2026-2027 NIH StrokeNet Trainee Directory

• CASE WESTERN RESERVE

  Cleveland Regional Coordinating Center

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Catherine Hassett DO, MS	hassetc@ccf.org	Sophia Sundararajan, MD, Ken Uchino, MD	Junior Faculty	Neurointensivist	Intracranial Hemorrhage	Click Here

• COLUMBIA HEALTH SCIENCES

  Stroke Trials Network of Columbia and Cornell
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Samuel Bruce, MD, MA	sab7015@med.cornell.edu	Randy Marshall, MD, Joshua Wiley, MD, Alexander Ramos, MD, PhD, Sarah Tom, PhD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy	Click Here

• EMORY UNIVERSITY

  Georgia StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Pedro Lucas Iozzo Campos, MD	pncampo@emory.edu	Diogo Haussen, MD; Michael Frankel, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Neurointerventional, Acute Stroke, Neuroimaging

• MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

  New England Regional Coordinating Center (NERCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Zoe Wolcott, MD	ZWOLCOTT@mgh.harvard.edu	Barbara Voetsch, MD, Aneesh Singhal, MD;	Fellow	Neurology	Cerebral Arteriopathies and high-resolution contrast enhanced vessel wall MR imaging	Click Here

• MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

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

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Basem Zaino, MD	zanio@musc.edu	Tanya Turan, MD, Christine Holmstedt, MD	Fellow	Neurology	Pediatric strokes, Stroke	Click Here

• GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

  Stroke Central Atlantic Network for Research (SCANR)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Rachael Stone, PharmD	rachael.stone@uvahealth.org	Amie Hsia, Peter Turkeltaub, Brad Worrall, Barbara Bregman	Trainee	Neurology, Clinical Pharmacist	Implementation of pharmacogenomics to improve secondary stroke prevention	Click Here

• MOUNT SINAI

  New York City Collaborative Regional Coordinating Center (NYCC-RCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Andrea Lendaris MD, MS	andrea.lendaris@mssm.edu	J. Mocco Aaron Lord, Mark Mehler, Laura K Stein, Benjamin Kummer	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Stroke Recovery, particular interest in post-stroke dysphagia	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

  Chicago Stroke Trials Consortium
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Georgeio Sader, MD	georgeio.sader@bsd.uchicago.edu	Shyam Prabhakaran, MD, MS, Issam A. Awad, MD, MSc, FACS, MA (hon), Timothy J. Carroll, PhD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Neurovascualr Surgery	Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM), disease biomarkers, surrogate outcome measures in clinical trials.define how metabolic dysfunction like obesity reshapes systemic and immune-vasculature responses	Click Here

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY

  Stanford Stroke Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Karen Bradshaw, PhD	kpbradsh@stanford.edu	Greg Albers, MD, Maarten Lansberg,MD	Postdoctoral Fellow	Radiology, and Neurology and Neurological Sciences	Developing bioinformatic, molecular, and innovative whole-body strategies to define how metabolic dysfunction like obesity reshapes systemic and immune-vasculature responses to stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES

  Los Angeles Southern California (LASC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Priyanka Deshpande, MD	PDeshpande@mednet.ucla.edu	Jeffrey Saver, MD, Kyle Kern, MD, and Mersedeh Bahr, MD.	Fellow	Neurology	Predictors of Neurointervention success, Neuromodulation in acute stroke and neurorecovery, Pediatric vascular malformations	Click Here

   
  

   

• UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO

  San Diego StrokeNet +
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Eesha Oza, MD	eoza@health.ucsd.edu	Brett Meyer, MD, Thomas Hemmen, MD	PGY-5 Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Pre-hospital systems of care and their impacts on stroke outcomes	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO

  NorCal Research Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Iyas Daghlas, MD	iyas.daghlas@ucsf.ed	Anthony Kim, MD	Clinical Instructor	Vascular Neurology	Thrombosis and stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI

  Ohio Valley Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Pablo Harker Franco, MD	harkerpo@ucmail.uc.edu	Stacie Demel, MD, Eva Mistry, MD	Fellow	Vascular Neurology	Optimizing outcomes after mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY IOWA

  University of Iowa Regional Coordinating Center (URCC)
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Melvin Donaldson MD PhD	melvin-donaldson@uiowa.edu	Enrique Leira MD MS	Junior Faculty	Emergency Medicine	Emergency medical services, critical care transport, out-of-hospital care	Click Here

