Rachel Vassar, MD
Assistant Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

I am a Pediatric/Adult Vascular Neurology fellow at UCSF. Through my career, I aim to further our understanding of pediatric stroke and acute brain injury to promote rapid, accurate diagnosis and optimal recovery.

Awards

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• Gold Award, UCSF-Stanford PDC Accelerator, 2020-2021

Education & Training

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• MD Boston University School of Medicine 05/2017
• BA Human Biology, Creative Writing Stanford University 06/2012

Publications (17)

Top publication keywords:
Hypoplastic Left Heart SyndromeCerebellumLanguage Development DisordersInfant, Very Low Birth WeightOut-of-Hospital Cardiac ArrestDiffusion Tensor ImagingTransposition of Great VesselsHyperbilirubinemia, NeonatalMovement DisordersElectric Stimulation TherapyInfant, Extremely PrematureWhite MatterMELAS SyndromeLanguage DevelopmentCardiopulmonary Resuscitation

• Mortality and Timing of Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapies After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Two-Center Retrospective Pediatric Cohort Study.
  Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies 2023 Vassar R, Mehta N, Epps L, Jiang F, Amorim E, Wietstock S
• Spectrum of Fetal Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage in COL4A1/A2-Related Disorders.
  Pediatric neurology 2023 George E, Vassar R, Mogga A, Li Y, Norton ME, Gano D, Glenn OA
• Critical congenital heart disease beyond HLHS and TGA: neonatal brain injury and early neurodevelopment.
  Pediatric research 2023 Vassar R, Peyvandi S, Gano D, Cox S, Zetino Y, Miller S, McQuillen P
• Pearls and Oy-sters: Symmetric Numbness and Paresthesia Due to Stroke-like Episode in an Adolescent Male With MELAS.
  Neurology 2021 Vassar R, Mehta N
• Neuromuscular electrical stimulation for motor recovery in pediatric neurological conditions: a scoping review.
  Developmental medicine and child neurology 2021 Yan D, Vassar R

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• Neonatal Brain Microstructure and Machine-Learning-Based Prediction of Early Language Development in Children Born Very Preterm.
  Pediatric neurology 2020 Vassar R, Schadl K, Cahill-Rowley K, Yeom K, Stevenson D, Rose J
• Prediction of Gait Impairment in Toddlers Born Preterm From Near-Term Brain Microstructure Assessed With DTI, Using Exhaustive Feature Selection and Cross-Validation.
  Frontiers in human neuroscience 2019 Cahill-Rowley K, Schadl K, Vassar R, Yeom KW, Stevenson DK, Rose J
• The Association of Prenatal Ultrasonography and Autism Spectrum Disorder-Reply.
  JAMA pediatrics 2018 Rosman NP, Abbott J, Vassar R
• Association of Prenatal Ultrasonography and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  JAMA pediatrics 2018 Rosman NP, Vassar R, Doros G, DeRosa J, Froman A, DiMauro A, Santiago S, Abbott J
• Prediction of cognitive and motor development in preterm children using exhaustive feature selection and cross-validation of near-term white matter microstructure.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2017 Schadl K, Vassar R, Cahill-Rowley K, Yeom KW, Stevenson DK, Rose J
• Neonatal brain microstructure correlates of neurodevelopment and gait in preterm children 18-22 mo of age: an MRI and DTI study.
  Pediatric research 2015 Rose J, Cahill-Rowley K, Vassar R, Yeom KW, Stecher X, Stevenson DK, Hintz SR, Barnea-Goraly N
• Neonatal Biomarkers of Inflammation: Correlates of Early Neurodevelopment and Gait in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Preterm Children.
  American journal of perinatology 2015 Rose J, Vassar R, Cahill-Rowley K, Hintz SR, Stevenson DK
• Movement disorders due to bilirubin toxicity.
  Seminars in fetal & neonatal medicine 2014 Rose J, Vassar R
• Identification of neonatal white matter on DTI: influence of more inclusive thresholds for atlas segmentation.
  PloS one 2014 Vassar RL, Barnea-Goraly N, Rose J
• Neonatal physiological correlates of near-term brain development on MRI and DTI in very-low-birth-weight preterm infants.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2014 Rose J, Vassar R, Cahill-Rowley K, Stecher Guzman X, Hintz SR, Stevenson DK, Barnea-Goraly N
• Motor systems and postural instability.
  Handbook of clinical neurology 2014 Vassar RL, Rose J
• Brain microstructural development at near-term age in very-low-birth-weight preterm infants: an atlas-based diffusion imaging study.
  NeuroImage 2013 Rose J, Vassar R, Cahill-Rowley K, Guzman XS, Stevenson DK, Barnea-Goraly N