Rohan Mathur, MD, MPA
Neurocritical Care
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Rohan Mathur
Professional Titles
Associate Director, Precision Medicine Center of Excellence in Neurocritical Care
Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine
Medical Director, Neurosciences Intermediate Care Unit
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins Physician
Background
Dr. Rohan Mathur is a neurologist and neurocritical care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He specializes in caring for patients with severe and life-threatening neurological and neurosurgical conditions, including stroke, brain injury, brain swelling, coma, and disorders of consciousness. His clinical work focuses on patients who require close monitoring and advanced treatment in intensive and intermediate care settings.
Dr. Mathur is also a physician-scientist whose research aims to improve how acute brain injuries are diagnosed and treated. His work focuses on understanding and managing elevated pressure inside the brain, coma, and recovery of consciousness. He helps lead a multidisciplinary team of physicians, engineers, data scientists, and mathematicians developing advanced monitoring technologies and artificial intelligence–based tools to support clinical decision-making for critically ill patients. His research has been supported by national and institutional funding.
In addition to his clinical and research roles, Dr. Mathur is deeply committed to compassionate, patient-centered care. He is core faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine and has helped integrate approaches such as music therapy and narrative-based care into the intensive care unit. His goal is to ensure that medical decisions reflect not only clinical data, but also each patient’s values, goals, and lived experience.
Dr. Mathur is a dedicated educator and mentor, serving as faculty for the Neurocritical Care Fellowship and the Osler Attending Preceptor Program. He has received multiple teaching awards in recognition of his commitment to training physicians and advanced practice providers in both technical excellence and humanistic care.
He earned his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. He completed his neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
Centers and Institutes
Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine
Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/inhealth/research/facts/brain-pressure
Additional Academic Titles
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Explainable AI, Intracranial Pressure, Acute Brain Injury, Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Disorders of Consciousness, Humanism in Medicine, Music Therapy
Research Summary
Dr. Mathur serves as the Associate Director of the Precision Medicine Center for Neurocritical Care, a multidisciplinary research group of more than 20 physicians, scientists, applied mathematicians, and data scientists. This team develops state-of-the-art artificial intelligence–based tools to help clinicians better predict outcomes and care for patients with critical brain and spinal cord injuries in the intensive care unit. His work has helped pioneer scalable AI-based tools for intracranial pressure (ICP) waveform processing and prediction, including CICL, the first validated semi-supervised framework to clean and label high-frequency ICP data for predictive modeling. In addition to his work in AI and precision medicine, Dr. Mathur has helped develop innovative clinical and research programs focused on humanizing neurocritical care. These include programs studying the role of music therapy in patients with coma, as well as the use of audio recordings from patients and family members to enhance compassionate care in the ICU.
Selected Publications
- Mathur, R., Yellapantula, S., Cheng, L. et al. Classification of intracranial pressure epochs using a novel machine learning framework. npj Digit. Med. 8, 201 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01612-3
- Bösel, J., Mathur, R., Cheng, L. et al. AI and Neurology. Neurol. Res. Pract. 7, 11 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42466-025-00367-2
Honors
- A.B. Baker Award for Teaching Excellence, American Academy of Neurology (2026)
- Neurology Overall Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Johns Hopkins (2025–2026)
- Attending Physician of the Year, Critical Care PA Residency, Johns Hopkins (2025)
- Best Scientific Abstract Award, Neurocritical Care Society (2023)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Service Award T32-421, National Institutes of Health (2021-2024)
- Chief Fellow, Neurocritical Care Fellowship, Johns Hopkins (2020–2021)
- Guy M. McKhann Award for Teaching Excellence, Johns Hopkins Neurology (2019)
- Robert Fogelson Award for Humanity in Medicine, Johns Hopkins Neurology (2018)
- STAR Award for Teaching Excellence, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2018)
- Carl & Brunilla Bronnell Scholarship in Neurological Medicine, Rutgers RWJ (2015)
- Academic Excellence Scholar, Harvard Kennedy School (2015)
- Distinction in Research, Rutgers RWJ Medical School (2014)
- Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow, University of Iowa (2012)
Memberships
- Neurocritical Care Society
- Society for Critical Care Medicine
- American Academy of Neurology
- American Heart Association
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- Get Directions
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Neurocritical Care Medicine, 2021
- Residency: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Neurology, 2019
- Medical Education: Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, MD, 2015
- Graduate School: Kennedy School of Government, MPA, 2015
Board Certifications
- Neurocritical Care: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2021
- Neurology: American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 2019
Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)