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Of UTHealth Houston

Creed Pettigrew MD, MPH (1979)-Image

Creed Pettigrew MD, MPH (1979)

Professor Neurology, University of Kentucky

  • Dr. Grotta’s Second Stroke Fellow
  • International Leader in Stroke Research

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Daniel Rosenbaum MD (1987)-Image

Daniel Rosenbaum MD (1987)

Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology, Downstate Medical Center

  • Dr. Grotta’s Third Stroke Fellow
  • International Leader in Stroke Research
  • Honored with the Clinical Investigator Developmental Award by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

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Thomas DeGraba, MD (1990)-Image

Thomas DeGraba, MD (1990)

Chief Innovations Officer at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland

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Lewis Morgenstern MD (1994)-Image

Lewis Morgenstern MD (1994)

Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology, Director of the Stroke Program, University of Michigan

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Andrei Alexandrov MD (1996)-Image

Andrei Alexandrov MD (1996)

Professor and Chair of Neurology, University of Tennessee

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Scott Kasner MD (1996)-Image

Scott Kasner MD (1996)

Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania

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Andrew Demchuk MD (1997)-Image

Andrew Demchuk MD (1997)

Professor of Neurology, Director of the Stroke Program, University of Calgary;
Stroke neurologist and Director of the Calgary Stroke Program, Alberta Health Services

  • One of the leaders of the ESCAPE Trial on the efficacy of thrombectomy for large vessel occlusions
  • Received a number of awards, including the Michael S. Pessin Stroke Leadership Prize from the American Academy of Neurology (2003), and the A Keith W Brownell Neurology Teaching Award for resident teaching (2006), and a scholar award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR).

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Marc Ribo MD (2004)-Image

Marc Ribo MD (2004)

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology; Hospital Vall d’Hebron. Barcelona

  • PI of the RACECAT Trial
  • Board of directors Member Society of Vascular Interventional Neurology
  • Member of European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy

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Sheryl Martin Schild MD (2006)-Image

Sheryl Martin Schild MD (2006)

Stroke Medical Director for The Louisiana Emergency Response Network

  • Founded and directed the Stroke Program at Tulane Medical Center
  • Advanced Tulane Medical Center to Primary Stroke Center level in less than 2 years from inception and Comprehensive Stroke Center 3 years later
  • Will serve as PI for Southeast Louisiana’s satellites and high-performance sites, through UTHealth's Regional Coordinating Center, for the National Institute of Health (NIH) funded StrokeNet.

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Andrew Barreto MD (2006)-Image

Andrew Barreto MD (2006)

Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center Response Network

  • One of the Leaders of the MOST Trial
  • Leader of the TIMELESS trial: thrombolysis in imaging-eligible, late-window patients to assess the efficacy and safety of Tenecteplase
  • Leader of the TRUST Study: Aureva Transcranial Ultrasound Device with Tissue Plasminogen Activator in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke

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Amrou Sarraj MD (2010)-Image

Amrou Sarraj MD (2010)

Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center

  • Leader of the SELECT Trials
  • Director of UT Health's Vascular Neurology Fellowship Program 2016-2020

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Carter Denny MD (2014)-Image

Carter Denny MD (2014)

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center

  • Leader in Stroke Transitions of Care

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Hun-Hwa Hu
Image shows Hun-Hwa Hu UTHealth Houston Certificate of Completion reading The Faculty of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, The Medical School certifies that Han-Hwa Hu, MD has served as a Fellow in Cerebrovascular Disease from July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1982

First Graduate (1981-1982): Han-Hwa Hu, Professor of Neurology and Director of Cerebrovascular Treatment and Research Center at Taipei Medical University (pictured)

Second Graduate (1984-1986): Creed Pettigrew, Professor of Neurology, University of Kentucky

Third Graduate (1986-1988): Daniel Rosenbaum, Professor and Chair of Neurology, Downstate Medical Center, New York

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Top Cited Papers by Stroke Fellows As First Author

Serum glucose level and diabetes predict tissue plasminogen activator–related intracerebral hemorrhage in acute ischemic stroke

A M Demchuk, L B Morgenstern, D W Krieger, T Linda Chi, W Hu, T H Wein, R J Hardy, J C Grotta, A M Buchan
Stroke. 1999;30:34–39
Published in 1999 by Andrew Demchuck. Citations: 466.

