Dr. Kerstin Bettermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and is the Stroke Fellowship program director at Penn State. She is member of the Penn State Neuroscience Institute, the Penn State Institute of Diabetes, and the Stroke Research Core.
Dr. Bettermann is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Quantitative Occlusive Vascular Disease study at Penn State, to assess the risk for stroke in patients with vascular occlusive disease. She is the PI on a Clinician Scientist Development Award at Penn State College of Medicine, awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services, to study cerebral blood flow volume in acute ischemic stroke, and to study vasoreactivity in patients with diabetes and vascular disease. She is co-investigator in several multicenter trials (SENTIS, RESPECT, IMS-3).
Dr. Bettermann’s studies aim at identifying and preventing stroke, especially among individuals who suffer from diabetes. This patient population has a risk of stroke that is two-and-a-half times higher than those who do not have diabetes. Dr. Bettermann’s studies will further our understanding of the impact blood sugar elevation has on blood vessels, thereby allowing us to assess disease progression, develop more effective therapies to help monitor the early stages of diabetes and identify patients at risk in order to delay or prevent the complications associated with this disease. She is also actively investigating vascular dementia and cerebral microvascular disease.
Additional Awards
Hershey will host the 2009 Annual PA Neurological Society Meeting
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Harrisburg Hilton & Towers, Harrisburg, PA
As one of the premier academic medical centers in the northeast, Penn State Hershey Medical Center is committed to a bold new vision of health care, and to the people, partnerships and progressive technologies that bring this vision to life.
But don't take our word for it - our leadership in providing the finest state-of-the-art care for our patients has been widely recognized in numerous national and regional rankings for quality, patients safety, physician and nursing excellence.
So what does this mean for you? Learn more.
Date: November 6, 2009, Speaker: Kimberly Harbaugh, MD, Associate Professor, Chief, Division of Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, PSU. Topic: Update on Ulnar Entrapment Neuropathy at the Elbow: A Transition from Transposition
Date: November 13, 2009, Speaker: Vitaly Gordin, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Director, Pain Medicine, Medical Director, Spine Center, Co-Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, PSU. Topic: Use of Spinal Cord Stimulators for Neuropathic Pain
Date: November 20, 2009, Speaker: Thyagarajan Subramanian, MD, Professor, Departments of Neurology and Neural & Behavioral Science, Director, Movement Disorders Program, PSU. Topic: Electrophysiological and Network Properties of Basal Ganglia: Why Should a Clinician Know About This?
The following Physicians have been named to the "Best Doctors in America, 2009-2010"
Neurology
79. Jayant Narahar Acharya, MD
80. David C. Good, MD
81. Milind J. Kothari, DO
82. Stephen C. Ross, MD
83. Zachary Simmons, MD
84. Richard B. Tenser, MD
