Rohan Mathur, MD

Description

Dr. Rohan Mathur is a neurologist and neurocritical care physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He specializes in caring for patients with severe and life-threatening neurological and neurosurgical conditions, including stroke, brain injury, brain swelling, coma, and disorders of consciousness. His clinical work focuses on patients who require close monitoring and advanced treatment in intensive and intermediate care settings. Dr. Mathur is also a physician-scientist whose research aims to improve how acute brain injuries are diagnosed and treated. His work focuses on understanding and managing elevated pressure inside the brain, coma, and recovery of consciousness. He helps lead a multidisciplinary team of physicians, engineers, data scientists, and mathematicians developing advanced monitoring technologies and artificial intelligence–based tools to support clinical decision-making for critically ill patients. His research has been supported by national and institutional funding. In addition to his clinical and research roles, Dr. Mathur is deeply committed to compassionate, patient-centered care. He is core faculty in the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanizing Medicine and has helped integrate approaches such as music therapy and narrative-based care into the intensive care unit. His goal is to ensure that medical decisions reflect not only clinical data, but also each patient’s values, goals, and lived experience. Dr. Mathur is a dedicated educator and mentor, serving as faculty for the Neurocritical Care Fellowship and the Osler Attending Preceptor Program. He has received multiple teaching awards in recognition of his commitment to training physicians and advanced practice providers in both technical excellence and humanistic care. He earned his medical degree from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University. He completed his neurology residency and neurocritical care fellowship at Johns Hopkins.