Elan Guterman, MD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

She became a faculty member of the UCSF Department of Neurology in 2018 and an affiliate faculty member of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies in 2021. She also serves as Viewpoints Editor for JAMA Neurology.

Following her clinical training, she obtained a master’s degree in clinical research through the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics with the goal of using those skills to study and improve the delivery of emergency and inpatient neurologic care. Her career is focused on identifying gaps in the real-world care of common neurologic disorders such as epilepsy, stroke, and dementia and implementing solutions that improve access to high-quality care globally. She is enthusiastic about collaborating with other faculty and trainees who are similarly passionate about advancing health equity. In her global health work, she serves as an advisor to Partners In Health (PIH) and is currently collaborating with the PIH mental health team to develop the first neurology and psychiatry residency training program in Sierra Leone. This work parallels her clinical responsibilities at UCSF attending on the inpatient neurology consult and ward service where she is deeply committed to education and mentorship of medical student, resident, and fellowship trainees.

• Prevalence of Neurologic Disease Among Those in Same-Sex Relationships: Evidence from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2024 Byer L, Guterman EL, Rosendale N
• Prevalence and Determinants of Prehospital Impression of Stroke in Ischemic Stroke Patients.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Caffarelli M, Wood AJ, Crowe RP, Amorim E, Kamel H, Kim AS, Guterman EL
• Evaluating the feasibility of prehospital point-of-care EEG: The prehospital implementation of rapid EEG (PHIRE) study.
  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2024 Guterman EL, Mercer MP, Wood AJ, Amorim E, Kleen JK, Gerard D, Kellison C, Yamashita S, Auerbach B, Joshi N, Sporer KA
• Geographic Access to High-Volume Mechanical Thrombectomy Centers in Florida, 2019.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2024 Solovey L, Hsia RY, Shen YC, Guterman EL, Choi JC, Kim AS
• Differences in Interfacility Transfer from Emergency Department and Inpatient Services for Inpatient Neurologic Care.
  The Neurohospitalist 2024 Shah MP, Douglas AG, Sauer BM, Richie MB, Douglas VC, Josephson SA, Guterman EL
• Evaluation of the Use of Ketamine in Prehospital Seizure Management: A Retrospective Review of the ESO Database.
  Prehospital emergency care 2024 Finney JD, Schuler PD, Rudloff JR, Agostin N, Lobanov OV, Siegler J, Shah MI, Guterman EL, Chamberlain JM, Ahmad FA
• Status Epilepticus Identification and Treatment Among Emergency Medical Services Agencies.
  JAMA neurology 2024 Wood AJ, Burke JF, Lowenstein DH, Guterman EL
• Housing Status and Healthcare Utilization in People Presenting with Seizures (P10-1.004).
  Neurology 2024 Sandeepa Mullady, Andrew Wood, Elan Guterman, Nicole Rosendale
• Survival Analysis.
  Statistical Methods in Epilepsy 2024 Fei Jiang, Elan Guterman
• Hospital variation of outcomes in status epilepticus.
  Epilepsia 2024 Terman SW, Guterman EL, Lin CC, Thompson MP, Burke JF
• Characterizing emergency department and inpatient health care utilization after seizure-related hospitalization: A retrospective cohort study.
  Epilepsia 2024 Johnson KL, Wood AJ, Hsia RY, Guterman EL
• Care Ecosystem Collaborative Model and Health Care Costs in Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Guterman EL, Kiekhofer RE, Wood AJ, Allen IE, Kahn JG, Dulaney S, Merrilees JJ, Lee K, Chiong W, Bonasera SJ, Braley TL, Hunt LJ, Harrison KL, Miller BL, Possin KL
• Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inpatient Utilization for Acute Neurologic Disease.
  The Neurohospitalist 2023 Yoo A, Guterman EL, Hwang DY, Holloway RG, George BP
• The New Era of Automated Electroencephalogram Interpretation.
  JAMA neurology 2023 Kleen JK, Guterman EL
• Hospital EEG Capability and Associations With Interhospital Transfer in Status Epilepticus.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2023 Suen CG, Wood AJ, Burke JF, Betjemann JP, Guterman EL
• Clinical and Radiographic Characteristics of Nocardia vs Non-Nocardia Brain Abscesses.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2023 LaHue SC, Guterman EL, Mikhail M, Li Y, Cha S, Richie MB
• In Response to: Dicpinigaitis AJ, Ogulnick JV, Mayer AS, Gandhi CD, Al-Mufti F. Increase in Ruptured Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations and in the United States: Unintended Consequences of the ARUBA Trial? Stroke Vasc Interv Neurol . 2022;0:e000442. https://doi.org/10.1161/SVIN.122.000442.
  Stroke Vascular and Interventional Neurology 2023 Anthony S. Kim, Elan L. Guterman, Helen Kim
• Effect of collaborative dementia care on potentially inappropriate medication use: Outcomes from the Care Ecosystem randomized clinical trial.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022 Liu AK, Possin KL, Cook KM, Lynch S, Dulaney S, Merrilees JJ, Braley T, Kiekhofer RE, Bonasera SJ, Allen IE, Chiong W, Clark AM, Feuer J, Ewalt J, Guterman EL, Gearhart R, Miller BL, Lee KP
• Migraine, Migraine Disability, Trauma, and Discrimination in Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals.
  Neurology 2022 Rosendale N, Guterman EL, Obedin-Maliver J, Flentje A, Capriotti MR, Lubensky ME, Lunn MR
• Real-World Midazolam Use and Outcomes With Out-of-Hospital Treatment of Status Epilepticus in the United States.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2022 Guterman EL, Sporer KA, Newman TB, Crowe RP, Lowenstein DH, Josephson SA, Betjemann JP, Burke JF
• 283 The Impact of Minimum Volume Thresholds on Geographic Access to Stroke Thrombectomy.
  Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 2022 Liza Leykina, Elan Guterman, Renee Hsia, Anthony Kim
• Addressing Vulnerability and Dementia in the Era of COVID-19.
  JAMA neurology 2022 Guterman EL
• Amyloid-β related angiitis presenting as eosinophilic meningitis: a case report.
  BMC neurology 2022 Tanner JA, Richie MB, Cadwell CR, Eliaz A, Kim S, Haq Z, Rasool N, Shah MP, Guterman EL
• COVID-19 severity and age increase the odds of delirium in hospitalized adults with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: a cohort study.
  BMC psychiatry 2022 LaHue SC, Escueta DP, Guterman EL, Patel K, Harrison KL, Boscardin WJ, Douglas VC, Newman JC
• Management of Status Epilepticus and Indications for Inpatient Electroencephalography Monitoring.
  Neurologic clinics 2022 Fan JM, Singhal NS, Guterman EL
• Susceptibility-Weighted Imaging of Intravascular Lymphoma of the Central Nervous System.
  JAMA neurology 2022 Richie MB, Guterman EL, Shah MP, Cha S
• Seizing an Opportunity for Improvement.
  Neurology 2021 Guterman EL, Lowenstein DH, Sporer KA
• Delayed diagnosis and treatment of secondary syphilis in pancreas-kidney transplant recipient: Need for increased awareness of sexually transmitted infections in solid organ transplantation.
  Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2021 Crossman H, Guterman E, Fung M
• Prehospital Treatment of Status Epilepticus in the United States.
  JAMA 2021 Guterman EL, Burke JF, Sporer KA
• Brain Abscess Caused by Bordetella hinzii.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2021 Mehta N, Gerdts J, Fung M, Guterman EL
• Author Response: Prehospital Midazolam Use and Outcomes Among Patients With Out-of-Hospital Status Epilepticus.
  Neurology 2021 Guterman EL, Sanford JK, Betjemann JP, Zhang L, Burke JF, Lowenstein DH, Josephson SA, Sporer KA
• Assessment of Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Timeliness and Comprehensiveness of Dementia Diagnosis in California.
  JAMA neurology 2021 Tsoy E, Kiekhofer RE, Guterman EL, Tee BL, Windon CC, Dorsman KA, Lanata SC, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Kind AJH, Possin KL
• Preparing Neurology Residents and Advanced Practice Providers for the COVID-19 ICU-A Neurocritical Care Led Intervention.
  The Neurohospitalist 2021 Ch'ang JH, Ford J, Cifrese L, Woodward E, Mears J, Lowrie R, Holland C, Kaplan A, Zhang C, Guterman EL
• Association Between Treatment Progression, Disease Refractoriness, and Burden of Illness Among Hospitalized Patients With Status Epilepticus.
  JAMA neurology 2021 Guterman EL, Betjemann JP, Aimetti A, Li JW, Wang Z, Yin D, Hulihan J, Lyons T, Miyasato G, Strzelczyk A
• Delirium in Hospitalized Adults with Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection (1973).
  Neurology 2021 Sara LaHue, Nina Escueta, Elan Guterman, Vanja Douglas, John Newman
• Chapter 44 Neurologic Complications of Transplantation and Immunosuppressive Agents.
  2021 Alexandra D. Muccilli, Elan Guterman, S. Andrew Josephson
• Revisiting the Role of Health Care Proxies in Reproductive Choice.
  Obstetrics and gynecology 2021 Narayana S, Gaw SL, Aldrich JM, Guterman EL
• Identification of Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus from Emergency Medical Service Records: A Validation Study of Diagnostic Coding.
