Andrew Reisner, MD
Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Arthur M. Blank 2220 North Druid Hills Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
(404) 785-2900
Laura Blackwell, Ph.D.
Board Certified Neuropsychologist
Scottish Rite Hospital
1001 Johnson Ferry Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30342
(404)-785-5895
Parsons K, Mulugeta MG, Bailey G, Gillespie S, Johnson LM, Myers HE, Reisner A and Blackwell LS (2024) Association between social determinants of health and pediatric traumatic brain injury outcomes. Front. Neurol. 15:1339255. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2024.1339255
Mulugeta MG, Bailey G, Parsons K, Gillespie S, Johnson LM, Doh KF, Reisner A and Blackwell LS (2024) Trends in pediatric firearm-related injuries and disparities in acute outcomes. Front. Public Health 12:1339394. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1339394
Blackwell, L.S, Wali, B., Xiang, Y., Alawieh, A., Sayeed, I., Reisner, A. (2023)Prognostic value of plasma biomarkers S100B and osteopontin in pediatric TBI: A prospective analysis evaluating acute and 6-month outcomes after mild to severe TBI. Biomedicines, 11(8): 2167.
Laura S. Blackwell, Robert Grell. Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Impact on the Developing Brain, Pediatric Neurology, Volume 148, (2023), Pages 215-222, ISSN 0887-8994, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2023.06.019.
Reisner, A., Blackwell, L. S., Sayeed, I., Myers, H. E., Wali, B., Heilman, S., ... & Rostad, C. A. (2022). Osteopontin as a biomarker for COVID-19 severity and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: A pilot study. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 247(2), 145-151.
Watson, W. D., Suskauer, S. J., Askin, G., Nowak, S., Baum, K. T., Gerber, L. M., ... & Shah, S. A. (2021). Cognitive recovery during inpatient rehabilitation following pediatric traumatic brain injury: a pediatric brain injury consortium study. Journal of head trauma rehabilitation, 36(4), 253-263.
Gao, N., Zhang-Brotzge, X., Wali, B., Sayeed, I., Chern, J. J., Blackwell, L. S., ... & Reisner, A. (2020). Plasma osteopontin may predict neuroinflammation and the severity of pediatric traumatic brain injury. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 40(1), 35-43.
Blackwell, L.S., Martinez, M., Fournier-Goodnight, A., Figueroa, J., Appert, A., Vats, A., Wali, B., Sayeed, I., & Reisner, A. (2020). Patterns of osteopontin expression in abusive head trauma compared with other causes of pediatric traumatic brain injury. Journal of Pediatrics, 227: 170-175.
Reisner, A., Ralston, A. K., Vats, A., Sawvel, M. S., & Blackwell, L. S. (2019). Commentary: guidelines for the management of pediatric severe traumatic brain injury: update of the brain trauma foundation guidelines, executive summary. Neurosurgery, 85(2), E384-E385.
Reisner, A., Chern, J. J., Walson, K., Tillman, N., Petrillo-Albarano, T., Sribnick, E. A., ... & Vats, A. (2018). Introduction of severe traumatic brain injury care protocol is associated with reduction in mortality for pediatric patients: a case study of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s neurotrauma program. Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics, 22(2), 165-172.
Ilardi, D., Alexander, N., Xiang, Y., Figueroa, J., & Blackwell, L. (2022). Social-environmental factors as mediators of IQ and achievement differences across race groups in adolescents with high risk congenital heart disease. Child Neuropsychology, 1-18.
Kashyap, N., Morris, M., Loerinc, L. B., Benoit, M., Blackwell, L., Howarth, R., & Gombolay, G. (2022). The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio is associated with intubation in pediatric anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: A retrospective study. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 370, 577931.
