2024-2025 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN UNIVERISTY

   
  

  CASE WESTERN UNIVERISTY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Gregory States, PhD	gxs541@case.edu	Sophia Sundarajan, MD, Ken Uchino, MD, Nathan Makowski, MD, Richard Wilson, MD	Postdoctoral	Engineer	Biomechanics, Control Systems	Click Here

• COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

   
  

  COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Srinath Ramaswamy, MD	sr3529@cumc.columbia.edu	Randy Marshall, MD, Eliza Miller, MD, Jose Gutierrez, MD, Joshua Wiley, MD	Fellow - PGY	Vascular Neurology	RCVS, Role of Mild Atherosclerotic Stenosis in ESUS, TIA and Minor Stroke	Click Here Click Here

• DUKE UNIVERSITY

   
  

  DUKE UNIVERSITY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Dylan Ryan, MD	dylan.ryan@duke.edu	Wayne Feng, MD, Alexander Limkakeng,MD, David Hwang, MD, Soma Sengupta, MD, Shadi Yagi, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Stroke in patients with primary malignancy (secondary prevention, intervention), Stroke in patients with cognitive impairment, secondary stroke prevention, stroke intervention	Click Here

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

   
  

  EMORY UNIVERSITY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Savio Batista dos Reis, MD	saviobatista360@gmail.com	Diogo Haussen, MD, Michael Frankel, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Neurointenventional, Acure Stroke, Neuroimaging	Click Here

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

   
  

  MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Johanna Rotta, MD	johanna.rotta@gmx.de	Aneesh Singhal, MD, Valentina Perosa, MD, Mariel Kozberg, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Vascular Neurology and Dementia with a focus on small vessel disease	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

   
  

  MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Diego E. Arias, PhD	ariasd@musc.edu	Tanya Turan, MD, Christine Holmstedt, MD, Kristin-Freiderike Heise, PhD	Trainee	Biomedical Engineering	Neuromodulation, Electric Field Modeling	Click Here

• MEDSTAR HEALTH

   
  

  MEDSTAR HEALTH
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Cesarina S. Thohan, MD	ariasd@musc.edu	Brad Worall, MD, Peter Turkeltaub, MD, PhD, Amie Hsia, MD, Barbara Bregman, PT, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Health disparities and social and structural deteminant of health in minorities, intially concentrating in the Hispanic population	Click Here

• MOUNT SINAI

   
  

  MOUNT SINAI
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sean M. Kelly, MD, PhD	sean.kelly2@nyulangone.org	J Mocco, MD, Aaron Lord, MD, Mark Mehler, MD, Sara Tostanski, MD, Kara Melmed, MD, Heide Schambra, MD, Bernardo Rudy, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Risk factors and causes of secondarty stroke complications	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

   
  

  STANFORD UNIVERSITY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sepideh Kiani Shabestari, PhD	s.kiani.sh@gmail.com	Greg Albers, MD, Maarten Lansberg, MD, Paul George, MD, PhD	Post-doctoral fellow	Neurology	Stroke recovery, Immune response following stroke, Endogenous stem cell production following stroke, cognitive disorders following stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Elizabeth M. Byrd, PhD, RN	EBET@UAB.EDU	Ron Lazar, MD, Toby Gropen, MD, Mark Harrigan,MD, Ekatrina Bakradze, MD, Victor Del Bene, MD	Junior Faculty	Nursing	Stroke care transitions and systems of care; stroke syndromes; caregiver needs after stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES 
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mert Erdenizmenli, MD	merdeniz93@gmail.com	David Liebeskind, MD, Jeff Saver, MD, Steven Warach, MD, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Tenecteplase, Large Vessel Occlusions	Click Here

