2017-2018 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

  CLEVELAND REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ciro Ramos Estebanez, MD, PhD	ciro.ramosestebabez@uhhospitals.org	Xin Yu, PhD, Anthony Furlan, MD	Faculty	Neurology/Neurocritical Care & Stroke	Brain Metabolic Rate Measurements, Brain Edema, Stroke Outcomes	Click Here

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Eliza Miller, MD	ecm2137@cumc.columbia.edu	Randolph Marshall, MD, Joshua Wiley, MD, Mitchell Elkind, MD	Fellow / Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Epidemiology and Physiology of Peri-Partum Stroke	Click Here

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

  GEORGIA STROKENET
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Deborah Barany, PhD	dbarany@emory.edu	Cathrin Buetefisch, MD, PhD, Krish Sathian, MD, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Cortical Reorganization of Movement Representations Post Stroke	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

  NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER (NERCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Marco Pasi, MD	mpasi@mgh.harvard.edu	Anand Viswanathan, MD, PhD, Mahmut Edip Gurol, MD, MSc, Aneesh Singhal, MD	Fellow	Stroke Neurology	Small Vessel Disease, Hemorrrhagic and Ischemic Stroke	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
  Pratik Yashvant Chhatbar, MD, PhD	chhatbar@musc.edu	Wayne Feng, MD, Robert Adams, MD, Dan Lackland, PhD, Edward Jauch, MD	Fellow	Neurology / Stroke Rehabilitation	Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery	Click Here

• MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  STROKE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA NETWORK FOR RESEARCH (SCANR)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Jessica Barth, MS, OTR/L	jessica.barth@medstar.net	Andrew Dromerick, MD, Peter Lum, PhD, Dorothy Farrar Edwards, PhD, Matthew Edwardson, MD, Shashwati Geed, PT, PhD, Barbara Bregman, PT, PhD	Fellow	Occupational Therapy	Upper Extremity Recovery Following Stroke	Click Here

  
  STROKE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA NETWORK FOR RESEARCH (SCANR)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  M. Carter Denny, MD, MPH	marycarter.denny@gunet.georgetown.edu	Susan Groah, Rochelle Trachtenberg, PhD,  Anjail Sharrief, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Transitions of Care and Secondary Stroke Prevention	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	Stanley Tuhrim, 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
  Eric Roberts, MPH	er109@nyu.edu	Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH	Trainee	Stroke Epidemiology	Stroke Disparities Research, Sleep Disturbance and Incidence and Recurrent Stroke	Click Here

   

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

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ekaterina Bakradze, MD	ebakradz@montefiore.org	Daniel Labovitz, MD, Ava Liberman, MD, Mellanie Springer, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Cryptogenic Stroke, Varicella Zoster Vasculitis, Diagnostic Error, Stroke Disparities	Click Here

• NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO

  CHICAGO STROKE TRIALS CONSORTIUM
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Rasha Alkhatib, MHS, PhD	rasha.khatib@phri.ca	Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, Mark Huffman, MD, Namaratha Kandula, MD, Andrew Naidech, MD	Fellow	Preventive Medicine	Stroke Management, Global Health, Health Services Research	Click Here

• OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

  OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Yousef Hannawi, MD	yousef.hannawi@osumc.edu	Michel Torbey, MD, Cameron Rink, PhD	Junior Faculty	Neurology / Neurocritical Care	Pathophysiology of Cerebral Small Vessel Disease, Predicion of Functional and Cognitive Outcome Following Acute Brain Injuries Using Advance Imaging Techniques	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

  STANFORD STROKE CENTER
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Catherine Legault, MD, FRCPC	clegault@stanford.edu	Maarten Lansberg, MD, PhD, Greg Albers, MD, Nirali Vora, MD	Fellow	Stroke Neurology	Stroke Rehabilitation, TIA Systems of Care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

  LOS ANGELES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (LASC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Neil Maluste, MD	nmaluste@mednet.ucla.edu	Jeff Saver, MD, Latisha Sharma, MD, David Liebeskind, MD	Fellow	Neurology Cerebrovascular Diseases (Stroke)	Acute Stroke Care, Microvascular Ischemic Disease	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

  SAN DIEGO REGIONAL STROKENET
  

   

