten MJAM, Westover MB
• A Global Survey of the Effect of COVID-19 on Critical Care Training.
  ATS scholar 2021 Wahlster S, Sharma M, Çoruh B, Town JA, Lewis A, Lobo SM, Maia IS, Hartog C, Patel PV, Kross EK, Amorim E, Greer DM, Curtis JR, Creutzfeldt CJ
• A matter of timing: EEG monitoring for neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest in the era of targeted temperature management.
  Minerva anestesiologica 2021 Khazanova D, Douglas VC, Amorim E
• Proceedings from the Neurotherapeutics Symposium on Neurological Emergencies: Shaping the Future of Neurocritical Care.
  Neurocritical care 2020 Simpkins AN, Busl KM, Amorim E, Barnett-Tapia C, Cervenka MC, Dhakar MB, Etherton MR, Fung C, Griggs R, Holloway RG, Kelly AG, Khan IR, Lizarraga KJ, Madagan HG, Onweni CL, Mestre H, Rabinstein AA, …
• A Theoretical Paradigm for Evaluating Risk-Benefit of Status Epilepticus Treatment.
  Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 2020 Amorim E, McGraw CM, Westover MB
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of multimodal prognostication in cardiac arrest with EEG monitoring.
  Neurology 2020 Amorim E, Mo SS, Palacios S, Ghassemi MM, Weng WH, Cash SS, Bianchi MT, Westover MB
• A standardized nomenclature for spectrogram EEG patterns: Inter-rater agreement and correspondence with common intensive care unit EEG patterns.
  Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2020 Zafar SF, Amorim E, Williamsom CA, Jing J, Gilmore EJ, Haider HA, Swisher C, Struck A, Rosenthal ES, Ng M, Schmitt S, Lee JW, Brandon Westover M
• MRI-EEG correlation for outcome prediction in postanoxic myoclonus: A multicenter study.
  Neurology 2020 Beuchat I, Sivaraju A, Amorim E, Gilmore EJ, Dunet V, Rossetti AO, Westover MB, Hsu L, Scirica BM, Silva D, Tang K, Lee JW
• A Matter of Timing: EEG Monitoring for Neurological Prognostication After Cardiac Arrest in the Era of Targeted Temperature Management. Minerva Anestesiologica
  A Matter of Timing: EEG Monitoring for Neurological Prognostication After Cardiac Arrest in the Era of Targeted Temperature Management. Minerva Anestesiologica 2020
• Quantitative Electroencephalogram Trends Predict Recovery in Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy.
  Critical care medicine 2019 Ghassemi MM, Amorim E, Alhanai T, Lee JW, Herman ST, Sivaraju A, Gaspard N, Hirsch LJ, Scirica BM, Biswal S, Moura Junior V, Cash SS, Brown EN, Mark RG, Westover MB, Critical Care Electroencephalogram…
• Quantitative EEG reactivity and machine learning for prognostication in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
  Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2019 Amorim E, van der Stoel M, Nagaraj SB, Ghassemi MM, Jing J, O'Reilly UM, Scirica BM, Lee JW, Cash SS, Westover MB
• Smaller left anterior cingulate cortex in non-bipolar relatives of patients with bipolar disorder.
  Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) 2018 Sanches M, Amorim E, Mwangi B, Zunta-Soares GB, Soares JC
• Estimating the False Positive Rate of Absent Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Cardiac Arrest Prognostication.
  Critical care medicine 2018 Amorim E, Ghassemi MM, Lee JW, Greer DM, Kaplan PW, Cole AJ, Cash SS, Bianchi MT, Westover MB
• EEG Reactivity Evaluation Practices for Adult and Pediatric Hypoxic-Ischemic Coma Prognostication in North America.
  Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 2018 Amorim E, Gilmore EJ, Abend NS, Hahn CD, Gaspard N, Herman ST, Hirsch LJ, Lee JW, Cash SS, Westover MB
• Performance of Spectrogram-Based Seizure Identification of Adult EEGs by Critical Care Nurses and Neurophysiologists.
  Journal of clinical neurophysiology : official publication of the American Electroencephalographic Society 2017 Amorim E, Williamson CA, Moura LMVR, Shafi MM, Gaspard N, Rosenthal ES, Guanci MM, Rajajee V, Westover MB
• Continuous EEG monitoring enhances multimodal outcome prediction in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury.
  Resuscitation 2016 Amorim E, Rittenberger JC, Zheng JJ, Westover MB, Baldwin ME, Callaway CW, Popescu A, Post Cardiac Arrest Service
• Rapidly-progressive catatonia responsive to zolpidem in a patient with ovarian teratoma-associated paraneoplastic encephalitis.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2016 Amorim E, McDade EM
• Malignant EEG patterns in cardiac arrest patients treated with targeted temperature management who survive to hospital discharge.
  Resuscitation 2015 Amorim E, Rittenberger JC, Baldwin ME, Callaway CW, Popescu A, Post Cardiac Arrest Service
• An enhanced cerebral recovery index for coma prognostication following cardiac arrest.
  Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference 2015 Ghassemi MM, Amorim E, Pati SB, Mark RG, Brown EN, Purdon PL, Westover MB
• Outcomes after endovascular treatment for anterior circulation stroke presenting as wake-up strokes are not different than those with witnessed onset beyond 8 hours.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2014 Aghaebrahim A, Leiva-Salinas C, Jadhav AP, Jankowitz B, Zaidi S, Jumaa M, Urra X, Amorim E, Zhu G, Giurgiutiu DV, Horev A, Reddy V, Hammer M, Wechsler L, Wintermark M, Jovin T
• Recovery from ophthalmoplegia and proptosis after repair of bilateral carotid-cavernous sinus fistulas.
  JAMA neurology 2013 Amorim E, Jankowitz BT, Jovin TG, Jadhav AP
• Impact of telemedicine implementation in thrombolytic use for acute ischemic stroke: the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center telestroke network experience.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2013 Amorim E, Shih MM, Koehler SA, Massaro LL, Zaidi SF, Jumaa MA, Reddy VK, Hammer MD, Jovin TG, Wechsler LR
• Spine trauma due to diving: main features and short-term neurological outcome.
  Spinal cord 2010 Amorim EC, Vetter H, Mascarenhas LB, Gomes EG, Carvalho JB, Gomes JF