Our Stroke & Cerebrovascular Specialists
How Does Our Expertise Improve Your Care?
- Our Stroke Center is licensed by the MA Department of Public Health and participates in the Get With The Guidelines AHA/ASA national quality program for improving care by promoting consistent adherence to the latest scientific treatment guidelines. We follow the highest standards in stroke care and treatment.
- We offer immediate access to a team of neurologists and stroke specialists who are renowned for unique research in areas such as acute stroke treatment and imaging, brain recovery, and intracerebral hemorrhage (bleeding inside the brain).
- Our acute stroke team includes neurologists with special expertise in stroke, emergency physicians, critical care physicians, neurosurgeons, vascular surgeons, radiologists, neurointerventionalists, cardiologists, nurses and other rehabilitation and stroke-related specialists.
- We use advanced state-of-the-art imaging methods, including specialized magnetic resonance imaging techniques developed at BIDMC, to help guide treatment decisions.
- Our leading-edge stroke treatment features highly specialized, minimally invasive procedures: tiny devices introduced through veins and catheters to trap, retrieve and/or suction blood clots in the brain; administer medication; or deflate blood-filled pouches (aneurysms).
- Our NeuroIntensive Care Unit offers the most modern technology in patient monitoring and management, including bedside brain imaging with mobile CT scanners and 24-hour monitoring of brain activity with video EEG (electroencephalogram to assess the brain’s electrical activity).
- Through our TeleNet:Stroke service, participating community hospitals have around-the-clock access to direct and immediate video consultation with BIDMC stroke neurology experts.
- Our physician faculty lead national and international clinical trials, or research studies, that are designed to find better treatments for stroke based on the most updated information from around the world.
Vascular Neurology Team
Magdy H. Selim, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Louis R. Caplan, MD
Comprehensive Stroke Center
Marc Fisher, MD
Comprehensive Stroke Center
Sandeep Kumar, MD
Comprehensive Stroke Center
David Eric C. Searls, MD
Comprehensive Stroke Center
Vasileios-Arsenios Lioutas, MD
Comprehensive Stroke Center
Amjad Shehadah, MD
Comprehensive Stroke Center
Jennifer Dearborn-Tomazos, MD, MPH
Comprehensive Stroke Center
Wendy Cohen, RN, DNP
Clinical Program Coordinator, Stroke/Telestroke
Amanda Morse, RN, BSN, SCRN
Associate Clinical Program Coordinator, Comprehensive Stroke Center
Jillian O’Sullivan, RN, BSN
Clinical Program Coordinator, Comprehensive Stroke Center
NeuroIntensive Care Team
Corey R. Fehnel, MD
Associate Director, Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Alvin Das, MD
Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit
Emergency Department Team
Shamai A. Grossman, MD
Emergency Medicine
Garry Dunster, RN, MHA
Emergency Medicine
Multidisciplinary Care Team
The BIDMC Stroke Center clinicians work closely with surgeons, radiologists and others to provide innovative care for your condition.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center also has a collaborative relationship with the pediatric stroke service at Boston Children’s Hospital, led by Michael Rivkin, MD.
