Our Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit Team

The OHSU Brain Institute Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit is the only place in Oregon with specially trained experts available all day, every day to care for your patients that are critically ill from a neurological disease.

NURSE MANAGER, NEUROSCIENCES ICU

Lisa Ledsworth, R.N.

Our unit’s Nurse Manager represents 58 nurses who specialize in neurocritical care, the largest such team in the Pacific Northwest.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR, NEUROSCIENCES ICU

Ansgar Brambrink, M.D., PH.D.

Medical Director, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit
Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Neurological Surgery

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NURSE PRACTITIONERS / PHYSICIAN’S ASSISTANTS

Derek Bowers, N.P.-C

Nurse Practitioner, Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Katharine Keranen, P.A.-C

Physician's Assistant, Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

AnjaLee Rowe, N.P.-C

Nurse Practitioner, Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Ed Whorrall, P.A.-C

Physicians Assistant, Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

ATTENDING NEUROINTENSIVISTS

Ansgar Brambrink, M.D.

Medical Director, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit
Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Neurological Surgery

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Jeremy D. Fields, M.D.

Associate Director, Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Director, Neurocritical Care Fellowship Program
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Center of Interventional Neuroradiology

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