The UNC Stroke Team includes the following members:

David Y. Huang, M.D., Ph.D.

• Associate Professor, Neurology
• Chief, Division of Stroke and Vascular Neurology, UNC Department of Neurology
• Director, UNC Hospitals Stroke Center
• Clinical interests: hospitalist neurology, acute stroke care, and neurologic critical care
• Research interests: acute stroke treatments, cellular mechanisms of neuroprotection, intracerebral hemorrhage

Natalie Aucutt-Walter, M.D.

• Clinical Instructor, Neurology
• Clinical interests: stroke treatment and prevention, Botox treatment for post-stroke spasticity

Susan Wilson, F.N.P.

• Assistant Professor, Neurology
• Stroke Nurse Practitioner
• Clinical interests: stroke education and clinical trials, stroke quality improvement, health disparity in stroke care

Dedrick Jordan, M.D., Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor, Neurology
• Director, UNC Hospitals Neurosciences ICU
• Clinical Interests: Neurosciences Critical Care
• Research Interests: outcomes after brain injury, bioinformatics, mechanisms for neuroregeneration

Sten Solander, M.D.

• Assistant Professor, Radiology
• Clinical interests: stroke interventional treatments – PENUMBRA^® device, MERCI^® device, intra-arterial thrombolysis, coiling of aneurysms, embolization of AVMs, angioplasty and stenting.

Nicole Burnett, RN, BSN, CNRN, CCRN

• Stroke Program Coordinator

Aaron Abate

• Stroke Study Coordinator

Anne Beckwith

• Stroke Study Coordinator

Sierra Marino

• Stroke Study Coordinator

Deanna Brooks

• Administrative assistant

Emeritus Members:

Souvik Sen, M.D., M.S., F.A.H.A.

• Adjunct Associate Professor, UNC Neurology
• Professor and Chariman of Neurology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina