Work Smarter, Not Harder: Operational Solutions to Challenges in Acute Stroke Care (Neurologic EM Interest Group- and Operations Interest Group-Sponsored)

Lauren Mamer, MD, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at University of Michigan and Hurley Medical Center. She completed a NINDS StrokeNet Fellowship, during which she focused on the composition of stroke teams. She has an enduring interest in cerebrovascular disease in the ED that has spanned projects across multiple modalities including large national data set analysis, health services research, quality improvement and medical education. She is currently a K12 scholar studying the application of blood-based biomarkers to risk stratification of TIA in the emergency department. Her current research interest is in optimizing the care of patients presenting to the emergency department with transient neurologic deficits, specifically the application of blood-based biomarker assays to the diagnosis of clinically silent ischemic stroke in these patients with the goal of optimizing secondary prevention and streamlining the diagnostic workup of neurologic complaints.

Katherine Dickerson Mayes, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor and Core Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. She attended medical school at Stanford University prior to completing her residency at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency program at Mass General Brigham, where she served as chief resident. Her research interests include both the treatment of neurologic emergencies and social determinants of health.

Dr. Monisha Dilip is an Assistant Medical Director for Quality and Patient Safety at Columbia University. She completed an administration fellowship at Yale. Her specific focuses are emergency department operations, patient safety and quality, and admin’s role in wellness. She completed her MBA at Yale School of Management. She completed her residency in emergency medicine at Kings County/SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. In her fourth year, she served as a Chief Resident.

Dr. Dilip attended California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for undergrad. She completed medical school at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Gold Humanism Society. In her spare time, she likes reading books, exploring new restaurants, and exploring new cities.

Dr. Panagos is currently Executive Vice Chair and Professor of Emergency Medicine and Neurology at Washington University in St Louis. He is a 1987 graduate of Dartmouth College. In 1994, he completed his medical education at Emory University. Following a year of surgical training at Naval Medical Center San Diego, he graduated and received his wings as a Naval Flight Surgeon in Pensacola, Florida. From 1996-1999, he was stationed in Okinawa, Japan from with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. In 2002, he completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and subsequently completed a Neurovascular Emergencies/Stroke Fellowship at the same institution in 2003. At Washington University, he has served as PI for multiple NIH and Industry funded clinical trials including current Co-PI of NINDS StrokeNet (RCC 28). Starting in December 2023, he will serve as main PI of NIH/NINDS RCC 28 (MARCC), the largest national stroke trial network, StrokeNet. He is the Director of Neurovascular Emergencies in the Division of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Stroke Network. He has severed in multiple leaderships for the AHA/ASA including Chair of Mission: Lifeline Stroke, the Emergency Neurovascular Care Committee (ENCC) and is the immediate past Chair of the ASA Stroke Council Leadership Committee. He is Associate Editor of Academic Emergency Medicine and an Emergency Medicine Oral Board Examiner.