Antreas Charidimou , MD, MSc, PhD, FESO

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Andreas Charidimou is an Asst. Prof of in neurology at Boston University Medical Center (MA, USA). He studied medicine at the University of Athens (Athens, Greece), did his PhD on applied clinical neuroimaging of cerebral small vessel disease and intracerebral haemorrhage at the University College London, Queen Square, Institute of Neurology (London, UK), and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School Hemorrhagic Stroke Research Program (Boston, USA). His research focuses on cerebral amyloid angiopathy, aiming to improve diagnosis, define risk of hemorrhage and dementia, and integrate novel biomarkers into clinical practice.

Publications

  • Published 11/10/2023

    Switzer A, Charidimou A, McCarter SJ, Vemuri P, Nguyen A, Przybelski SA, Lesnick TG, Rabinstein AA, Brown RD, Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Jack CR, Reichard RR, Graff-Radford J. Boston criteria v2.0 for cerebral amyloid angiopathy without hemorrhage: An MRI-neuropathological validation study. medRxiv. 2023 Nov 10. PMID: 37986913.

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  • Published 9/14/2023

    Rodriguez Lara F, Toro AR, Pinheiro A, Demissie S, Ekenze O, Martinez O, Parva P, Charidimou A, Ghosh S, DeCarli C, Seshadri S, Habes M, Maillard P, Romero JR. Relation of MRI-Visible Perivascular Spaces and Other MRI Markers of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Brain Sci. 2023 Sep 14; 13(9). PMID: 37759924.

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  • Published 8/21/2023

    Morotti A, Boulouis G, Nawabi J, Li Q, Charidimou A, Pasi M, Schlunk F, Shoamanesh A, Katsanos AH, Mazzacane F, Busto G, Arba F, Brancaleoni L, Giacomozzi S, Simonetti L, Warren AD, Laudisi M, Cavallini A, Gurol ME, Viswanathan A, Zini A, Casetta I, Fainardi E, Greenberg SM, Padovani A, Rosand J, Goldstein JN. Association Between Hematoma Expansion Severity and Outcome and Its Interaction With Baseline Intracerebral Hemorrhage Volume. Neurology. 2023 Oct 17; 101(16):e1606-e1613. PMID: 37604661.

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  • Published 6/7/2023

    Varkanitsa M, Peñaloza C, Charidimou A, Kiran S. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden: An Independent Biomarker for Anomia Treatment Responsiveness in Chronic Stroke Patients With Aphasia. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2023 Oct; 104(10):1630-1637. PMID: 37290492.

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  • Published 6/1/2023

    Charidimou A, Greenberg SM. Boston criteria version 2.0 and non-haemorrhagic presentations - Authors' reply. Lancet Neurol. 2023 Jun; 22(6):466-467. PMID: 37210091.

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Other Positions

  • Resident, Neurology
    Boston Medical Center
  • Postdoctoral Clinical Research Fellow, J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Education

  • University of Athens, MD
  • University College London (UCL), PhD
  • University College London (UCL), MSc