Neurologist
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida, United States
Dr. Dileep R. Yavagal, MD, FSVIN, FAHA, FAAN is the Director of Interventional Neurology and Co-Director of Neuroendovascular Surgery at the University of Miami & Jackson Memorial Hospitals and Clinical Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery. He completed his MBBS and MD in Internal Medicine at Seth G. S. Medical & King Edward Memorial Hospitals in Mumbai, India. He did his Neurology residency training at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General and Brigham Women’s Hospitals, followed by Neurocritical Care and Interventional Neuroradiology Fellowships at Columbia Presbyterian in NYC and UCLA, respectively. He is the co-founder and Past-President of the Society for Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN). Dr. Yavagal is an international thought leader in endovascular therapy for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and a pioneer in the translation of intra-arterial delivery of cell therapy for stroke. Dr. Yavagal co-led the first randomized controlled trial of Intra-arterial delivery of stem cells in ischemic stroke: RECOVER-Stroke. He has been on the steering committees of several landmark RCTs of mechanical thrombectomies, including SWIFT-Prime, TIGER, and MR-RESCUE. Dr. Yavagal is the founder and Global Chair of the global Mission Thrombectomy 2020+ campaign to accelerate access to stroke thrombectomy globally.
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Great Debate: Refractory Epistaxis: To Operate or To Embolize?
Saturday, September 28, 2024
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT