2016-2017 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

  2016-2017 Publications

   

  CLEVELAND REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Weifei Zhu, PhD	zhuw@ccf.org	Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Physiology	Gut Microbiota & Cardiovascular Diseases	Click Here

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES

   

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Benjamin Kummer, MD	brk9023@nyp.org	Hooman Kumel, MD, Joshua Willey, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Clinical Prediction Modeling in Hospitalized Stroke Patients, Clinical Dashboards in Stroke Secondary Prevention, Systems of Endovascular Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke, Stroke in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Infection as Risk Factor for Stroke	Click Here
  Eliza Miller, MD	ecm2137@cumc.columbia.edu	Randolph Marshall, MD, Joshua Willey, MD, Mitchell Elkind, MD, Ronald Wapner, MD	Fellow / Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Epidemiology and Physiology of Peri-Partum Stroke

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

   

  GEORGIA STROKENET
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Melanie Winningham, MD	melanie.jean.winningham@emory.edu	Michael Frankel, MD, Raul Nogueira, MD, Fadi Nahab, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Predictive characteristics for a determined cause of cardioembolic stroke in patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source, Retrospective analysis of outcomes related to intraprocedural IV heparin administration in patients treated in the Trevo2 trial	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPITAL

   

  NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER (NERCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Li Xiong, MD, PhD	lxiong2@partners.org	Anand Viswanathan, MD, PhD	Fellow	Stroke Neurology	Neuroimaging and Cognitive Impairment in Small Vessel Disease	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

   

  SOUTH CAROLINA COLLABORATIVE ALLIANCE FOR STROKE TRIALS (SC-CoAST)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ashley Wabnitz, MD	wabnitz@musc.edu	Leo Bonilha MD, PhD, Tanya Turan, MD, Dan Lackland, PhD, Edward Jauch, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Language Impairments	Click Here

• MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

   

  STROKE NATIONAL CAPITOL AREA NETWORK FOR RESEARCH (SCANR)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Jessica Barth, MS, OTR/L	jessica.barth@medstar.net	Alexander Dromerick, MD, Amie Hsia, MD, Barbara Bregman, PT, PhD	Fellow	Occupational Therapy	Upper Extremity Recovery Following Stroke	Click Here

• MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

   

  NEW YORK CITY COLLABORATIVE COORDINATING CENTER (NYCRCC): MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Neha S. Dangayach, MD,	neha.dangayach@mountsinai.org	Stephan Mayer, MD, J Mocco, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology and Neurosurgery/Neurocritical Care	Resilience, Physiological and Cognitive Reserve in Stroke	Click Here

  NEW YORK CITY COLLABORATIVE COORDINATING CENTER (NYCRCC): NEW YORK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Emily S. Goldmann, PhD	esg236@nyu.edu	Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH	Junior Faculty	Stroke Epidemiology	Stroke Disparities Research, Investigation of Mental Health Outcomes in Stroke, Role of Social Networks in Stroke Risk and Outcomes	Click Here

   

  NEW YORK CITY COLLABORATIVE COORDINATING CENTER (NYCRCC): MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mellanie Springer, MD	mspringe@montefiore.org	Daniel Labovitz, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Stroke prevention, Stroke education, Randomized clinical trials	Click Here

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO

   

  CHICAGO STROKE TRIALS CONSORTIUM
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Chen Lin, MD	Chen.lin1@northwestern.edu	Shyam Prabhakaran, MD,, Elliott Roth, MD, Richard Harvey, MD, Allen Heinemann, MD, Joel Voss, MD, Benjamin Liu, MD	Fellow	Stroke/Rehab	Stroke Recovery, Imaging, Outcomes	Click Here

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

   

  OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Omar Hussein, MD	omar.hussein@osumc.edu	Michel Torbey, MD, MPH, Vivien Lee, MD	Fellow	Neurocritical Care	Clinical trial design, platelet function in stroke, Stroke Prevention	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

   

  STANFORD STROKE CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ilana Spokoyny, MD	spokoyny@stanford.edu	Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD, Greg Albers, MD, Brett Meyer, MD	Clinical Instructor	Stroke Neurology	Stroke systems of care and pre-hospital stroke triage	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

   

  LOS ANGELES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (LASC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Anita Tipirneni, MD	anita.tipirneni@gmail.com	Jeff Saver, MD, Latisha Sharma, MD, David Liebeskind, MD	Fellow	Neurology Cerebrovascular Diseases (Stroke)	Acute Stroke Care, Neuro Rehabilitation	Click Here

   

