HeidiSchambraMD

Neurorehabilitation

Associate Professor of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine; Director of Neuro-Epidemiology; Director of Research Strategy in Neurology at NYU Langone

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Office
222 E 41st Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Phone+1 929-455-5128
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Education & Training

Burke Rehabilitation HospitalFellowship, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 2010 - 2011
NIH Clinical CenterPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Motor learning and neurophysiology, 2007 - 2010
Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Neurology, 2004 - 2007
Brigham and Women's HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2003 - 2004
Emory University School of MedicineClass of 2003
Brown UniversityBS, Neuroscience, 1997

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 2010 - 2026
MD State Medical License 2007 - 2011
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellowship with Distinction National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), 2015
K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2012
Fellows Award in Research Excellence National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2008, 2010
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2007
David H. Poer Scholarship Emory University, 2002
James E. Paullin Scholarship Emory University, 2002
Predoctoral Fellowship Medical Research Scholars Program, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 2001
James L. Campbell Scholarship Emory University, 1998
Honors in Neuroscience Brown University, 1997
Joukowsky Postgraduate Scholarship Brown University, 1997
National Merit Scholarship Finalist 1993
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Clinical Trials

Exoskeletal Support in Stroke Start of enrollment: 2024 Jan 03
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator
Validation of Early Prognostic Data for Recovery Outcome After Stroke for Future, Higher Yield Trials Start of enrollment: 2022 Jun 18
Recruiting
Roles: Contact, Principal Investigator

