The NECC 13th Annual Summit Speakers
Kenneth Williams
Medical Director, CMS & RI DPH
Brown Emergency Medicine/RI DPH CEMS
Nina Gentile
Professor and Associate Chair, Research
Temple University School of Medicine
Eliza Miller
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Columbia University
Tracy Madsen
Assistant Professor & Associate Director, Emergency Medicine
Alpert Medical School of Brown University
JB
Jonathan Burstein
MA State EMS Medical Director
Massachusetts State Department of Health
Curtis Benesch
Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Timothy Lukovits
Medical Director, Cerebrovascular Disease & Stroke Program
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Sean Savitz
Professor, Department of Neurology
UT Health
Jason McMullan
Director, Division of EMS
University of Cincinnati
Jonathan Edlow
Vice Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
James Grotta
Director
Houston Mobile Stroke Unit Consortium
Jeremy Cushman
Associate Professor & Chief
University of Rochester
Michael Redlener
Medical Director, EMS and Emergency Preparedness
Mount Sinai St. Luke's and West
Matthew Sholl
Medical Director, Maine EMS
Maine Medical Center
E. Clarke Haley
Emeritus Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Jose Romano
Chief, Stroke Division
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Joan Breen
Medical Director, Outpatient Neurology Rehab Program
Whittier Rehabilitation Center
Andrew Southerland, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia Health System
Brian Silver
Vice Chair Neurology, UMass Medical School; Chair, NECC
University of MA Medical School
Lee Schwamm, MD, FAHA
Founder of NECC; Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology; C. Miller Fisher Chair & Chief of MGH Stroke Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Steven Levine
Outgoing Chair, NECC
Distinguished Professor, Department of Neurology/Stroke Center
SUNY Downstate
Raul G. Nogueira
Director, Neuroendovascular Service
Grady Memorial Hospital
Kori Sauser Zachrison, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
J. Adam Oostema
Associate Professor, Director of Neurological Emergency Medicine Research
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Dawn Beland
Stroke Center Coordinator
Hartford Hospital
Ethan Brandler
Associate Director, Emergency Medical Services
SUNY Stony Brook
Mark Merlin
Chair, NJ EMS Council
Vice Chair, Emergency Medicine
NJ DPH
David Ben-Eli, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
Division Medical Director
Fire Department New York
Olajide Williams
Medical Director Stroke Center
NIH Funded Researcher on Stroke Disparities
Columbia University
Joel Stein, MD
Past NECC Chair; C. Miller Fisher Award Recipient; Professor & Chair, Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine
Columbia University & Weill Cornell Medical College
Richard Kamin, MD, FACEP
EMS Program Director / Medical Director
University of CT Health Center / CT DPH OEMS
Judith Lichtman
Associate Professor and Chair of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Yale School of Public Health