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Sunil A. Sheth, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained vascular neurologist specializing in endovascular treatments for cerebral and spinal vascular diseases. He has expertise in the treatment of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, fistulas, and facial and spinal vascular malformations.
He’s also an associate professor in the Department of Neurology and director of the vascular and interventional neurology division at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
Sheth is originally from Houston and attended Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude with an A.B. in chemistry and physics. He also received his medical degree from Harvard, where he was enrolled in the Health Sciences and Technology Program. He graduated magna cum laude and was also awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship. He completed his residency in neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he served as the chief resident, and fellowships in neurovascular and interventional neuroradiology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Research Interest
Endovascular stroke therapy, perfusion angiography, neuroimaging, biomarkers of cerebral injury, endovascular device development, traumatic brain injury
Endovascular treatments for acute ischemic stroke have revolutionized our ability to restore patients suffering from stroke back to health. However, many questions still remain. Dr. Sheth’s research interests include improving our understanding of who benefits from endovascular treatments for ischemic stroke, and how to best treat these patients. His work uses both clinical research techniques as well as advanced neuroimaging analyses to address this question. In addition, Dr. Sheth leads an effort to identify blood-based biomarkers that could improve our ability to diagnose stroke at its very onset.
Dr. Sheth has co-authored many studies, which have been published in Cell, Nature Biotechnology, PlosONE, and the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. For his research work he has been awarded grants from the American Heart Association (AHA), Society for NeuroInterventional Surgery Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. He has also received numerous honors and awards including the AHA International Stroke Conference Junior Investigator Travel Award, American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Resident Scholarship Award, American Society
EARCH of Neuroradiology Trainee Award, and the Henry Asbury Christian Award for Excellence in Independent Research from Harvard University.
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