Cerebrovascular Disease/Stroke

• Acute stroke treatment (thrombolytics, mechanical devices, neuroprotection, MR-based treatment decisions) for ischemic and hemorrhagic, adult and pediatric stroke
• Hemostatic markers in acute ischemic stroke treated with thrombolytic therapy: predictors of outcome, treatment response, and intracerebral hemorrhage risk
• The role of antiphospholipid antibodies in ischemic stroke: prediction of recurrent thrombo-occlusive events
• “Telestroke” - the application of telemedicine to stroke care, clinical trials, and stroke education
• MRFASS: Minorities Risk Factors and Stroke Study – stroke epidemiology in a tri-ethnic community
• Ethnic and racial disparities in stroke prevention
• Community’s perspectives/barriers to emergency/stroke/critical illness research
• Adenosine regulation of cerebral blood flow
• Vasospasm following experimental subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Developing ethnically and racially sensitive and specific tools for stroke education
• Magnetic resonance ”black blood” imaging of vulnerable plaque in carotid and aortic lesions.

Neuroscience/Neuroprotection/cell death

• Selective neuronal vulnerability
• Neural plasticity
• Motor recovery
• Synaptogenesis
• Microvascular changes in the elderly
• Amyloid angiopathy
• Effects of hypothermia
• Brain consequences of open-heart surgery
• Reperfusion injury