Stroke Busters

In this episode we sat down withDr. Nneka Ifejika, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Section Chief of Stroke Rehabilitation at UT Southwestern Medical Center, following her Grand Rounds presentation, Stroke Recovery Throughout The Continuum of Care at McGovern Medical School. She has secondary appointments in the departments of Neurology, and Population and Data Scien...

In this episode, we sat down with Dr. Suja Rajan following her groundbreaking presentation on the cost-effectiveness of mobile stroke units at the 2022 International Stroke Conference in New Orleans. Dr. Rajan and co-researchers aimed to prove “if outcome improvements associated with MSUs justify [an] increase in costs, thereby making MSUs cost effective, or if the outcome improvements lead to fol...

In this episode, Andrea Ancer Leal, RN, LMSW, BSN-DNP Student and Research Coordinator II with the Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston, sits down with Miguel A. De La Mora, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner DNP Student at UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing to recap our previous episode on Post-Stroke Depression and Anxiety, with Dr. Jennifer Beachamp, in Spanish. Ideas and opinions are our own...

In this episode we chat with Dr. Louise McCullough, professor and Chair of Neurology at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center and Co-Director of UTHealth Neurosciences. She is also the Conference Chair for this year's International Stroke Conference and offers an inside look into this year's event and UTHealth Houston's involvement. We discuss COVID and stroke, Dr. James Grotta's p...

In this episode, stroke fellow, Shalene Amin, sits down with Dr. Jennifer Beauchamp, Associate Professor at the UT Health Cizik School of Nursing in the Department of Research to discuss post-stroke depression and anxiety. She is also the Lead Investigator of the University of Texas System Health Biobank Consortium and the director of the Mental Health Program of the UTHealth Stroke Institute. She...

For our Stroke Awareness Month special episode we chat with vascular and interventional neurologist, Dr. Sunil Sheth, to discuss his career in endovascular and interventional neurology and advice for stroke trainees. Ideas and opinions are our own and this podcast is not a substitute for expert medical advice. The Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease (UTHealth Stroke Institute) http://...

For our second episode, we chat with nationally recognized physician-scientist Louise D. McCullough, MD, PhD to discuss her work in identifying sex differences in cell death pathways during stroke and leadership advice to stroke trainees. Ideas and opinions are our own and this podcast is not a substitute for expert medical advice. The Institute for Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease (UTHealth Str...

In our first episode, Dr. Alexandra Czap, assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery at UTHealth Houston, sits down with stroke expert and pioneer, Dr. James Grotta, to reflect on the past, present, and future of the stroke field. Dr. Grotta reminisces on the monumental changes within the field and provides insight on what stroke trainees should know to lead the next revolution of stroke. I...