  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Joseph Kim, MD	jokumjoe@gmail.com	Gene Sung, MD, Nerses Sanossian, MD May Kim-Tenser, MD, Amytis Towfighi, MD Matthew Tenser, MD, Sebina Bulic, MD, Navdeep Sangha, MD, Zahra Anjani, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Pre-hospital treatment in acute stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

   SAN DIEGO REGIONAL STROKENET
   

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  James Ho, MD	jph005@ucsd.edu	Thomas Hemmen, MD, PhD, Brett Meyer, MD, Branko Huisa-Garate, MD, Karen Rapp, RN, Dawn Meyer, PhD, Kunal Agrawal, MD, Alexander Khalessi, MD, Navaz Karanjia, MD, Scott Olson, MD, Scott Pannell, MD, Karen Messer, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Acute Stroke Imaging	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

   

  NORCAL RESEARCH COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Qingyang (Kristy) Yuan, MD	kristy.yuan@ucsf.edu	Anthony Kim, MD, Karl Meisel, MD, Nelson Schiller, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Acute stroke, cryptogenic stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, stroke rehabilitation	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

   

  UC REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sabreena Gillow, MD	sabreena.gillow@uc.edu	Dawn Kleindorfer, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Pre-hospital triage of stroke patients, access to care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

   

  UNIVERSITY OF IOWA REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Edgar Samaniego, MD, MS	edgar-samaniego@uiowa.edu	James Torner, PhD and Enrique Leira, MD MS	Fellow	Neurology	Rural Care of Stroke Patients, Care of Inter-Hospital Transfer Patients	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

   MIAMI REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Erika Marulanda-Londoño, MD	etm42@med.miami.edu	Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD, Jose Romano, MD, Sebastian Koch, MD, Ralph Sacco, MD, MsPH	Fellow Instructor	Neurology-Cerebrovascular Diseases (Stroke)	Health disparities in stroke access to care and stroke outcomes. Acute stroke care and thrombolysis, Intracranial atherosclerotic disease, Intracranial Hemorrhage	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

   

  MICHIGAN STROKENET
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Chengwei Li, MPH	lichengw@umich.edu	Lynda Lisabeth, PhD, Lewis Morgenstern, MD	Trainee	Epidemiology	Stroke epidemiology, stroke health disparities	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

   

  UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Katherine Jacoby, MD	katherine.jacoby@hcmed.org	Michelle Biros, MD	Fellow	Emergency Medicine, Critical Care	Health Literacy in underserved populations, Health disparity	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

   

  THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA NIH STROKENET (GPNSN)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Laura A. Stein, MD	laura.stein@uphs.upenn.edu	Scott Kasner, MD, Michael Mullen, MD, Steven Messé, MD	Fellow/Instructor	Vascular Neurology	Educational interventions to improve stroke outcome Depression and anxiety after stroke, Stroke systems of care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH

   

  UPMC STROKE INSTITUTE)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Gurpreet Surinder Gandhoke, MD	gandhokegs@upmc.edu	Ashutosh Jadhav, MD, Robert Friedlander, MD	Fellow	Neurosurgery	Cost effective analyses	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON

   

  The Gulf Regional Area Stroke Program
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Susan Alderman, PhD	susan.alderman@uth.tmc.edu	ASean Savitz, MD, Joshua Breier, PhD, Terri Armstrong, PhD, RN	Junior Faculty	Neurologyy	Cognitive recovery after stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

   

  UNIVERSITY OF UTAH STROKENET
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Alexandra Terrill, PhD	brk9023@nyp.org	Lorie Richards, PhD, OTR/L, Jennifer Majersik, MD, MS	Junior Faculty	Occupational Therapy/Rehabilitation Psychology	Rehabilitation Psychology, adapting to/coping with stroke and associated disability, interventions to enhance resilience in individuals and their family members after stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

   

  NORTHWEST STROKE TRIALS NETWORK (NW-STN)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Rizwan Kalani, MD	rkalani@uw.edu	David Tirschwell, MD, Will Longstreth, MD	Fellow/Junior Faculty	Stroke Neurology	Stroke epidemiology and prevention, global health	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

   

  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STROKENET
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sepidah Chagharvand, MD	chagharvand@wisc.edu	Robert Dempsey, MD, Umadevi Wesley, PhD, Azam Ahmed, MD, Stephanie Wilbrand, PhD	Fellow	Neurological Surgery	Cerebrovascular diseases	Click Here

• VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MED CTR

   

  THE GREATER TENNESSEE STROKE NETWORK
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Katherine Nearing, MD	knearing@gmail.com	Alexei Alexandrov, MD, Michael Froehler, MD, PhD, Lori Jordan MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Measuring cerebral blood flow in post acute stroke care by noninvasive means and correlating with outcomes	Click Here