• MIAMI UNIVERSITY

  Florida Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Julia K. Houshmand, MD	jkh85@med.miami.edu	Tatjana Rundek, Jose Romano	Fellow	Neurology	Neurocritical care, disorders of consciousness, hemorrhagic stroke, nociceptive processing, clinical outcomes	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN

  Michigan StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Hely Divyanshu Nanavati, PhD MPH MBBS	hdnana@umich.edu	Phillip Scott, MD, Devin Brown, MD	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	Epidemiology	Stroke risk factors, poststroke outcomes, environmental health, social epidemiology	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

  University of Minnesota Regional Coordinating Center
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Amaan Javed, MBBS	ajaved@umn.edu	Christoper Streib, MD, Kamakshi Lakshminarayan, MD, PhD	Fellow	Neurology	Enrollment Trends, Learning Curves, and Quality Metrics in Stroke Trials	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  Philadelphia Regional Stroke Trials Network Coordinating Center (PRSTNCC) Philadelphia, PA

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Natalie Ullman, MD, MPH	Natalie.ullman@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Scott E. Kasner, MD, Brett Cucchiara, MD, Steven Greenberg, MD, PhD	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Stroke in congenital heart disease	Click Here Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

  UPMC Stroke Institute
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Liqi Shu, MD	shul@upmc.edu	Marcelo Rocha, MD PhD; Raul Nogueira MD	Fellow	Neurology	Endovascular stroke, imaging, and data-driven prognosis	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HOUSTON

  The Gulf Regional Area Stroke Programs
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Ivan Trang, MD	ivan.trang@uth.tmc.edu	Sean Savitz, MD, Sishir Mannava, MD, Anjail Z. Sharrief, MD, Jerome Jeevarajan, MD, Murli Mishra, MD	Fellow	Vascu;ar Neurology	Cerebral amyloid angiopathy	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

  University of Utah StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Sricharan Veeturi, PhD	sri.veeturi@hsc.utah.edu	Jennifer Majersik, MD, Karol Budohoski, Ramesh Grandhi	Trainee	Vascular Neurosurgery	Stroke, non-invasive imaging biomarkers, hemodynamics, single cell transcriptomics, multi-omics	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM

  StrokeBelt StrokeNet (SBSN)

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Turkan Alinea Esensoy, MD	tesensoy@uabmc.edu	Ronald Lazar, PhD, Mark Harrigan, MD, Toby Gropen, MD;	Junior Faculty	Neurology	Quality Improvement in Telestroke & Stroke Systems of Care	Click Here

• WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY (WESTERN NC)

  Wake Forest StrokeNet
  

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Prajjwal Pokharel, MBBS	Prajjwal.Pokharel@advocatehealth.org	Cheryl Bushnell, MD, Stacey Wolfe, MD	MD Trainee	Neurology	Impact of continuation versus temporary discontinuation of pre-stroke GLP-1 receptor agonists in functional neurological outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute ischemic stroke. Antihypertensives, Arterial Stiffness and Cognitive Recovery After Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage. Impact of probiotics on neurocognitive outcomes after stroke	Click Here

• YALE UNIVERSITY

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

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Martina Glavan, PhD	martina.glavan@yale.edu	Kevin Sheth, MD, Nenad Sestan, MD,	Postdoctoral Associate	Neuroscience	Molecular and cellular mechanisms of ischemia–reperfusion injury; neuronal vulnerability and selective resilience in acute ischemic stroke; integrative multi-omic and imaging approaches in translational stroke research; preclinical large-animal models of stroke.	Click Here

• DUKE UNIVERSITY

  
  Eastern North Carolina and Southern Virginia Regional Stroke Trial Consortium (ENVISION)

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Mary Jackson, OTD, MS, OTR/L	mary_jackson@med.unc.edu	Wayne Feng, MD, William Powers, MD	Junior Faculty	PMT, Occupational Therapist	Mindfulness based stress reduction for prevention of post-stroke depression, feasibility in inpatient rehabilitation through transition home	Click Here

• UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO

  The Southwestern Stroke Alliance (Oklahoma)

  Name	E-Mail	PI's/Mentor(s)	Status	Specialty	Research Interests	Publications
  Melba Zuniga Gutierrez, MD (Oklahoma)	melbamaria-zunigagutierrez@ou.edu	Michel Torbey, MD, Saleh Velez, MD, Bonin Pinto, MD	Post Doc Fellow	Neurology	Stroke outcomes and neurorecovery, Stroke epidemiology	Click Here