2018-2019 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Setareh Salehi Omran, MD	ss5353@cumc.columbia.edu	Hooman Kamel, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Stroke in the Young, Cryptogenic Stroke	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPITAL

  New England Regional Coordinating Center (NERCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Richa Sharma, MD, MPH	Rsharma7@mgh.harvard.edu	Lee Schwamm, MD, Aneesh Singhal, MD, Anand Viswanathan, MD, PhD, Edip Gurol, MD, Rebecca Gottesman, MD	Graduate Assistant	Vascular Neurology	Clinical Research in the overlap of Cardiology (the physiology, diseases & therapeutics) & Vascular Neurology	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
  Forrest Lowe, MD	lowef@musc.edu	Wayne Feng, MD, Daniel Lackland, PhD, Tanya Turan, MD	Senior Fellow/Instructor	Vascular Neurology	Stroke Recovery, Natural history of Post-stroke Limb Spasticity Development	Click Here

• MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  Stroke National Capital Area Network for Research (SCANR)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Joseph Carrera , MD	jfc8x@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu	Bradford Worrall, MD, Andrew Southerland, MD, Karen Johnston, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Acute Stroke Systems of Care & Medical Education	Click Here

• MT. SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

  New York City Collaborative Regional Coordinating Center (NYCRCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Eric Roberts , MPH	er109@nyu.edu	Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH	Trainee	Stroke Epidemiology	Stroke Disparities, Sleep Disturbance & Incidence & Recruitment	Click Here

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO

  Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Roxanna M. Garcia, MD. MS , MPH	roxanna.melissa@northwestern.edu	Andrew Naidech, MD, Babak Jahromi, MD, PhD,	Trainee	Neurosurgery	Surgical disparities in neurosurgery, access to care, machine learning, healthcare inequities	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

  Stanford Stroke Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Adam MacLellan, MD	amaclell@stanford.edu	Greg Albers, MD, Maarten Lansberg, MD, Kara Flavin, MD, Karen Hirsch, MD	Fellow	Neurology/Vascular Neurology	Stroke Rehabilitation, Quality Improvement in Stroke Care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

  Los Angeles Southern California (LASC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kunakorn Atchaneeyasakul, MD	k.atchanee@gmail.com	David Liebeskind, MD, Jeffrey Saver, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Acute Stroke Imaging, Endovascular Stroke Therapy & Workflow	Click Here

  University of Southern California
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Shauna Cheung, MD	Shauna.Cheung@med.usc.edu	Nerses, Sanossian, MD	Faculty	Neurology/Vascular Neurology	Prehospital Stroke Care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

  San Diego Reginal Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Julian Duda, MD	jcduda@ucsd.edu	Dawn Matherne-Meyer, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Performance Improvement in Acute Stroke Care	Click Here

  
  

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

  NorCal Research Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kevin J. Keenan, MD	Kevin.Keenan@ucsf.edu	Wade Smith, MD, PhD, Anthony Kim, MD, Steven Hetts, MD	Fellow	Neurology/Vascular Neurology	Emergent Large Vessel Occlusion (ELVO) prediction, ELVO Stroke Triage & Treatment Systems of Care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

  University of Iowa Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sami Al Kasab, MD	Sami-alkasab@uiowa.edu	Enrique C. Leira, MD, Marc I Chimowitz, MD, Christine A. Holmsetdt, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology/Cerebrovascular Disease	Ischemic Conditioning for Acute Ischemic Stroke, Tele Stroke Development	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

  Miami Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nicole (Beaton) Sur, MD	nbsur@med.miami.edu	Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD, Sebastian Koch, MD, Jose Romano, MD, Ralph Sacco, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Secondary stroke prevention, Atrial fibrillation in Stroke, Gender and race/ethnic disparities across all systems/levels of healthcare, Acute stroke care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

  University of Minnesota Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
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• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  The Greater Philadelphia NIH StrokeNet (GPNSN)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christopher J. Renner, MD	christopher.renner@uphs.upenn.edu	Steven Messe, MD, Scott Kasner, MD, Brett Cucchiara, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Acute Stroke Treatment, Secondary Stroke Prevention	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH

  UPMC Stroke Institute
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Shashvat M. Desai, MD	desaosm@upmc.edu	Ashutosh Jadhav, MD, PhD, Tudo Jovin, MD	Trainee	Neurology/	Acute Ischemic Stroke due to large vessel occlusion, Pathophysiological Heterogeneity of Acute Ischemic Stroke, Endovascular Thrombectomy Eligibility & Outcomes	Click Here

• WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

  Western NC
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Christine Tschoe, MD	ctschoe@gmail.com	Stacey Wolfe, MD, Cheryl Bushnell, MD	Fellow	Neurosurgery	Effective carotid revascularization on cognitive function in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis, Modulation of the inflammatory process surrounding intracerebral hemorrhage	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Abimbola Fadairo, MBBS, MPH	afadairo@uabmc.edu	Virginia Howard, PhD Ronald M. Lazar, PhD, Toby I. Gropen, MD, Michael Lyerly, MD	Fellow	Neurology/Stroke	Stroke disparities Behavioral and cognitive outcomes of Stroke Patients and their Caregivers Improving stroke outcomes with Information Technology	Click Here

• WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

  Mid America Regional Coordinating Center (MARCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mariya Gusman, MD	mariya.gusman@gmail.com	Manu Goyal, MD,	Fellow	Neuroradiology	Neural basis of decision making, the effects of brain injury/stroke on cognition, optimization of neural resilience to acute brain injury.	Click Here

• YALE UNIVERSITY

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

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nils H Perersen, MD, PhD	nils.peterson@yale.edu	Kevin Sheth, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Ischemic Stroke, Acute Stroke Management, Cerebral Hemodynamics, Autoregulation, Transcranial Doppler	Click Here
  Tracy E. Madsen, MD, ScM, FACEP	madsen.tracy@gmail.com	Karen Furie, MD	Junior Faculty	Emergency Medicine	Sex & Gender Differences in Stroke prevention, Treatment & Outcomes

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  University of Utah StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Chelsea Meyer, DO, MA	chelsea.meyer@hsc.utah.edu	Jennifer Majersik, MD, Adam de Havenon, MD, KC Brennan, MD, Lori Richards, MD, Robert Campbell, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Stroke Develop and Expand Telestroke & Stroke Recovery