The Penn Stroke Team showed up with enthusiasm at the annual AHA Get With The Guidelines dinner in Dallas, TX, which just happened to be hosted by our very own Dr. Steve Messe. Here is the team mid- E-A-G-L-E-S cheer in anticipation of the upcoming Eagles Superbowl appearance.

Congratulations to Dr. Steve Messe, whose research efforts to develop a device to detect stroke in high-risk patients were recognized by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best inventions of 2022.

Neuralert: The 100 Best Inventions of 2022 | TIME E very 40 seconds, someone in the U.S. has a stroke.Early treatment is key to minimize adverse outcomes, yet a recent study of in-hospital strokes found that most go undetected for over four hours … time.com

Dr. Donna George presenting “Women’s Issues in Neurovascular Disease” at the American Neurological Association meeting in Chicago this month. Kudos!

Kudos to our stroke colleagues at Lancaster General Hospital for the care they provided Lt. Governor and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman. Great to see him walking out of the hospital looking well:

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Dr. Arooshi Kumar, current stroke fellow, presented her abstract “Predicting hematoma expansion using an artificial neural network: an exploratory analysis of the ATACH-2 trial” at the International Stroke Conference. Nice work!

We are pleased to welcome Jens Witsch, MD to the Penn Stroke faculty.  Dr. Witsch earned his medical degree from Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. He then completed his neurology residency at the Charité in Berlin and a research fellowship in neurocritical care at Columbia University. He subsequently completed a neurology residency at Yale School of Medicine followed by a fellowship in vascular neurology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College. He earned a doctoral degree from Heidelberg University for research in cell physiology conducted at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and an advanced teaching and research degree from the Charité (Habilitation).

Welcome to our new fellows!

Arooshi attended medical school at University of Louisville, and then completed both her Internal Medicine and Neurology residencies at New York University. Arooshi is joining us this year as an ACGME fellow.

Farhan attended medical school at Allama Iqbal Medical College in Pakistan, and then completed his Internal Medicine residency at Boston Medical College and his Neurology residency at Hannemann Hospital & University of Pennsylvania. Farhan is joining us this year as an ACGME fellow.

Jonah attended medical school at Columbia University, and then completed both his Internal Medicine and Neurology residencies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Jonah is joining us this year as an ACGME fellow.

After more than 15 years with the Penn Stroke team, Dr. Mike Mullen is leaving us to become the Stroke Director across town at Temple University.  We are not at all happy to see him go  – Mike has been such an integral part of our team, bringing an incredible mix of energy, leadership, and integrity to our program.  And beyond that, he has been a good friend.  No doubt this is a great opportunity for Mike, and we are excited about the future collaborations that will develop between Penn and Temple with his move.  We wish him great success!