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Professor Hans Rolf Jäger

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  • National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
  • University College Hospital

GMC/GDC number:

2882169

This consultant also offers private services through UCLH Private Healthcare.

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Professional background

Rolf Jäger is professor of neuroradiology at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and consultant neuroradiologist at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and at University College Hospital (UCH).

He studied medicine at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and Montpellier (France) and obtained an MD with magna cum laude from the University of Freiburg.

He trained in radiology at the Hammersmith Hospital and in both diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and Hôpital Kremlin Bicêtre in Paris. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR).

His current clinical practice is in diagnostic neuroradiology with subspecialist areas of expertise in neurovascular diseases, neuro-oncology, neurodegeneration, and neuroinfectious diseases (including HIV and neuro-parasitology). He is leading the clinical implementation of advanced MRI techniques such as arterial spin labelling (ASL) perfusion imaging, extra- and intracranial vessel wall imaging, and susceptibility weighted imaging, which help advance our understanding of stroke mechanisms.

Professor Jäger is a sought-after teacher and lecturer at national and international level and is on the faculty of the European Course of Neuroradiology (ECNR) and South American Course of Neuroradiology.

He is an editor-in-chief of “Clinical Neuroradiology," a three-volume, state-of-the-art live reference book on Neuroradiology.

Since the outset of the pandemic, Professor Jäger has been active in the imaging of COVID-19-related neurological disease, and he is a member of the NeuroCovid working group European Society of Neuroradiology (ESNR).

Specialties

Research interests

  • Stroke and other Neurovascular Diseases,
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Neuro-infection, including Neurocovid

Imaging lead of several large clinical multicenter studies, including ESCT-2 (2nd European Carotid Surgery Trial), RISAPS (Rivaroxaban versus warfarin for stroke patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, with or without SLE), and CRomis (Clinical Relevance of Microbleeds in Stroke.

Languages spoken

German, French and English

Publications

Professor Jäger has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and 25 book chapters

For a full list of publications see the link the following link
https://scholar.google.com/citationshl=en&user=YF7eL_kAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate 
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=HRJAG57 

Selected recent publications are listed below:

