Office of the Medical Examiner of Cook County Forensic Pathology

Topics

• Alzheimer's disease research and treatments 5
• IgG4-Related and Inflammatory Diseases 3
• Opioid Use Disorder Treatment 3
• Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes 2
• Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias 2
• Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting 2
• Gun Ownership and Violence Research 2
• Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 2
• Memory and Neural Mechanisms 2
• Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology 2
• Restraint-Related Deaths 2
• Sarcoidosis and Beryllium Toxicity Research 2

Most cited

1. Overdoses Involving Medetomidine Mixed with Opioids - Chicago, Illinois, May 2024.

   MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2025 · 19 citations · Ponni Arunkumar

2. Susceptibility-weighted imaging reveals cerebral microvascular injury in severe COVID-19.

   Journal of the neurological sciences · 2021 · 73 citations · Samantha Champion

3. Entorhinal Subfield Vulnerability to Neurofibrillary Tangles in Aging and the Preclinical Stage of Alzheimer's Disease.

   Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2022 · 33 citations · Samantha Champion

4. TDP-43 and tau concurrence in the entorhinal subfields in primary age-related tauopathy and preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

   Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) · 2023 · 23 citations · Samantha Champion

5. Opioid-related overdose deaths by race and neighborhood economic hardship in Chicago.

   Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse · 2022 · 21 citations · Ponni Arunkumar

6. Pentad: A reproducible cytoarchitectonic protocol and its application to parcellation of the human hippocampus.

   Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2023 · 17 citations · Samantha Champion

7. Genomic Autopsy of Sudden Deaths in Young Individuals.

   JAMA cardiology · 2021 · 44 citations · Ponni Arunkumar

8. Treatment of Vancouver B2 Femur Fractures With Open Reduction Internal Fixation Versus Revision Arthroplasty.

   Cureus · 2023 · 7 citations · John-Luke Rivera