James I. Ausman

Ausman was born in Milwaukee on December 10, 1937. He attended Milwaukee Country Day School, obtained a BSc degree from Tufts University in 1959, and graduated as an M.D. from Johns Hopkins Medical School three years later.{{cite web |last=Kowsky |first=Kim |title=At 75, multitasking physician looks for next career, new challenges |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/at-75-multitasking-physician-looks-249792 |website=UCLA Newsroom |date=January 6, 2014 |access-date=June 3, 2025}} In 1964, he received a master's degree in physiology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, after which he pursued surgery and neurosurgery training in Chicago and Minnesota. He then moved to the National Institutes of Health, receiving a PhD in pharmacology from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1969. He later became a staff member at the University of Minnesota in 1972, becoming an assistant professor of neurosurgery and pharmacology.

In 1978, he was named the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. During this time, Ausman became secretary of The Society of Neurological Surgeons. In 1991, Ausman became a professor and head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago.{{cite web|title=The Founding of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (the NPI) and James I Ausman, 2013 |url=http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments___programs/departments/neurosurgery/where_u_i_c_neurosurgery_began/ |publisher=University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago |accessdate=April 29, 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201174255/http://chicago.medicine.uic.edu/departments___programs/departments/neurosurgery/where_u_i_c_neurosurgery_began/ |archivedate=February 1, 2014 }} There, Ausman focused on microsurgery and cerebrovascular surgery, particularly aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and bypassing cerebral ischemia.{{Cite book |title=Atlas of neurosurgical techniques - brain |date=2006 |publisher=Thieme |isbn=978-3-13-127541-7 |editor-last=Sekhar |editor-first=Laligam N. |location=New York Stuttgart |editor-last2=Fessler |editor-first2=Richard G.}} He has written about procedures for neuro-vascular surgery and approaches to the pineal region and midline tumors.{{cite book|author1=Mahmood Mafee |author2=Minerva Becker |title=Imaging of the Head and Neck|date=2012|publisher=Thieme|isbn=978-1-58890-009-8|page=880}} He has over 200 publications and is credited with over 80 chapters in neurosurgical books. He is now a clinical professor of neurosurgery at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Ausman is currently married and has two daughters.{{cite web |title=The Originators —Dr James and Carolyn Ausman |url=http://theleadinggen.org/pages/The-Originators.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202142604/http://theleadinggen.org/pages/The-Originators.html |archivedate=February 2, 2014 |accessdate=April 29, 2014 |publisher=The Leadin Gen, 2014}}{{cite web |last=Waldman |first=Amy |title='Milwaukee values' infuse prize-winning PBS series, July 1, 2011 |url=http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=12961 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140430012631/http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=12961 |archivedate=April 30, 2014 |accessdate=April 29, 2014 |publisher=The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle}}

Frequent topics of his research articles include:{{cite web |title=James I Ausman |url=http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=479&action=detail&ref=23520 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715010122/http://www.uclahealth.org/body.cfm?id=479&action=detail&ref=23520 |archive-date=July 15, 2014 |accessdate=April 29, 2014 |publisher=UCLA Health Physician Directory, 2014}}

• surgical aneurysm management
• brain circulation microanatomy, anastomosis, and revascularization
• non-invasive monitoring of cerebral hemodynamics, blood gases, and pH in surgical patients
• cerebral arteriovenous malformations

Ausman has published articles and chapters on revascularization techniques to improve cerebral blood flow, relieve cerebral ischemia, and treat cerebral infarction.{{cite book|author1=Ossama Al-Mefty |author2=TC Origitano |author3=H Louis Harkey |title=Controversies in Neurosurgery|date=1996|publisher=Thieme|isbn=978-0865775381|pages=213–226}}{{cite book|last=Wood|first=James H|title=Cerebral Blood Flow: Physiologic and Clinical Aspects|date=1987|publisher=McGraw-Hill|page=792}}{{cite book |vauthors=Ausman JI, Chater NL |chapter=New approaches in cerebral revascularization |title=Fourth International Symposium on Microsurgical Anastomoses for Cerebral Ischemia |veditors=Peerless SJ |publisher=Springer-Verlag |year=1980 |pages=325–327}}{{cite book |vauthors=Slavin KV, Ausman JI, Charbel FT |chapter=Posterior circulation aneurysms other than basilar tip |title=The Practice of Neurosurgery |volume=1 |veditors=Tindall GT, Cooper PR, Barrow DL |date=1996 |publisher=Williams & Wilkins |pages=1359–1370}}{{cite journal |vauthors=Massad MG, Charbel FT, Chaer R, Geha AS, Ausman JI |title=Closed chest hypothermic circulatory arrest for complex intracranial aneurysms |journal=Ann Thorac Surg |year=2001 |volume=71 |issue=6 |pages=1900–4 |doi=10.1016/s0003-4975(01)02630-3|pmid=11426766 |doi-access=free }}

Other research reports have addressed drug therapy for brain tumors, surgical anatomy of the optic nerve region, surgical approaches to the pineal region, management of midline tumors, nerve tissue ultrastructure, the blood–brain barrier, and pericyte-endothelial gap-junctions.{{cite web |title=Author: "Ausman JI" |url=https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=author%3A%22Ausman+JI%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C11 |publisher=Google Scholar Search |accessdate=April 29, 2014}}

Ausman was editor-in-chief of Surgical Neurology (later renamed World Neurology) from 1994 until 2009. In 2010, he became the founding editor-in-chief of Surgical Neurology International. He travels frequently to developed and developing countries to advise, lecture on neurosurgery techniques and trends, and teach ethics in humanitarian missions. According to Ramsis F. Ghaly, M.D., a Christian author and fellow surgeon, Ausman taught humanitarian principles central to medical ethics: "Patients come first... treat the patient as yourself... do not let yourself fall asleep until you are certain you have done everything for your patient."{{cite book|last=Ghaly|first=Ramsis F|title=Christianity and the Brain — Patient Stories|date=2010|publisher=iUniverse Press|isbn=9781450240420|pages=27–50|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUG-OIX5yI8C&q=James+I+Ausman+MD&pg=PA27}} Ausman is an honorary member of the Brazilian, Argentinean, Chilean, and Peruvian Societies of Neurosurgery and a corresponding member of the German Society of Neurosurgery. Through his James I and Carolyn R. Ausman Educational Foundation and Surgical Neurology International, Rancho Mirage, California, Ausman supports humanitarian and educational initiatives, including highlighting the Venezuelan crisis.{{cite journal |last1=Ausman |first1=James I |title=The Devastating Venezuelan Crisis|date=2019|url=http://surgicalneurologyint.com/surgicalint-articles/the-devastating-venezuelan-crisis-2/ |journal=Surgical Neurology International |volume=10 |page=145 |doi=10.25259/SNI_342_2019 |pmid=31528480 |pmc=6744797 |accessdate=July 28, 2019}}

Ausman co-authored the self-published book The China Virus – What is the Truth? with Russell Blaylock, a fellow neurosurgeon and conspiracy theorist. The book promoted the conspiracy theory that the virus was part of an orchestrated attack by the Chinese government.

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