High Rate of Complete Recanalization and Dramatic Clinical Recovery During tPA Infusion When Continuously Monitored With 2-MHz Transcranial Doppler Monitoring

A V Alexandrov, A M Demchuk, R A Felberg, I Christou, P A Barber, W S Burgin, M Malkoff, A W Wojner, J C Grotta
Stroke. 2000;31:610–614
Published in 2000 by Andrei Alexandrov. Citations: 454.

Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound Criteria for Recanalization After Thrombolysis for Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke

W S Burgin 1, M Malkoff, R A Felberg, A M Demchuk, I Christou, J C Grotta, A V Alexandrov
Stroke. 2000;31:1128–1132
Published in 2000 by W. Scott Burgin. Citations: 299. 

Activation of Emergency Medical Services for Acute Stroke in a Nonurban Population

T.H. Wein, L Staub, R Felberg, S L Hickenbottom, W Chan, J C Grotta, A M Demchuk, J Groff, L K Bartholomew, L B Morgenstern
Stroke. 2000;31:1925–1928
Published in 2000 by Theodore H. Wein. Citations: 159.

Cell death in experimental intracerebral hemorrhage: The “black hole” model of hemorrhagic damage

Robert A Felberg, James C Grotta, Ali L Shirzadi, Roger Strong, Ponnada Narayana, Sandra J Hill-Felberg, Jaroslaw Aronowski
Ann Neurol. 2002 Apr;51(4):517-24
Published in 2002 by Robert A. Felberg. Citations: 231.

Ultrasound-Enhanced Systemic Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke

Andrei V Alexandrov, Carlos A Molina, James C Grotta, Zsolt Garami, Shiela R Ford, Jose Alvarez-Sabin, Joan Montaner, Maher Saqqur, Andrew M Demchuk, Lemuel A Moyé, Michael D Hill, Anne W Wojner, CLOTBUST Investigators
New England Journal of Medicine 2004; 351:2170-2178
Published in 2004 by Andrei Alexandrov. Citations: 1,238.

Aggressive Mechanical Clot Disruption

Elizabeth A Noser, Hashem M Shaltoni, Christiana E Hall, Andrei V Alexandrov, Zsolt Garami, Edwin D Cacayorin, Joon K Song, James C Grotta, Morgan S Campbell 3rd
Stroke. 2005;36:292–296
Published in 2005 by Elizabeth Noser. Citations: 206.

The IVH score: a novel tool for estimating intraventricular hemorrhage volume: clinical and research implications

H Hallevi, NS Dar, AD Barreto, MM Morales, S Martin-Schild, AT Abraham, ...
Critical care medicine 37 (3), 969

Published in 2009 by Hen Hallevi - a new scoring system to measure IVH volume. Citations: 110.

Thrombolytic therapy for patients who wake-up with stroke

AD Barreto, S Martin-Schild, H Hallevi, MM Morales, AT Abraham, ...
Stroke 40 (3), 827-832
Published in 2009 by Andrew Barreto - the first large study supporting the safety of t-PA for patients who wake up with stroke. Citations: 160+.

Safety of tPA in stroke mimics and neuroimaging-negative cerebral ischemia

OY Chernyshev, S Martin-Schild, KC Albright, A Barreto, V Misra, I Acosta, ...
Neurology 74 (17), 1340-1345
Published in 2010 by Oleg Chernyshev - the first large study establishing the safety of t-PA in stroke mimic. Citations: 250+.

Zero on the NIHSS does not equal the absence of stroke

S Martin-Schild, KC Albright, J Tanksley, V Pandav, EB Jones, JC Grotta, ...
Annals of emergency medicine 57 (1), 42-45
Published in 2011 by Sheryl Martin-Schild - the first study to demonstrate than patients with NIHSS 0 can still have a stroke, especially in the posterior circulation. Citations: 130.