Dr. Laura Pedelty is Chief of the Neurobehavioral Section in the Department of Neurology, and a member of the Vascular Neurology (Stroke) section. Her clinical activities include inpatient care of stroke patients and outpatient assessment and care of patients with stroke and patients with cognitive disorders including Vascular Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Frontotemporal dementias, and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Dr. Pedelty is co-Director of the Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry training program. Her research and publications have focused on risk factors for vascular dementia and cognitive decline following stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, and on primary and secondary stroke prevention, particularly in the elderly.
Dr Pedelty obtained her medical degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Illinois in 1990. She completed her Neurology Residency at the University of Chicago in 1994. She was a Javits Memory Fellow at the Boston University School of Medicine and subsequently completed a fellowship in Cerebrovascular disease and Neurological Critical Care at Rush University Medical Center in 2003.
Dr. Pedelty is certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with subspecialty certifications in Vascular Neurology and in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry.
Pedelty, L., S. Levine and S. Shevell (1985) Developmental changes in face encoding: results from multidimensional scaling. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 39: 421 – 436.
Pedelty, L. and P.B. Gorelick (2004) Chronic management of blood pressure after stroke. Hypertension, 44:1-5.
Wang C, Stebbins GT, Nyenhuis DL, deToledo-Morrell L, Freels S, Gencheva E, Pedelty L, Sripathirathan K, Moseley ME, Turner DA, Gabrieli JD, Gorelick PB (2005) Longitudinal changes in white matter following ischemic stroke: A three-year follow-up study. Neurobiology of Aging. December;27(12):1827-33
Pedelty, L., D. L. Nyenhuis, P. B. Gorelick, G. T. Stebbins, E. Gencheva, L. deToledo-Morrell, C. Wang , K. Sripathirathan, E. Berry-Kravis, S. Freels, S. Byrd, M. Jhaveri (under review) Risk Markers for Vascular Cognitive Impairment-No Dementia (Vascular CIND) After Stroke. Stroke 2008.
Pedelty, L and PB Gorelick (208) Management of hypertension in the elderly with increased cardiovascular risk. American Journal of Medicine 231:S23-31.
Williamson, J., Nyenhuis, D., Pedelty, L., Byr, S., Jhaveri, M., Wang, C-S, deToledo-Morrell, L., Sripathirathan, K. and Gorelick, P.B. (in press) Baseline differences between Vascular Cognitive Impairment No Dementia reverters and nonreverters. Journal of Neurology, Neurourgery and Neuropsychiatry March 2008
Pedelty, L and D. Nyenhuis (2006) Vascular Cognitive Impairment. In Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine May;8(3):243-50.
Pedelty, L and PB Gorelick (2006) Update on the management of hypertension to prevent stroke. Current Treatment Options in Neurology November;8(6):486-95.