Speciality Areas: Stroke 

Education: Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, M.D. 

Residencies: Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, The New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY. 

Research interests: Current therapy in acute stroke. 

Grant Support:

Genentech: A Phase IV study of Activase (Alteplase, Recombitant) In Acute Ischemic Stroke : approved center in a multicenter study to prospectively follow patients after having received tPA therapy within 0 - 3 hours. 

Genentech: The Genentech Stroke Presentation Survey (GSPS) - approved center in a multicenter study to identify factors and predictors of late presentation of acute ischemic stroke.

Selected Articles:

Hidalgo, A., Barami, K., Goldman, S. Estrogen and non-estrogenic influences combine to promote the recruitment and decrease the turnover of new neurons in the adult female canary brain. J. Neurobiol., 27(4):470-87, Aug 1995.