Comprehensive Stroke Center

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Overview

The Rhode Island Hospital Comprehensive Stroke Center is dedicated to caring for patients suffering from stroke, cerebral hemorrhage and their related causes. This includes disorders such as carotid artery stenosis, cerebral steno-occlusive disease, aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, Moya Moya disease and other diseases which can cause stroke.

Our program is affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is Joint Commission certified. Furthermore, we have been honored to be recognized as a Gold Plus/Target Stroke Center by the American Heart/Stroke Association, which is their highest designation.

Our team is composed of professionals from the Departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Interventional Neuroradiology, Emergency Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine who work in close collaboration to provide the best care available for our patients.

Our Team

Neurosurgery

Curtis E. Doberstein, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery
Executive Vice-Chair, Clinical Operations
Director, Cerebrovascular and Skull-base Surgery Division
Director, Neurosurgery Residency Training Program

Combined Neurosurgery and Neurointerventional Radiology

Krisztina Moldovan, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Co-Director of Endovascular Neurosurgery Program
Co-Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery and Endovascular Neurosurgery Outcomes Laboratory

Radmehr Torabi, MD

Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Director, Endovascular Neurosurgery Program
Director, Cerebrovascular Surgery and Endovascular Neurosurgery Outcomes Laboratory
Co-Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center

Neurointerventional Radiology

Richard A. Haas, MD

Associate Professor, Clinician Educator
of Diagnostic Imaging, Neurosurgery, and Neurology

Mahesh V. Jayaraman, MD

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Imaging, Neurology, and Neurosurgery
Director, Neurovascular Center

Dylan Wolman, MD

Neurocritical Care

Ali Mahta, MD

Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery and Neurocritical Care
Academic Neurointensivist
Neurologist

N. Stevenson Potter, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Neurologist, Division of Neurocritical Care

Torrey Birch, MD – Director, Neurocritical Care
Eugenie Attallah, MD
Christoph Stretz, MD
Thanujaa Subramanian, MD
Leslie Kimpler, MD

Vascular Neurologists
Karen Furie, MD – Chair, Neurologist-in-Chief
Shadi Yaghi, MD
Tina Burton, MD
Elizabeth Perelstein, MD
Christoph Stretz, MD
Farhan Khan, MD

Program Facilities

20 bed stroke unit
18 bed Neurointensive Care Unit
24/7 care and availability to treat all stroke patients
One of the busiest Embolectomy for Vessel Occlusion Centers in the United States in all, over 150 procedures performed annually.