Jed A. Hartings PhD

Dr. Hartings obtained his B.S. in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame with magna cum laude and Distinguished Military Graduate distinction, and subsequently earned a doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He then served in the U.S. Army at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research for 8 years, separating from service at the rank of Major. In 2008, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where is now an Associate Professor. Dr. Hartings has distinguished himself in both laboratory and clinical research on acute brain injury, contributing extensively to the current understanding of spreading depolarizations as a mechanism of acute lesion development in cerebral gray matter.

His preclinical studies utilize swine and rodent models of cerebral ischemia, hemorrhage, and brain trauma. In clinical research, he leads multi-center efforts to monitor spreading depolarizations by electrocorticography in severe brain trauma, and is co-founder of the translational consortium, Co-Operative Studies on Brain Injury Depolarizations (COSBID). Dr. Hartings has received several major grants from the Department of Defense and has been recognized as a Hero of Military Medicine and a finalist in the Cincinnati Business Courier’s Health Care Heroes. Dr. Hartings is a member of the National Neurotrauma Society, the Neurocritical Care Society, and the International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, and is an avid brewer and marathon runner.