Comprehensive Stroke Care Symposium: A live virtual event

Dr. Claudia Muñoz is the Medical Director of Neuroscience at Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital as well as a neurohospitalist with Vituity Neurology. She is a board certified neurologist and epileptologist. She previously served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology and Director of Epilepsy at University of California Riverside, School of Medicine. She is a member of the American Epilepsy Society and the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Muñoz holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, a Masters of Public Health from Stanford University, a Public Health Doctor of Medicine degree from Tulane University School, and a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She interned at Alameda County Medical Center, served her residency at University of California Irvine Medical Center and completed an Epilepsy fellowship at Washington University-affiliated Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Dr. Jeff Saver is the director of the UCLA Comprehensive Stroke and Vascular Neurology Program. He is also a professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He trained at Harvard Medical School, The Harvard-Longwood Neurology Training Program (neurology), The University of Iowa (neurobehavior), and Brown University (vascular neurology). He is the author of over 550 research articles, 2 books, and 40 book chapters. Dr. Saver’s research interests are in acute stroke treatment, stroke prevention, neuroimaging, clinical trial design, and neurocognitive consequences of stroke. He is the chairperson of the American Heart Association Stroke Council. He is currently Associate Editor at JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Editorial Board Member at the journal Circulation. Dr. Saver has been identified as being among the World’s Highest Impact Scientists and is a recipient of the Feinberg Award from the American Stroke Association, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association, and the Lifetime Research Award from the World Stroke Organization. Dr. Saver is also a fellow of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Nerses Sanossian serves as the Medical Director of the LAC+USC Stroke Center and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Stroke Center as well as the Director at Roxana Todd Hodges Comprehensive Stroke Clinic. He is currently an Associate Professor of Neurology (Clinical Scholar) and Director of the Neurocritical Care and Stroke Section at USC Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Sanossian earned his medical degree and completed his Neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in New York, followed by a fellowship in Vascular Neurology at UCLA. He is board certified in Neurology, Vascular Neurology, Neurosonology, and Neuroimaging. His research and clinical interests are in pre-hospital systems for treatment of stroke, stroke prevention and treatment in the underserved and minority populations, emergency identification and treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage, and neuroimaging of stroke and cerebrovascular disease. Dr. Sanossian is a fellow of the American Heart Association and a member of the American Neurological Association, American Academy of Neurology and American Society of Neuroimaging, and the Neurocritical Care Society.

Dr. Cyrus Dastur is the Medical Director of Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit & Neurosciences Step-Down Unit for UC Irvine Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor at University of California, Irvine for the Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery. Dr. Dastur completed his medical degree at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He served his internship at Allegheny General Hospital, neurology residency at University of California, Irvine, and completed his neurocritical care fellowship training at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Dastur was recognized as one of 2019 Physicians of Excellence honorees bestowed by the Orange County Medical Association.

Dr. Richard Young is the Medical Director of the Neurointerventional Program at Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital. He is a board certified neurosurgeon and neurointerventionalist. He specializes in the ability to diagnose and treat aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, and strokes. He attended medical school at New York Medical College where he discovered his passion for neurosurgery. His neurosurgical training was at The George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC. During his training, he also spent a year as a research fellow at the National Institute of Health (NIH) – NINDS – Medical Division. After completing his residency at GWU, he pursued a 2-year Neurointerventional and Neuroendovascular Surgery Fellowship at University of California, Los Angeles. During his fellowship at UCLA, he was awarded the Bannister Award for the fastest treatment time of removing a blood clot in the brain. Dr. Young is also one of the physician specialists at Inland Neurosurgery Institute located in Pomona, California. He has multiple publications, a journal cover for the Journal of Neurosurgery and frequently lectures at several different hospitals and conferences.