Charles Esenwa is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and clinical stroke neurologist at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Esenwa attended medical school at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, and completed a residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute of New York, where he also served as chief resident and a fellow in vascular neurology. While at Columbia, he completed formal training in neuroepidemiology under an NIH T32 grant.
He is dedicated to humanistic patient care and is the recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Humanism in Medicine Award, and the Neurological Institute’s Daniel Sciarra patient care and humanism award. He has published on acute stroke management, stroke risk factors, secondary stroke prevention and stroke disparities, and is interested in advancing health care delivery to underserved populations on the local, national and international levels.

Journal Publications

·       Esenwa C, Cheng NT, Lipsitz E, Hsu K, Zampolin R, Gersten A, Antoniello D, Soetanto A, Kirchoff K, Liberman A, Mabie P, Nisar T, Rahimian D, Brook A, Lee SK, Haranhalli N, Altschul D, Labovitz D. COVID-19-Associated Carotid Atherothrombosis and Stroke. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2020 Aug 20. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6752.

·       Esenwa C, Parides MK, Labovitz DL. The effect of COVID-19 on stroke hospitalizations in New York City. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2020 Oct;29(10):105114. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.105114. Epub 2020 Jul 13.

·       Altschul DJ, Esenwa C, Haranhalli N, Unda SR, de La Garza Ramos R, Dardick J, Fernandez-Torres J, Toma A, Labovitz D, Cheng N, Lee SK, Brook A, Zampolin R. Predictors of mortality for patients with COVID-19 and large vessel occlusion. Interv Neuroradiol. 2020 Oct;26(5):623-628. doi: 10.1177/1591019920954603. Epub 2020 Aug 30. PMID: 32862753.

·       Liberman AL, Wang C, Friedman BW, Prabhakaran S, Esenwa CC, Rostanski SK, Cheng NT, Erdfarb A, Labovitz DL, Lipton RB. Head Computed tomography during emergency department treat-and-release visit for headache is associated with increased risk of subsequent cerebrovascular disease hospitalization. Diagnosis (Berl). 2020 Oct 5:/j/dx.ahead-of-print/dx-2020-0082/dx-2020-0082.xml.

·       McHugh DC, Esenwa C. A Novel COL4A2 Mutation Associated with Recurrent Strokes. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2020 Oct;29(10):105156. doi:

·       Altschul DJ, Haranhalli N, Esenwa C, Unda SR, de La Garza Ramos R, Dardick J, Fernandez-Torres J, Toma A, Labovitz D, Cheng N, Lee SK, Brook A, Zampolin R. The Impact of COVID-19 on Emergent Large-Vessel Occlusion: Delayed Presentation Confirmed by ASPECTS. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2020 Sep 3. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6800.

·       Liberman AL, Navi BB, Esenwa CC, Zhang C, Song J, Cheng NT, Labovitz DL, Kamel H, Merkler AE. Misdiagnosis of Cervicocephalic Artery Dissection in the Emergency Department.

Stroke. 2020 Apr 16:STROKEAHA120029390. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.

·       Esenwa, C. et al. Racial Differences in Mechanical Thrombectomy Utilization for Ischemic Stroke in the United States. Ethn Dis 30, 91-96 (2020).

·       Liberman, A. L., Bakradze, E., McHugh, D. C., Esenwa, C. C. & Lipton, R. B. Assessing diagnostic error in cerebral venous thrombosis via detailed chart review. Diagnosis (Berl) 6 (2019).

·       Esenwa, C., Labovitz, D. & Caplan, L. R. "Basilar Web" Causing Basilar Branch Infarction. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 28, 104366 (2019).

·       Dardick, Esenwa, C., et al. Acute Lateral Medullary Infarct due to Giant Cell Arteritis: A Case Study. Stroke 50, e290-e293 (2019).

·       Bakradze E, Kirchoff KF, Antoniello D, Springer MV, Mabie PC, Esenwa CC, Labovitz DL, Liberman AL.Varicella Zoster Virus Vasculitis and Adult Cerebrovascular Disease. Neurohospitalist 9, 203-208 (2019).

·       Esenwa, C., Tshiswaka, DL., Gebregziabher, M., Ovbiagele, B. Historical Slavery and Modern-Day Stroke Mortality in the United States Stroke Belt. Stroke. 2018 (in press)

·       Boehme, A., Esenwa, C., Elkind, M.S. Stroke Risk Factors, Genetics, and Prevention. Circulation Research. 120, 3 (2017)

·       Esenwa, C.C. & Elkind, M.S. Inflammatory risk factors, biomarkers and associated therapy in ischaemic stroke. Nat Rev Neurol 12, 594-604 (2016).

·       Esenwa, C. & Gutierrez, J. Secondary stroke prevention: challenges and solutions. Vasc Health Risk Manag 11, 437-50 (2015).

·       Esenwa, C.C. & Elkind, M.S. A questionable cause of intracerebral hemorrhage. JAMA Neurol 70, 653-4 (2013).

·       Kummer B, Kerner B, Esenwa C. Voltage Gated Potassium Channel Antibody Encephalitis Associated with Hyperglycemia. J Clin Case Rep. 2014 Dec. 4:464

·       Esenwa, C.C. & Leaf, D.E. Colpocephaly in adults. BMJ Case Rep 2013 (2013).

Book Publications

• Esenwa C, Czeisler B, Mayer S. 2015. Chapter 35, Acute Ischemic Stroke. In E. Louis, S. Mayer and L. Rowland, Merritt’s Neurology Thirteenth Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Walters Kluwer.
• Esenwa C, Elkind M. 2015. Chapter 44, Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention. In E. Louis, S. Mayer and L. Rowland, Merritt’s Neurology Thirteenth Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Walters Kluwer.
• Rinaldi A, Esenwa C. 2015. Chapter 121, Gastric and Genitourinary Function and the Brain.  In E. Louis, S. Mayer and L. Rowland, Merritt’s Neurology Thirteenth Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Walters Kluwer.

Abstracts:

• Dardick J, Labovitz D, Liberman A, Cheng N, Esenwa C. Characteristics of Stroke in the Young in a Diverse Urban County. International Stroke Conference 2020 meeting.
• Esenwa et al. Racial Differences in Mechanical Thrombectomy Utilization for Ischemic Stroke in the United States. International Stroke Conference 2019 meeting.
• Esenwa et al. Identifying acute ischemic stroke by analyzing ICD-10 claims data using machine learning models. International Stroke Conference 2017 meeting.
• Esenwa et al. Identifying stroke subtypes with high accuracy using machine learning and ICD-9 claims data. International Stroke Conference 2017 meeting.
• Esenwa et al. T1 Rho Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging can quantify acute cerebrovascular infarct in humans and is stable in the subacute period. International Stroke Conference 2017 meeting.
• Soun J & Esenwa C. Quantitative T1 Rho MR imaging of Acute Ischemic Infarct. ASNR meeting April, 2016 Poster