- Fellowship: University of Cincinnati Medical Center (Behavioral Neurology)
- Residency: University of Cincinnati Medical Center (Neurology)
- MD: St. George's University Medical School (Medicine)
- Bachelor of Science: University of California Davis (Psychology, Minor-Neuroscience)
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology) (Certification Date: 2017-09-11)
United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (Certification Date: 2018-11-30)
Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry
Neurology
- One Stetson Square
- Email sawyerrl@ucmail.uc.edu
Dementia, Memory Disorder, Cognitive Behavioral
Clinical Interests
Cognitive Aging
Cognitive Disorders
Internal Medicine
Neurology
Alzheimer's Disease
Amnesia
Aphasia
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Cognition Disorders
Dementia
Dysarthria
Early Anset Dementia
Epilepsy-Related Cognitive Dysfunction
Lewy Body Dementia
Lewy Body Disease
Mad Cow Disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
Memory Disorders
Metabolic Brain Disease
Mild Cognitive Impairment
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA)
Neuralgias
Neurogenic Inflammation
Neuropathic Facial Pain
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Orthostatic Hypotension (Postural Hypotension)
Paraphasic Error
Paroxysmal Hemicrania
Pick's Disease (Frontotemporal dementia)
Posterior Cortical Atrophy
Postherpetic Neuralgia
Post-Traumatic Headache
Prion Disease
Pseudobulbar Palsy
Pseudotumor Cerebri (Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension)
Rare Cognitive Disorders
Stroke-Related Cognitive Dysfunction
Tauopathies
TDP-43 Proteinopathies
Vascular Cognitive Impairment
Vascular Dementia
Bowers, Katherine; Bhoopathy, Krishna; Szczesniak, Rhonda; Sawyer, Russell P; Shah, Amy S; Ehrlich, Shelley; Dolan, Lawrence M; Summer, Suzanne; Smith, Emily; Altaye, Mekibib; Ollberding, Nicholas J; Catalano, Patrick; Khoury, Jane C 2026. Long-Term Effects of Maternal Glycemic Measures in Pregnancy and Offspring Adverse Glycemic Outcomes: Results from the TEAM Study. American journal of perinatology, 43 8, 1082-1090
Kim, Daeeun; McInerney, Katelyn; Dagli, Chaitali; Armstrong, Nicole D; Cushman, Mary; Bennett, Aleena; Blue, Elizabeth E; Sofer, Tamar; Sawyer, Russell P; Yuan, Ya; Crowe, Michael; Judd, Suzanne E; Olson, Nels C; Irvin, Marguerite R; Raffield, Laura M 2026. Influence of Cardiometabolic and Alzheimer Disease Genetics on Cognitive-Related Outcomes in a Diverse Population. Neurology, 107 1, e218163
Sawyer, Russell P; Blair, Jessica; Judd, Suzanne E; Olson, Nels C; Howard, Virginia J; Armstrong, Nicole D; Long, D Leann; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I; Sargent, Lana; Manly, Jennifer J; Cushman, Mary 2026. Circulating Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration and All-Cause and Dementia-Specific Mortality. Neurology, 106 7, e214752
Behymer, Tyler P; Sekar, Padmini; Demel, Stacie L; Aziz, Yasmin N; Coleman, Elisheva R; Williamson, Brady J; Stanton, Robert J; Sawyer, Russell P; Turner, Ashby C; Vagal, Vaibhav S; Osborne, Jennifer; Gilkerson, Lee A; Comeau, Mary E; Flaherty, Matthew L; Langefeld, Carl D; Woo, Daniel 2025. Psychosocial Stress and Risk for Intracerebral Hemorrhage in the ERICH (Ethnic/Racial Variations of Intracerebral Hemorrhage) Study. Journal of the American Heart Association, 14 6, e024457
Del Bene, Victor A; Howard, George; Gropen, Toby I; Lyerly, Michael J; Howard, Virginia J; Sawyer, Russell P; Lazar, Ronald M 2025. Cognitive Decline After First-Time Transient Ischemic Attack. JAMA neurology, 82 4, 323-32
DeLano, Kelly; Sprague, Alex C; Jandarov, Roman; Jackson, Brian P; Shatz, Rhonna; Langevin, Scott M; Sawyer, Russell P 2025. Association of plasma concentration of trace metals with frontotemporal degeneration. Frontiers in neurology, 16 , 1593821
