Andrea Lauren Klein, MD, MPH

Dr. Klein is a second year emergency medicine resident at Virginia Tech Carilion in Roanoke, Virginia. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of California, San Diego, where she earned an honors BS in biochemistry and cell biology, specializing in genetic engineering and neuroscience. She then attended The George Washington University in Washington, DC for a combined MD/MPH degree, and completed her thesis on differences in stroke incidence, protocols, and outcomes by zip code in US urban centers. Dr. Klein has comprehensive experience teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level (structural biochemistry and molecular genetics), performing and directing basic, translational, and clinical neuroscience research, and presenting at the national and international levels, which has garnered her several major awards and fellowships. Her current work focuses on optimizing stroke protocols within VTC and studying stroke outcomes in the region. After graduating residency, Dr. Klein will complete a fellowship in critical care medicine within the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego under a T-32 grant with which she will continue her stroke research.