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

The distribution of transcallosal inhibition to upper extremity muscles is altered in chronic stroke.
Leticia Hayes, Myriam Taga, Charalambos C Charalambous, Sharmila Raju, Jing Lin, Heidi M Schambra> ;Journal of the Neurological Sciences. 2023 Jul 15
1 citations
Data-Driven Quantitation of Movement Abnormality after Stroke.
Avinash Parnandi, Aakash Kaku, Anita Venkatesan, Natasha Pandit, Emily Fokas, Boyang Yu, Grace Kim, Dawn Nilsen, Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Heidi Schambra> ;Bioengineering. 2023 May 26
7 citations
Association of Brain Age, Lesion Volume, and Functional Outcome in Patients With Stroke.
Margetis, J. L., Sook-Lei Liew, Nicolas Schweighofer, James H Cole, Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, Bethany P Lo, Laura K M Han, Tim Hahn, Lianne Schmaal, Miranda R Don...> ;Neurology. 2023 May 16
Dual-Tasking in Daily Activities Among Adults With and Without Stroke.
Emily E Fokas, Avinash R Parnandi, Anita Venkatesan, Natasha G Pandit, Audre A Wirtanen, Dawn M Nilsen, Heidi M Schambra> ;The American Journal of Occupational Therapy. 2023 Jan 1
2 citations
StrokeRehab: A Benchmark Dataset for Sub-second Action Identification.
Aakash Kaku, Kangning Liu, Avinash Parnandi, Haresh Rengaraj Rajamohan, Kannan Venkataramanan, Anita Venkatesan, Audre Wirtanen, Natasha Pandit, Heidi Schambra, Carlos...> ;Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2022 Dec 1
7 citations
Chronic Stroke Sensorimotor Impairment Is Related to Smaller Hippocampal Volumes: An ENIGMA Analysis.
Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, Bethany Lo, Miranda R Donnelly, Nicolas Schweighofer, Keith Lohse, Neda Jahanshad, Giuseppe Barisano, Nerisa Banaj, Michael R Borich, La...> ;Journal of the American Heart Association. 2022 May 17
5 citations
PrimSeq: A deep learning-based pipeline to quantitate rehabilitation training.
Avinash Parnandi, Aakash Kaku, Anita Venkatesan, Natasha Pandit, Audre Wirtanen, Haresh Rajamohan, Kannan Venkataramanan, Dawn Nilsen, Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Heidi S...> ;PLOS Digital Health. 2022 Jan 1
5 citations
Smaller spared subcortical nuclei are associated with worse post-stroke sensorimotor outcomes in 28 cohorts worldwide
Sook-Lei Liew, Artemis Zavaliangos-Petropulu, Nicolas Schweighofer, Neda Jahanshad, Catherine E. Lang, Keith R. Lohse, Nerisa Banaj, Giuseppe Barisano, Lee A. Baugh, A...> ;Brain Communications. 2021 Oct 27
9 citations
Corticoreticulospinal tract neurophysiology in an arm and hand muscle in healthy and stroke subjects.
Myriam Taga, Charalambos C. Charalambous, Sharmila Raju, Jing Lin, Yian Zhang, Elisa Stern, Heidi M. Schambra> ;The Journal of Physiology. 2021 Aug 1
14 citations
The use of wearable sensors to assess and treat the upper extremity after stroke: a scoping review.
Grace Kim, Avinash Parnandi, Sharon Eva, Heidi M. Schambra> ;Disability and Rehabilitation. 2021 Jul 30
1 citations
NE-Motion: Visual Analysis of Stroke Patients Using Motion Sensor Networks.
Rodrigo Colnago Contreras, Avinash Parnandi, Bruno Gomes Coelho, Cláudio T. Silva, Heidi M. Schambra, Luis Gustavo Nonato> ;Sensors. 2021 Jun 30
2 citations
Expectations from the general public about the efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation for improving motor performance.
Peiyuan Wang, Andrew Hooyman, Heidi M. Schambra, Keith R. Lohse, Sydney Y. Schaefer> ;Brain Stimulation. 2021 Mar 12
9 citations
Direct In Vivo MRI Discrimination of Brain Stem Nuclei and Pathways.
Timothy M. Shepherd, Benjamin Ades-Aron, Mary Bruno, Heidi M. Schambra, Michael J. Hoch> ;AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2020 Apr 30
10 citations
Towards data-driven stroke rehabilitation via wearable sensors and deep learning.
Aakash Kaku, Avinash Parnandi, Anita Venkatesan, Natasha Pandit, Heidi M. Schambra, Carlos Fernandez-Granda> ;Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 2020 Apr 14
7 citations
The Pragmatic Classification of Upper Extremity Motion in Neurological Patients: A Primer.
Avinash Parnandi, Jasim Uddin, Dawn M. Nilsen, Heidi M. Schambra> ;Frontiers in Neurology. 2019 Sep 18
24 citations
A Taxonomy of Functional Upper Extremity Motion.
Heidi M. Schambra, Avinash Parnandi, Natasha Pandit, Jasim Uddin, Audre Wirtanen, Dawn M. Nilsen> ;Frontiers in Neurology. 2019 Aug 20
27 citations
Differential Poststroke Motor Recovery in an Arm Versus Hand Muscle in the Absence of Motor Evoked Potentials
Heidi M. Schambra, Jing Xu, Meret Branscheidt, Martin A. Lindquist, Jasim Uddin, Levke Steiner, Benjamin Hertler, Nathan Kim, Jessica Berard, Michelle D. Harran, Juan ...> ;Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 2019 Jun 6
73 citations
Rethinking interhemispheric imbalance as a target for stroke neurorehabilitation.
Jing Xu, Meret Branscheidt, Heidi M. Schambra, Levke Steiner, Mario Widmer, Jörn Diedrichsen, Jeff Goldsmith, Martin A. Lindquist, Andreas R. Luft, John W. Krakauer, P...> ;Annals of Neurology. 2019 Apr 1
Reply: Further evidence for a non-cortical origin of mirror movements after stroke.
Ejaz, N.,Xu, J.,Branscheidt, M.,Hertler, B.,Schambra, H.,Widmer, M.,Faria, A. V.,Harran, M.,Cortes, J. C.,Kim, N.,Celnik, P. A.,Kitago, T.,Luft, A.,Krakauer, J. W.,Die...> ;Brain. 2019 Jan 01
Reply: Further evidence for a non-cortical origin of mirror movements after stroke.
Ejaz, N.,Xu, J.,Branscheidt, M.,Hertler, B.,Schambra, H.,Widmer, M.,Faria, A. V.,Harran, M.,Cortes, J. C.,Kim, N.,Celnik, P. A.,Kitago, T.,Luft, A.,Krakauer, J. W.,Die...> ;Brain. 2019 Jan 01
Reply: Further evidence for a non-cortical origin of mirror movements after stroke.
Ejaz, N.,Xu, J.,Branscheidt, M.,Hertler, B.,Schambra, H.,Widmer, M.,Faria, A. V.,Harran, M.,Cortes, J. C.,Kim, N.,Celnik, P. A.,Kitago, T.,Luft, A.,Krakauer, J. W.,Die...> ;Brain. 2019 Jan 01
Reply: Further evidence for a non-cortical origin of mirror movements after stroke.
Ejaz, N.,Xu, J.,Branscheidt, M.,Hertler, B.,Schambra, H.,Widmer, M.,Faria, A. V.,Harran, M.,Cortes, J. C.,Kim, N.,Celnik, P. A.,Kitago, T.,Luft, A.,Krakauer, J. W.,Die...> ;Brain. 2019 Jan 01
Reply: Further evidence for a non-cortical origin of mirror movements after stroke.
Naveed Ejaz, Jing Xu, Meret Branscheidt, Benjamin Hertler, Heidi M. Schambra, Mario Widmer, Andreia V. Faria, Michelle D. Harran, Juan C. Cortes, Nathan Kim, Pablo Cel...> ;Brain. 2019 Jan 1
Reply: Further evidence for a non-cortical origin of mirror movements after stroke.
Ejaz, N.,Xu, J.,Branscheidt, M.,Hertler, B.,Schambra, H.,Widmer, M.,Faria, A. V.,Harran, M.,Cortes, J. C.,Kim, N.,Celnik, P. A.,Kitago, T.,Luft, A.,Krakauer, J. W.,Die...> ;Brain. 2019 Jan 01
13 citations
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Upper Extremity Motor Recovery: Does It Help?
Heidi M. Schambra> ;Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 2018 Oct 23
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Journal Articles

Reliability, validity, and clinical utility of the Executive Function Performance Test: a measure of executive function in a sample of people with stroke
Baum CM, Connor LT, Morrison T, Hahn M, Dromerick AW, Edwards DF, Am J Occup Ther, 1/1/2008

Press Mentions

Digital Tool Aids Stroke Rehabilitation by Tracking Arm MovementsJune 17th, 2022
If You Don't Have This Gene, You May Recover Better from a StrokeFebruary 24th, 2019
Magnetic Stimulation of Brain May Help Some Stroke Patients RecoverDecember 15th, 2011