Christopher T. Richards, MD, MS

Dr. Richards is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati and has an expertise in prehospital stroke care. He is a board-certified EMS physician and is the medical director of the UCHealth Mobile Stroke Unit as well as for several Fire-EMS agencies in Greater Cincinnati. He is also Co-Director and clinical faculty of the UC Stroke Team which provides acute stroke reperfusion consultation to over 30 emergency departments and hospitals in the Greater Cincinnati region. He has been on several national workgroups focusing on prehospital stroke care, including the NIH’s Brain Attack Coalition Symposium on Inequities in Access and Delivery of Acute Stroke Care and as the chair of the Acute Care Subcommittee of the American Stroke Association Advisory Committee.