The New England Regional Coordination Center (NERCC) is a collaboration of sites encompassing twelve of the top academic medical centers in New England: Massachusetts General Hospital (the Coordinating Site) and twelve satellite and performance sites: Baystate Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, UMass Memorial Medical Center, University of Vermont Medical Center, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, and Maine Medical Center. Our RCC serves a large and diverse patient population from across New England, including both a dedicated Children’s Hospital, a Rehabilitation Hospital, and multiple Comprehensive Stroke Centers.  As a region, we have consistently scored highly on performance measures developed by the NIH StrokeNet.  Our RCC has made significant contributions across the spectrum of acute, inpatient, and recovery trials.  Made possible by our long history of regional partnership, well-developed stroke services, wide TeleNeurology Network, and experience in a wide array of research activities, the NERCC is committed to recruitment, retention and high-quality data capture as a participating NIH StrokeNet center.  Sites in the NERCC are currently involved with ASPIRE, CREST-2 LOE, I-ACQUIRE, FOCAS, SATURN, SleepSMART, TeleRehab-2, VERIFY, FASTEST, SISTER, STEP, and CAPTIVA.

 

Aneesh Singhal, MD
RCC Principal Investigator
Vice-Chair of Neurology

Director, MGH Comprehensive Stroke Center
Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Department of Neurology, Stroke Service                   
Phone Number: (617) 726-8459                                                        
email: asinghal@partners.org

Areas of Interest: Acute Stroke, Stroke Imaging, Stroke Prevention 

David Lin, MD
RCC Deputy Principal Investigator
Director of MGH Neurorecovery Clinic 

Director, MGH Laboratory for Translational Neurorecovery
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Phone Number: (617) 643-9560
email: dlin7@mgh.harvard.edu

Areas of Interest: Stroke Recovery and Neurorehabilitation

Barbara Voetsch, MD, PhD
RCC Director, Career Enhancement
Director, Acute Stroke Service

Associate Director, MGH Comprehensive Stroke Center
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Phone Number: (866) 805-7066
email:  bvoetsch@mgb.org

Areas of Interest: Acute Stroke, Stroke Prevention

Elaina Hill, MS
RCC Project Manager
Clinical Trials Assistant Project Manager
Phone Number: (617) 726-2407
Email: ehill0@mgh.harvard.edu

Johanna Rotta, MD
2024-2025 NERCC Trainee
Phone Number: (617) 732-7432
email: jrotta@mgh.harvard.edu 

Suzete Nascimento Farias Da Guarda, MD, PhD.
2025-2026 NERCC Trainee
Phone Number: (617) 775-4167
email: sfariasdaguarda@mgh.harvard.edu               

Names and addresses of affiliated Satellites/Performance Sites:

Baystate Medical Center
759 Chestnut Street, Springfield MA 01199
PI: Gottfried Schlaug, MD
http://www.baystatehealth.org

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
185 Pilgrim Road, Palmer 127, Boston, MA 02215
PI: Sandeep Kumar, MD
Deputy PI: Jennifer Dearborn-Tomazos, MD
https://www.bidmc.org

Boston Medical Center
72 East Concord Street, Boston MA 02118
PI: Steven Feske, MD
Deputy PI: Jose Romero, MD
https://www.bmc.org/

Boston Children’s Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue, Boston MA  02115
PI: Michael Rivkin, MD
Deputy PI: Christina VanderPluym, MD
http://www.childrenshospital.org

Brigham and Women’s Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston MA 02115
PI: Christopher Anderson, MD
Deputy PI: Alexis Roy, MD
https://www.brighamandwomens.org/

Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
41 Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01805
PI: Siddharth Sehgal, MD
Deputy PI: Collin Culbertson, MD
https://www.lahey.org

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
300 First Ave, Charlestown MA 02129
PI: Qing-Mei Wang, MD
https://spauldingrehab.org/

Tufts Medical Center
800 Washington Street, Boston MA 02111
PI: David Thaler, MD
Deputy PI: Emiliya Melkumova, MD
https://www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org

UMass Memorial Medical Center 
55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester MA 01655
PI: Raphael Carandang, MD
Deputy PI: Annie Ferris, MD
https://www.umassmemorialhealthcare.org

University of Vermont Medical Center
111 Colchester Ave, Burlington, VT 05401
PI: Christopher Commichau, MD
Deputy PI: Daniela Zambrano, MD
​https://www.uvmhealth.org/

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756
PI: Timothy Lukovits, MD
Deputy PI: Diana Rojas-Soto, MD
https://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/

Maine Medical Center
22 Bramhall St, Portland, ME 04102
PI: Teresa May, MD
Deputy PI: Madeline Puissant, MD, PhD
https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-medical-center