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David Sigmund Liebeskind

David Sigmund Liebeskind MD, FAHA, FAAN, FANA

Neurology
Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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Dr. David S. Liebeskind, MD, FAHA, FAAN, FANA is a Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he is the Director of Outpatient Stroke and Neurovascular Programs. He is Director of the Neurovascular Imaging Research Core, leading global efforts to advance data science and precision medicine of stroke imaging for prevention, acute therapies, and recovery after stroke. He is Director of the UCLA Cerebral Blood Flow Laboratory, Associate Director of the UCLA Stroke Center, and Director of the UCLA Vascular Neurology Residency Program, training the next generation of vascular neurologists and stroke experts.

He trained in chemical engineering at Columbia University and completed his MD at New York University School of Medicine. Postgraduate medical training included an internship at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, and a neurology residency at UCLA. After his residency, he completed a fellowship in stroke and cerebrovascular disease at UCLA and subsequently joined the faculty in the Departments of Neurology and Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has advanced education, research, and clinical care of stroke at UCLA since 2004.
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