2021-2022 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

   

  CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sibaaji Gaj, PhD	gajs@ccf.org	Sophia Sundararajan, Ken Uchino	Postdoctoral Fellow	Biomedical Engineering	Novel computational techniques for medical imaging to improve diagnosis and prognosis and eventually patient care.	Click Here

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES

   

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Jakita Baldwin, MD	jb4614@cumc.columbia.edu	Olajidie Willams, MD, Syeda Imanama Naqvi, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Community based participatory research, health disparities, quality improvement	Click Here

• EMORY

   

  GEORGIA STROKENET
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lorena Souza Viana, MD	lorenasviana@gmail.com	Raul Nogueira, MD; Diogo Haussen, MD; Michael Frankel, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Neurointerventional, Acute Stroke, Neuroimaging	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

   

  MASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPITAL

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Dearbhla Kelly MB, BCh, BAO, MSc, DPhil, MRCPI, MRCP(UK)	dearbhla.kelly@hmc.ox.ac.uk	Anand Viswanathan, MD, Christopher Anderson, MD	Fellow	Nephrology	The impact of chronic kidney disease on cerebrovascular disease and cognitive brain health.	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

   

  MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nishanth Kodumuri, MD	Nishanth.hnk@gmail.com	Souvik Sen, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Prevention of Neuronal injury, Neuromodulation, long term motor and cognitive recovery post stroke	Click Here

• MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

   

  MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Chad Michael Aldridge, PT, DPT, MS-CR, NCS	cma7n@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu	Alex Dromerick, MD	Trainee	Neurologic Physical Therapy	Development of innovative technology to better treat and prevent strokes	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

   

  Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Stephanie F. Hage, MD, MA, MSc	Hagestephanie3@gmail.com	Issam Awad, MD	Fellow	Neurosurgery	Clinical trials, biomarker science	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

   

  Stanford Stroke Center

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lily Zhou, MD	Hagestephanie3@gmail.com	Maarten Lansberg, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Vascular Neurology Epidemiology, Perfusion Imaging	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

   

  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Smit D. Patel, MBBS, MPH	drsmitpatel1988@gmail.com	David Liebeskind, MD, Jeff Saver, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Vasculopaty, IIH, CVT	Click Here

  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Michael Jang, MD	Michael.jang@med.usc.edu	Nerses Sanossian, MD, Gene Sung, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Clinical research, quality improvement	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

   

  NorCal Research Coordinating Center

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Monica Maria Noya Santana, MD	monica_noya@hotmail.com	Thomas Hemmen, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Use of performance data to drive systems of care advances in stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

   

  NORCAL RESEARCH COORDINATING CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nicole Rosendale, MD	nicole.rosendale@ucsf.edu	Anthony Kim, MD, MAS, Michelle Albert, MD, MPH, Mitchell Lunn, MD,MAS	Junior Faculty	Neurology/Neurohospitalist	Stroke and stroke risk factor disparities in sexual and gender minority adults	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

   

  UC Regional Coordinating Center

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Krishna Kandregula, MD	kckandregula@gmail.com	Staacie Demel, Dan Woo, Charlie Prestigiacomo	Fellow	Neurology	Endovascular/Thrombectomy; Acute stroke treatment; Prediction modeling of great outcomes or poor outcomes	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

   

  University of Iowa Regional Coordinating Center

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Hannah Roeder, MD, MPH	hannah-roeder@uiowa.edu	Enrique Leira, MD, James Tormer, PhD, Mark Santillan, MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Outcomes of Young Women who suffer Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

   

  Florida Regional Coordinating Center

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nastajjia A Krementz, MD	nkrementz@gmail.com	Tatjana Rundek, Jose G. Romano, Sebastian Koch, Ralph L. Sacco	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Stroke and Sickle Cell Disease, Acute stroke care, Disparities across acute stroke care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

  2021-2022 Publications

  MICHIGAN STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Leanna Marie Delhey, MPH	ldelhey@uchicago.edu	Lynda Lisabeth, PhD, MPH	Fellow	Epidemiology	Psychological & social determinants of stroke & post stroke outcomes	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
  Mohammad Hossein Abbasi, MD, MPH	dr.m.h.abbasi95@gmail.com	Kasner, Cucchiara, Messe, Favilla, Sloane	Trainee	Neurology	Neurointerventional techniques, preventive measures and immediate pharmacologic interventions which improve stroke outcome and recovery, neuroradiology & motor-cognitive recovery after stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH

   

  UPMC Stroke Institute

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Amit Sethi, PhD, OTR/L	asethi@pitt.edu	George Wittenberg, MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Occupational Therapy	Developing mechanistically informed interventions to improve upper extremity function after stroke	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
  Praveen Hariharan, MBBS	Praveen.hariharan@uth.tmc.edu	Alexandra Czap, James Grotta, Sean Savitz	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Acute endovascular care and neuroimaging	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

   

  University of Utah StrokeNet

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ryan Bailey, PhD, MSCI, MSOT	ryan.bailey@health.utah.edu	Lorie Richards, MD, Jennifer Majersik, MD	Junior Faculty	Occupational Therapist	Lifestyle-based (e.g. physical activity and dietary behavior modification) secondary stroke prevention	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

  UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STROKE NET

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

   

  StrokeBelt StrokeNet (SBSN)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kristen Sandefer, MD	ksandefer@uabmc.edu	Michael Lyerly MD, Toby Gropen MD, Nataliya Ivankova PhD, MPH	Instructor	VAscular Neurology	Inpatient Telestroke Coverage at Spoke Hospitals	Click Here

• WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

   

  Western NC StrokeNet

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mohammad Iyas Kawas, MD, PhD	mkawas@wakehealth.edu	Stacey Wolfe, MD, Cheryl Bushell, MD, Chris Whitlow, MD, PhD	Graduate Student	Radiology	Use of BOLD MRI Imaging techniques to explore connectivity after stroke subtypes	Click Here

• WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

   

  Mid America Regional Coordinating Center (MARCC)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Anna Hugunard, MD	ahuguenard@wustl.edu	Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, Eric Leuthardt, MD	Fellow	Radiology	Vagus nerve stimulation & its role in enhance neuroplasticity & ummunomodulation	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
  Rachel Forman, MD	rachel.forman@yale.edu	Walter Kernan, MD, Kevin Sheth, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Secondary stroke prevention, home blood pressure monitoring	Click Here