Dr. Ning Zhang, Surgeon

1835 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1222 USA
Phone: (614) 688-4665
Fax: (614) 688-4733
Email: zhang.440@osu.edu

Research Interests

I am a research associate in Dr. A Courtney DeVries’ lab. We are studying social influences on the histological and behavioral outcome of experimental focal (stroke) and global (cardiac arrest) cerebral ischemia, which represents common diseases in the human population and are major causes of disability and death in the United States. My research work focuses on survival microsurgery producing animal models of stroke and cardiac arrest. I also perform spared nerve injury (SNI) procedure to produce animal models of neuropathic pain.

Education and Experience

I graduated from Wuhan University of Science and Technology School of Medicine with a medical degree. I was an attending physician in General Hospital of Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation (Wuhan, China) after I interned and did my residency there. Upon coming to the United States, I accepted a position as a research assistant in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, from 2000 to 2002. There my research focused on animal models of epilepsy. I joined in Dr. DeVries’ laboratory at The Ohio State University since August 2002 studying cerebrovascular disorders.

Publications

1. Craft TK, Zhang N, Glasper ER, Hurn PD, Devries AC. Neonatal factors influence adult stroke outcome. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 31(5):601-13, 2006.
2. Craft TK, Glasper ER, McCullough L, Zhang N, Sugo N, Otsuka T, Hurn PD, DeVries AC. Social interaction improves experimental stroke outcome. Stroke. 36(9):2006-11, 2005.
3. Ziai WC, Sherman DL, Bhardwaj A, Zhang N, Keyl PM, Mirski MA. Target-specific catecholamine elevation induced by anticonvulsant thalamic deep brain stimulation. Epilepsia. 46(6):878-88, 2005.
4. Sherman DL, Patel CB, Zhang N, Rossell LA, Tsai YC, Thakor NV, Mirski MA. Sinusoidal modeling of ictal activity along a thalamus-to-cortex seizure pathway I: new coherence approaches. Ann Biomed Eng. 32(9):1252-64, 2004
5. Paul JS, Patel CB, Al-Nashash H, Zhang N, Ziai WC, Mirski MA, Sherman DL. Prediction of PTZ-induced seizures using wavelet-based residual entropy of cortical and subcortical field potentials. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 50(5):640-8, 2003.