The UNC Stroke Team
The UNC Comprehensive Stroke Center Team is comprised of a multi-specialty team of doctors, nurses, therapists, and care managers. Listed below are core team members from Neurology, Neurosurgery and other departments. For non-urgent questions regarding the Stroke Team, call (984) 974-2266. Physicians seeking hospital-to-hospital transfers of patients requiring acute stroke care should call the UNC System Patient Logistics Center (SPLC) at (800) 806-1968.
Stroke and Vascular Neurology
- Vascular Neurologist
- Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Clinical Interests: Stroke
- Clinical Research Interests: Cerebral blood flow and metabolism, stroke treatment and prevention
- Vascular Neurologist and Director, UNC Health Care Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Clinical Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Chief, Division of Stroke and Vascular Neurology, UNC Department of Neurology
- Director, UNC Stroke Trials Unit
- Clinical interests: hospitalist neurology, acute stroke care, and neurologic critical care
- Research interests: acute stroke treatments, cellular mechanisms of neuroprotection, intracerebral hemorrhage
- Vascular Neurologist
- Clinical Associate Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Clinical interests: stroke
- Research interests: acute stroke treatments, interventional stroke treatments
- Vascular Neurologist
- Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Clinical interests: stroke
- Vascular Neurologist and Neuro-Interventionalist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Adjunct Professor, Neurointerventional Radiology, Neurosurgery
- Clinical interests: stroke, intracranial aneurysms, AVMs cerebrovascular disease
- Vascular Neurologist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Clinical interests: stroke and vascular neurology, general neurology
- Director, UNC Neurosciences Clinical Trial Unit
- Clinical Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Clinical interests: stroke education and clinical trials, stroke quality improvement, depression in stroke population
Matthew L. Johnson, BSN, RN, SCRN
Stroke Program Coordinator
Karen Vallecillo-Pereira, MPH
Stroke Program Quality and Organizational Analyst
Sherene Bitar, RN, BSN, MPH, SCRN
Stroke Program Data Abstractor
Anne Beckwith
Senior Stroke Study Coordinator
Neurocritical Care
- Neurointensivist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Neurointensivist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Neurointensivist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Neurointensivist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
Neurosurgery
- Vascular Neurosurgeon
- Assistant Professor and Associate Program Director, Department of Neurosurgery
- Section Chief of Cerebrovascular & Skull Base Neurosurgery
- Vascular Neurosurgeon
- Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Interventional Neuroradiology
- Neuro-Interventionalist
- Associate Professor of Radiology
- Division Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology
- Clinical interests: stroke interventional treatments – SOLITAIRE device®, PENUMBRA® device, MERCI® device, intra-arterial thrombolysis, coiling of aneurysms, embolization of AVMs, angioplasty and stenting
- Vascular Neurologist and Neuro-Interventionalist
- Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Neurology
- Adjunct Professor, Neurointerventional Radiology, Neurosurgery
- Clinical interests: stroke, intracranial aneurysms, AVMs cerebrovascular disease
Emergency Medicine
- Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Medical Student Research Director
- Adjunct Professor, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
- Clinical Professor
- Executive Vice-Chair
- Medical Director, Emergency Department – Chapel Hill
- Clinical Associate Professor
- Vice-Chair, Strategic Initiatives & Operations
- Assistant Medical Director, Emergency Department – Chapel Hill
- Medical Director, Emergency Department – Hillsborough
Casey Stewart, MSN, RN
- Nurse Manager, Emergency Department
Vascular Surgery
- Vascular Surgeon
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Surgical Director of ERAS
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Stroke Physiatrist
- Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
- Medical Director, Stroke Rehabilitation, UNC Rehabilitation Center
- Founder and Co-Director, UNC COVID Recovery Clinic
Nursing
Anne Spain, MHL, RN, NE-BC
Director, Surgery Service
Sharmila Soares-Sardinha, MSN, RN, CCRN, CNRN
Nurse Manager, Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit
Crystal Norton, BSN, RN-BC, SCRN
Nurse Manager, 6 Neurosciences Acute Care Unit
William Rice, DNP, MSN, RN
Nurse Manager, Intermediate Surgical Care Unit
Rehabilitation Therapies
Mark Prochazka, MOT, MHA
Administrative Director, Rehabilitation Therapies
Stephanie McAdams, MA-CCC, SLP
Assistant Director, Rehabilitation Therapies
Deidre Ricks, PT
Assistant Director, Rehabilitation Therapies
Kelly Fletcher, PT, DPT, MHA
Rehabilitation Therapy Manager
Betsy Rambusch, MA, CCC-SLP
Speech Pathology, Adult Acute Care Team Lead
Tom Furlong, PT
April Xayavong, PT
Physical Therapy, Adult Acute Care Team Leads
Nate MacCosbe, OT
Occupational Therapy, Adult Acute Care Team Lead
Clinical Care Management
Marie C. Bossert, RN, MBA
Director, Care Management
Lakeshia Holley, RN, MHA, ACM
Manager, Care Management