  Prehospital emergency care 2020 Hart L, Sanford JK, Sporer KA, Kohn MA, Guterman EL
• Preprints During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Health Emergencies and Medical Literature.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2020 Guterman EL, Braunstein LZ
• Prehospital midazolam use and outcomes among patients with out-of-hospital status epilepticus.
  Neurology 2020 Guterman EL, Sanford JK, Betjemann JP, Zhang L, Burke JF, Lowenstein DH, Josephson SA, Sporer KA
• Intravascular Lymphoma of the Central Nervous System: A Case Series Describing Clinical and Radiographic Characteristics (728).
  Neurology 2020 Megan Richie, Maulik Shah, Elan Guterman
• Factors associated with 30-day readmission for patients hospitalized for seizures.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2020 Terman SW, Guterman EL, Hill CE, Betjemann JP, Burke JF
• Association Between Caregiver Depression and Emergency Department Use Among Patients With Dementia.
  JAMA neurology 2019 Guterman EL, Allen IE, Josephson SA, Merrilees JJ, Dulaney S, Chiong W, Lee K, Bonasera SJ, Miller BL, Possin KL
• Status Epilepticus Mortality-Improving or Status Quo?
  JAMA neurology 2019 Guterman EL, Betjemann JP
• Hospital admission and readmission among homeless patients with neurologic disease.
  Neurology 2019 Rosendale N, Guterman EL, Betjemann JP, Josephson SA, Douglas VC
• A Case Series of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Peripheral Nervous System Complications (P3.4-012).
  Neurology 2019 Alexandra Muccilli, Maulik P. Shah, Elan L. Guterman
• Caregiver Depression and Emergency Department Utilization in Dementia (P4.1-019).
  Neurology 2019 Elan L. Guterman, I. Elain Allen, S. Andrew Josephson, Katherine L. Possin
• Emergency Medical Services Protocols for Generalized Convulsive Status Epilepticus.
  JAMA 2019 Betjemann JP, Josephson SA, Lowenstein DH, Guterman EL
• Egad!
  Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Platt L, Deboer SR, Shenderov K, Probasco JC, Guterman EL, Manesh R, Sperati CJ
• Institutional Factors Contribute to Variation in Intubation Rates in Status Epilepticus.
  The Neurohospitalist 2018 Guterman EL, Burke JF, Josephson SA, Betjemann JP
• Institutional Variability in Status Epilepticus Management: Intubation Use and Implications for In-Hospital Mortality (P4.301).
  Neurology 2018 Elan Guterman, James Burke, S. Andrew Josephson, John Betjemann
• Neurologic consultation and use of therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest.
  Resuscitation 2017 Guterman EL, Kim AS, Josephson SA
• Neurologic Consultation and Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest (S23.008).
  Neurology 2017 Elan L. Guterman, Anthony S. Kim, S. Andrew Josephson
• Many Neurology Readmissions Are Nonpreventable.
  The Neurohospitalist 2016 Le ST, Josephson SA, Puttgen HA, Gibson L, Guterman EL, Leicester HM, Graf CL, Probasco JC
• Diagnosis of Tensilon-Negative Ocular Myasthenia Gravis By Daily Selfie.
  Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society 2016 Guterman EL, Botelho JV, Horton JC
• Pearls & Oy-sters: Episodic ataxia type 2: Case report and review of the literature.
  Neurology 2016 Guterman EL, Yurgionas B, Nelson AB
• National Trends in Use of Endovascular Stroke Treatment Among Academic Medical Centers (2009-2015) (P2.287).
  Neurology 2016 Zachary Threlkeld, Elan Guterman, Wade Smith, Jay Chol Choi, Anthony Kim
• Abstract WMP9: National Trends in the Use of Endovascular Stroke Treatment at Academic Medical Centers (2009-15).
  Stroke 2016 Elan Guterman, Zachary D Threlkeld, Wade S Smith, Jay Chol Choi, Anthony S Kim
• National characteristics and predictors of neurologic 30-day readmissions.
  Neurology 2016 Guterman EL, Douglas VC, Shah MP, Parsons T, Barba J, Josephson SA
• Time from onset of SIRS to antibiotic administration and outcomes after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
  Neurocritical care 2014 Guterman EL, Kamel H, Azran C, Shah MP, Claude Hemphill J, Smith WS, Navi BB
• Effect of Prenatal Androgen on Adult Personality: Greater Openness with More Female-Typical 2D:4D Digit Ratios.
  Current Psychology 2013 Leslie A. Burton, Elan Guterman, Graham Baum
• Gender differences in implicit and explicit memory for affective passages.
  Brain and cognition 2004 Burton LA, Rabin L, Vardy SB, Frohlich J, Wyatt G, Dimitri D, Constante S, Guterman E