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Conference Organizers

Conference Chair/ Course Director:

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Anjail Sharrief, MD, MPH
Professor of Neurology
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Conference Co-Chairs:

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M. Carter Denny, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Georgetown University Medical Center

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Digvijaya Navalkele, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Emory University School of Medicine

Conference Coordinator

Steering Committee

Mariel Flake-Rojas
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Hugo Aparicio MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Neurology
Boston University School of Medicine

Mathew Reeves, BVSc, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Michigan State University

Cherrise Boone
Stroke Survivor
Atlanta, Georgia

Deborah Levine, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan

Kim Vu, LMSW, MBA
Director, Management Operations
Memorial Hermann Hospital
Houston, Texas

Nneka Ifejika MD, MPH
Chief Scientific Officer
Ochsner Health System
New Orleans, Louisiana

Organizing Committee
The conference was organized by members of the Collaboration to Improve Outcomes, Care Transitions, and Preventive Care after Stroke (CONNECT) Consortium. https://connectstroke.org

Jennifer E. Beauchamp RN, PhD
Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston
Houston, Texas

M. Carter Denny, MD, MPH
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.

Brenda Johnson, NP-C,  DNP
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Erica Jones MD, MPH
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas

Digvijaya Navalkele MD, MPH
Emory University SOM
Atlanta, Georgia

Imama A. Naqvi MD, MS
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York

Munachi Okpala, NP-C, DNP, PhD
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Houston, Texas

Alexis Simpkins, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, California

Anjail Sharrief MD, MPH
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
Houston, Texas