Faculty
Cleveland Clinic Course Director
Gabor Toth, MD, FAHA, FSVIN
Director of Education
Lead, Endovascular Operations
Staff, Vascular Neurology and Endovascular Intervention,
Cerebrovascular Center
Professor of Neurology, CCLCM
Cleveland Clinic Co-Directors
Dhimant Dani, MD
Staff Intensivist
Assistant Professor, Medicine and Neurology, CCLCM
Program Director, Neurocritical care Fellowship
Medical Director, NSICU, Akron General Hospital
CO Chair- Eye Tissue and Organ Donation Committee,
Northeast Ohio submarket
Nina Z. Moore, MD, MSE, FAANS, FCNS
Assistant Professor, Neurological Surgery, CCLCM
Lead of Endovascular and Cerebrovascular
Neurosurgery Research, Cerebrovascular Center
PI/Director, N.Z. Moore Cerebrovascular
Biomechanics Laboratory
Joint Staff, Biomedical Engineering Department,
Lerner Research Institute
Andrew Russman, DO, FAAN, FAHA
Head, Cleveland Clinic Stroke Program
Medical Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center
Staff, Vascular Neurology
M. Shazam Hussain, MD, FRCP(C), FAHA
Director, Cerebrovascular Center
Staff, Vascular Neurology and
Endovascular Surgical Neuroradiology
Associate Professor, Cleveland Clinic
Lerner College of Medicine
Guest Faculty
Fahad Al-Ajlan, MD
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Donald Cantrell, MD, PhD
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare
Chicago, Illinois
Luis Savastano, MD, PhD
Neurosurgeon
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Shashvat Desai, MD
ASU John Shufeldt School of Medicine
and Medical Engineering
Arizona State University
HonorHealth
Phoenix, Arizona
Ashfaq Shuaib, MD, FRCPC, FAHA, FAAN, FANA
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Stroke Program, Division of Neurology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Anas Idris, MD
Neurology Resident
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
David Tirschwell, MD, MSc, FAHA, FAAN
Professor, Neurology Chief of Service
Former Medical Director of Comprehensive Stroke Care
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
Nils Petersen, MD, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Neurology
Medical Director, Neurosciences ICU
Yale School of Medicine & Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, Connecticut
Glen Jickling, MD
Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Mohammad Abdulrazzak, MD
Mohammad Ahmad, MD
Samer Albahra, MD
Fares Antaki, MD
Marc Babi, MD
Pelin Batur, MD
Brittany Bolt, DO, PhD
A. Blake Buletko, MD
Rodica Di Lorenzo, MD
Margaret Fuchs, MD
Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
Shweta Goswami, MD
Neha Gupta, MD
Catherine Hassett, DO
Mohamed Kanj, MD
Ahmed Kashkoush, MD
Ali Khalifeh, MD
G. Abbas Kharal, MD, MPH
Shumei Man, MD, PhD, FAHA
Whitney Mayberry, MD
Michal Obrzut, MD
Jon Quatromoni, MD
Scott Raymond, MD, PhD
Hyeyoung Seol, MD
Chintan Shah, MD
Jonathan Solomonow, MD
Jenny Tsai, MDCM, FRCP(C)
Carlos Villamizar Rosales, MD
Xiangling Wang, MD
Bing Yu Chen, MDCM
Planning Committee
Christine Ahrens, PharmD
Marc Babi, MD
Adam Barron, MD
Rodica Di Lorenzo, MD
Gwendolyn Lynch, MD
Whitney Mayberry, MD
Michal Obrzut, MD
Scott Raymond, MD
Tina Resser, MSN, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CNRN
Nicole Smith, PA-C
Maria Sokola, MD
Jenny Tsai, MDCM, FRCP(C)
Carols Villamizar Rosales, MD
Bing Yu Chen, MDCM

