Stroke Program of the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Anand G. Vaishnav, M.D.

Medical Director of the University Hospital's Stroke Center and Assistant Professor of Neurology with a joint appointment to the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

Dr. Vaishnav received his medical training at the Vadodara Medical School, Vadodara, India, Staten Island University Hospital, and the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute. He was a Cerebrovascular Fellow and Senior Instructor at the Oregon Stroke Center in Portland.

Dr. Vaishnav joined the Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke in 2002 and was made Medical Director of UK Hospital's 12-bed Primary Stroke Center when it was accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in 2005. For information about creation of the Stroke Center, see this UKNews item.

Dr. Vaishnav has participated in grants from the National Institutes of Health and industry-sponsored clinical research. Dr. Vaishnav's research interests center on prevention and treatment of acute stroke.

Present and Past Research Grants

NIH K12-DA14040. Building Interdisciplinary Skills in Women's Health: Effects of Gender on Healthy and Stroke Subtype Patients on P-Selectin Expression Based on Flow Cytometry. 2006-2009

NIH K30 Career Training in Therapeutics and Translational Research Program

Selected Publications

Vaishnav AG, Pettigrew LC. Stroke-Thombolysis and anti-thrombotic therapy. In Kristinsen SD, De Caterina R, Moliterno D (eds), Therapeutic Strategies in Thrombosis Oxford, UK: Clinical Publishing, Bell House, 2005.

Vaishnav A, Sen S. Blood dyscrasias and stroke. Neurology Lincoln: Emedicine, Inc, 2003.

Vaishnav A, Lutsep H. GABA agonist: clomethiazole. Curr Med Res Opin 2002;18(supplement 2).

Yadlapalli NG, Vaishnav AG, Sheehan P. Conservative management of diabetic foot ulcers complicated by osteomyelitis. Wounds 2002;14:31-35.

Commonwealth Center of Excellence in Stroke Faculty

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