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Abhishek Lunagariya, MD	alunagariya@hotmail.com	Thomas Hemmen, MD, PhD, Brett Meyer, MD, Branko Huisa-Garate, MD, Karen Rapp, RN, Dawn Meyer, PhD, Royya Modir, MD,  Kunal Agrawal, MD, Alexander Khalessi, MD, Navaz Karanjia, MD, Scott Olson, MD, Scott Pannell, MD, Karen Messer, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Quality Improvement in Stroke Care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

  NORCAL RESEARCH COORDINATING CENTER
   

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Cathra Halabi, MD	cathra.halabi@ucsf.edu	Srikantan Nagarajan, MD Anthony Kim, MD, Wade Smith, MD	Fellow	Neurology/Vascular Neurology	Brain/behavior correlates in stroke and recovery, rehabilitation, role of technology in rehabilitation	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

  UC REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Eva A Mistry, MD	esamin87@gmail.com	Pooja Khatri, MD, Dawn Kleindorfer, MD,	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Blood pressure control and its association with patient outcomes in acute phase of post-mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke patients	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

  UNIVERSITY OF IOWA REGIONAL COORDINATING CENTER
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kaustubh Limaye, MD	limayekaustubh@gmail.com	Enrique Leirai, MD, MS, James Torner, PhD, Edgar Samaniego, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Hyperacute management in ischemic stroke, management of vascular malformations, endocovascular therapy for ischemic stroke and vascular malformations	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	Junior Faculty	Neurology-Cerebrovascular Diseases (Stroke)	Pre hospital and hospital stroke systems of care; 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 Morgernstern, MD	Traineer	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
  Mohammed Alkuwaiti, MBBS	malkuwai@umn.edu	Mustapha Ezzeddine, MD, Christipher Streib, MD, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD	Fellow Instructor	Neurology/Vascular Neurology	Outcomes research in stroke care delivery	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  THE GREATER PHILADELPHIA NIH STROKENET (GPNSN)
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  James E. Siegler, MD	james.siegler@uphs.upenn.edu	Scott Kasner, MD, Brett Cucchiara, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Cryptogenic Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH

  UPMC STROKE INSTITUTE
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Merritt W. Brown, MD	merritt.brown@gmail.com	Lawrence Wechsler, MD, Tudor Jovin, MD, Ashutosh Jadhav, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology / Stroke	Intracranial Pressure Waveform Morphology in Critically Neurological Injured Patients	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON

  THE GULF REGIONAL AREA STROKE PROGRAMS
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kristin Brown, MD	kristin.a.brown@uth.tmc.edu	Anjail Sharrief MD, Sean Savitz, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology / Stroke	Stroke Prevention, Outcomes and Disparities	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  UNIVERSITY OF UTAH STROKENET
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Robert A. Campbell, PhD	rcampbell@u2m2.utah.edu	Matthew Rondina, MD	Post Doctoral Fellow	Internal Medicine/Molecular Medicine	Animal Models of Stroke / the Role of Platelets in Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

  NORTHWEST STROKE TRIALS NETWORK (NW-STN)
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Hiroko Watase, MD, MPH	hiroko7@uw.edu	Thomas Hatsukami, MD	Fellow	Surgery	Stroke Pathophysiology, MRI Vessel Wall Imaging in Carotid and Intracranial Arteries	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STROKENET
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ignatius Ngene Esene, PhD	esene@wisc.edu	Robert Dempsey, MD, Mustafa Baskaya, MD, Umadevi Wesley, PhD, Azam Ahmed, MD, Stephanie Wilbrand, PhD	Post Doc Trainee	Neurological Surgery	Medical and Surgical Techniques to Improve the Care of Cerebrovascular Disease	Click Here

• VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

  THE GREATER TENNESSEE STROKE NETWORK
  

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Natalie Hall, <SM, FNP-C, ANV P-BC, RN	natalie.j.hall@vanderbilt.edu	Michael Froehler, MD, PhD, Lori Jordan, MD, PhD, Matthew Fusco, MD, Janet Myers, DNP, APRN,	Faculty	Neurosurgery	Determining Appropriat Evidence-based Follow-up for Monitoring of Intracranial Aneurysms	Click Here