Navaz Karanjia, MD | UCSD Neurocritical Care
@Dr_Navaz
Neurointensivist, Founding Director of University of California-San Diego’s Neurocritical Care Program, musician, baker, mom, sci-fi fan
NCC's Dr. Mahta's poster was presented at the AAN annual meeting. Interesting research on the safety and the impact of intrathecal nicardipine in SAH population. @UCSDNeuro, #AAN2025

Congratulations to UCSD NCC's Dr. Mahta for being selected as the recipient of the 2025 Positive Champion of the Learning Environment from Brown University! Your commitment to students, leadership in teaching and mentoring are appreciated across your many communities!

A sweet birthday surprise on the unit last week to our wonderful director, Dr. Navaz Karanjia. Happy Birthday Navaz ! 🎂 @UCSDNeuro

Watch out for latest manuscript publication in Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, from our NCC attending, Dr. Mahta... "Platelet Transfusion and Antiplatelet Timing Not Associated with Decreased Rates of Ventriculostomy Hemorrhage in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage."
Congratulations to our ICU assistant manager, Mia Douglass on being awarded UCSD's Nurse Leader of the Year in Structural Empowerment! We are all appreciative to have Mia on our leadership team and are so happy she is receiving such deserved recognition! @UCSDNeuro


UCSD 3F team members are all smiles for a Dr. Lam week!

Check out the latest publication from NCC's second year fellow, Dr. Muhammad Edhi. @UCSDNeuro frontiersin.org/journals/pain-…

Hopefully you caught some of Dr. Mahta's work at the AAN annual meeting over the weekend. Here is one of his collaborative poster presentations in case you missed it. #UCSDneuro, #AAN2025

UCSD NCC team is so proud of our esteemed Dr. Mahta! Congratulations again for receiving the 2025 A.B. Baker teacher recognition award, presented at the AAN annual meeting. @UCSDNeuro


Hi to our fellow AAN 2025 annual meeting attendees! Hope you can stop by for Dr. Mahta's platform presentation Tuesday afternoon! Interesting work with Predictors of Post-Discharge Seizures in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Using EEG Data.
There is still time to register for the AAN annual meeting, taking place April 5th-9th in sunny San Diego☀️Our UCSD Neurocritical care team will be there! Stay tuned for more from our team throughout the event. #UCSDneuro, #AAN2025

Our UCSD Neurocritical Care team is getting excited for the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting, taking place in our own beautiful San Diego April 5th-9th! #UCSDneuro, #AAN2025

This cute visitor joined our NCC rounds today! So great to have pet therapy, massage and acupuncture therapies in our NCCU to help heal the whole patient (and their health care team!)

Our awesome multidisciplinary NCC team (anesthesia, internal medicine, neurology and neurosurgery residents, NCC and PCCM fellows, NCC NP, and NCC attending) starting rounds in our NCC team room! You wanna learn NCC? Come and join us!

UCSD NCC's nurse educator (CNS) Jenny Harris (right) with UCSD's transplant CNS Khrizna Chong (left) presenting their research on Barriers to Use of Train of Four in the ICU at #SCCM2025 in sunny Orlando! So proud our team is dedicated to advancing science in every arena!


UCSD NCC hot pot on an unusually chilly San Diego Sunday night! With NCC attendings Navaz Karanjia, Art Lam, NCC fellow Brian Chin, and our families!

We congratulate our First-year NCC Fellow Muhammad @mmedhi10 for his outstanding presentation of a scientific abstract at the Research Snapshot Theater during the SCCM congress in Orlando this week! Muhammad presented two abstracts this year. @UCSDNeuro

Congratulations to our UCSD NCC attending Dr. Ali Mahta, who has won the *2025* American Academy of Neurology’s A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award for excellence in teaching in neurology! So proud he's part of our team!