Assistant Professor in Neurology and Anatomy & Neurobiology
Director, Neuroimaging Core, UCI General Clinical Research Center
Co-director, UC Irvine Medical Center Clinical Stroke Program

B.A., Neurobiology; University of California, Berkeley; Berkeley, CA, 1983
M.D.; University of Southern California, School of Medicine; L.A., CA, 1988
M.M.Sc. (Master of Medical Sciences); Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA, 1997
 

Research
 Interests:

Stroke
Recovery from injury to central nervous system
Human brain mapping
 

Professional Societies and Organizations::

American Academy of Neurology
National Stroke Association
Stroke Council, American Heart Association
Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Society for the Neural Control of Movement

Graduated from U.C. Berkeley with Highest Honors
Joseph Collins Foundation Scholarship
USC Merit Scholarship
Neuroscience Award, Western Medical Student Research Forum
USC Student Research Fellowship
USC Dean's Scholar
UCLA Solomon Scholar
Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award in Stroke, Honorable Mention,
American Heart Association
van den Noort Award for junior faculty research, UC Irvine Dept. Neurology
Specialist of the Month Award, UC Irvine Primary Care Medical Group

Publications:

Cramer SC, Nelles G, Benson R, Kaplan JD, Kwong KK, Parker R, Kennedy DN,

Finklestein SP, Rosen BR. A functional MRI study of subjects with motor recovery after stroke. Stroke 1997; 28:2518-2527.

Cramer SC, Rordorf G, Kaufman JA, Ferdinando Buonanno F, KoroshetzWJ, Schwamm L. Clinically occult pelvic-vein thrombosis in cryptogenic stroke. Lancet 1998; 351:1927-1928.

Cramer SC, Chopp M. Recovery recapitulates ontogeny. Trends in Neurosciences 2000; 23: 265-271.

Cramer SC, Mark A, Barquist K, Nhan H, Stegbauer KC, Price R, Bell K, Odderson I, Esselman P, Maravilla KR. Motor cortex activation is preserved in patients with chronic hemiplegic stroke. Annals of Neurology 2002; 52:607-616.

Schaechter JD, Kraft, E, Hilliard TS, Dijkhuizen RM, Benner T, Finklestein SP, Rosen BR,
Cramer SC. Motor recovery and cortical reorganization after constraint-induced movement therapy in stroke patients: a preliminary study. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair 2002; 16:326-338.

Zemke AC, Heagerty PJ, Lee C, Cramer SC. Motor cortex organization after stroke is related to side of stroke and level of recovery. Stroke 2003; 34:e23-28.

Crafton KR, Mark AN, Cramer SC. Improved understanding of motor cortex injury by incorporating measures of functional anatomy. Brain 2003; 126:1650-1659.

Cramer SC, Benson RR, Burra VC, Himes D, Crafton KR, Janowsky JS, Brown JA, Lutsep HL. Mapping individual brains to guide restorative therapy after stroke: Rationale and pilot studies. Neurological Research 2003; 25:811-814.

Cramer SC, Rordorf G, Maki JH, Kramer LA, Grotta JC; Burgin WS, Hinchey JA, Benesch C, Furie KL, Lutsep HL, Kelly E, Longstreth WT, Jr. Increased pelvic vein thrombi in cryptogenic stroke: results of the Paradoxical Emboli from Large Veins in Ischemic Stroke (PELVIS) study. Stroke 2004; 35:46-50.

Nhan H, Barquist K, Bell K, Esselman P, Odderson IR, Cramer SC. Brain function early after stroke in relation to subsequent recovery. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2004; (in press).