Sara LaHue, MD

HS Asst Clinical Professor
M_Neurology
[email protected]

Dr. Sara C. LaHue is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UCSF, and holds a Visiting Scientist appointment at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. She is a neurohospitalist (neurologist focused on the care of hospitalized adults), researcher and educator. As a neurohospitalist, she serves on the Neurohospitalist Society Executive Board, the Neurohospitalist Editorial Board, and is a UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis affiliate. She is coauthor of the textbook "Emergency Neurology" (Oxford University Press 2021) and directs the emergency neurology simulation curriculum for residents.

Dr. LaHue's research interests span several areas within neurology, though the majority of her grant-funded work centers on translational investigations of delirium, cognitive impairment, and biological age in hospitalized older adults. She is also passionate about improving the care of women with neurological disorders through educational initiatives and research. Dr. LaHue is both Co-I and Director of Education for Sex and Gender Enriched (SAGE) Neurology R25, as well as an affiliate member of the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Women’s Health Clinical Research Center, and UCSF BALANCE.

Dr. LaHue obtained her medical degree and completed residency in neurology at UCSF, where she served as chief resident. She also completed her neurohospitalist fellowship at UCSF. Dr. LaHue is board certified in Neurology.

(Photo credit: Christopher Michel)

Publications

Advancing Delirium Treatment Trials in Older Adults: Recommendations for Future Trials From the Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists (NIDUS)

Critical care medicine

Devlin JW, Sieber F, Akeju O, Khan BA, MacLullich AMJ, Marcantonio ER, Oh ES, Agar MR, Avelino-Silva TJ, Berger M, Burry L, Colantuoni EA, Evered LA, Girard TD, Han JH, Hosie A, Hughes C, Jones RN, Pandharipande PP, Subramanian B, Travison TG, van den Boogaard M, Inouye SK, on behalf of the Network for Investigation of Delirium

Advancing specificity in delirium: The delirium subtyping initiative.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Bowman EML, Brummel NE, Caplan GA, Cunningham C, Evered LA, Fiest KM, Girard TD, Jackson TA, LaHue SC, Lindroth HL, Maclullich AMJ, McAuley DF, Oh ES, Oldham MA, Page VJ, Pandharipande PP, Potter KM, Sinha P, Slooter AJC, Sweeney AM, Tieges Z, Van Dellen E, Wilcox ME, Zetterberg H, Cunningham EL

Prevalence and risk factors for delirium in critically ill patients with COVID-19 (COVID-D): a multicentre cohort study.

The Lancet. Respiratory medicine

Pun BT, Badenes R, Heras La Calle G, Orun OM, Chen W, Raman R, Simpson BK, Wilson-Linville S, Hinojal Olmedillo B, Vallejo de la Cueva A, van der Jagt M, Navarro Casado R, Leal Sanz P, Orhun G, Ferrer Gómez C, Núñez Vázquez K, Piñeiro Otero P, Taccone FS, Gallego Curto E, Caricato A, Woien H, Lacave G, O'Neal HR, Peterson SJ, Brummel NE, Girard TD, Ely EW, Pandharipande PP, COVID-19 Intensive Care International Study Group

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