Research Interests
Dr. Amrhein leads a team of spine researchers focusing on Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension and CT guided pain interventions. He has been first author or a co-author on innumerable peer-reviewed publications and has written multiple book chapters. His work has been published in JAMA Neurology, PLOS Med, Nature: NPJ Digital Medicine, Radiology, American Journal of Radiology, Headache, and the American Journal of Neuroradiology with features in the popular press ranging from national outlets such as the New York Times and Reuters to the local press (WRAL). Dr. Amrhein’s research has been supported through multiple grants including several highly competitive national foundation awards: the RSNA Research Scholar Grant, ASNR Comparative Effectiveness Award, Spine Intervention Society Research Grant, the American Heart Association Bugher Fellowship, and a Spinal CSF Leak Foundation Grant.
Selected Grants
Population-level Pulmonary Embolism Outcome Prediction with Imaging and Clinical Data: A Multi-Center Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanford University · 2021 - 2025A flexible needle for targeted delivery of therapeutics in spatially constrained anatomy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by North Carolina Biotechnology Center · 2021 - 2023Applied Deep Learning in Pulmonary Embolism Outcome Prediction Using Imaging and Clinical Data: A Multicenter Study
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanford University · 2018 - 2022Deep Learning for Pulmonary Embolism Imaging Decision Support: A Multi-institutional Collaboration
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanford University · 2018 - 2022Duke-Stanford Multicenter Investigation Predicting Imaging Outcomes of Pulmonary Embolism CT
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Stanford University · 2017 - 2022Development of a Novel Flexible Needle for Targeted Epidural Blood Patch of Ventral CSF Leaks
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Spinal CSF Leak Foundation · 2020 - 2021Comparison of cervical transforaminal epidural corticosteroid injections with lateralized interlaminar epidural corticosteroid injections for treatment of cervicogenic upper extremity radiculopathy
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Society of Neuroradiology · 2017 - 2019A randomized trial of CT fluoroscopy-guided targeted autologous blood and fibrin glue patching for treatment of imaging-confirmed CSF leaks in patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Radiological Society of North America · 2017 - 2018An Anatomic and Radiologic Study to Define the Source and Course of the Articular Branches to the Thoracic Zygapophysial Joints
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by Spine Intervention Society · 2017 - 2017External Relationships
- Siemens Medical Solutions/Siemens Healthineers
- Spinal CSF Leak Foundation
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