Angela Lumba-Brown, MD

Dr. Angela Lumba-Brown is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, where she practices clinically in the pediatric emergency department.  She is the Associate Vice Chair of the Stanford Emergency Department and is also the co-director of the Stanford Brain Performance Center.  

Dr. Lumba-Brown is the first author on the 2018 Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Among Children, as well as other TBI guidelines.  She has been a member of the CDC’s expert workgroup panel on pediatric mTBI and sits on the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's Board of Scientific Counselors.  Dr. Lumba-Brown’s current research examines diagnostics and management strategies for TBI, with a focus on sex-based differences.  Her work has been published in JAMA Pediatrics, the Journal of Trauma, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Neurosurgery, and the Journal of Neurotrauma.  She has been highlighted on NPR and in the New York Times. 

Dr. Lumba-Brown is passionate about injury prevention and the application of personalized medicine to TBI diagnostic and rehabilitation strategies.