  • Kremer S, Gerevini S, Ramos A, Lersy F, Yousry T, Vernooij MW, Anzalone N, Jäger HR. Neuroimaging in patients with COVID-19: a neuroradiology expert group consensus. Eur Radiol. 2022 Jan 19:1-10. doi: 10.1007/s00330-021-08499-0. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35044509
  • Bonkhoff AK, Xu T, Nelson A, Gray R, Jha A, Cardoso J, Ourselin S, Rees G, Jäger HR, Nachev P. Cortex. Reclassifying stroke lesion anatomy. 2021 Dec;145:1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.09.007. Epub 2021 Oct 2. PMID: 34673291
  • Al-Mayhani T, Saber S, Stubbs MJ, Losseff NA, Perry RJ, Simister RJ, Gull D, Jäger HR, Scully MA, Werring DJ. Ischaemic stroke as a presenting feature of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2021 Nov;92(11):1247-1248. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2021-326984. Epub 2021 May 25.
  • Seiffge DJ, Wilson D, Ambler G, Banerjee G, Hostettler IC, Houlden H, Shakeshaft C, Cohen H, Yousry TA, Al-Shahi Salman R, Lip G, Brown MM, Muir K, Jäger HR, Werring DJ. Small vessel disease burden and intracerebral haemorrhage in patients taking oral anticoagulants. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2021 Mar 19;92(8):805-14. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-325299. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33741739
  • Rojas-Villabona A, Sokolska M, Solbach T, Grieve J, Rega M, Torrealdea F, Pizzini FB, De Vita E, Suzuki Y, Van Osch MJP, Biondetti E, Shmueli K, Atkinson D, Murphy M, Paddick I, Golay X, Kitchen N, Jäger HR. Planning of gamma knife radiosurgery (GKR) for brain arteriovenous malformations using triple magnetic resonance angiography (triple-MRA). Br J Neurosurg. 2021 Feb 28:1-11. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2021.1884649. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33645357
  • Hostettler IC, Schwarz G, Ambler G, Wilson D, Banerjee G, Seiffge DJ, Shakeshaft C, Lunawat S, Cohen H, Yousry TA, Al-Shahi Salman R, Lip GYH, Brown MM, Muir KW, Houlden H, Jäger HR, Werring DJ; CROMIS-2 Collaborators. Cerebral Small Vessel Disease and Functional Outcome Prediction After Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Neurology. 2021 Apr 13;96(15):e1954-e1965. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000011746. Epub 2021 Feb 24. PMID: 33627495
  • Rojas-Villabona A, Pizzini FB, Solbach T, Sokolska M, Ricciardi G, Lemonis C, DeVita E, Suzuki Y, van Osch MJP, Foroni RI, Longhi M, Montemezzi S, Atkinson D, Kitchen N, Nicolato A, Golay X, Jäger HR. Are Dynamic Arterial Spin-Labeling MRA and Time-Resolved Contrast-Enhanced MRA Suited for Confirmation of Obliteration following Gamma Knife Radiosurgery of Brain Arteriovenous Malformations? AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2021 Apr;42(4):671-678. doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A6990. Epub 2021 Feb 4. PMID: 33541896
  • Di Napoli A, Cheng SF, Gregson J, Atkinson D, Markus JE, Richards T, Brown MM, Sokolska M, Jäger HR. Arterial Spin Labeling MRI in Carotid Stenosis: Arterial Transit Artifacts May Predict Symptoms. Radiology. 2020 Dec;297(3):652-660. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2020200225. Epub 2020 Oct 13. PMID: 33048034
  • Paterson RW, Brown RL, Benjamin L, Nortley R, Wiethoff S, Bharucha T, Jayaseelan DL, Kumar G, Raftopoulos RE, Zambreanu L, Vivekanandam V, Khoo A, Geraldes R, Chinthapalli K, Boyd E, Tuzlali H, Price G, Christofi G, Morrow J, McNamara P, McLoughlin B, Lim ST, Mehta PR, Levee V, Keddie S, Yong W, Trip SA, Foulkes AJM, Hotton G, Miller TD, Everitt AD, Carswell C, Davies NWS, Yoong M, Attwell D, Sreedharan J, Silber E, Schott JM, Chandratheva A, Perry RJ, Simister R, Checkley A, Longley N, Farmer SF, Carletti F, Houlihan C, Thom M, Lunn MP, Spillane J, Howard R, Vincent A, Werring DJ, Hoskote C, Jäger HR, Manji H, Zandi MS. The emerging spectrum of COVID-19 neurology: clinical, radiological and laboratory findings. Brain. 2020 Oct 1;143(10):3104-3120. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaa240. PMID: 32637987
  • Jaunmuktane Z, Mahadeva U, Green A, Sekhawat V, Barrett NA, Childs L, Shankar-Hari M, Thom M, Jäger HR, Brandner S. Microvascular injury and hypoxic damage: emerging neuropathological signatures in COVID-19. Acta Neuropathol. 2020 Sep;140(3):397-400. doi: 10.1007/s00401-020-02190-2. Epub 2020 Jul 8.
  • Saba L, Saam T, Jäger HR, Yuan C, Hatsukami TS, Saloner D, Wasserman BA, Bonati LH, Wintermark M. Imaging biomarkers of vulnerable carotid plaques for stroke risk prediction and their potential clinical implications. Lancet Neurol. 2019 Jun;18(6):559-572. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30035-3. Epub 2019 Apr 4. PMID: 30954372
  • Smith LA, Melbourne A, Owen D, Cardoso MJ, Sudre CH, Tillin T, Sokolska M, Atkinson D, Chaturvedi N, Ourselin S, Hughes AD, Barkhof F, Jäger HR. Cortical cerebral blood flow in ageing: effects of haematocrit, sex, ethnicity and diabetes. Eur Radiol. 2019 Oct;29(10):5549-5558. doi: 10.1007/s00330-019-06096-w. Epub 2019 Mar 18. PMID: 30887200
  • Haddow LJ, Sudre CH, Sokolska M, Gilson RC, Williams IG, Golay X, Ourselin S, Winston A, Sabin CA, Cardoso MJ, Jäger HR; Pharmacokinetics and clinical Observations in PeoPle over fiftY (POPPY) Study Group. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in Men Living with HIV and HIV-Negative Men Aged 50 and Above. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2019 May;35(5):453-460. doi: 10.1089/AID.2018.0249. Epub 2019 Feb 20. PMID: 30667282
  • Haddow LJ, Godi C, Sokolska M, Cardoso MJ, Oliver R, Winston A, Stöhr W, Clarke A, Chen F, Williams IG, Johnson M, Paton N, Arenas-Pinto A, Golay X, Jäger HR. Brain Perfusion, Regional Volumes, and Cognitive Function in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-positive Patients Treated With Protease Inhibitor Monotherapy. Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 5;68(6):1031-1040. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy617. PMID: 30084882
  • Wilson D, Ambler G, Shakeshaft C, Brown MM, Charidimou A, Al-Shahi Salman R, Lip GYH, Cohen H, Banerjee G, Houlden H, White MJ, Yousry TA, Harkness K, Flossmann E, Smyth N, Shaw LJ, Warburton E, Muir KW, Jäger HR, Werring DJ; CROMIS-2 collaborators. Cerebral microbleeds and intracranial haemorrhage risk in patients anticoagulated for atrial fibrillation after acute ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (CROMIS-2): a multicentre observational cohort study. Lancet Neurol. 2018 Jun;17(6):539-547. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(18)30145-5. Epub 2018 May 16. PMID: 29778365