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Elad Levy

L. Nelson Hopkins Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery 
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Neurosurgical techniques, brain-computer interface devices, thrombectomy and stroke treatments.

Portrait of Elad Levy.

Elad Levy is an internationally renowned neurovascular surgeon, who has played a pioneering role in innovating neurosurgical techniques, which have improved the survival and quality of life for stroke patients.

He helped develop and test thrombectomy, the removal of arterial clots, which is now the established standard of care for certain types of acute stroke.

Levy can talk to media about minimally invasive stroke treatments that involve threading microthin devices through an artery in the groin to reach blocked vessels in the brain, where they are then treated with stents. He has been a principal investigator on national and international stroke trials and has conducted research on what causes strokes.

He can also discuss endovascular brain-computer interface devices, which allow people with severe paralysis to operate mobile devices and computers, using their thoughts. He is a principal investigator on a trial evaluating a brain-computer interface device. 

CONTACT:

Elad Levy, MD
L. Nelson Hopkins Endowed Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery 
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

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