Stroke Team

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