Raquel Gardner, MD

Assistant Adjunct Professor

Neurology

As a board-certified neurologist, Dr. Gardner evaluates and treats patients with various neurological disorders and provides them with follow-up care. As a fellowship-trained behavioral neurologist, Dr. Gardner has specific expertise in the evaluation and management of patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia and mild cognitive impairment.

Her research program focuses on understanding the epidemiology and mechanisms of long-term sequelae of traumatic brain injury in older adults with the goal of improving outcomes in this vulnerable population. Her work is supported by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Department of Defense, the American Federation for Aging Research, the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, and the UCSF Research Allocation Program.

Publications:

Traumatic brain injury in older adults: do we need a different approach?

Concussion (London, England)

Peters ME, Gardner RC

Association of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Loss of Consciousness With Dementia in US Military Veterans.

JAMA neurology

Barnes DE, Byers AL, Gardner RC, Seal KH, Boscardin WJ, Yaffe K

Age-Related Differences in Diagnostic Accuracy of Plasma GFAP and Tau For Identifying Acute Intracranial Trauma on CT: A TRACK-TBI Study.

Journal of neurotrauma

Gardner RC, Rubenstein R, Wang KKW, Korley FK, Yue JK, Yuh EL, Mukherjee P, Valadka A, Okonkwo DO, Diaz-Arrastia R, Manley G

Concordance of common data elements for assessment of subjective cognitive complaints after mild-traumatic brain injury: a TRACK-TBI Pilot Study.

Brain injury

Ngwenya LB, Gardner RC, Yue JK, Burke JF, Ferguson AR, Huang MC, Winkler EA, Pirracchio R, Satris GG, Yuh EL, Mukherjee P, Valadka AB, Okonkwo DO, Manley GT

Mild TBI and risk of Parkinson disease: A Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium Study.

Neurology

Gardner RC, Byers AL, Barnes DE, Li Y, Boscardin J, Yaffe K

Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Epidemiology, Outcomes, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions.

Journal of neurotrauma

Gardner RC, Dams-O'Connor K, Morrissey MR, Manley GT

Preinjury employment status as a risk factor for symptomatology and disability in mild traumatic brain injury: A TRACK-TBI analysis.

NeuroRehabilitation

Yue JK, Rick JW, Morrissey MR, Taylor SR, Deng H, Suen CG, Vassar MJ, Cnossen MC, Lingsma HF, Yuh EL, Mukherjee P, Gardner RC, Valadka AB, Okonkwo DO, Cage TA, Manley GT

Remote Traumatic Brain Injury Is Associated with Motor Dysfunction in Older Military Veterans.

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences

Gardner RC, Peltz CB, Kenney K, Covinsky KE, Diaz-Arrastia R, Yaffe K

The Traumatic Brain Injury Endpoints Development (TED) Initiative: Progress on a Public-Private Regulatory Collaboration to Accelerate Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury.

Journal of neurotrauma

Manley GT, MacDonald CL, Markowitz A, Stephenson D, Robbins A, Gardner RC, Winkler EA, Bodien Y, Taylor S, Yue JK, Kannan L, Kumar A, McCrea M, Wang KKW

Subjective and objective cognitive function among older adults with a history of traumatic brain injury: A population-based cohort study.

PLoS medicine

Gardner RC, Langa KM, Yaffe K

Neurobehavioral Characteristics of Older Veterans With Remote Traumatic Brain Injury.

The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation

Peltz CB, Gardner RC, Kenney K, Diaz-Arrastia R, Kramer JH, Yaffe K

Timing and significance of pathological features in C9orf72 expansion-associated frontotemporal dementia.

Brain : a journal of neurology

Vatsavayai SC, Yoon SJ, Gardner RC, Gendron TF, Vargas JN, Trujillo A, Pribadi M, Phillips JJ, Gaus SE, Hixson JD, Garcia PA, Rabinovici GD, Coppola G, Geschwind DH, Petrucelli L, Miller BL, Seeley WW

COMT Val 158 Met polymorphism is associated with nonverbal cognition following mild traumatic brain injury.

Neurogenetics

Winkler EA, Yue JK, McAllister TW, Temkin NR, Oh SS, Burchard EG, Hu D, Ferguson AR, Lingsma HF, Burke JF, Sorani MD, Rosand J, Yuh EL, Barber J, Tarapore PE, Gardner RC, Sharma S, Satris GG, Eng C, Puccio AM, Wang KK, Mukherjee P, Valadka AB, Okonkwo DO, Diaz-Arrastia R, Manley GT

Evaluating and treating neurobehavioral symptoms in professional American football players: Lessons from a case series.

Neurology. Clinical practice

Gardner RC, Possin KL, Hess CP, Huang EJ, Grinberg LT, Nolan AL, Cohn-Sheehy BI, Ghosh PM, Lanata S, Merrilees J, Kramer JH, Berger MS, Miller BL, Yaffe K, Rabinovici GD