Rate My Professor Grant Bateman

Conjoint Associate Professor Grant Bateman holds a position in the School of Medicine and Public Health within the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also the Director of MRI and a Consultant Neuroradiologist in the Department of Medical Imaging at John Hunter Hospital, Hunter New England Health, where he has been employed since February 1997. His qualifications include MBBS, MD, and FRANZCR. Professor Bateman's research centers on the pathophysiology of hydrocephalus, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, normal pressure hydrocephalus, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, leukoaraiosis, cerebral venous hemodynamics, cerebrospinal fluid dynamics, the glymphatic system, and pulse wave encephalopathy. He maintains an active profile on ResearchGate with 116 publications and 4,424 citations.

Key publications include his contribution to the multicenter trial "A Randomized Trial of Tenecteplase versus Alteplase for Acute Ischemic Stroke," published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2012, which evaluated thrombolytic agents for stroke treatment. Other significant works encompass "Perfusion computed tomography to assist decision making for stroke thrombolysis" (Brain, 2011), "Cerebrospinal fluid absorption block at the vertex in chronic hydrocephalus: obstructed arachnoid granulations or elevated venous pressure?" (Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, 2014), and "Consensus statement for the management of incidentally found pituitary lesions" (Medical Journal of Australia, 2023). Recent research employs advanced modeling techniques, such as "A Lumped Parameter Modelling Study of Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Suggests the CSF Formation Rate Varies with the Capillary Transmural Pressure" (2025), "A Lumped Parameter Modelling Study of Leukoaraiosis Suggests Its Vascular Pathophysiology May Be Similar to Normal-Pressure Hydrocephalus" (2025), "Distinct white matter alteration patterns in post-infectious and gradual onset chronic fatigue syndrome revealed by diffusion MRI" (2025), "Assessing the haemodynamics of the cerebral venous system anatomy in multiple sclerosis and a healthy control using in vivo and 3D printed in vitro modelling" (2025), and "A Longitudinal Investigation of the Cerebral Venous Hemodynamics in Multiple Sclerosis Using Computational Fluid Dynamics" (2025). Professor Bateman has presented on topics like CSF flow in Chiari I malformations at international meetings, including the International Society for Neurovascular Disease. He appeared as a guest on the "B.O.P I Decided" podcast in 2022, discussing his career and research.