Mitchell Elkind, MD, MS, FAHA, chief clinical science officer for the American Heart Association (Heart.org), where he serves as senior staff science leader for all Association initiatives related to stroke and brain. He served as AHA president from 2020 to 2021. Dr. Elkind is a tenured professor of neurology and epidemiology and chief of the Division of Neurology Clinical Outcomes Research and Population Sciences in the neurology department at Columbia University, New York City.
Just the thought of a stroke is frightening. But there is good news—today’s new treatments mean that strokes are treatable…and beatable! The most common type—acute...
