Associate Professor
University Of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Dr. Elizabeth Crago, RN, PhD, is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Neurological Surgery in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Crago is a nurse scientist with clinical expertise in emergency and critical care nursing with a special emphasis on neurosurgical patients. Her research focuses on the clinical complications that influence recovery after acute neurological injury, including protein markers in plasma and cerebral spinal fluid that may be influential or predict complications and outcomes. Dr. Crago’s current work is focused on identifying biologic predictors of injury and recovery following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage; specifically, the influence of sex steroids and insulin-like growth factors on the brain in this patient population. Dr. Crago has received NIH, Foundation and Institutional funding to support her research. Dr. Crago has additional expertise in other genomic and biologic markers (20-HETE, ET-1, catecholamines) and phenotypes (cardiac complications) in patients with neurologic injury as well as neurologic and cardiac monitoring.