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Dr. Heather Fullerton is a pediatric vascular neurologist at UCSF, one of only a few child neurologists in the country with additional board certification in vascular neurology. She is the Kenneth Rainin Chair in Pediatric Stroke Care, director of the Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center, and director of the Stroke Sciences Group. After graduating from Baylor College of Medicine in 1996, Dr. Fullerton came to UCSF for her pediatrics residency and child neurology fellowship, and then joined the child neurology faculty in 2002. Early in her training, she cared for a 2-year-old girl who suffered a stroke caused by a tear in a neck artery from a fall. After realizing the paucity of research in this field--and lack of child neurologists with expertise in stroke--she chose to dedicate her career to the care of such children. She completed a vascular neurology fellowship between 2002 and 2003, and a two-year master's degree in clinical research at UCSF in 2005. She began doing clinical research in the field of childhood stroke, collaborating with renowned adult stroke researchers at UCSF. After starting a pediatric stroke clinic in 2002, she later established the multidisciplinary Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Center in 2006.
Dr. Fullerton’s research efforts have already improved the care of children with stroke. She has performed novel work identifying which children with stroke are at risk for suffering a recurrence. This information not only guides physicians in determining which high-risk children need preventative treatment, but also provides enormous reassurance to families of children with low recurrence risk. She led a groundbreaking study on risk factors for childhood stroke, determining that both minor acute infections and recent trauma are stroke and common risk factors. She has also published work on pediatric arterial dissections, ethnic and gender disparities in childhood stroke risk, stroke rates in children with sickle cell disease, hemorrhagic stroke risk in children with arteriovenous malformations, and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with vein of Galen malformations and PHACE syndrome.
She led an NIH-funded international study with 35-plus enrolling sites to better understand the association between childhood infections and ischemic stroke, and currently leads the part 2 of the said NIH-funded study. She leads an AHA funded study on predicting stroke risk after minor trauma. She also mentors junior investigators on a variety of other stroke related studies: stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors , stroke prevention in sickle cell disease, risk of epilepsy after stroke , the association between migraine and stroke in children, ADHD medications as a risk factor for stroke, and the role of atherosclerotic risk factors in stroke in children and young adults.
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Ariana J. Andere, Jasmin Dao,Amy A. Gelfand,Ramin A. Morshed,Alexandra C. Ross, Amanda E. Wagstaff,Heather J. Fullerton,Christine K. Fox
Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurologyno. 4 (2024)
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medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2024)
Strokeno. Suppl_1 (2023)
Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatricsno. 5 (2023): 463-468
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