Roy Poblete, MD

Dr. Roy Poblete is Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology within the Division of Stroke & Neurocritical Care. He currently serves as medical co-director of the neuroscience intensive care unit (ICU) at LAC + USC Medical Center, developing a service line that provides comprehensive care to neurology and neurosurgery patients with stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), and traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Dr. Poblete’s research interest is in diagnostics and therapeutics in neurocritical care, with special interest in TBI and ICH.

• Keck School of Medicine, Department of Neurology: Stroke & Neurocritical Care Faculty Teaching Award, 2022
• Keck School of Medicine, Department of Neurology: Vascular Neurology Faculty Teaching Award, 2020
• Neurocritical Care Society: Best Project, Mentorship Program, 2020

• Post-Traumatic Cerebral Infarction: A Narrative Review of Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment Neurol Int. 2024 Jan 04; 16(1):95-112. . View in PubMed
• Immunonutrition with Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation in Severe TBI: Retrospective Analysis of Patient Characteristics and Outcomes Res Sq. 2023 Nov 07. . View in PubMed
• Optimization of Nutrition after Brain Injury: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Considerations Biomedicines. 2023 Sep 17; 11(9). . View in PubMed
• Association Between Hyperacute Blood Pressure Variability and Hematoma Expansion After Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Secondary Analysis of the FAST-MAG Database Neurocrit Care. 2023 04; 38(2):356-364. . View in PubMed
• Lipidomics in Understanding Pathophysiology and Pharmacologic Effects in Inflammatory Diseases: Considerations for Drug Development Metabolites. 2022 Apr 07; 12(4). . View in PubMed
• Pro-resolving lipid mediators in traumatic brain injury: emerging concepts and translational approach Am J Transl Res. 2022; 14(3):1482-1494. . View in PubMed
• Eicosanoid lipidome activation in post-mortem brain tissues of individuals with APOE4 and Alzheimer’s dementia Alzheimers Res Ther. 2022 10 11; 14(1):152. . View in PubMed
• The Effects of Breastfeeding on Retinoblastoma Development: Results from an International Multicenter Retinoblastoma Survey Cancers (Basel). 2021 09 24; 13(19):4773. . View in PubMed
• Association Between Glycemic Gap and In-hospital Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Front Neurol. 2021; 12:714341. . View in PubMed
• Neuroprotective Therapy for Stroke and Ischemic DiseaseLapchak P, Zhang JH, eds. Hypothermia for Acute Ischemic Stroke. 2020. . View in PubMed
• Older Age Is Not Associated with Worse Outcomes Following Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2019 Nov; 28(11):104320. . View in PubMed
• Corrigendum: Targeted Temperature Management and Multimodality Monitoring of Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest Front Neurol. 2018; 9:877. . View in PubMed
• Targeted Temperature Management and Multimodality Monitoring of Comatose Patients After Cardiac Arrest Front Neurol. 2018; 9:768. . View in PubMed
• Serum Lactic Acid Following Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Is a Marker of Disease Severity but Is Not Associated With Hospital Outcomes Front Neurol. 2018; 9:593. . View in PubMed
• Status Epilepticus and Beyond: A Clinical Review of Status Epilepticus and an Update on Current Management Strategies in Super-refractory Status Epilepticus Korean J Crit Care Med. 2017 May; 32(2):89-105. . View in PubMed
• Trends in Ventriculostomy-Associated Infections and Mortality in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Data From the Nationwide Inpatient Sample World Neurosurg. 2017 Mar; 99:599-604. . View in PubMed
• Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine Status Epilepticus and Beyond: A Clinical Review of Status Epilepticus
  and an Update on Current Management Strategies
  in Super-refractory Status Epilepticus. 2017; 2(32):89-105. . View in PubMed
• A Case of Acute Motor Axonal Neuropathy Mimicking Brain Death and Review of the Literature Front Neurol. 2016; 7:63. . View in PubMed
• Neonatal brain hemorrhage (NBH) of prematurity: translational mechanisms of the vascular-neural network Curr Med Chem. 2015; 22(10):1214-38. . View in PubMed
• Atypical presentation of venous infarct: Developmental venous anomaly thrombosis propagating from clot in dural venous sinus Neurology: Clinical Practice. 2014; 4(6):496-498. . View in PubMed

• Mack, William
• Demetriades, Demetrios
• Sanossian, Nerses
• Kim-Tenser, May
• Inaba, Kenji
• Lyden, Patrick
• Zada, Gabriel