William Whetstone, MD

Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Location: UCSF San Francisco & Oakland

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Biography

Education:
BA: University of Colorado, Boulder
MD: University of Colorado Health Sciences - Denver
Residency: University of Michigan Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests:
Dr. Whetstone's research interests include spinal cord injury, intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, and head injury.

Board Certifications

Emergency Medicine

Education and Training

Residency, 1997 - Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan
M.D., 1994 - M.D., University of Colorado
BS, 1990 - Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado

Research Activities and Funding

July 25, 2002 - June 30, 2008 - The Role of Thrombin and PAR-1 in Spinal Cord Injury , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: K08NS043302

Publications

Blood-spinal cord barrier after spinal cord injury: relation to revascularization and wound healing.

Whetstone WD, Hsu JY, Eisenberg M, Werb Z, Noble-Haeusslein LJ

The correlation of neurosurgery motor examinations with ISNCSCI motor examinations in patients with spinal cord injury: a multicenter TRACK-SCI study.

Lui A, Bonney PA, Burke J, Kanter JH, Yue JK, Takegami N, Tarapore PE, Huang M, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Hemmerle DD, Ferguson AR, Torres-Espin A, Duong-Fernandez X, Lai N, Saigal R, Pan J, Singh V, Kyritsis N, Talbott JF, Pascual LU, Huie JR, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, O'Banion LA, Kuo YH, Viljoen S, Grandhi R, Shammassian BH, DiGiorgio AM

254 Initiation of Low Molecular Weight Heparin Within 24 Hours Is Safe and Effective for VTE Prophylaxis in Spinal Cord Injury Patients.

Austin Lui, Timothy Chryssikos, Arati Patel, Christine Park, Abel Torres, Nikolaos Kyritsis, Debra P. Hemmerle, Xuan Duong Fernandez, Rajiv Saigal, Jason Talbott, Jonathan S. Pan, Adam Ferguson, William Whetstone, Vineeta Singh, Philip R. Weinstein, Sanjay S. Dhall, Praveen V. Mummaneni, J. Russell Huie, Lisa U. Pascual, Geoffrey Manley, Jacqueline Bresnahan, Michael Beattie, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio

ATF3 is a neuron-specific biomarker for spinal cord injury and ischaemic stroke.

Pan JZ, Wang Z, Sun W, Pan P, Li W, Sun Y, Chen S, Lin A, Tan W, He L, Greene J, Yao V, An L, Liang R, Li Q, Yu J, Zhang L, Kyritsis N, Fernandez XD, Moncivais S, Mendoza E, Fung P, Wang G, Niu X, Du Q, Xiao Z, Chang Y, Lv P, Huie JR, Torres-Espin A, Ferguson AR, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Weinstein PR, Pascual LU, Singh V, DiGiorgio AM, Saigal R, Whetstone WD, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Bresnahan JC, Maze M, Jiang X, Singhal NS, Beattie MS, Su H, Guan Z

Correction: Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome.

Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Kyritsis N, Huie JR, Khatry S, Funk J, Hay J, Lofgreen A, Shah R, McCann C, Pascual LU, Amorim E, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Pan JZ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Whetstone WD, Ferguson AR, TRACK-SCI Investigators

Safety and comparative efficacy of initiating low-molecular-weight heparin within 24 hours of injury or surgery for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in patients with spinal cord injury: a prospective TRACK-SCI registry study.

Lui A, Park C, Chryssikos T, Radabaugh H, Patel A, Aabedi AA, Ferguson AR, Torres Espin A, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Duong-Fernandez X, Saigal R, Chou A, Pan J, Singh V, Hemmerle DD, Kyritsis N, Talbott JF, Pascual LU, Huie JR, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM

188 American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale (AIS) Conversion Underestimates Neurological Recovery Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury.

Winward Choy, Nikolaos Kyritsis, Xuan Duong Fernandez, Adam Ferguson, Debra P. Hemmerle, Lisa U. Pascual, Vineeta Singh, Jason Talbott, Jonathan Pan, Abel Torres, William Whetstone, J. Russell Huie, Kenneth Fond, Anastasia Keller, Jacqueline Bresnahan, Michael Beattie, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Sanjay S. Dhall, Rajiv Saigal

Hypotension requiring vasopressor treatment and increased cardiac complications in elderly spinal cord injury patients: a prospective TRACK-SCI registry study.

Agarwal N, Blitstein J, Lui A, Torres-Espin A, Vasnarungruengkul C, Burke J, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Weinstein PR, Duong-Fernandez X, Chou A, Pan J, Singh V, Ferguson AR, Hemmerle DD, Kyritsis N, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Manley GT, DiGiorgio A

Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome.

Decision tree-based machine learning analysis of intraoperative vasopressor use to optimize neurological improvement in acute spinal cord injury.

Agarwal N, Aabedi AA, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Wozny TA, Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Ferguson AR, Kyritsis N, Dhall SS, Weinstein PR, Duong-Fernandez X, Pan J, Singh V, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Manley GT, Beattie MS, DiGiorgio AM