Hill, Emily J; Marcucci, Samuel Blaise; DeLano, Kelly; Abanto, Jesus; Sawyer, Russell P; Marsili, Luca; Duque, Kevin R; Sun, Qin; Woo, Daniel; Langefeld, Carl D; Hall, Deborah A; Skirpan, Dawn; Paredes, Nathaly Chinchihualpa; Spikes, Cynthia; Bajaj, Deepa Agrawal; Gregor, Nathan; Stivers, Shea; Mahajan, Abhimanyu; Woo, Jessica G; Espay, Alberto J 2025. Community Disadvantage Is Associated With More Severe Motor Symptoms in Parkinson Disease. Neurology. Clinical practice, 15 4, e200506
Khatri, Pooja; Sucharew, Heidi; Sawyer, Russell P; Khandwala, Vivek; Wang, Lily Li-Li; Cornelius, Rebecca; Gaskill-Shipley, Mary; Tomsick, Thomas A; Wang, David; Gangatirkar, Shantala; Williamson, Brady Jamal; Maloney, Thomas; Horn, Paul; Carrozzella, Janice; Alwell, Kathleen; Haverbusch, Mary; Kissela, Brett M; Vagal, Achala 2025. Assessing Population-Based Radiological Brain Health in Stroke Epidemiology: Rationale and Design. Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland), 54 6, 901-909
Sawyer, Russell P; Bennett, Aleena; Blair, Jessica; Judd, Suzanne E; Olson, Nels; Howard, Virginia J; Armstrong, Nicole D; Long, D Leann; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I; Manly, Jennifer J; Cushman, Mary 2025. Circulating Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration and Risk of Cognitive Impairment. Neurology, 105 4, e213935
Thacker, Evan L; Karki, Reena; Gabor, Rachel; Blades, Natalie J; Sawyer, Russell P; Kouambo Beckodro, Cyrille N; Preece, Quinn; Prince, Samuel; Smith, McKay M; Gillett, Sarah R; Judd, Suzanne E; Kennedy, Richard E; Kizer, Jorge R; Levine, Deborah A; McClellan, William M; Kurella Tamura, Manjula; Unverzagt, Frederick W; Wadley, Virginia G; Cushman, Mary 2025. Leptin, adiponectin, body mass index, and incident cognitive impairment. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, 105 1, 90-106
Doran, Sarah J; Sawyer, Russell P 2024. Risk factors in developing amyloid related imaging abnormalities (ARIA) and clinical implications. Frontiers in neuroscience, 18 , 1326784
Karkoska, Kristine A; Gollamudi, Jahnavi; Sawyer, Russell P; Woo, Daniel; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I 2024. Quantifying dilated perivascular spaces in children with sickle cell disease. Pediatric blood & cancer, 71 9, e31150
Sawyer, Russell P; Blair, Jessica; Shatz, Rhonna; Manly, Jennifer J; Judd, Suzanne E 2024. Association of Adherence to a MIND-Style Diet With the Risk of Cognitive Impairment and Decline in the REGARDS Cohort. Neurology, 103 8, e209817
Bonham, Luke W; Geier, Ethan G; Sirkis, Daniel W; Leong, Josiah K; Ramos, Eliana Marisa; Wang, Qing; Karydas, Anna; Lee, Suzee E; Sturm, Virginia E; Sawyer, Russell P; Friedberg, Adit; Ichida, Justin K; Gitler, Aaron D; Sugrue, Leo; Cordingley, Michael; Bee, Walter; Weber, Eckard; Kramer, Joel H; Rankin, Katherine P; Rosen, Howard J; Boxer, Adam L; Seeley, William W; Ravits, John; Miller, Bruce L; Yokoyama, Jennifer S 2023. Radiogenomics of C9orf72 Expansion Carriers Reveals Global Transposable Element Derepression and Enables Prediction of Thalamic Atrophy and Clinical Impairment. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 43 2, 333-345
Hill, Emily J; Sharma, Jennifer; Wissel, Benjamin; Sawyer, Russell P; Jiang, Megan; Marsili, Luca; Duque, Kevin; Botsford, Vanesa; Wood, Christopher; DeLano, Kelly; Sun, Qin; Kissela, Brett; Espay, Alberto J 2023. Parkinson's disease diagnosis codes are insufficiently accurate for electronic health record research and differ by race. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 114 , 105764
Sawyer, Russell P; Bennett, Aleena; Blair, Jessica; Molano, Jennifer; Timmerman, Emerlee; Foster, Forrest; Karkoska, Kristine; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I; Manly, Jennifer J; Howard, Virginia J; Petrov, Megan E; Hoffmann, Coles M; Yu, Fang; Demel, Stacie L; Aziz, Yasmin; Hooper, Destiny; Hill, Emily J; Johnson, Jamelle; Pounders, Johnson; Shatz, Rhonna 2023. History of obstructive sleep apnea associated with incident cognitive impairment in white but not black individuals in a US national cohort study. Sleep medicine, 112 , 1-8
