2025-2026 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE

  Cleveland Regional Coordinating Center

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Bing Yu Chen, MD	chenb5@ccf.org	Sophia Sundararajan, MD, Ken Uchino, MD, Samer Albahra, MD, Bijoy Menon, MD, Mike Sharma, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Applications of large language models in stroke & cerebrovascular diseases	Click Here

• COLUMBIA HEALTH SCIENCES

  Stroke Trials Network of Columbia and Cornell
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ankita Brahmaroutu, MD, MS	Avb2122@cumc.columbia.edu	Randy Marshall, MD, Joshua Wiley, MD, Alexander Ramos, MD, PhD, Sarah Tom, PhD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Delivery and access to acute stroke care, healthcare policy and healthcare systems	Click Here Click Here

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

  Georgia StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sai Theja Yelam, MBBS	sai.theja.yelam@emory.edu	Diogo Haussen, MD; Michael Frankel, MD	Trainee	Vascular Neurology	Vascular Neurology and Neurointervention

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

  New England Regional Coordinating Center (NERCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Suzete Nascimento Farias Da Guarda, MD, PhD	sfariasdaguarda@mgh.harvard.edu	Barbara Voetsch, MD, Anand Viswanathan, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Advanced neuroimaging markers of cerebral small vessel disease, the characterization of tau pathology in cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and the investigation of the connections between cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive impairment.	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

  SE-CoAST Collaborative Alliance for Stroke Trials (SE-CoAST)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Gabrielle Scronce, PT, DPT, PhD	scronce@musc.edu	Tanya Turan, MD, Christine Holmstedt, MD, Jillian Harvey, PhD, MPH	Trainee	Physical Therapy	Qualitative methods; psychosocial factors and physical rehabilitation after stroke	Click Here

• GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

  Stroke Central Atlantic Network for Research (SCANR)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Hannah Jacobs, OTD, OTR/L	Hannah.b.jacobs@medstar.net	Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD, Amie Hsia, MD, Brad Worall, MD, Barbara Bregman, PT, PhD, Jessica Barth, PhD, Dorothy Farrar-Edwards, PhD	Trainee	Inpatient Occupational Therapy	Upper extremity recovery in patients post stroke	Click Here

• MOUNT SINAI

  New York City Collaborative Regional Coordinating Center (NYCC-RCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Amol Mehta, MD	amol.mehta@mountsinai.org	J Mocco, MD, Aaron Lord, MD, Mark Mehler, MD, Shahram Majidi, MD, Johanna Fifi, MD, J Mocco, MD, Laura Stein MD	Fellow	Neurologist, Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellow	Role of chronic infections and inflammation in the pathogenesis and clinical behavior of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD)	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

  Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Rami Morsi, MD	rami.morsi@uchicagomedicine.org	Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, Ali Mansour, MD, Tareq Kass-Hout, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Cerebrovascular injury, tandem occlusions, neuroendovascular	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

  Stanford Stroke Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Praneeta Rajeshwari Konduri, PhD, MSc. B.Tech	pkonduri@stanford.edu	Greg Albers, MD, Maarten Lansberg,MD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Neurology, Neurological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering & Translational Stroke Research	CT and MR image analysis, stroke disease progression and outcome prediction, artificial intelligence, biostatistics	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  Los Angeles Southern California (LASC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Amir Mehrdad Molaie, MD	molaie@mednet.ucla.edu	David Liebeskind, MD, Jeffrey Saver, MD, Jason Hinman, MD, PhD, Naoki Kaneko, MD, PhD	PGY-5 Vascular Neurology Fellow	Neurologist	Endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke, procedural techniques in EVT, neuroimaging in acute ischemic stroke, intracranial atherosclerosis, neurovascular education	Click Here

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Fawaz Philip Tarzi, MD	Fawaz.Tarzi@med.usc.edu	Sebina Bulic, MD, May Kim-Tenser, MD	Assistant Professor	Neurology	Complications of Thoracic and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (TAA) repair and spinal cord infarction, Length of stay for stroke patients in neuroscience ICU, application of Point of Cate neurosonology in neuroscience ICU.	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

  San Diego StrokeNet +
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Marissa D’Souza, MD	madsouza@health.ucsd.edu	Brett Meyer, MD, Royya Modir, MD, Thomas Hemmen, MD	PGY-5 Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Stroke systems of care, global health equity, digital health and technology, neuroethics, vasculopathy	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

  NorCal Research Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Natalie Neale, MD	natalie.neale@ucsf.edu	Felicia Chow, MD, Anthony Kim, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Stroke and Infectious Disease	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

  Ohio Valley Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Monica Sarkar, MD	sarkarma@ucmail.uc.edu	Stacie Demel, MD, Eva Mistry, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	ESUS; ESUS treatment; overlap between heart and brain (eg. PFO closure)	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

  University of Iowa Regional Coordinating Center (URCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mario Zanaty, MD	mario-zanaty@uiowa.edu	Enrique Leira MD MS, Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, MD, MSc	Junior Faculty	Neurosurgeon	Central Autonomic Network and autoregulation in stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

  Florida Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christian Agudelo, MD	cxa427@med.miami.edu	Enrique Leira MD MS, Santiago Ortega Gutierrez, MD, MSc	Junior Faculty	Neurosurgeon	Central Autonomic Network and autoregulation in stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  Michigan StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Hely Divyanshu Nanavati, PhD MPH MBBS	helynanavati@gmail.com	Phillip Scott, MD, Devin Brown, MD, Lynda Lisabeth, PhD	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Epidemiology	Stroke risk factors, poststroke outcomes, environmental health, social epidemiology	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

  University of Minnesota Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ahmedyar Hasan, MBBS	ahasan@umn.edu	Christoper Streib, MD, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Clinical Trial Effect in Stroke Trials	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  Philadelphia Regional Stroke Trials Network Coordinating Center (PRSTNCC) Philadelphia, PA
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Baris Alten, MD, PhD	baris.alten@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Scott E. Kasner, MD, Brett Cucchiara, MD, Steven Greenberg, MD, PhD	PGY-5 Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Biomarkers in cerebral amyloid angiopathy for early diagnosis	Click Here Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

  UPMC Stroke Institute
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mohamed F Doheim, MD	doheimmf@upmc.edu	Marcelo Rocha, MD PhD; Raul Nogueira MD	Fellow	Neurology	Advancing Precision Medicine in Acute Stroke Care: Personalized Treatment Strategies and Outcomes	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HOUSTON

  The Gulf Regional Area Stroke Programs
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Murli Mishra, MD, PhD	murli_mishra@outlook.com	Sean Savitz, MD, Andrew D. Barreto MD, Dr. Sishir Mannava MD, Dr. Amanda L Jagolino-Cole MD	Fellow	Neurology/Vascular Neurology	Predictors of stroke outcome and stroke complications in relations to size of occluded blood vessel	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  University of Utah StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Jason Tanner, MD, PhD	jason.tanner@hsc.utah.edu	Jennifer Majersik, MD, J. David Symons, PhD	Junior Faculty	Emergency Medicine	Defining the role of GJA1-20k in acute ischemic stroke	Click Here Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

  University of Wisconsin Stroke Net
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Fedora Biney, PhD	fbiney@uabmc.edu	Ekaterina Bakradze, MD, Ronald Lazar, PhD, Mark Harrigan, MD, Toby Gropen, MD; Haiyan Qu, PhD	Junior Faculty	Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation-Neuropsychologist	Stroke rehabilitation; cognitive rehabilitation, stroke caregiver interventions	Click Here

• WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (WESTERN NC)

  Wake Forest StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Suzan R. Farris, MD	fsfarris@wakehealth.edu	Cheryl Bushnell, MD, Stacey Wolfe, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Acute Ischemic Stroke- thrombectomy indications and outcomes, Dysphagia after AIS- pharyngeal stimulation to improve outcomes	Click Here

• WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

  Mid America Regional Coordinating Center (MARCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Izabella Andrianova, PhD	izabella@wustl.edu	Jin-Moo Lee, MD, Peter Panagos, MD, Andria Ford, MD, Robert Campbell, MD, Frederik Denorme, MD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Emergency Medicine, Basic Science	The role of immune platelet activation in experimental and clinical stroke.	Click Here

• YALE UNIVERSITY

  Southern New England Partnership in Stroke Research, Innovation and Treatment (SPIRIT)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Shufan Huo, MD, PhD	shufan.huo@yale.edu	Kevin Sheth, MD, Guido Falcone, MD	Postdoctoral Associate	Neurologist	Genetic epidemiology, neurovascular diseases, multi-omic analyses	Click Here

• DUKE UNIVERSITY

  
  Eastern North Carolina and Southern Virginia Regional Stroke Trial Consortium (ENVISION)

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Salman lkramuddin, MD	salman.ikramuddin@duke.edu	Wayne Feng, MD, William Powers, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Neuromodulation-based approaches in vascular neurology.	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

  The Southwestern Stroke Alliance (Colorado)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Rachel Cuozzo, MD	rachel.cuozzo@cuanschutz.edu	Michel Torbey, MD, Nicole Gonzales, MD, Sharon Poisson, MD, Michelle Leppert, MD	Trainee	Neurology	Stroke prevention and equity of care, stroke treatment in the setting of language barriers	Click Here

   
  

  The Southwestern Stroke Alliance (Oklahoma)

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Melba Zuniga Gutierrez, MD (Oklahoma)	melbamaria-zunigagutierrez@ou.edu	Michel Torbey, MD, Saleh Velez, MD, Bonin Pinto, MD	Junior Faculty	Dept of Medicine	Stroke Recovery and Stroke Neurophysiology	Click Here