2023-2024 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE

   
  

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

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

   
  

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Edgar R. Lopez Navarro, MD	erl2161@cumc.columbia.edu	Randolph Marshall, MD	Postdoctoral Research Scientist	Neurologist	Stroke mechanisms, secondary stroke prevention, neuroimaging.	Click Here

• DUKE UNIVERSITY

   
  

  Duke-UNC ENVISION Center

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Charalambos Costas Charalambous, PhD	ccc108@duke.edu	Dr. Wayne Feng, MD, MS	Junior Faculty (Medical Instructor)	Neurology	Motor Recovery After Stroke	Click Here

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

   
  

  GEORGIA STROKENET

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mohamed Tarek, MD	Mohamed.a.tarek@emory.edu	Diogo Haussen, MD; Michael Frankel, MD	Fellow	Neurologist	Neurointerventional, Acute Stroke, Neuroimaging	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

   
  

  New England Regional Coordinating Center (NERCC)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ana-Lucia Garcia Guarniz, MD	agarciaguarniz@partners.org	William Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD, Anand Viswanathan, MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurologist	Biomarkers and Metabolomics in Hemorrhagic and Ischemic Stroke .	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

   
  SE-CoAST Collaborative Alliance for Stroke Trials (SE-CoAST)
  

   

  STROKE TRIALS NETWORK OF COLUMBIA AND CORNELL
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Patrick McConnell, Ph.D., M.S.	mcconnep@musc.edu	Kirstin-Friederike Heise, Ph.D.	Non-MD trainee	Health Sciences & Research; Neurosciences	Clinical neuroimaging, multimodal statistical modeling, autonomic-central nervous system interactions, biomarker development, novel therapeutics	Click Here

• MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE

   
  

  Stroke Central Atlantic Network for Research (SCANR)

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Jane Alkhazov, PT, DPT	jane.f.alkhazov@medstar.net	Barbara Bregman, Shashwati Geed	Trainee	Physical Therapy	Neuroplasticity, Motor Recovery/Rehabilitation, Neuro Imaging, Rehab Technology, Neuroimaging	Click Here

• MOUNT SINAI

   
  

  New York City Collaborative Regional Coordinating Center 

  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Fernanda Carvalho Poyraz, MD, PhD	fernanda.carvalhopoyraz@mountsinai.org	Laura K Stein, MD, MPH, Christopher Kellner, MD	Junior Faculty	Critical Care Neurologist	Transfusion practices for patient with acute intracerebral hemorrhage	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

   
  Stanford Stroke Center
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lironn Kraler, MD	kraler@stanford.edu	Maarten Lansberg, MD, Greg Albers, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Stroke Prevention in Disadvantaged Population, Stroke Education	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

   
  StrokeBelt StrokeNet (SBSN)
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Victor A. Del Bene, PhD	victordelbene@uabmc.edu	Ronald M. Lazar, PhD, Toby Ira Gropen, MD, and Michael J. Lyerly, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology; Neuropsychologist	Stroke, TIA, Vascular risk factors  and inflammation associated with cognitive decline, vascular contributions of neurodegenerative illness	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

   
  Los Angeles Southern California
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Philip Sun, MD	philipsun@mednet.ucla.edu	David Liebeskind, MD, Latisha Sharma, Jeffrey Saver, MD	Fellow	Neurologist	Transcranial Doppler Arteriopathy.	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

   
  San Diego Regional StrokeNet
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Julia Ting Bu, MD	j1bu@health.ucsd.edu	Dawn Meyer, MD, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Stroke, End-of-life Pallative Care	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

   
  Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Tracey F. Fan, DO	traceyfan1920@gmail.com	Shyam Prabhakaran MD, MS	Junior Faculty	Neurologist	Stroke and Neurocognitive Outcome in Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices such as LVAD	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

   
  UC Regional Coordinating Center
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lauren E. Menzies, MD	lemenzies@gmail.com	Stacie Demel, Eva Mistry, David Robinson	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Neuro-Cardiac Axis, Acute Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

   
  University of Iowa Regional Coordinating Center
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Malik Ghannam, MBBCh	malik-ghannam@uiowa.edu	Enrique Leira, MD, Colin Deredeyn, MD, Soura Dasgupta, PhD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Vascular Neurology, Clinical Research	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

   
  Florida Regional Coordinating Center
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lauri Bishop, PhD, PT, DPT	lauri.bishop@med.miami.edu	Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD Neva Kirk-Sanchez, PhD, PT Jose Romano, MD	Junior Faculty	Physical Therapy	Stroke, Locomotor recovery, Motor Learning, Disparities among stroke recovery, Physical Activity, Rehabilitation .	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

   
  University of Minnesota Regional Coordinating Center
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Luis Leal Silva, MD	silva365@umn.edu	Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD	Fellow	Data Science MPH Student	Vascular Neurology, Neurocritical Care, Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  			Fellow			Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

   
  The Greater Philadelphia NIH StrokeNet (GPNSN)
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lamya Ibrahim, MD	lamya.ibrahim@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Scott Kasner, MD	Fellow	Neurologist	Neurocardiology, Sleep Disorders and Stroke, Seizures and Epilepsy after stroke and Neurorimaging in Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

   
  The Gulf Regional Area Stroke Programs
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Azima Shaji, MD	shaji.azima@gmail.com	Sean Savitz, Amanda Jagolino-Cole, Sishir Mannava, Charles Green	Fellow	Neurology	Telestroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

   
  University of Utah StrokeNet
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Aaron Shoskes, DO	aaron.shoskes@hsc.utah.edu	Jennifer Majersik, MD, MS	Junior Faculty/Assistant Professor	Neurologist/Vascular Neurologist	Optimal management of patients with cardiac disease and stroke, Stroke in patients with heart failure and mechanical circulatory support devices, Cerebral venous thromboses and vascular malformations, Epidemiology of stroke in the young.	Click Here

• WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

   
  Western NC StrokeNet
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lorelei Johnson, PhD	Lorelei.Johnson@atriumhealth.org	Stacey Wolfe, MD, Cheryl Bushell, MD,	Faculty	Rehab / Speech Pathology	Post Stroke Aphasia Recovery	Click Here

• WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

   
  Mid America Regional Coordinating Center (MARCC)
  
  

  Name	E-Mail	Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Alyssa Smith, MD	smithalyssa@wustl.edu	Kristin Guilliams, MD, MSCI	Junior Faculty	Neurology, pediatric neurologist	Neuromodulation to improve outcomes after pediatric acquired brain injury	Click Here