2014-2015 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

   

  CLEVELAND REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Matthew Plow, MD	map208@case.edu	Irene Katzan, Shirley Moore, Martha Sajatovic	Trainee	Rehabilitation Science	Health and wellness promotion for adults with disabling neurological conditions	Click Here

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES

   

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Shadi Yaghi, MD	y2528@cumc.columbia.edu	Dr. Mitchell Elkind, Dr. Randolph Marshall, Dr. Joshua Wiley	Fellow Year: PGY-6	Vascular Neurology	Cryptogenic stroke, thrombolysis related ICH, minor stroke outcomes	Click Here

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

   

  GEORGIA STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Srikant Rangaraju, MD	srangar@emory.edu	Dr. Allaln Levey, Dr. Michael Frankel	Fellow Year 2	Vascular Neurology	Neuro-inflammation, stroke, large vessel occlusions, prediction of clinical outcomes	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

   

  NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER (NERCC)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sergi Martinez-Ramirez, MD	srmatinez@partners.org	Dr. Anand Viswanathan, Dr. Steven M. Greenberg	Fellow Year 2	Vascular Neurology	mall vessel disease, intracerebral hemorrhage/micro bleeds, cerebral amyloid angiopathy	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

   

  SOUTH CAROLINA COLLABORATIVE ALLIANCE FOR STROKE TRIALS

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Donna R. Roberts, MD	robertdr@musc.edu	Dr. Truman Brown, Dr. Stephen Schabel, Dr. Steve Kautz , Dr. Robert Adams	Fellow Year 1	Neuroradiology	Functional MRI, stroke recovery / rehabilitation, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation	Click Here

• MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

   

  STROKE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA NETWORK FOR RESEARCH (SCANR)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Matthew Edwardson, MD	matthew.edwardson@nih,gov	Dr. Amie Hsia, Dr. Alexander Dromerick	Fellow Year 2	Vascular Neurology	Vascular neurology, neural plasticity & stroke rehabilitation	Click Here

• MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

   

  NEW YORK CITY COLLABORATIVE REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER (NYRCC)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Aaron Lord, MD	aaron.lord@nyumc.org	Dr. Laura Balcer, Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala	Trainee	Neurocritical Care	Stroke Disparities Research and Investigation of ICU care outcomes in stroke	Click Here

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO

   

  CHICAGO STROKE TRIALS CONSORTIUM

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christopher Richards, MD	c-richards@northwestern.edu	Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran. Dr. Jane Holl	PGY-7 – Fellow Year 1	Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services	Pre hospital e mergency stroke care, emergenc y communication, emergency medical dispatch	Click Here

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

   

  OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sarah Adriance, MD	sarah.adriance@osumc.edu	Dr. Michel Torbey	Fellow Year 2	Neurocritical Care	Neurocritical Care Pharmacy, Hemostasis following ICH, Pentobarbital-induced coma and feeding intolerance, Neurostimulant use following stroke	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

   

  STANFORD STROKE CENTER

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  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Soren Christensen, MD	sorenc@stanford.edu	Dr. Gregory Albers, Dr. Maarten Lansberg, Dr. Roland Ba mmer, Dr. Robert Pelc, Dr. Sanijiva Lele	Fellow Year 1	Biomedical Engineering	Cerebrovascular Imaging	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

   

  LOS ANGELES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORANGE (LASCO)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  May Nour, MD, PhD	mnour@mednet.ucla.edu	Dr. David Liebeskind, Dr. Satsohi Tateshima	Fellow Year 1	Vascular Neurology, Neuroradiology	Ischemia reperfusion injury in stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

   

  SAN DIEGO REGIONAL STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Hami Ramani, DO	hramani@ucsd.edu	Dr. Thomas M. Hemmen, Dr. Brett C. Meyer	Fellow Year 1	Neurology	Stroke prevention using mindfulness based stress reduction	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

   

  NORCAL RESEARCH COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Daniel Cooke, MD	Daniel.cooke@ucsf.edu	Dr. Wade Smith, Dr. Claude Hemphill	Fellow Year 1	Neuro-Interventional Radiology	Mechanical & stem-cell therapies for ischemic stroke, fluoroscopic DSA & brain perfusion imaging	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

   