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ashkan Javadzadeh, MD	ashkanjava@yahoo.com	Sebina Bulic, MD, Jeff Saver, MD, Gene Sung, MD, Navdeep Sangha, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Tenecteplase, Large Vessel Occlusions	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Julián Carrión-Penagos, MD	julian.carrionp@gmail.com	Brett Meyer, MD	Fellow	VascularNeurology	Management of venous thrombosis, Telestroke in non-English speaking population, Risk of Hemorrhagic transformation based on stroke size	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nathaniel Fleming, MD	Nathaniel.fleming@ucsf.edu	Anthony Kim, MD, Kristine Yaffe, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Epidemiology of stroke prevention (primary and secondary)	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Michael P. McCartin, MD	Michael.mccartin@bsd.uchicago.edu	Shyam Prabhakaran, MD	Junior Faculty	Emergency Medicine	Prehospital and Interfacility Management of Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lovisa Ljungberg, MD	lj.lovisa@gmail.com	Eva Mistry, MD, Stacie Demel, MD, Robert Stanton, MD, David Robinson, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Post-stroke transitions of care; Health Disparities in Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Julie C. Gudenkauf, MD	jgudenka@uiowa.edu	Enrique Leira, MD, Sabrina Tan, MD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Infectious and inflammatory conditions contributing to vascular disease and stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Luis Carlos De Carvalho Paixao, BMBCh, MSc	lxd939@miami.edu	Tatjana Rundek, MD, Jose G. Romano, MD  Sebastian Koch, MD, . Dileep R. Yavagal, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	“No-Reflow” Phenomenon / Incomplete Microcirculatory Reperfusion, Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) imaging markers, DSA Quantitative Analysis, Machine Learning and Adjunct Neuroprotective Treatments after Successful Recanalization	Click Here Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kazandra M. Rodriguez, PhD	kazandra@umich.edu	Philip Scott, MD, Devin Brown, MD	Post-doctoral Fellow	Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation	Improve our current understanding of different processes in motor learning and recovery after stroke and how to apply these insights to develop novel, low-cost treatment strategies post-stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Nitin Ramanujam Chakravarthula, MBBS	nchakrav@umn.edu	Christoper Streib, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD, PhD, Bharathi Jagadeesan, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Cardiac CT Angiography in Acute Ischemic Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kelsey Eklund, MD	Kelsey.eklund@cuanschutz.edu	Sharon Poisson MD, Michel Torbey, MD, Michelle Leppert MD MBA, Nicole Gonzales MD	Assistant Professor	Vascular Neurology	Non-traditional stroke risk factors, stroke in young adults, and disparities in stroke care.	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Pargol Balali, MD, MSc	lpargol.balali@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Scott Kasner, MD, Jens Witsch, MD	Trainee	Researcher	Biomarkers for perihematomal edema expansion in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), cardiac injury in patients with ICH and association with mortality, optimization of patient selection for antithrombotic therapy in patients with ICH	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lucas Rios Rocha, MD	riosrochal@upmc.edu	Marcelo Rocha, MD, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Large vessel occlusion stroke pathophysiology, cerebral hemodynamics, predictive biomarkers of reperfusion injury	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Kriti Bhayana, MD	Kriti.bhayana@gmail.com	Sean Savitz, MD, Stuart Fraser, MD, Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD, Amanda Jagolino-Cole, MD, Sishir Mannava, MD	Fellow	PediatricNeurology	Pediatric Stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

   
  

  UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Aaron Shoskes, DO	aaron.shoskes@hsc.utah.edu	Jennifer Majersik, MD Conan Kinsey, MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Vascular Neurology	Cancer-associated stroke, Optimal management of patients with cardiac disease and stroke, Stroke in the young	Click Here Click Here

• WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

   
  

  WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Lorelei Johnson, PhD	Lorelei.Johnson@atriumhealth.org	Cheryl Bushnell, MD, Stacey Wolfe, MD, Mark Hirsch, MD	Faculty	Rehab, Speech Pathology	Post-stroke aphasia recovery	Click Here

• WASHINGTON UNIVERISTY

   
  

  WASHINGTON UNIVERISTY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ryan Bowen, PhD	ryan.bowen@wustl.edu	Jin-Moo Lee, MD, Peter Panagos, MD, Andria Ford, MD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Neuroscientist	Brain Network Repair Contributing to Recovery after Strple	Click Here

• YALE UNIVERSITY

   
  

  YALE UNIVERSITY
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Liqi Shu, MD	shuliqi@gmail.com	Kevin Sheth, MD, Leigh Hochberg, MD, David Lin, MD, Shadi Yaghi, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Applying computational methods and machine learning to understand and improve rehabilitation outcomes in neurological disorders.	Click Here