Course Directors:

Joshua N. Goldstein, MD, FNCS

Dr. Goldstein is an emergency physician who specializes in neurologic emergencies. He received both his M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2000, completed his residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency in 2005, followed by a research fellowship in Vascular and Critical Care Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He is currently the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs and the Director of the Center for Neurologic Emergencies in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital; a Professor of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and holds the MGH Endowed Chair in Emergency Medicine Research. He is a Fellow of the Neurocritical Care Society, the American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Goldstein has a financial relationship as a consultant for  Astrazeneca, Takeda, Octapharma, Cayuga.

Stephan A. Mayer, MD, FCCM, FNCS

Dr. Mayer is Director of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology Services for Westchester Medical Center Health System and Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery (tenured) at New York Medical College. Dr Mayer earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He completed a residency in neurology and a fellowship in critical care neurology at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Neurology and built one of the nation's leading academic neurocritical care programs.  Following that he moved to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he was Founding Director of the Institute for Critical Care Medicine. More recently he served as the William T. Gossett Chair of Neurology for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan.  Dr. Mayer is considered a world leader in neurocritical care management. Dr. Mayer has a financial relationship as a consultant with AstraZeneca.

Faculty:

Anne Alexandrov, RN, APRN, University of Tennessee Dept. of Neurology

Wendy Dusenbury, APRN, University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Jennifer Frontera, MD, NYU Dept. of Neurology 

Claude Hemphill. MD, MAS, USCSF Will Institute of Neuroscience

Sayona John, MD,  Rush University Dept. of Neurological Sciences

Casey May, PharmD, Ohio State University College of Pharmacy

Sasha Yakhkind, MD, Tufts Medical Center Dept. of Neurology

Kori Zachrison, MD, MSc, MGH Dept. of Emergency Medicine

Wendy Ziai, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Medical Center