  UC REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Stacie Demel, DO, PhD	demelse@uc.edu	Dr. Joseph Broderick, Dr. Brett Kissela, Dr. Pooja Khatri, Dr. Kleindorfer, Dr. Lori Shutter, Dr. Cott	Fellow Year 1	Vascular Neurology	Acute stroke care, gender differences	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

   

  UNIVERSITY OF IOWA REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nandakumar Nagaraja, MD, MS	nandakumar-nagaraja@uiowa.edu	Dr. Harold Adams, Dr. James Torner, Dr. Peggy Nopoulos, Dr. Enrique Leira, Dr. Vincent Magnotta, Dr. Donald Heisted	Fellow Year 1	Vascular Neurology	Acute stroke neuroimaging with MRI, stroke in young adults	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

   

  MIAMI REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Negar Asdaghi, MD	negar.asdaghi@ubc.ca	Dr. Tatjana Rundek, Dr. Ralph Saccp, Dr. Jose G. Roman o	Trainee	Cerebrovascular diseases	TIA/minor stroke, neuroimaging	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

   

  MICHIGAN STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Cemal Sozener, MD	cemal@med.umich.edu	Dr. Phillip Scott, Dr. Devin Brown, Dr. Bill Barsan	Fellow Year 1	Emergency Medicine	Community treatment of acute ischemic stroke, educational interventions aimed at aiding community delivery of tPA, pre hospital interventions to improve acute management of AIS	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

   

  UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christopher G. Janson, MD	janson@memorymatters.org	Dr. Mustapha Ezzeddine, Dr. Cornelius Lalm, Dr. Gunda Georg	Fellow Year 1	Vascular Neurology & Stroke	Vascular cognitive impairment, membrane transport processes in subarachnoid hemorrhage & stroke, mechanisms of CSF clearance of toxins, CNS drug discovery, mode ling of CNS disease processes with gene therapy transfer approaches.	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

   

  THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA NIH STROKENET (GPNSN)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ali Zandieh, MD	ali_zandieh3@yahoo.com	Dr. Scott Kasner	Fellow Year 1	Statistics & Public Health	Endocrinological & Metabolic disorders in cerebrovascular accidents (diabetes & hyperlipidemia), prognostic factors/tools for prediction of stroke outcome in patients with past medical histories	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURG

   

  UPMC STROKE INSTITUTE

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christopher Streib, MD	streib@umn.edu	Dr. Tudor Jovin	Fellow Year 1	Vascular Neurology	Endovascular stroke therapy, stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON

   

  THE GULF AREA STROKE PROGRAMS

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Farhaan S. Vahidy, MD, PhD	farhaan.vahidy@uth.tmc.edu	Dr. Sean Savitz	Trainee	Epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials	Stroke recovery, prevention, and outcomes research	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

   

  UNIVERSITY OF UTAH STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lee Chung, MD	lee.chung@hsc.utah.edu	Dr. Jennifer Majersik	Fellow Year 1	Vascular Neurology	Epidemiology, public health, pre-hospital system of care	Click Here
  Adam de Havenon	adam.dehavenon@hsc.utah.edu	Jennifer Majersik, MD, Dennis Parker, PhD, Gordon Smith, MD		Vascular Neurology	Utilizing advanced imaging techniques, MRI, CT & Doppler ultrasound to imporve risk stratification of patients with acute & subacute ischemic stroke and direct primary & secondary prevention methods

• UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

   

  NORTHWEST STROKE TRIALS NETWORK (NW-STN)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Claire Creutzfeldt, MD	clairejc@uw.edu	Dr. Kyra Becker, Dr. J Randall Curtis, Dr. Robert Holloway	Fellow Year 1	Stroke Neurology	Palliative Care in the Neurological ICU, Severe Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

   

  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christopher Baggott, MD	c.baggott@neurosurgery.wisc.edu	Dr. Robert Dempsey, Dr. Mustafa Baskaya, Dr. David Niemann, Dr. Azam Ahmed	Fellow Year 1	Neurosurgery	Cerebral vasospasm, vascular anatomy, neuro cognitive and imaging consequence of carotid stenosis, history of anatomy	Click Here

• VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

   

  THE GREATER TENNESSEE STROKE NETWORK

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Gerasimos Bastas, MD, PhD	-	Dr. Walter Frontera, Dr. Michael Goldfarb, Dr. Michael Froehler, Dr. Lori Jordan Trainee	Trainee	Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	Exoskeleton for increased function after stroke	Click Here