Sawyer, Russell P; Worrall, Bradford B; Howard, Virginia J; Crowe, Michael G; Howard, George; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I 2023. Methods of a Study to Assess the Contribution of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Dementia Risk Alleles to Racial Disparities in Vascular Cognitive Impairment and Dementia. Journal of the American Heart Association, 12 17, e030925
Boyne, Pierce; Doren, Sarah; Scholl, Victoria; Staggs, Emily; Whitesel, Dustyn; Carl, Daniel; Shatz, Rhonna; Sawyer, Russell; Awosika, Oluwole O; Reisman, Darcy S; Billinger, Sandra A; Kissela, Brett; Vannest, Jennifer; Dunning, Kari 2022. Preliminary Outcomes of Combined Treadmill and Overground High-Intensity Interval Training in Ambulatory Chronic Stroke. Frontiers in neurology, 13 , 812875
Pounders, Jonathan; Hill, Emily J; Hooper, Destiny; Zhang, Xiang; Biesiada, Jacek; Kuhnell, Damaris; Greenland, Hannah L; Esfandiari, Leyla; Timmerman, Emerlee; Foster, Forrest; Wang, Chenran; Walsh, Kyle B; Shatz, Rhonna; Woo, Daniel; Medvedovic, Mario; Langevin, Scott; Sawyer, Russell P 2022. MicroRNA expression within neuronal-derived small extracellular vesicles in frontotemporal degeneration. Medicine, 101 40, e30854
Sawyer, Russell P; Demel, Stacie L; Comeau, Mary E; Marion, Miranda; Rosand, Jonathan; Langefeld, Carl D; Woo, Daniel 2022. Alzheimer's disease related single nucleotide polymorphisms and correlation with intracerebral hemorrhage incidence. Medicine, 101 39, e30782
Sawyer, Russell P; Hill, Emily J; Yokoyama, Jennifer; Medvedovic, Mario; Ren, Yan; Zhang, Xiang; Choubey, Divaker; Shatz, Rhonna S; Miller, Bruce; Woo, Daniel 2022. Differences in peripheral immune system gene expression in frontotemporal degeneration. Medicine, 101 3, e28645
Sawyer, Russell P; Pun, Sirjana; Karkoska, Kristine A; Clendinen, Cherita A; DeBaun, Michael R; Gutmark, Ephraim; Barrile, Riccardo; Hyacinth, Hyacinth I 2022. Effect of Blood Transfusion on Cerebral Hemodynamics and Vascular Topology Described by Computational Fluid Dynamics in Sickle Cell Disease Patients. Brain sciences, 12 10,
Sawyer, Russell P; Stone, Hillarey K; Salim, Hanan; Lu, Xiaoming; Weirauch, Matthew T; Kottyan, Leah 2022. Frontotemporal degeneration genetic risk loci and transcription regulation as a possible mechanistic link to disease risk. Medicine, 101 41, e31078
Sawyer, Russell P; Yim, Eunji; Coleman, Elisheva; Demel, Stacie L; Sekar, Padmini; Woo, Daniel 2021. Impact of Preexisting Cognitive Impairment and Race/Ethnicity on Functional Outcomes Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Stroke, 52 2, 603-610
Vagal, Vaibhav; Venema, Simone U; Behymer, Tyler P; Mistry, Eva A; Sekar, Padmini; Sawyer, Russell P; Gilkerson, Lee; Moomaw, Charles J; Haverbusch, Mary; Coleman, Elisheva R; Flaherty, Matthew L; Van Sanford, Carson; Stanton, Robert J; Anderson, Christopher; Rosand, Jonathan; Woo, Daniel 2020. White Matter Lesion Severity is Associated with Intraventricular Hemorrhage in Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association, 29 5, 104661
Merola, Aristide; Sawyer, Russell P; Artusi, Carlo Alberto; Suri, Ritika; Berndt, Zoe; Lopez-Castellanos, Jose' Ricardo; Vaughan, Jennifer; Vizcarra, Joaquin A; Romagnolo, Alberto; Espay, Alberto J 2018. Orthostatic hypotension in Parkinson disease: Impact on health care utilization. Parkinsonism & related disorders, 47 , 45-49
Sawyer, Russell P; Sekar, Padmini; Osborne, Jennifer; Kittner, Steven J; Moomaw, Charles J; Flaherty, Matthew L; Langefeld, Carl D; Anderson, Christopher D; Rosand, Jonathan; Woo, Daniel 2018. Racial/ethnic variation of APOE alleles for lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. Neurology, ,
Sawyer, Russell P; Rodriguez-Porcel, Federico; Hagen, Matthew; Shatz, Rhonna; Espay, Alberto J 2017. Diagnosing the frontal variant of Alzheimer's disease: a clinician's yellow brick road. Journal of clinical movement disorders, 4 , 2